{"id":196149,"date":"2008-05-21T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-21T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/05\/21\/more-proof-of-cable-bandwidth-twiddling\/"},"modified":"2008-05-21T05:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-21T10:00:00","slug":"more-proof-of-cable-bandwidth-twiddling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/05\/21\/more-proof-of-cable-bandwidth-twiddling\/","title":{"rendered":"More Proof of Cable Bandwidth Twiddling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I would appreciate some information on just how F%$#ed up the cable broadband providers networks are, because we now have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wetmachine.com\/item\/1191\">the results of a study on BitTorrent blocking<\/a>, and it&#8217;s only the cable providers doing it, and they (Comcast, Cox, and Starhub, a cable\/internet provider in Singapore)are doing it regardless of network load, and they are the only ISPs to do this in the world.<\/p>\n<p>A brief technical rundown why the cable network architectures providers&#8217; suck is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.publicknowledge.org\/node\/1269\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Basically, the technology is not there, but instead of being open with their customers regarding limits, they are engaging in stealth filtering, and not particularly good stealth filtering at that.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m surprised, given the <a href=\"http:\/\/comcastmustdie.blogspot.com\/\">sterling reputation for customer service<\/a> of the cable companies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I would appreciate some information on just how F%$#ed up the cable broadband providers networks are, because we now have the results of a study on BitTorrent blocking, and it&#8217;s only the cable providers doing it, and they (Comcast, Cox, and Starhub, a cable\/internet provider in Singapore)are doing it regardless of network load, and they &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,997,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-internet","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196149"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}