Comcast cuddles up to BitTorrent while still choking users - Valleywag Comments

Comcast cuddles up to BitTorrent while still choking users

Mossback — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 19:45:09 PDT

Actually, Jackson, you're wrong. Comcast doesn't "advertise that speed at that price with no notice of data restrictions," they advertise a service that runs at speeds UP TO a certain level downstream and UP TO another level upstream (pay special attention to the phrase "UP TO," it's important.)

Networks, you see, have a certain capacity and no more. Most people understand that at some level.

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Comcast cuddles up to BitTorrent while still choking users

Jackson West — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 13:02:26 PDT

No, the BitTorrent client won't be required, it'll just have an advantage over other clients over the Comcast network. And Comcast advertises that speed at that price with no notice of data restrictions, so why is it so unreasonable to expect?

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Comcast cuddles up to BitTorrent while still choking users

sample032 — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 11:44:58 PDT

The story said nothing about requiring people to use official BitTorrent client, and not having dedicated bandwidth isn't a big deal; abusing a 10mbps connection for a month would cost Comcast around $300 for bandwidth. It would be nice if they told you how many GB you're entitled to, but it's not reasonable to expect a dedicated 10mbps connection for $40 / month.

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