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Comcast Reveals How it Throttled BitTorrent

By soulxtc

Complies with recent FCC ruling demanding that it detail it's network management practices, while also admitting that it was infective 80% of the time. Comcast has finally submitted a formal response to the FCC's recent ruling that the ISP violated the agency's principles for electively targeting and throttling the connection speeds of a single application - BitTorrent - as part of its overall efforts in managing network traffic. "Accordingly, we institute a plan that will bring Comcast?s unreasonable conduct to an end," reads the ruling. "In particular, we require Comcast within 30 days to disclose the details of their unreasonable network management practices, submit a compliance plan describing how it intends to stop these unreasonable management practices by the end of the year, and disclose to both the Commission and the public the details of the network management practices that it intends to deploy following termination of its current practices." In the first part of Comcast's disclosure it reveals that it began testing out Sandvine Policy Traffic Switch 8210 (?Sandvine PTS 8210?) as early as May 2005 after determining that the ".

Full post as published by ZeroPaid on September 23, 2008 (boomark / email).