are you serious?

its back

after the new bandwidth updates to comcast across the country, it's back, and worse than before. Now i'm getting 2 kbps/ 

The Current Violation of Net Neutrality

Net Neutrality is the principal that all connections on a broadband connection will be given equal share regardless of protocol. This means, in theory, no bandwidth throttling of a specific protocol should occur. This does not mean your overall bandwidth will not be restricted, but certain kinds of data will not be targeted. 

As many of us know, Comcast has violated this in the past. They are currently under investigation by the FCC. Here is a detailed report of my connection and my experience with Comcast. 

Bit Torrent Statistics: 

File Used for Testing Steal This Film II and Ubuntu 8.04 Beta

Bit Torrent Client: Transmission 1.10 and Azureus 3.0.5.0

Host System: Mac Pro 2.8x8

Router: Airport Extreme-Time Capsule 

Transmission & Azureus BT Unencrypted: 

While Downloading

Download: 1.1 MBps

Upload: 85KBps

Peers: 83 out of 91 connected

While Seeding: 

Upload: 10.2KBs

Peers 1 out of 1

Transmission & Azureus BT ENCRYPTED RC5

While Downloading

Download: 1.1 MBps

Upload: 85KBps

Peers: 83 out of 86 connected

While Uploading

Upload 93KBps

Peers 76 out of 89

Obviously, there is some serious filtering going on. 

The Current Situation

According to Speakeasy.....

Downstream:  2837.1KBps

Upstream: 342.8 KBps

MySpeed

Downstream: 19.1Mb

Upstream: 2.83Mb

Real Life Download: Aperture 2.1 Trial (109MB): 1.87MBps sustained

Real Life Download: Transmission Bit Torrent (7.89GB): 1.14MBps sustained

Real Life Upload: FTP 2 connections (100MB): 75KBps sustained, 300KBps burst, 80KBps average

Real Life Upload: Transmission Bit Torrent Encrypted (100MB): 86KBps sustained, 340 KBps bursts, 90KBps Average

First issue with bandwidth

For nine months I've been perfectly happy, then two weeks ago everything started to change.

Let me start by saying I am quite technically adept. I have been experimenting with forms of packet encryption for some time now, and well there are a few things that I've noticed.

First of all, it goes through slower. It seems comcast is trying to filter it, however unable to do so. I'll post more on this later on. 

Background with Comcast

We've had them from the start. Overall, I have been quite satisfied with their service. Yet in the past few years some issues have come up with I would like to invite others to share their stories of. 

I live in Western Massachusetts, Amherst, and subscribe to an 8mb line, in addition to digital voice and HDTV.