Submission + - Is Comcast Blocking File Transfer?
An anonymous reader writes: Today, I tried to get Slackware images. My Download was going way to slow so I decided to get it from Bittorrent. When I started, I got great speeds but soon, my speeds dropped about 90% leaving me with days worth of downloading left. Even my browser slowed to a stop. I stopped the torrents and quit the application. After waiting a bit, my connections speeds in my browser had returned to normal so I started up the torrents again. The great speed was back but again it fell below 5kB/s and so did my browser. I tried this multiple times with the same result. I came to the conclusion that my ISP was blocking me. Shocked, I searched for info about my ISP, Comcast. I found that they had previously blocked Bittorrent. They were later ordered to stop but were annoyed about it. I wonder: Are they doing it again? Has any one else noticed this? What other ISP's don't do this?