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Comcast said to be thwarting Torrent sessions: Good, I say. You?: Seems as though Comcast has been nipping BitTorrent transfers in the bud by blocking the seeding step that Torrent users must undertake before their PCs are Torrent-enabled for individual sessions.Good, I say.Not that I have any love for Comcasteven though this post is being uploaded over a Comcast broadband connection....; Tags: BitTorrent, Comcast Corp., Russell Shaw; Blog posts 2007-08-18
46.2% of all North American VOIP minutes belong to Skype: Sandvine says Skype users account for 35.8% of individual VOIP callers on North American networks. Skype also accounts for 46.2% of all minutes used for VOIP in Northern America, and for 40% of the bandwidth. Sandvine also ranks North American VOIP operators on the number of paying customers. Skype leads...; Tags: North American VoIP, Skype Technologies S.A.; Blog posts 2005-06-20
Sandvine: eDonkey up in Europe P2P: eDonkey accounts for 52% of all upstream P2P traffic in Germany, compared with 44% for FastTrack-based applications, 3.6% for WinMX and 0.4 percent for Gnutella. In Israel, the split is 52% eDonkey to 47 percent FastTrack. UK PC users favour FastTrack (59% of all upstream traffic), but both WinMX and...; Tags: FastTrack, eDonkey; Blog posts 2003-10-14

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44% of North American ISP traffic is peer-to-peer: P2P applications represent 44% of all bandwidth consumed on networks operated by North American Internet service providers, up from around 41% in 2007, according to Sandvine. by AM; Tags: P2P, Internet Service Provider, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Peer To Peer (P2P), Internet, AM; Blog posts 2008-06-24
Comcast considering bandwidth caps, surcharges: Today's Press of Atlantic City had a tiny sidebar on a troubling trend of bandwith caps and surcharges coming down the proverbial pipe from Comcast: Comcast Corp., the nation's second-largest Internet service provider, is considering setting an official limit on the amount of data that subscribers can download per...; Tags: Comcast Corp., Broadband Reports, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Tcp/Ip, Business Services, Internet, Networking, Jason D. O\'Grady; Blog posts 2008-05-08

FCC boss: Comcast blocking is widespread: InfoWeek reports that, according to FCC Chairman Kevin Martin, Comcast was not merely blocking BitTorrent traffic during high-traffic times but pretty much all the time. Martin was testifying before Congress today. "Specifically, based on the testimony we have received thus far, some users were not able...; Tags: FCC, Comcast Corp., Peer To Peer (P2P), Federal Government, Networking, Internet, Government, Richard Koman; Blog posts 2008-04-22
Comcast monitoring Twitter, blogs and other social media: Comcast monitoring Twitter, blogs and other social mediaWell when you are comcast..isnt it COMCASTIC!?and providing the level of service (wait what service?) they do..you need to keep your name from totally going down the tubes. Look at their latest FCC debacle and how they "changed" to avoid further regulation and/or...; Tags: Blogging, Comcast Corp., Comcast monitoring Twitter, social media, blog; Discussion threads 2008-04-07
Lawsuit: Comcast is a 'totalitarian' business: Lawsuit: Comcast is a 'totalitarian' businessThere is a REASON . . . .that they are known as CRAPCAST!!!RE: Lawsuit: Comcast is a 'totalitarian' businessCharter was using a similar tactic when they cut the bandwidth to they newsgroup servers down to 128k and claimed no knowledge of the slow down.Comcast didn't...; Tags: Cable, Network technology, Broadband Internet, Comcast Corp.; Discussion threads 2008-02-20
Comcast traffic management issue before FCC: Today is the deadline for the FCC call for comments on the Comcast traffic management case brought about by a formal complaint from the Free Press and Public Knowledge. As a former network engineer who designed networks and servers and as someone who has written extensively on these matters, I...; Tags: FCC, Bandwidth, Packet, Electronic Frontier Foundation, BitTorrent, Network, Comcast Corp., P2P, Problem, Verizon Communications Inc., Broadband, DOCSIS, Network Management, BitTorrent Seeder, Networking, Cable, Broadband Internet, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, George Ou; Blog posts 2008-02-13
College Opportunity and Affordability Act passes...Napster anyone?: College Opportunity and Affordability Act passes...Napster anyone?That would work, but ...I don't believe the communications infrastructure was upgraded with single service accounts in mind when Universities decided to network on campus housing.Now of course with WiMax just around the corner you can completely skip the process of upgrading any on...; Tags: SSH, Napster Inc.; Discussion threads 2008-02-08
Arbor Networks abandons security space: I was actually in Ann Arbor last week when news broke that Arbor Networks had acquired Ellacoya a so called "deep packet inspection" technology vendor. I was perplexed. That's not security. First let me clear up some terminology. "Deep Packet Inspection" was...; Tags: Arbor Software, Sales Force, Arbor Networks, Telephony, Mergers & Acquisitions, Telecom & Utilities, Content Management, Security, Telecommunications, Networking, Investment, Finance, Enterprise Software, Software, Richard Stiennon; Blog posts 2008-01-21
