Comcast Hearts BitTorrent
The deal comes as BitTorrent, which became known for developing software technology widely used to illegally share files, is trying to reinvent itself.
The companies are in talks to collaborate on ways to run BitTorrent's technology more smoothly on Comcast's broadband network, and allow Comcast to transport video files more effectively over its own network in the future, said Tony Warner, Comcast's chief technology officer.
Comcast and BitTorrent have been at odds since the cable operator said it was delaying traffic from BitTorrent at peak times. Legislators and some advocacy groups argued that Comcast's efforts were anticompetitive because peer-to-peer file-sharing companies like BitTorrent, which is popular for downloading videos, compete with Comcast's business of providing pay TV.
Here's the bad news. Rather than throttling P2P traffic, Comcast will throttle ALL traffic for users with "unspecified" high usage. As with anything else Comcastic, we don't know what "high" means.
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im glad there enbracing them rather than shunning them and comcast throttling high usage customers probably means any body using more than a idle internet connection |
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I hate Comcast with a passion. Mostly because they interupt CNN Headline News with a crappy local Comcast program. Whatever they are up to, it's bad, I'm sure of it. I can't see them embracing BitTorrent so easily. |
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The question is: if they decide to work together how much will it affect non-Comcast users (as they will have MORE of a hand in throttling BT's bandwidth from what I understand) and their respective downloads? |
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The only way for me to remotely come close to describing this, without using excessive profanity, is with two words....ABSOLUTELY DISGUSTING! This is nothing more than a pathetic attempt by Comcast to circumvent being held accountable for their horrendously prejudice practices towards BitTorrent traffic. BitTorrent isn't really their enemy, rather anything that uses "high" amounts of bandwidth is. If this wasn't obvious to anyone before, then it should be now, given how their current actions demonstrate this so clearly. Rather than single out BitTorrent traffic, which is discriminatory, they chose an indirect approach which ultimately has an even more severe effect. |
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alot of people who run there business from home will use a lot of bandwidth so is it really fair to slow down there internet and cost them money in lost productivty just so comcast can save some money |
Generally if you have even a smaller-sized business (say 30 employees) you get yourself a dedicated line (T1, T3 etc...) as to not have to worry about such things as bandwidth limits and such. Bigger businesses to my knowledge will apply for a range of IPs which they can then subnet across their own network....again not having to worry about any bandwidth but that of their own network congestion |
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