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Georgia Tech's ShaperProbe Detects ISP Traffic Manipulation

Posted by timothy on from the shaping-is-such-a-euphemism dept.

An anonymous reader writes with this excerpt from Ars Technica: "Two researchers at Georgia Tech can tell you exactly how American ISPs shape Internet traffic, and which ones do so. Bottom line: of the five largest Internet providers in the country, the three cable companies (Comcast, Time Warner, Cox) employ shaping while the telephone companies (AT&T, Verizon) do not — though that fact is less significant for the user experience than it might first sound."

2 of 113 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Cue the cable company bashing in 3...2...1.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Regulation is rarely the answer. Are you some type of socialist? We need more free market-based solutions, not trying to regulate everything.

  2. Re:Question by ProfessionalCookie · · Score: 2, Funny

    Pretty sure the internet is made of tubes, not pipes.