[brlug-general] Cox and P2P

[Shannon Roddy]

On Jan 15, 2008 10:54 PM, John Hebert <johnahebert at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Facts? We don't need no steeenking facts!
>

No kidding.  I am on a gig pipe to NLR/Internet2 and 512 to the
commodity 'net with a fully symmetric 10 meg backup pipe with a SLA.
Not exactly a consumer level connection.  Thought I would test this
out and I am currently getting ~10KB/sec.  I know exactly what the
topology between me and the backbone looks like, and there are no BT
filters or floods of RST packets inbound to me.  It just ain't a fast
torrent.  But, everyone prefers the conspiracies.  Oh... and before
someone asks me about utilization on my border router, it is 1-10%
usage on average.  Currently .16% tx and .05% rx. so I know there is
no bottleneck.  Upstream on the commodity backbone is currently ~13%
utilization.

That's not to say I don't disagree with what some ISPs *are* doing,
but in this case, it is not the conspiracy claimed.