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Beating Comcast's Sandvine On Linux With Iptables

Posted by timothy on from the and-then-I'd-be-all-like-pow-and-reconfigure-iptables dept.

HiroDeckard writes "Multiple sites reported a while ago that Comcast was using Sandvine to do TCP packet resets to throttle BitTorrent connections of their users. This practice may be a thing of the past as it's been found a simple rule in the Linux firewall, iptables, can simply just block their reset packets, returning your BitTorrent back to normal speeds and allowing you to once again connect to all your seeds and peer. If blocking the TCP packet resets becomes a common practice, on and off of Linux, it'll be interesting to see the next move in the cat-and-mouse game between customers and service providers, and who controls that bandwidth."

6 of 361 comments (clear)

  1. 1st post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    wicked put it too them!!!!!

  2. no way by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    first comment

  3. Re:Tag: !news by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    not only is this not news, it doesn't fucking work

    Blaspheme!!!11!!1
    It's teh Linux. It hast to wrk!!!!!!111!

  4. Re: Re:Piracy is wrong - plain and simple by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    How can there be a "Re:Piracy is wrong - plain and simple" when there was no "Piracy is wrong - plain and simple" ??

  5. Re:It's a trace buster buster buster by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  6. Verizon is coming to Southeast MA... by Doug52392 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    This is off topic, but southeastern MA is going to be getting FiOS soon. My relatives, who live in Braintree, had Verizon people working for a month to get everything set up in that city, now they're moving to southeastern MA. So I should have Verizon aviable soon :)