Question for fellow Comcast broadband users....

Room101

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Fri Dec-12-03 01:25 AM
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Question for fellow Comcast broadband users....

Has your bandwidth or speed for downloading gone down significantly? Mine has dramatically, when I first started downloading on Kazaa the average speed was 35- 65 KB now it’s at less than 10KB WTF. Does Comcast limit your speed after a certain threshold? BASTARDS.

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Fri Dec-12-03 01:29 AM
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1. Could be the Kaaza node you are...ahem...borrowing from.

Either the person on the other end throttled their max upload speed or a lot of people started downloading from the same node and you now sharing that node's bandwidth with the others.

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Nomad559

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Fri Dec-12-03 01:36 AM
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2. DSL Reports

You may find some answers here at this forum.

http://www.dslreports.com/forum/comcast
http://www.dslreports.com/

I stopped using Kazaa because of slow speeds and fake files.

Have you got the new download speeds yet?

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Liberal Veteran

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Fri Dec-12-03 01:41 AM
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3. Amen...Kaaza is history...bittorrent is the bomb now.

Much better in my opinion.

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Room101

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Fri Dec-12-03 02:10 AM
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4. Thanks, can you point me to bittorrent

I have heard have it..

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M0rpheus

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Fri Dec-12-03 02:34 AM
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5. You could try Shareaza...

Edited on Fri Dec-12-03 02:49 AM by M0rpheus

It combines the Kazaa, Edonkey/emule and Bittorrent networks into one interface...
www.shareaza.com

If you want just bittorent you could try the official site...
http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/

or one of many other sites with a modified BT client.

With BT, though you will have to go to a tracker site and find what you are looking for rather than just a simple search. But the DL speed can be really good if there are enough people DLing that file.

Some BT Tracker sites:
www.suprnova.org... if that one is down try this mirror (http://suprnova.novasearch.net/) it seems to always be up.
Http://voracity.net (its ok, but not as good as suprnova)

And I highly recommend the DSLReports (now Broadband Reports)
P2P forum ( ) for information. Stay away from the politics though, it can get pretty rough in there.

Also www.zeropaid.com has excellent information as well.

Enjoy! :)

Edit: added a little punctuation... Not much though, and its probably still wrong (oh well) :shrug:

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classics

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Fri Dec-12-03 02:54 AM
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6. Comcast caps P2P users.

Edited on Fri Dec-12-03 02:54 AM by classics

Check out the comcast forums at www.dslreports.com

They automatically cap anyone who uploads a lot at a low rate.

Also watch out because Comcast is target #1 on the RIAA hit list. Comcast users get more DMCA letters than any other ISP.

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