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<font size="+1">A new wrinkle: This weekend whenever I downloaded an
Ubuntu update or used<br>
Synaptic to download a package, the download went at a crawl, often
1Kbps. While <br>
this was going on, I tried speedtest.net several times and it reported
that my download <br>
speed was anywhere from 4 to 6 Mbps. Does this indicate that Comcast
is throttling <br>
the sites being used by these Ubuntu downloads?<br>
<br>
Roger<br>
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Steve Watson wrote:
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<pre wrap="">I have been noticing a degrade in comcast service recently. It was
really bad a month ago where it was dropping out a couple times a day.
Torrents for me seemed reasonable but I did notice that the
connections to peers wasn't very stable. I took a look at one of the
links provided and changed the settings for azureus(Vuze) for
encrypting the packets and it's a little early to tell but the
connections do seem to be a bit more stable but roughly about the same
speed.
Steve Watson
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1. Re: Comcast slowdown (Mark Janes)
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Date: Sat, 03 Oct 2009 13:33:08 -0700
From: Mark Janes <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:707mjanes@comcast.net"><707mjanes@comcast.net></a>
Subject: Re: [NBLUG/talk] Comcast slowdown
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Hello,
I've also noticed that 1) overall download speeds seem to be
gradually slowing and 2) bittorrent ALWAYS crawled along on Comcast so
I've never used it for an iso download. Regarding bittorrent, I
initially thought I had something wrong at my end but after a while of
watching complaints pop up I concluded that it was a Comcast
problem. As
for the overall download speed being slower I also thought that it
might
be related to my end but when I bypassed it all and plugged my
computer
directly into the wired ethernet connection on the cable modem and my
download speeds didn't change it seems this is an issue at Comcast's
end. I should point out that I have no hard numbers to prove that
download speeds have slowed but the bittorrent issue still seems to be
going on from what I've been reading. Does anyone have any numbers or
suggestions on how they might be obtained?
Mark Janes
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There seems to be allot of buzz going around about this not so new
throttling plan:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://gizmodo.com/5123925/comcasts-internet-slowdown-system-fully-armed-and-operational-and-avoidable">http://gizmodo.com/5123925/comcasts-internet-slowdown-system-fully-armed-and-operational-and-avoidable</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.neowin.net/news/main/09/01/06/comcast-bandwidth-throttling-effective-in-all-markets">http://www.neowin.net/news/main/09/01/06/comcast-bandwidth-throttling-effective-in-all-markets</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/06/04/comcast-tests-a-new-bandwidth-black-list/">http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/06/04/comcast-tests-a-new-bandwidth-black-list/</a>
And some work arounds bittorrent over shh and others:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.zeropaid.com/news/9608/guide_using_linux_to_beat_comcasts_bittorrent_throttling/">http://www.zeropaid.com/news/9608/guide_using_linux_to_beat_comcasts_bittorrent_throttling/</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://torrentfreak.com/how-to-bypass-comcast-bittorrent-throttling-071021/">http://torrentfreak.com/how-to-bypass-comcast-bittorrent-throttling-071021/</a>
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