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Submission + - Comcast blocking BitTorrent traffic

Submitted by Phanatic1a on Monday August 20, 2007 @11:17AM

Phanatic1a writes: P2P-oriented blog Torrentfreak claims that Comcast has now started to sever their customers' BitTorrent connections: "It is reported that Comcast is using an application from Sandvine to throttle BitTorrent traffic. Sandvine breaks every (seed) connection with new peers after a few seconds if it's not a Comcast user. This makes it virtually impossible to seed a file, especially in small swarms without any Comcast users. Some users report that they can still connect to a few peers, but most of the Comcast customers see a significant drop in their upload speed."

Comment Re:As The Doctor once said... (Score 1) 505

by dshade69 on Tuesday June 12, 2007 @04:44PM (#19482511) Attached to: Far-Fetched Time Travel Concept Receives Private Funds

Not the best episode but a damn good one...but yea...one of the hottest chicks i've seen on the series so far.

Submission + - New Cable Modem to Triple Internet Speed

Submitted by

BlueMorpho

on Tuesday May 22, 2007 @01:30PM

BlueMorpho writes: "That's right-optical fiber-to-the-home service had previously offered the fastest available connection for residential Internet. The best-known example is the FiOS service from Verizon Communications, which peaks at 50 megabits per second.

But the cable industry has recently taken the wraps off new cable modem technology that exceeds the FiOS speed by a factor of more than three. Called the Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification (DOCSIS) 3.0, it allows data throughput of as much as 160 megabits.

http://www.livescience.com/technology/070522_cable _modem.html"

Submission + - Lost Planet: Extreme Dissapointment

Submitted by

mikemuch

on Tuesday May 22, 2007 @01:27PM

mikemuch writes: "With the release of the demo for Lost Planet: Extreme Condition, the public gets its first look at what DirectX 10 has to offer, and it's not pretty. Jason Cross at ExtremeTech has benchmarks that reveal shortcomings in the demo and particularly in ATI's cards/drivers. ATI claims they weren't given code early to optimize for. Nvidia doesn't fare too much better when all the eye candy is turned up. The game also needs to be re-interfaced for the PC, as opposed to a wholesale port of the Xbox version. Stick this one back in the oven, it's not done."

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