Anyone with Comcast notice more sandvining?

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noian
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Anyone with Comcast notice more sandvining?

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Deluge has been (thankfully) one of the clients that have been better at withstanding sandvining, but recently, I've noticed Deluge (although still considerably better) has been affected more by sandvining than before (on same version)....anyone else notice this? Or is it just me? (If others have noticed this, then they must be doing something new in identifying the files)

Speed is roughly the same, just the sudden erratic shifts of upload speed from max (since I set one) to zero have been more often (although deluge picks up from zero back to max quite fast)
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Re: Anyone with Comcast notice more sandvining?

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I don't know but according to The Register article and the Wiki it doesn't look good being a Comcast subscriber.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/08/22 ... ent_users/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandvine#Controversy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comcast#Re ... tisfaction
Or it could simply be so that
"75-year old Comcast customer Mona Shaw" broke all the important ISP equipments with her "Hammer of Doom" and all Comcast customers is still suffering from her little needle work :mrgreen:
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Re: Anyone with Comcast notice more sandvining?

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Dad's considering switching to Astound!/Wave, the only other "viable" option in my area (this means excluding dial-up and non fiber-optic DSL) anyone know how their network is on torrenting? I know they have a really unreliable network as in speed wise of normal pages (which goes up and down) but if they don't throttle/sandvine, I'd settle for 30% of comcast speeds simply because that is more speed than I get with comcast on bit-torreting, and 30% is enough for normal web pages anyway.
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