Comcast - Agnostic traffic management

Comcast is currently testing a new protocol - agnostic traffic management

After coming under fire and finally getting nailed for lying, cheating and playing big brother Comcast is testing a new approach.  Rather than limiting the bandwidth available to all BitTorrent users when network traffic is heavy (all day mind you), the company will target the individuals clogging the pipe.  By measuring aggregate bandwidth consumption, Comcast can identify the heaviest users.  During times of network congestion, the heavy users will notice a delay in their data requests until overall traffic has gone down.

Comcast is currently testing this idea in PA and WA and has been since June.  If the testing goes well, they will start to roll this out by the end of the year.

Okay, my take on this is that they are trying to cover themselves for their failure last year and going into this year.  Comcast users are still complaining and the FCC is still involved.  Thank god for Qwest fiber Internet.

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