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Explain comcasts "traffic shaping"

Apr 12, 2008 5:49AM PDT

I am not sure exactly what this means after reading a few articles. Could someone explain it to me and the "side affects"? Would it cause me to have good browsing and streaming but slow downloading even though sites like speedtest.net test fine for me? thanks

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Its simple.
Apr 14, 2008 2:33PM PDT

If you are using a torrent program, after about 24 hours, the port that the torrent program uses will be chokes to a really small bandwidth.

Simply hop onto a new port and it goes away. Normal internet usage should not be affected.

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Jun 25, 2008 5:53AM PDT

From what I understand, Comcast's approach is similar to what the commercial traffic shaper Netequalizer does. Netequalizer's website has a pretty detailed breakdown of how it all works: http://www.netequalizer.com/nda.htm