Comcast to target ‘heavy’ users

Saturday, August 16, 2008 9:05 PDT -07:00   News  


Comcast has revealed that it is going to slow down the Internet speeds of certain users in a bid to free up some of the bandwidth that some subscribers are hogging. Comcast has come under fire a lot recently over allegations that the ISP has been tampering with traffic to filesharing protocol BitTorrent. Comcast has now been ordered to release information about all its practises, especially related to filesharing traffic.

By targeting certain Internet users, who could see their connections slow for between 10 and 20 minutes at a time, Comcast is trying to avoid legal trouble. Comcast did vow to leave all BitTorrent traffic alone, but it was never made clear if the same would be true of regular filesharing traffic. Vague statements have done nothing to clear up the mess.

There is also no news on exactly when Comcast is going to start slowing down people’s connections, but if your download speed suddenly drops off for 20 minutes, now you’ll know why.

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