19 posts tagged Comcast Filtering

Comcast has said that they have stopped their filtering. So, I started a few BitTorrent sessions to put it to the test. The results? Not good… Traffic ticked up much better than when the filtering was in place, my 1:1 ratio broke 384k for the first time in a long, long time.

As the amount of bandwidth we devour has skyrocketed, so has ISPs' need to police our appetites, even as they offer more bandwidth to whet it. We talked to the biggest ISPs around to get their official positions on traffic management and content filtering to see what's in store for your pipes.

Will Mike McCurry be called as a witness for consumers in their class action lawsuit against Comcast for blocking and degrading its broadband customers’ access to legal Internet content downloaded via BitTorrent?

Comcast and other ISPs in the US may have pushed their luck too far. Apparently the FCC may step in to give them a millipede pimp slap. This in regards to the ISP practice of controlling customers web access.

Sanford Sidner is one pissed off Comcast customer. He's so mad in fact that he has filled a lawsuit in the Superior Court for the District of Columbia. The lawsuit accuses Comcast of false advertising over its claim that its Internet service allows "unfettered access to all the content, services, and

OK, that may sound like an exaggeration. But next week the Federal Communications Commission is coming to the Boston area — Cambridge, to be exact — for an important public hearing on what the next generation of the Internet will look like. The hearing is part of the FCC’s ongoing investigation into Comcast’s blocking of Internet traffic.

So right now the boys over at bittorrent.org are working on ways to bypass the filtering set up by Comcast. The socalled Sandvine stuff that they use that is. Now this is going to be a very tough thing for them to get done but if they succeed then things could get very interesting.

Comcast tries to defend its net neutrality, network management and P2P filtering. Wikipedia defines Network neutrality(equivalently "net neutrality", "Internet neutrality" or "NN") as a principle that is applied to residential broadband networks, and potentially to all networks.

Comcast: We Need to Play Internet Traffic Cop By Brad Stone Comcast, the second largest Internet service provider in the country, is making the controversial and aggressive case that Internet service providers should be allowed to serve as traffic cops on the Internet.