appropriate nane for a communications director at a telco
Marie Carrier? you're 'avin' a laugh aintcha?
Vuze wants to know if other ISPs are calling the same plays as Comcast. Earlier this week, the Silicon-Valley P2P entertainment content distributor released a new study (PDF) that tracks the number of "reset packets" on the world's ISPs. Comcast - America's second largest internet provider - is facing an FCC investigation …
I have no idea about P2P Resets, but a few days ago I was attempting to upload a large PHP file set to my web site via FTP and the connection was being reset every few seconds.
I tried different FTP clients and from different PCs, just in case it was a local problem but the resets kept happening. This was mid to late afternoon.
I tried again late at night and the whole lot went without a single error..
Seems like English ISPs are using the same techniques.
Don't attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity. Or just a poor line.
Wasn't there an article on the reg quite recently about how an otherwise respectable researcher cried 'connection throttling!' when ut just turned out to be a few hours of router problems?
"Don't attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity. Or just a poor line. Wasn't there an article on the reg quite recently about how an otherwise respectable researcher cried 'connection throttling!' when ut just turned out to be a few hours of router problems?"
Yes, I think this is what you mean -
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/23/bellovin_neutrality_mob_rule/
The US is in the middle of a McCarthyite hysteria. Best arrest anyone who talks funny.
A couple of years ago "Net Neutrality" was about discriminatory pricing. Now it's about traffic shaping. It'll be vapor trails, next. They look pretty sinister to me.
Have you not realised that companies like BT, CPW and Tiscali have been traffic shaping for at least 12 months. Its was even advertised by the company that provides the traffic shaping hard and software on their own website up until a couple of months ago. http://www.sandvine.com/
Using this system your bandwith is slowed at peak times from certain sites. If you're taking the p*5s then this will impliment a FUP on you and basically, from what i understand is what is helping most major ISP's free up bandwith rather than investing in their own networks!
Interesting given Charles Dunstons (CEO CPW) speach about freedom of the internet for all.
Skull and crossbones because i can see it not going too well for some companies if legally challenged
Traffic shaping has been an operational imperative on IP networks from the beginning. See RFC 896 (http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc896.html) from 1984. Everybody does it, and always has.
Next thing we'll be hearing that IP networks packetize data to promote capitalism.
And BTW, Robb Toploski is not an "independent researcher," he's an unemployed sofware tester and fan of piracy tools; few people, if any, use Gnutella and EDonkey for legal downloads.
We're still waiting for him to make his packet captures public. It's one thing to make allegations, and another to back them up with hard data.