Cox slowing torrents?

Eric Shubert ejs at shubes.net
Fri Nov 13 11:15:11 MST 2009


Most likely them I would guess. (Not that that's worth a hill of beans).
-- 
-Eric 'shubes'

Joe wrote:
> I realize they have both been reportedly filtering and slowing torrents 
> for some time (in fact I think all ISPs reportedly do), but I've only 
> really noticed it since last night. I was chugging along maintaining 
> about 120-140kBps up as usual and all of a sudden everything dropped off 
> and I couldn't get anything up over 10kBps. I've had Cox for over a year 
> now and it's the first time I've have any issue like that.
> 
> I changed my ports around and checked some sites and none of the tests 
> came back positive for filtering. Now, all of a sudden, I'm back up to 
> 120kBps again. I still have no idea if it was me or them...
> 
> Thanks for the feedback though.
> 
> -Joe
> 
> Bob Elzer wrote:
>> It's not only cox, I have qwest, and my torrents have gone from 150k to
>> 50-20k
>> It seem to have started in november.
>>  
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
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>> [mailto:plug-discuss-bounces at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Joe
>> Sent: Friday, November 13, 2009 8:29 AM
>> To: Main PLUG discussion list
>> Subject: OT: Cox slowing torrents?
>>
>> I'm on Cox cable for internet and paying for their Premiere package (20MBit
>> down, 2MBit up). Over the past day or so I've seen my torrent uploads go
>> from respectable to abysmal; I'm lucky if I can upload at over 10kB/s now.
>> I've reset both my model and router several times and that hasn't helped at
>> all. Is anyone else seeing this problem too or is it only on my end? Thanks
>> for any feedback.
>>
>> -Joe
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