Comcast selectively blocking internet traffic
Cory Bergman October 19th, 2007
Through testing, the AP has confirmed that Comcast “actively interferes with attempts by some of its high-speed Internet subscribers to share files online.” AP calls it “the most drastic example yet of data discrimination by a U.S. Internet service provide” and “if widely applied by other ISPs, the technology Comcast is using would be a crippling blow to the BitTorrent, eDonkey and Gnutella file-sharing networks.”
It’s high time for a net neutrality law, don’t you think? (Thanks, Rob for the link!)
4 Comments Add your own
1. Net Neutrality | October 19th, 2007 at 3:10 pm
It’s a serious danger. How would if affect your station if you local cable giant decided to corner the market on local news by limiting it’s internet customers to only a 56K connection to your all tv, radio, and newspaper website, but provided full throttle access to its own service? Don’t laugh, that’s what they want to do is to be able to limit high bandwidth to themselves and their preferred partners only!
Click the link for FAQ on Net Neutrality.
2. Net Neutrality | October 19th, 2007 at 3:13 pm
Forgot to start off the previous comment by stating that Net Neutrality goes well beyond just file sharing. Big ISP’s want to have full control over which sites they’ll let you visit (or at least visit with any descent speed).
3. tdc | October 20th, 2007 at 12:42 am
I should have known something was up. I know this sounds cheap, but we were using them to push to a streaming server for a live stream for a TV station for a few months as a backup until our T-1’s could be installed.
Their service was getting so spotty in our area a few weeks ago, and we had to bite the bullet and get T-1 lines for most of critical net needs.
At one point a speed test showed we well over 768k for an upload spead, but it keep bottlenecking just pushing a 300k stream. Crashing our encoder.
Comcast no longer has an issue with our stream, but they have been relegated to backup Critical Data traffic, and we use or T-1’s for things like Clipmail, Streaming, and ENG.
We also use it for regular traffic (email/web surfing, because they can burst to 12Mbps and we do not want to overload the T-1s.
4. tdc | October 22nd, 2007 at 12:35 am
must be a tdc wannabe on the loose.
you can tell by the punctuation that ain’t ME!
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