Comcast to cooperate in FCC Web traffic probe: Comcast to cooperate in FCC Web traffic probeDenial of service attack.Per Wikipedia:"A denial-of-service attack DoS attack or distributed denial-of-service attack DDoS attack is an attempt to make a computer resource unavailable to its intended users. Although the means to, motives for and targets of a DoS attack may vary, it...; Tags: Modems, Network technology, DSL, Broadband Internet, SECURITY, network, FCC, Comcast Corp., cable, denial of service; Discussion threads 2008-01-09
EFF wants to saddle you with metered Internet service: Updated 12/8/2007 - The EFF Electronic Frontier Foundation last week publicly joined Free Press and Public Knowledge in recommending a metered Internet service as the alternative to Comcast's BitTorrent throttling. The extremist "Net Neutrality" crowd that wants to regulate the Internet with bans on per-user charges/contracts for Enhanced QoS are...; Tags: Electronic Frontier Foundation, BitTorrent, Network, Comcast Corp., Problem, Internet Service Provider, DOCSIS, Internet Service, ACL, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Networking, Cable, Broadband Internet, Internet, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, George Ou; Blog posts 2007-12-03
File-sharing pirates attempt new software standard: File-sharing pirates attempt new software standardThe had better not defeat Comcast's .....If they know what is good for them they had better not mess withComcast's network throttling technology.Meanwhile, it's cheaper to buy legitimately from Chinahttp://money.cnn.com/2007/11/07/news/international/bc.apfn.as.fin.com.china.warner.paramount.ap/index.htm?postversion=2007110715Free trade and globalization, why would buying from them be wrong?The real problem with software piracy.........; Tags: Tools & Techniques, PRODUCTIVITY, file-sharing, software, SOFTWARE IS, computer, software standard; Discussion threads 2007-11-07
Thanks to BitTorrrent, Net neutrality debate reignites: Thanks to BitTorrrent, Net neutrality debate reignitesWrong title for article...BitTorrent is not doing anything wrong, it is the Cable/Phone Companies causing the problemsFreedom for a few. Police State for the people. People are cattle. Happy?It's time to define the masters and figure out where is the richest man in this...; Tags: bandwidth, BitTorrrent, Net Neutrality, BitTorrent; Discussion threads 2007-11-02
How leaked Comcast "what to say" memo on BitTorrent throttling evades the main issue: The Consumerist website is in receipt of a memo said to be from a Comcast employee citing IP Support Manager Michael Groman's instructions to customer service reps to deny that Comcast limits customer access to BitTorrent. Keep in mind that tests conducted by the Associated Press...; Tags: BitTorrent, Network, Comcast Corp., Consumerist Website, Networking, Broadband Internet, Telecommunications, Russell Shaw; Blog posts 2007-10-26
Comcast, BitTorrent and spam spam spam: Comcast, BitTorrent and spam spam spamFYIThe link is to an Associated Press story verifying the existance of the BitTorrent filter on the Comcast network. The test was done by sending out The Bible via BitTorrent -- it's only a 4.24 Mb file.Complete story athttp://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071019/ap_on_hi_te/comcast_data_discrimination_testsAP tests Comcast's file-sharing filter[url=http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071019/ap_on_hi_te/comcast_data_discrimination_tests]FYI[/url]RE: Comcast, BitTorrent...; Tags: Cyberthreats, INTERNET, Peer to peer (P2P), BitTorrent, Comcast Corp., spam, spam spam spam, OpenPGP; Discussion threads 2007-10-20
POLL ON: AP tests show Comcast blocks BitTorrent transfers of King James Bible: After noting claims by users first reported in this DSL Forum thread that Comcast was blocking file-sharing traffic, the Associated Press decided to test this assertion by doing some tests of their own. They were looking for a non-copyrighted, non-infringing work of considerable...; Tags: BitTorrent, Associated Press, Bible, Comcast Corp., Computer, Productivity, Peer To Peer (P2P), Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet, Russell Shaw; Blog posts 2007-10-19
VOIP minutes in North America: 53% - broadband providers, 21.7% - Vonage, 14.4% - Skype: In North America, broadband service providers account for 53% of all VoIP minutes on high-speed networks in November and December 2005, versus 21.7% for Vonage and 14.4% for Skype, according to Sandvine. In Europe, service provider-branded VoIP represented 51.2% of minutes, while Skype had 45%, Vonage less than 1% and...; Tags: VoIP, VoIP minute; Blog posts 2006-02-03
Business Week's VoIP doom and gloom: they may not be all wrong, you know: Business Week's Olga Kharif believes that the VoIP market has entered a phase what Federal Reserve Chair Alan Greenspan terms "irrational exuberance.""I believe that we'll see the VoIP world coming down to earth sooner rather than later, too," she writes.Kharif seems to be basing her prediction on the belief that...; Tags: VoIP; Blog posts 2005-09-11