Disgruntled Customer Sues Comcast Over P2p Throttling

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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080...throttling.html

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Comcast has been "caught" blocking BitTorrent traffic in some areas, according to tests performed by the Associated Press. The news organization claims to have confirmed that Comcast is blocking—or at least seriously slowing down—BitTorrent transfers, regardless of whether the content is legal or not. If true, Comcast's actions have serious implications for sharing information online, and by proxy, Net Neutrality.

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The AP was tipped off to the possible P2P blockage by a reader who had noticed serious slowdowns on his Comcast connection. The organization then proceeded to perform a number of tests—three, to be exact—on two computers in cities on both the east and west coasts. AP chose to download a copy of the King James Bible through BitTorrent (because it is an uncopyrighted work) and went to work. In two out of its three tests, the downloads were blocked altogether, while in the remaining test, the download started after a 10-minute delay.

For people (which is a lot) that dont click on links with some sort of lead in. Thats the two-links deep money shot. I'm involved with the torrent community fairly regularly and this has been an ongoing issue.

The short version is: The actual upload speed that you get when using file sharing a.k.a. "P2P" programs is , virtually never what the upload speed is advertised as. Which for the majority of users is the only reason you even need significant upload speed.