11-18-2007, 12:56 PM
Quote:SL Reports today investigated and reported on forum complaints regarding peer to peer performance being sub-par on Coxs cable Internet service. As someone who is a user of a Cox-built cable network (now owned by Suddenlink Communications), I can attest to allegations that p2p throughput is typically weak and random.
Robb Topolski, who initially discovered Comcasts traffic shaping practices, took a look at Coxs connectivity at the behest of DSL Reports. In analyzing user logs, he concluded that Cox is indeed using traffic shaping hardware to send forged TCP/IP packets with the RST (reset) flag set.
This has the net effect of disrupting torrented and eDonkey traffic, in a technique similar (but not identical to) Comcasts treatment of BitTorrent...
full article: http://mashable.com/2007/11/16/cox-admit...t-neutral/