A California Comcast customer called the company's claims of fast Internet connections fraudulent due to their use of traffic shaping technology that hinders torrents.
The whole point of having a speedy Internet connection is to be able to use it. When Comcast put roadblocks on the popular file-sharing technology BitTorrent, they aroused the ire of thousands of customers.
At least one of them wants something done about Comcast's practices.
It is believed Comcast uses a technology from Sandvine to continually reset BitTorrent connections being made by their customers.
"I learned about Sandvine and got word from another Sandvine customer that they're bragging about their Comcast deployment in order to make sales," Robb Topolski wrote in that post. Hart wants class-action status for his lawsuit against Comcast. Comcast continues to claim it does not block connections, including peer to peer. But they aren't being accused of doing so; it's the hindering of traffic to the point where the response time approaches infinity that has Hart and other Comcast customers steamed.
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