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December 1, 2007 at 2:25 pm · in Media Blog, Fun · Comments

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The Electronic Frontier Foundation (or EFF) has found Comcast guilty of traffic shaping. This is a practice where Comcast intentionally slows down your internet connection. The program they used to detect this shaping is an open-source application called WireShark. Apparently, Comcast feels that they need to interrupt some of their customer’s connections a bit if they think the customer may be using lets say BitTorrent to download perfectly legal Linux Distros. Or, maybe the customer is like me and sends tons of data up and down… legally and legitimately… in the course of business.

This is kinda sad. It’s kinda scary. It’s kinda sickening. Well… it makes me…

Yeah. It’s “Comcastic”.

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Travis - December 1, 2007 @ 3:43 pm

wow thats sad that they are doing that. I have comcast :[[ and I have to have them b/c I can’t even get dsl.

Jonathan Flusser (osxdude) - December 1, 2007 @ 3:57 pm

I think your fake gaging there…wait…no I’m wrong. Your gaging. And after seeing this…I will never speak of comcast again.

Ms Wahala - December 1, 2007 @ 3:58 pm

That’s a shame. I’d heard rumors, but not confirmation until now. Verizon FIOS just came to my area. Sounds like time to switch.

red - December 1, 2007 @ 4:06 pm

I am a first time blogger. I did not start reading blogs until I started my own. This blog has been so helpful to me as a newbie. Thumbs Up!

Jeff - December 1, 2007 @ 6:53 pm

It shouldn’t matter if you use it for business or not. You are paying for something they say should move at X rate of speed and then purposely messes with it. I then see they have commerical like Cox Cable saying they have “Powerboost” to help speed up d/l’s. What two faces they have.

Proximity - December 1, 2007 @ 8:03 pm

I have noticed this many times on my machines when I torrent Linux Distros. Not only does it stop allowing me to access websites but I am only downloading at 60kb/s! I never knew of Traffic Shaping I will have to research it a bit more. It makes sense, this started happening when Adelphia changed to Comcast. Go Figure. Thanks again Chris.

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CPeanutG - December 2, 2007 @ 10:14 am

That is sad that they are doing it and have lied about doing it in the past. What happened to coming clean about what your business does? And not telling your CSRs to lie to the public about or risk getting fired?

Required Name - December 3, 2007 @ 6:43 am

Those responsible at Comcast for forging packets should be charged for felony interception of communications. The packets were not their property to intercept and forge. The Fed needs to nip this in the bud here and now, not that I have much faith in them looking after public interest any longer. But I have a dream…

bayoujim - December 3, 2007 @ 6:57 am

We need a government that will protect the people from corporations like Comcast.
I am voting 3rd party.

Nene - December 5, 2007 @ 5:29 am

Yup. Wondered about this when I noticed performance in connection… One minute 54Mbps, then down to 48… sometimes 1?! wtf?

So, I disconnect, reconnect…

It is such **** when we pay for a service and they tweak it to “their” wants as opposed to the customers.
I hope they get stung.

MARKWW - December 5, 2007 @ 5:56 am

It is a shame that Comcast does this .I have seen my downloads for updates and home stuff either stopped to a crawl or totally stopped in mid stream. Figured at first I had computer problems BUT NOW I SEE THE COMMIE CABLE SYSTEM is doing it. Class action needs to be started, OH I THINK One already has MARK

mark - December 5, 2007 @ 6:53 am

so what? as a whole they are making the net experience better for everyone. SUre they’ll be some people slowed down by their “mass downloading”…im happy about it, because MOST people are doing it excessively and MOST people actually would like a good internet experience and not have to be slowed down by MASS downloaders downloading their pirated movies, software, and such….i for one enjoy my ridiculous comcast speeds. I LOVE my consistant gaming pings…

Poor baby. you have to wait a few more minutes for your linus uploading or downloading. So freaking what?

Floridadave - December 5, 2007 @ 11:45 am

Comcast interrupts TV here in South Florida. About once every half hour no matter what channel you are watching, the picture freezes and the sound stops for from 1 to 4 seconds. Then it carries on without ever letting you know what happened. In addition, they interrupt commercials on cable channels with OTHER commercials. And finally, they interrupt cable programs (like CNN headline news for example) with their own local spokesperson conducting the driest and dullest interviews you have ever heard. So when they advertise their computer services I was wondering if they interrupt them too. From your blog it sounds like they do.

ML - December 10, 2007 @ 11:00 pm

I can’t even play xbox live or pc games anymore since this Comcast **** started. Everything times out or just doesn’t connect. I figured it was the Halo 3 launch netquake causing problems but it hasn’t subsided since it started up around mid October (I believe). It’s time to go to Verizon, Buddha forbid.

Fernando Vasquez - December 23, 2007 @ 3:14 am

Oh wow. Thats horrible! I’m downloading wireshark now to see what my ISP is up to.

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