news.com.com— Comcast says the rumors that they aere actively slowing bittorrent transfer are false. Who knows.. maybe they don't want to lose a few million customers.
Aug 22, 2007View in Crawl 4
I never thought about the connections on the modem, I bought a nice router that was rated excellent for handling connections because I used to have a WRT54g that would always fail on me. It might be the modem, I'll look into that, thanks
40MBytes = 320Mbits... in 10 seconds = 32Mbps, not 16.Sure the Japanese got $38/mo 1Gbit/sec residential connections 3 years ago, but I don't think Comcast in the USA offers 32Mbit yet (even in bursts) :(I have seen them exceed 8MBit in bursts though, and sustain 6.... so I hope they don't try and fight the BT!(can't stop the signal, mal.)
I'm paying for the 6Mbit service, I can get a sustained total down speed of about 760KByte/s, sometimes I get spikes of a bit higher, but that is infrequent. I can get about 45KByte/s sustained up, but I actually self-limit my torrents to 30KByte/s, otherwise the connection bogs if I have any other apps accessing the internet
This is normal for most ISPs now. Spammers were using zombie networks and using various unprotected email servers to send out spam en mass. So they cut it all off.
Well... no. It's about neither Hitler nor Nazis. Godwin's Law is ultimately about people using non sequiturs in discussions. Hitler/Nazis are simply a completely unrelated topic that people bring up to try and escalate an argument in ways it wouldn't have had they not brought up that topic.In other words, Godwin's Law is about people making stupid, unrelated comments. This is why I said there needed to be a corollary: bringing up George Bush simply had nothing to do with the topic at hand, so it's obvious that the poster was trying to get a rise out of somebody.
Alright, well obviously I'm not gonna bitch about how they are doing this when the only thing I've been downloading (and they can/will check) is music that is copyrighted?
yunusAug 22, 2007
I never thought about the connections on the modem, I bought a nice router that was rated excellent for handling connections because I used to have a WRT54g that would always fail on me. It might be the modem, I'll look into that, thanks
finiteAug 22, 2007
40MBytes = 320Mbits... in 10 seconds = 32Mbps, not 16.Sure the Japanese got $38/mo 1Gbit/sec residential connections 3 years ago, but I don't think Comcast in the USA offers 32Mbit yet (even in bursts) :(I have seen them exceed 8MBit in bursts though, and sustain 6.... so I hope they don't try and fight the BT!(can't stop the signal, mal.)
loupAug 22, 2007
I'm paying for the 6Mbit service, I can get a sustained total down speed of about 760KByte/s, sometimes I get spikes of a bit higher, but that is infrequent. I can get about 45KByte/s sustained up, but I actually self-limit my torrents to 30KByte/s, otherwise the connection bogs if I have any other apps accessing the internet
lethalgeekAug 22, 2007
This is normal for most ISPs now. Spammers were using zombie networks and using various unprotected email servers to send out spam en mass. So they cut it all off.
phizzAug 23, 2007
im in ur packets stealing ur bandwidth
andrewjcAug 23, 2007
Well... no. It's about neither Hitler nor Nazis. Godwin's Law is ultimately about people using non sequiturs in discussions. Hitler/Nazis are simply a completely unrelated topic that people bring up to try and escalate an argument in ways it wouldn't have had they not brought up that topic.In other words, Godwin's Law is about people making stupid, unrelated comments. This is why I said there needed to be a corollary: bringing up George Bush simply had nothing to do with the topic at hand, so it's obvious that the poster was trying to get a rise out of somebody.
Closed AccountAug 29, 2007
Enigma Ameno.
feadzAug 31, 2007
Alright, well obviously I'm not gonna bitch about how they are doing this when the only thing I've been downloading (and they can/will check) is music that is copyrighted?