[Novalug] Is Cox blocking bittorrent?

[Beartooth]

On Mon, 2 Feb 2009, James Ewing Cottrell 3rd wrote:

> No, as I said, any piece of Free Software that is in Wide Dissemination
> will show up on fast sites, be they Universities, ISPs, Government
> Sites, or the ORG sites like Kernel.ORG. Even TUCOWS, CDNET, or
> Download.com. They are ALL OVER THE PLACE.
>
> OK, I decided to do an experiment. I am using DAP to ES.NET and 
> KERNEL.ORG, getting kB/s 800K. Using Bit Tornado, I got similar 
> results.

 	On wireless broadband, I often get less than I'm 
supposedly paying for, and sometimes far less. It held up well 
when the account was new, but ...

 	At the moment I'm trying to download a (third) DVD of F10 
from Georgia tech -- Jo's machine turns out to be running 64-bit 
-- and getting 35 - 70 Kbps; I've got 6.9% of the 3.9 GB, and 
Opera is estimating 14 more hours ....

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