On Fri, 2007-10-19 at 13:01 -0500, David E. Smith wrote: > CHUCK PROFITO wrote: > > http://apnews.myway.com/article/20071019/D8SCASQ80.html > > Comcast has been doing this for a few months, actually. By most > accounts, the traffic is throttled at their network edges - i.e. two > Comcast customers can trade files all they want, the throttling only > kicks in when one of them tries to exchange data with a non-Comcast peer. > > My network throttles peer-to-peer traffic because that traffic does > really nasty things to our customer APs (the last-mile hop). Comcast > isn't doing anything there, according to the reports I've seen. > > They're probably trying to save a few bucks on interconnectivity and > peering agreements, on the assumption that traffic within their > already-existing network is "free." > > David Smith > MVN.net
"Comcast does not block access to any applications, including BitTorrent," The problem with any provider who does traffic shaping is the marketing. Customers are being deceived. Providers have been lying or simply not telling customers about such shaping for years. Customers expect a vanilla, uninhibited service, either best effort or a guaranteed speed. Anything less should be explicitly and plainly described in a prominent place near the offers/service definitions themselves. Shaping, blocked ports and similar restrictions should be included in this limitations description. A layman's version (i.e. "File sharing programs such as Limewire will be slower than other traffic, 128Kbps compared to the standard 5120Kbps") should be included along with a technical version. Brian -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ** Join us at the WISPA Reception at 6:30 PM on October the 16th 2007 at ISPCON ** ** ISPCON Fall 2007 - October 16-18 - San Jose, CA www.ispcon.com ** ** THE INTERNET INDUSTRY EVENT ** ** FREE Exhibits and Events Pass available until August 31 ** ** Use Customer Code WSEMF7 when you register online at http://www.ispcon.com/register.php ** -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
