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@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us [mailto:plug-discuss-bounces@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 Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile -----Original Message----- From: Eric Shubert Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 11:15:11 To: 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@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >> [mailto:plug-discuss-bounces@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 >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> -- -Eric 'shubes' --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss