Comcast and Tiscali share BitTorrent and gaming problem
Filed under: Gaming, Networking, News, Sony Playstation 3
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.
FCC Meeting on Comcast’s traffic shaping: Sony PS3, P2P, BitTorrent and Tiscali
Filed under: Broadband, Computers
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 Read more