FCC Meeting on Comcast’s traffic shaping: Sony PS3, P2P, BitTorrent and Tiscali

By: Daniel Chubb | Posted: February 22, 2008 | No Comments
Filed under: Broadband, Computers

FCC on traffic shaping
On Monday the FCC is holding a meeting on Comcast’s traffic shaping practices, the public hearing will be held 10am-4pm EST at Harvard Law School in Cambridge, MA.

The main discussion will be focused on “network neutrality and traffic shaping”, this subject is one that I am well aware of in the UK with Tiscali stopping all Sony PS3 owners playing Call of Duty 4 online thanks to their issues with P2P traffic at certain times.

It seems Tiscali does not understand the different between P2P gaming and P2P BitTorrent sites. The meeting being held in the U.S. was requested by BitTorrent video delivery company Vuze and others.

It will be interesting to see what affect this meeting could end up having on the way traffic shaping is applied.

What do you think about the way your broadband is controlled by traffic shaping and are you aware of this with your connection as I was with Tiscali.