[Article] Cox ready to throttle P2P, non "time sensitive" traffic

[Stephen]

however now that i reread it it makes sense.. during peak congested
times... should be interesting.

On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 2:20 PM, Stephen <cryptworks at gmail.com> wrote:
> i think overall its bs... because it now will bend over legit users and useages
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> On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 2:16 PM, Anthony Boynes <aboynes at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 2:06 PM, Stephen P Rufle
>> <stephen.p.rufle at cox.net> wrote:
>>> http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/01/cox-opens-up-throttle-for-p2p-non-time-sensitive-traffic.ars
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>> Hrmm.  Here are the types of traffic that will be delayed at the
>> beginning of the trial.
>>
>>    * File Access (Bulk transfers of data such as FTP)
>>    * Network Storage (Bulk transfers of data for storage)
>>    * P2P (Peer to peer protocols)
>>    * Software Updates (Managed updates such as operating system updates)
>>    * Usenet (Newsgroup related)
>>
>>
>> Why the heck would they want to delay OS updates? That seems rather silly to me.
>>
>>
>> Anthony
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