Does Comcast Throttle P2P?
Filed in archive Companies , Internet by Marc on September 05, 2007

In the CNet article "Comcast Denies Traffic Shaping," Comcast says it places no restriction or content filtering except for extreme cases of Internet usage.
However readers commenting on that article claim they have evidence that Comcast indeed does reduce their bandwidth when they use P2P software and the Bit Torrent protocol in particular.
bob.mcclenahan wrote "I just ran a Speedtest speed test
with some torrents running. I got .48 Mb/s down and .06 Mb/s up. When I stopped the torrents and reran the test, I got 14.35 Mb/s down and 1.18 Mb/s up. My torrents are upload capped at 70 Kb/s and nothing was downloading at the time. They obviously throttle my bandwidth, so I just pause the torrents while I'm surfing."Permalink: Does Comcast Throttle P2P?
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