Comcast and Tiscali share BitTorrent and gaming problem
Filed under: Gaming, Networking, News, Sony Playstation 3 | By: Mark
Posted on: July 28, 2008 | 1 Comment
Comcast Corp the Cable TV giant’s and Internet service provider are doing wrong to customers; they have been accused of wrongly slowing down some of its customers Internet traffic.
Looking at the latest news, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will rule that Comcast has violated federal policy by deliberately preventing some customers from file-sharing. For example, sharing videos online via file-sharing services like BitTorrent, the company has acknowledged it slowed some traffic. But they said it was necessary so they could prevent a few heavy users from overburdening its network.
The ruling is expected Friday, the FCC decision will no doubt be challenged in court. Comcast being accused of blocking is a pretty bad thing or at least throttling traffic from subscribers trying to share files through the highly popular BitTorrent peer-to-peer network.
I know many customers in the UK are having the same problems with Internet providers “Tiscali” including myself. I have just cancelled my contract with Tiscali because when I want to play the Playstation 3 online it is nearly impossible to plays multiplayer online games with friends or family on the contacts list.
Basically what these companies are doing is traffic shaping, switching off certain ports. All companies not just Comcast should be looked into and Tiscali should be on top of the list, they may be in breach of contract for exercising port and service blocking. We are all getting blocked from a number of websites and of course my major problem is P2P (peer-to-peer) gaming.
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not just p2p. tiscali fucked up their network severely a few weeks ago. download speeds are 10th of what they had been, when downloading anything, latency skyrockets. when I receive a larger email (downloading at max 40KB, a 400K email is now larger), it’s impossible to even browse at that time. I can forget about my Apple TV, it takes a whole day to download a movie. and the most annoying thing is that everything worked well just a few weeks ago. maybe they just introduced some traffic shaping recently, and they didn’t get it right. which would be fine for a day or two, but for weeks - utter incompetence.