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more about #throttling more comments → OMG! Ponies!: Is anyone planning on figuring out a new business model to pay for content-creation? The only thing keeping broadcast and basic-cable alive is cable c... more » MrBlahBlah: Sooooo basically, you can only use 100% of your bandwith for 15 minutes. total shit. In theory, you need to buy a package from them that gives you 43... more » Hardcore1: FIOS DESTROYS COMCAST. The unfamiliar noise you hear Comcast is the sound of competition. Suck it. That is all. more » admoseremic: Hey. It's not stupid. It's... COMCASTIC! more » Eauboy: Is this what Jack Bauer is trying to shut down in the new season of 24? more » OMG! Ponies!: So basically, you're saying that heavy users of Skype and iChat are screwed. more » -
#cable
Online Cable Debate Heats Up As Execs Embrace Streaming Tech, Bicker About Programming Model
Even as the cable companies seemingly embrace online cable programming, there seem to be as many unanswered questions today regarding this new path as there are answers. More » -
#comcast
Comcast's Internet Slowdown System Fully Armed and Operational (and Avoidable)
Comcast's bandwidth throttling system that slows you down for using too much bandwidth is now fully armed and operational in all markets. Here's how it works, and how to not get stuck on the short bus. More » -
#comcast
Comcast Opens Curtains On How They Filter Your Traffic
Comcast has just released a series of documents in response to the Federal Communications Commission detailing how, exactly, the ISP filters your traffic. Based on their traffic analysis, five protocols (Ares, BitTorrent, eDonkey, FastTrack and Gnutella) were especially filtered. Not anymore. Now Comcast is going to be throttling ALL traffic you generate, even if it's from their own Fancast streaming video service, if you're generating abnormally high traffic compared to your peers. More » -
#bittorrent
How to Check if Your ISP is Throttling Your BitTorrent Traffic
Our ISP is currently Comcast, which is probably definitely throttling torrent traffic in this area, but how can we know for sure? Here's how. There's now a website that runs a little test, determining whether your ISP is throttling all traffic, all traffic on well-known BT ports, only BT traffic on well-known BT ports, or nothing at all. The full test takes seven minutes, but it's seven minutes well spent to find out whether you need another ISP. Or if you need to cut down on your PureTNA downloads. [Max Planck Institute via TorrentFreak via LifeHacker]
