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Author: Mark Phillips
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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 <>
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:
>> [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
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