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Comcast Quietly Changes ToS

Comcast has silently changed it’s terms of service to clarify the cable giants policies on traffic management. This move comes on the heels of months of debate and third-party proof that Comcast was throttling back bandwidth on some subscribers using BitTorrent. Now according to Section III of the new terms “uses reasonable network management practices [...]

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Fri, February 8 2008 » tech, www » Comments Off

Is Time Warner blocking iTunes traffic in TX?

By going over a long thread on Apple.com’s support forums users having slow connection speeds with the iTunes Music Store have discovered that they all live in the same general area and all have Time Warner’s Roadrunner broadband service. According to the forums the problems started about January 31st with slow downloads of music and [...]

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Mon, February 4 2008 » tech, www » Comments Off