[PLUG] VOIP and Comcast

M. Edward (Ed) Borasky znmeb at cesmail.net
Mon Jan 26 19:46:56 UTC 2009


Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
>>>>>> "m0gely" == m0gely  <m0gely at gmail.com> writes:
> 
> m0gely> Just saw this on /.
> m0gely> http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/01/24/1549202
> 
> m0gely> Thought it was pertinent given the discussion a few days ago.
> 
> Just a heads up for local folks... starting a few days ago, I appear to be
> blocked on Comcast for all torrent traffic.  Just tested it with the latest
> ubuntu distro seeded from ubuntu.org, so it's not about "blocking illegal
> content".  I'm on the west side, and I'd be curious to see if it's just me, or
> if others are also noticing this.
> 
> The symptom is that Transmission (on mac) reports "status 0" when it tries
> to contact the tracker.  Normally, this is "status 200", so I imagine
> that Comcast is doing deep packet inspection, recognizing the tracker
> payload, and somehow replacing that with an empty response.
> 

I haven't tried a torrent download recently, but I'm on the west side
and on Comcast. The "bottom line", though, is that Comcast is in
business to make a profit, and unless "the government" can and will step
in, they will behave in ways that they believe will increase revenues or
lower costs.

I hear FIOS has better bandwidth anyhow. :)
-- 
M. Edward (Ed) Borasky

I've never met a happy clam. In fact, most of them were pretty steamed.



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