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Comcast Blocks Web Browsing

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the because-they-can dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A team of researchers have found that Comcast has quietly rolled out a new traffic-shaping method, which is interfering with web browsers in addition to p2p traffic. The smoking gun that documents this behavior are network traces collected from Comcast subscribers Internet connections. This evidence shows Comcast is forging packets and blocking connection attempts from web browsers. One has to hope this isn't the congestion management system they are touting as no longer targeting BitTorrent, which they are deploying in reaction to the recent FCC investigations."

5 of 502 comments (clear)

  1. Damn... by Starturtle · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...I wanted to have First Post but I had to find an available proxy to get through my ISP's traffic shaping technology

  2. Let me be the first to say by rmdir+-r+* · · Score: 5, Funny

    NOT COMCASTIC

  3. You CAN opt out by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Just use gopher.

  4. Re:Read the featured article by Lyrael · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ah, you must be new here. All *I* got from reading the /. headline was 'Comcast are evil, fire insults at will.'

  5. Re:FIOS availability by sYkSh0n3 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sound like me. My housing arrangements have been based around broadband availability since i moved out on my own. I probably have it as a slightly higher priority than is reasonable though.

    "Oh, I can get 50MB/s broadband here? Of course I'd love to live under this bridge...on the train tracks....next to the paper mill...downwind of the sewage treatment plant."