{"id":5071,"date":"2008-04-06T23:06:47","date_gmt":"2008-04-06T23:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2008\/04\/comcast-working-with-bittorren.html"},"modified":"2008-04-06T23:06:47","modified_gmt":"2008-04-06T23:06:47","slug":"comcast-working-with-bittorren","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2008\/04\/comcast-working-with-bittorren.html","title":{"rendered":"Comcast working with BitTorrent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t believe that Comcast is doing something this smart and innovative. They&#8217;ve got a real problem with some users who are using BitTorrent excessively and slowing down the speeds for everyone. Slowing down those who overuse it during peak usage and working with BitTorrent to figure out how to optimize it for Comcast is a great way to solve the problem:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Comcast, the country\u2019s largest residential Internet provider, said on Thursday that it would take a more equitable approach toward managing the ever-expanding flow of Web traffic on its network.<br \/>\nThe cable company, based in Philadelphia, has been under relentless pressure from the Federal Communications Commission and public interest groups after media reports last year that it was blocking some Internet traffic of customers who used online software based on the popular peer-to-peer BitTorrent protocol.<br \/>\nComcast said it would change its fundamental approach to playing Internet traffic cop. Instead of interfering with specific online applications, it will manage traffic by slowing the Internet speeds of its most bandwidth-hogging users when traffic is busiest.<br \/>\n\u201cIn the event of congestion, the half percent of people who are overutilizing an excessive amount of capacity will be slowed down subtly until capacity is restored,\u201d the chief technology officer for Comcast, Tony G. Werner, said. \u201cFor the other 99.5 percent, their performance will be maintained exactly as they expect it.\u201d<br \/>\n[&#8230;]<br \/>\nThe companies said they have been working together for the last year on ways to optimize BitTorrent applications for the Comcast network. They said they would publish their findings to Web forums and standards groups so that other software makers, peer-to-peer services and I.S.P.\u2019s could adopt them. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t believe that Comcast is doing something this smart and innovative. They&#8217;ve got a real problem with some users who are using BitTorrent excessively and slowing down the speeds for everyone. 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