Cox slowing torrents?

[Bob Elzer]

It's because you are talking about them :-)

They're trying to censor you,  use code words.  Cox = Wally.

Wally is throttling P2P....

LOL


-----Original Message-----
From: plug-discuss-bounces at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
[mailto:plug-discuss-bounces at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Mark
Phillips
Sent: Friday, November 13, 2009 11:31 AM
To: Phoenix Linux Users
Subject: Re: Cox slowing torrents?

This may be a complete coincidence, but yesterday and this morning my cox
service has been going up and down. I had 3 outages yesterday and one this
morning. Each lasted for 10-30 minutes. 

Mark
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-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Shubert <ejs at shubes.net>
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 11:15:11
To: <plug-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
Subject: Re: Cox slowing torrents?

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-----
>> From: plug-discuss-bounces at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
>> [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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