Comcast vs BitTorrent: Issue Resolved

Comcast is killing BitTorrent. For weeks people have been reporting experiencing issues downloading using various BitTorrent clients. From what I've seen it seems they're killing off BitTorrent one city at a time. Are you next?

I'll explain (using my superior art skillz) how this all goes down.



Under normal circumstances, your data packets (sugar packets) pass freely between you (Best) , Comcast, and your fellow peers (Friends).



However, Comcast's Sandvine servers (cock) block any BitTorrent packets (Sweet N' Low) that try to pass through it by sending back RST packets.



One way past this is to have your packets (Sweet N' Low) encrypted (sunglasses) using SSH and passed through a shell account (wheel thingie) such as silenceisdefeat.org, as described in this article. This way, Comcast can't see what's behind the mask. This does add a bit of overhead though.

If you're as sick of Comcast as I am (and these people are) perhaps you should consider doing what I'm going to do:




Ditch Comcast and get an ISP that actually wants your business!