more on the Comcast 250 GB/mo. problem

2009-03-13 Thread Scott Bennett
Last week I found a voice mail message from a phone number I didn't recognize, who claimed to be from the Comcast Security Assurance Division, demanding that I call them at yet another number I didn't recognize. I called the normal number to reach Comcast, explained what had happened, and

Re: more on the Comcast 250 GB/mo. problem

2009-03-13 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 04:12:34AM -0500, Scott Bennett wrote: The only suggestion from any of the Comcast employees on how I might get around a 250 GB/mo. limit was that switching to Comcast Business-class service might do it, but they didn't know for sure because they only dealt with

Why Tor is slow and what we're going to do about it

2009-03-13 Thread Roger Dingledine
Hi folks, I just wrote up a blog post about the document we finished yesterday, which describes our understanding of why the Tor network is slow, and what measures we can take to resolve the issues: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/why-tor-is-slow And for those who had no idea we've got a blog,

Re: more on the Comcast 250 GB/mo. problem

2009-03-13 Thread Matthew McCabe
Scott- Sorry to hear that you are also having problems with your ISP. I ended up dropping Time Warner and signing up for Earthlink - which actually uses the same TWC network. So now I am back on TWC and must watch my p's and q's or I will be kicked off. I even have the same TWC account

Re: more on the Comcast 250 GB/mo. problem

2009-03-13 Thread Michael G. Reed
Oh, don't be deluded into thinking they give a rats-ass about Business Customers either - I used to have a business account from TWC because I telecommuted and needed multiple static IPs and no restrictions on the linein the early days they were responsive to problems/issues, but near

Re: more on the Comcast 250 GB/mo. problem

2009-03-13 Thread slush
Hi Scott, dont forget, that your's ISP last mile connectity is not sized for running high-traffic servers. They count with aggregation, because dont expect many users running any kind of server application. And I think there is nothing illegal in their business. If you want to run fast server,

Tor design question

2009-03-13 Thread William Adams
I incorrectly posted the following to your blog. Please ignore the blog post. * * *Greetings:* *I gather when running as a relay server, there is a publicly exposed listener. Is it vulnerable to a buffer exploit? if so, what kind of protective firewalling does it need in order for the server

Re: more on the Comcast 250 GB/mo. problem

2009-03-13 Thread phobos
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 10:22:49AM +0100, eu...@leitl.org wrote 1.0K bytes in 19 lines about: : There's not much point running Tor on capped residential broadband. : Rent a server with a decent traffic plan and throttle your Tor so : you're within limits. Actually, there is value to running a

Re: more on the Comcast 250 GB/mo. problem

2009-03-13 Thread F. Fox
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 kitsune runs on residential broadband, and handles plenty of traffic within its bandwidth class. It's good to see the server's link light blinking. =:oD - -- F. Fox Owner of Tor node kitsune http://fenrisfox.livejournal.com -BEGIN PGP