[Infowarrior] - Comcast's Internet Filtering FAQ

[Richard Forno]

Comcast Opens Curtains On How They Filter Your Traffic

Comcast has just released a series of documents in response to the  
Federal Communications Commission detailing how, exactly, the ISP  
filters your traffic. Based on their traffic analysis, five protocols  
(Ares, BitTorrent, eDonkey, FastTrack and Gnutella) were especially  
filtered. Not anymore. Now Comcast is going to be throttling ALL  
traffic you generate, even if it's from their own Fancast streaming  
video service, if you're generating abnormally high traffic compared  
to your peers.

On the bright side, it's good that your torrents aren't getting slowed  
down, but on the other hand, "legal" applications like Netflix or  
Amazon will be affected as well. This probably won't be a big deal to  
all that many of you, as Comcast says the throttling only occurs  
during periods of congestion, and in total will only impact 1% of  
users. (It's likely that many Giz readers are in that 1% of bandwidth  
hogs though.) In any case, you'll still have to watch out that you  
don't run over the 250GB monthly cap, or else your net will become  
disconnected entirely. FAQ below:

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