[brlug-general] Cox and P2P

[Drew]

I'm referring to the seeders of his beloved torrent in question.

Scott Harney wrote:
> Drew wrote:
>> How do you know they haven't each capped their upload rate at 1 KBPS?
>>   
>  Because they're selling packages with advertised download rates of 
> 7Mbps and such, if they capped upload off at 1Kbps, users would never 
> see those speeds.  Asymmetry has an impact on TCP which is what I was 
> alluding to.  Asymmetric upload and download is a fact of life with 
> cable. (And DSL, actually).  The affect of asymmetry on TCP is 
> discussed in lots of places (see eg. 
> http://homepage.ntlworld.com/robin.d.h.walker/cmtips/downup.html ).   
> It also doesn't hurt to have a DOCSIS 2.0 capable modem. 
>
> There are a number of reasons why Will might be having this issue in 
> addition to the ones I've mentioned.  Several of them are technical 
> and, yeah, Cox shaping bittorrent is certainly one possibility. But 
> it's one out of several and without more technical details there's no 
> way to no for sure.
>
>> willhill wrote:
>>   
>>> This is not about technical limitations, it's about sabotage.  Cox has given 
>>> me a symmetry of shit.  My download is 40, my upload is 55KB/s.  There's no M 
>>> in those numbers and I might as well have DSL.  All the RST packets, I'm 
>>> sure, are flooding my leg of the network but it will take me another 17 hours 
>>> to get the rest of the file.  Oh well.
>>>
>>> On Tuesday 15 January 2008 2:29 pm, Scott Harney wrote:
>>>   
>>>     
>>>> To some degree this isn't even a cost issue but a technical one.  You are
>>>> tied to certain physical limitations inherent in the medium.  Until there
>>>> are some changes in how DOCSIS works and some spectrum is made available on
>>>> the upstream side, you'll never say faster upstream on a cable modem
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