Cox admits to shaping P2P Traffic

[mandy]

SL Reports today investigated and reported on forum complaints regarding peer to peer performance being sub-par on Cox’s 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 Comcast’s traffic shaping practices, took a look at Cox’s 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) Comcast’s treatment of BitTorrent...

full article: http://mashable.com/2007/11/16/cox-admit...t-neutral/