[100316] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Can P2P applications learn to play fair on networks?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Popovitch)
Sun Oct 21 18:06:25 2007
From: Jim Popovitch <yahoo@jimpop.com>
To: nanog <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <200710212113.l9LLDK3C029584@parsley.amaranth.net>
Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2007 18:03:42 -0400
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Sun, 2007-10-21 at 17:10 -0400, Daniel Senie wrote:
> I have Comcast business service in my office, and residential service
> at home. I use CentOS for some stuff, and so tried to pull a set of
> ISOs over BitTorrent. First few came through OK, now I can't get
> BitTorrent to do much of anything. I made the files I obtained
> available for others, but noted the streams quickly stop.
I have Comcast residential service and I've been pulling down torrents
all weekend (Ubuntu v7.10, etc.), with no problems. I don't think that
Comcast is blocking torrent downloads, I think they are blocking a
zillion Comcast customers from serving torrents to the rest of the
world. It's a network operations thing... why should Comcast provide a
fat pipe for the rest of the world to benefit from? Just my $.02.
-Jim P.