David Boles wrote:
on 9/23/2007 2:55 PM, Robert Nichols wrote:
David Boles wrote:
on 9/23/2007 12:01 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote:
The 'polite' rule is to share, upload, at least as much
as you download. Most don't.
And, alas, Comcast now has Sandvine filters in place that block
bittorrent uploading as soon as you are no longer downloading.
The symptom is that as soon as your download reaches 100%, all
bittorrent upload connections get immediately terminated by a
perfectly forged TCP RST packet sent in both directions by a
network router. That makes it impossible for Comcast HSI
subscribers to be Good Citizens with bittorrent.
I wondered just how they were going to do that. All of which was probably
forced by the movie, game, music pirates. Too bad.
For a time they were messing with the email/fedora lists for me.
I can ask the router to block sites based on keywords. I have told it
to block "bittorrent."
Then asking Google to search "bittorrent" results in a message:
"Web Site Blocked by NETGEAR Firewall"
However I don't know how one logs onto bittorrent? Assuming they have
to address it by name that would impede them.
Bob Goodwin Zuni, Virginia
