narramissic writes "A report released Thursday by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) finds that Comcast continues to use hacker-like techniques to slow down customers' connections to some P-to-P (peer-to-peer) applications. The EFF said that Comcast appears to be injecting RST, or reset, packets into customers' connections, causing connections to close.
'One objectionable aspect of Comcast's conduct is that they are spoofing packets — that is, impersonating parties to an exchange of data,' the EFF said in its report. 'Comcast is essentially deploying against their own customers techniques more typically used by malicious hackers (this is doubtless how Comcast would characterize other parties that forged traffic to make it appear that it came from Comcast).'" Link to Original Source
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The cable broadband provider does manage its network, which would slow to a crawl if it did not manage bandwidth-hogging P-to-P connections during times of heavy congestion, a company official said.
What about bandwidth-hogging non-P-to-P connections?
If you are that concerned about bandwidth, throttle the entire customer when he goes over his per-month or per-shorter-period-of-time quota and give him the tools to throttle his individual connections.
What about bandwidth-hogging non-P2P connections? (Score:1)
If you are that concerned about bandwidth, throttle the entire customer when he goes over his per-month or per-shorter-period-of-time quota and give him the tools to throttle his individual connections.