[brlug-general] Cox and P2P

[Petri Laihonen]

This must be something very recent or localized since with my 7Mb line 
(New Orleans) I get often full speed downloads. (Naturally this depends 
on the sources.) Occasionally I get sustained speeds between 10-15 Mb 
(~1300kbps) downloads. (I wish this would happen more often....)
We'll see how fast I get Torchwood from UK tomorrow..... :-)

Uplink has always been pathetically slow... I wish it would be faster....

limiting paying customers is naturally wrong, but do corporations 
care..... of course not.... Only corporations have freedom. On another 
note, I think the traffic shaping efforts should be directed to spam and 
viruses instead of something useful such as P2P protocols. More and more 
P2P protocols are used for legit file transfers, and naturally that 
suffers as well. I'm not sure, but I think entities like Joost and alike 
are using P2P protocols with their feeds.

Petri
 

willhill wrote:
> There's a new Star Wars spoof movie out and it's makers are giving away the 
> DVD via bittorrent.  
>
> http://www.backyardproductions.co.uk/index.html
> and
> http://www.backyardproductions.co.uk/tenclofilm.torrent
>
> This is the first time in a while I've used bittorrent and the damage done by 
> Cox to the protocol is apparent.  My upload, of course, is pegged at 55 KB/s 
> but my download is much slower than I'm used to.  
>
> http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Cox-Also-Disrupting-P2P-Traffic-89481
>
> Hopefully, a big crowd of downloaders will help.  
>
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