Comcast Teams Up With BitTorrent, Promises to Be Net Neutral

March 27, 2008 by Dan in Tech with 4 Comments

Comcast, who is one of the internets most flagrant offenders of packet shaping, has teamed up with BitTorrent and has announced that they will keep their network neutral.

Comcast has announced that it will lift the ban on BitTorrent traffic, which prevented its users from sharing files using the popular protocol. The ISP and BitTorrent Inc. will work together on finding customer friendly solutions for the congestion allegedly caused by BitTorrent traffic.

Comcast has announced that it will stop targeting BitTorrent transfers and has said it will invest in its network capacity. For the time being the company will throttle users who use the most bandwidth, not all BitTorrent users per se.

I’m glad that Comcast decided that spending money on capacity, rather then filtering equipment is the way to keep customers happy. A decision like this can also add to Comcasts bottom line in that with additional Comcast can offer premium data packages that customers could subscribe to.

James

Quite a contrast to the recent news up here in Canada that a major DSL provider has now started throttling not only it’s own residential customers traffic, but also the raw bandwidth it sells to independent ISP’s to resell. They also gave them no advance warning.

I think it’s a good thing Comcast is doing, but it’s obvious they’re only doing it because of the scrutiny they came under. As soon as they find a legal loophole, they’ll be back to their old exploitative ways.
Chowder

That’s Craptastic…
chad

“if it sounds to good to be true, it probably is”

I don’t know who said it…. but it certainly applies.
http://none Joe

If we were half as gullible as they make us out to be we’d be in trouble.

Comcast Teams Up With BitTorrent, Promises to Be Net Neutral

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