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|  CrazyBastard | Nov 6, 2007 9:12pm | Comcast Internet Services
Subject: Bandwidth Filtering; next plans of attack
Comcast Filtering-For-Profit: A Three-Phase Plan to 'Right-Size' Consumer Bandwidth Posted 11/5/07 at 03:12:42PM | by
tinyurl.com/2sdavl [tinyurl.com/2sdavl] Will Smith
Maximum PC intercepted the following memorandum from a high-level Comcast executive to the company's Board of Directors. We suggest you read it once, and then immediately delete all traces of this text from your PC. This is seriously twisted stuff.  MEMORANDUM Date: October 6, 2007
To: Comcast Board of Directors
From: Alexis Luthoré, COO, Comcast Internet Services
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Sponsor |  lerryn | Nov 7, 2007 12:08am | | i believe that memo was a hoax! |
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| | | dneth5 | Nov 7, 2007 12:11am | | Are you sure? |
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Sponsor | | lerryn | Nov 7, 2007 12:19am | | yes, read the comments after the memo, try googling Alexis Luthoré, he is not the COO of comcast, Stephen B. Burke is! |
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| | TheBlackHawk | Nov 7, 2007 4:41am | This stuff is over my head but some will understand
How To Bypass Comcast's BitTorrent Throttling | TorrentFreak
"Another successfully workaround is to run BitTorrent over encrypted tunnels such as SSH or VPN. .... p.s. i am writing this from a Comcast computer at work. ..."
1. How To Bypass Comcast's BitTorrent Throttling | TorrentFreak |
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| | TunaFishEnTonial | Nov 9, 2007 9:39pm | Its Crapcastic to me:........How I fixed Very Slow Comcast Speeds.
I am posting the below info in hopes that it might help someone who is having slow download speeds like I was.
If it helps anyone, I am glad.
dslreports.com/forum/comcast [dslreports.com/forum/comcast]
If you are anything like I was, you think if your internet is slow, it is the ISP's fault.
I thought that all these years, until yesterday.
I found Out it can be my computer!
Below is how I went from getting 1.5 down to 8.4 down.
I was getting 
DOWN 1.5
UP 1.2
Now Getting: 
DOWN 8.4
UP 1.4
Picture of actual results (»speedtest.net/result/200506657.png [speedtest.net/result/200506657.png])
What I did,
1. Installed a new Network Card
2. Installed Registry Tweak found Here
»speedguide.net/files/sguide_tweak_2k.zip [speedguide.net/files/sguide_tweak_2k.zip]
NOTE:The above tweak info:
Generic patch for Windows XP and Windows 2000 (all versions). You can find all the tweaks here »speedguide.net/downloads.php [speedguide.net/downloads.php]
3. Uninstalled Zone Alarm Pro
4. I set my MTU in my router to MTU = 1500
The above changes to my system fixed my problems.
I will re-install zone alarm, as I like it. But the difference is awesome.
I must apologize to Comcast for thinking their service was less than desirable.
Also, a few months ago, when I called Comcast Customer Service, the people were very professional, but it took for ever to get anyone on the phone......
Now, I got right through, and they were very professional, I am surely amazed at the difference.
--Also on Xp This tool works too on my xp based systems-
-(Jury is out on Vista Though)
SG TCP Optimizer  TCP Optimizer Description: The TCP Optimizer is a free, easy Windows program that provides an intuitive interface for tuning and optimizing your Internet connection. There is no installation required, just download and run.
The program can aid both the novice and the advanced user in tweaking related TCP/IP parameters in the Windows Registry, making it easy to tune your system to the type of Internet connection used. The tool uses advanced algorithms, and the bandwidth*delay product to find the best TCP Window for your specific connection speed. It provides for easy tuning of all related TCP/IP parameters, such as MTU, RWIN, and even advanced ones like QoS and ToS/Diffserv prioritization. The program works with all current versions of Windows, and includes additional tools, such as testing average latency over multiple hosts, and finding the largest possible packet size (MTU).
The TCP Optimizer is targeted towards broadband internet connections, however it can be helpful with tuning any internet connection type, from dialup to Gigabit+ :)
If you need help with the program, check the TCP Optimizer documentation, read our broadband tweaking articles, the Optimizer FAQ, and/or visit our Forums. The program can be freely (re)distributed, as long as you give us proper credit as the author, and it is not sold for profit. Mirrors:
SpeedGuide.net (recommended)
Download.com
MajorGeeks.com
Softpedia.com
The legacy unsupported version 1 of the Optimizer is still downloadable from -here-. OS:  Windows 9x/ME/2K/XP/XP-SP2/2k3 | version: 2.0.3 | date: 01/06/2006 | filesize: 596 KB 
Final word of Advise make the Swittch to Att FIOS when you can
Whether FIOS is available in your area or not. |
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Sponsor | | SlowHand | Nov 10, 2007 9:26am | 206. Not complaining ;o)
Should be 2000 kbps
Download Speed: 3022 kbps (377.8 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 380 kbps (47.5 KB/sec transfer rate) |
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| | TunaFishEnTonial | Nov 10, 2007 9:37am | But Wait theres more.......A whole lot more ...............on what isps are
doing.....
More ISP Confess: We Throttle P2P Traffic Contributed by EL1TE 12 hours ago · There are 15 comments
Internet More ISP Confess: We Throttle P2P Traffic
Tom Corelis (Blog) - November 10, 2007 80 comment(s) - last by misbfa1.. on Nov 12 at 2:46 PM Recipient E-mail
 As more sophisticated tools for traffic shaping are unveiled, the question soon becomes which service providers aren't throttling customer traffic
Adding itself to the small-but-growing list of ISPs that admit to traffic shaping, Canada-based Bell Simpatico has confessed to using "traffic management" on heavy users "during peak hours."
"We are now using a Internet Traffic Management to restrict accounts," wrote an unnamed forum administrator on Bell Simpatico's support forums. According to the administrator, Bell Simpatico's traffic shaping affects an unmentioned number of applications and protocols, including BitTorrent, Gnutella, Limewire, Kazaa, eDonkey, eMule and WinMX.
A Bell Simpatico Manager chimed in immediately afterwards, explaining that "there continues to be phenomenal growth of consumer Internet traffic throughout the world" and that "Bell is using Internet Traffic Management to ensure we deliver bandwidth fairly to our customers during peak Internet usage." According to the Manager, the bandwidth cap was introduced sometime last year and "doesn't affect the vast majority of [Bell's] customers." One concerned user asked if the traffic management will be removed as network capacity increases, to which the administrator replied that he "can't answer this question," and noted that it would be decided as the issue arises. Internet service providers have found themselves under an increasing burden as bandwidth-intensive internet services like online video and file-sharing have proliferated.
While the true volume is unknown, many think that 30%-50% of all internet traffic is P2P-related, with a recent survey from traffic-management company Ipoque pushing that number towards an astonishing 90%.
In response to this, many providers have employed a variety of techniques to limit customers who are deemed to be using more than their "fair share," a tactic that has been the subject of much debate as part of the controversy surrounding "network neutrality."
While traffic shaping is by far the most common, a few companies have employed more exotic methods: Comcast is thought to impose an invisible 600 GB bandwidth limit on its "unlimited" internet service, and a recent study conducted by the AP found that the ISP impersonates BitTorrent clients for the purposes of interfering with their connections.
More ISP Confess: We Throttle P2P Traffic Contributed by EL1TE 12 hours ago · There are 15 comments |
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