Comcast Continues to Block Peer to Peer Traffic

narramissic writes "A report released Thursday by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) finds that Comcast continues to use hacker-like techniques to slow down customers' connections to some P-to-P (peer-to-peer) applications. The EFF said that Comcast appears to be injecting RST, or reset, packets into customers' connections, causing connections to close. 'The investigators say that their tests confirmed an earlier one conducted by the Associated Press that showed that Comcast is interfering with BitTorrent traffic. BitTorrent is a protocol used to efficiently distribute the online transmission of large files, and some entertainment companies have partnered with its creators to distribute its content online. Comcast has said that it doesn't block BitTorrent, or any kind of content.'" If you're the type that always looks for a silver lining, Comcast's skulduggery may be pushing Congress to reconsider Net Neutrality.

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Deliberately Misleading and Suicidal

[Erris]

they are not even coming close to telling you the truth!

The truth is more like, "the entertainment industry, AOL, M$ and other have all threatened retaliation if we do not do as they say and eliminate this growing alternate content distribution system." They would rather you conclusde that blocking P2P with rst packets will somehow make things faster for you and other customers. They also hope you don't know about upload speed caps they already have in place that are already supposed to eliminate bandwith hogging. Money wasted on these measures could have solved bandwith problems directly by building better networks. In a few years time, the networks and the equipment bought to cripple it will be hoplessly obsolete and the US will have fallen out of the top 20 nations in networking access and speed.