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[m.oreilly]

lol. well, i guess i'll cancel the service: after setting up utorrent through the ssh, all my downloads stopped ("target machine actively refused..." blah blah blah...do you have to start the torrents from scratch to use the ssh?

[Nvyseal]

Comcast denies monkeying with BitTorrent traffic

Comcast on Tuesday denied rumors that the company is filtering BitTorrent traffic running over its network.

The blog claimed that some Comcast users had noticed that their BitTorrent transfers were being cut off and that they experienced a significant decrease in download speeds.

Over the past few days, these claims have been widely circulated throughout the Web. But when I spoke to Comcast spokesman Charlie Douglas earlier today, he flat-out denied that the company was filtering or "shaping" any traffic on its network. He said the company doesn't actively look at the applications or content that its customers download over the network. But Comcast does reserve the right to cut off service to customers who abuse the network by using too much bandwidth.

So what constitutes "too much" bandwidth? Douglas didn't specify exact figures, but he gave a few examples that would likely get subscribers into trouble. For example, someone who sends more than 13 million e-mails a month, which breaks down to about 430,000 e-mails a day or 18,000 e-mails an hour, would likely get a letter or phone call from Comcast about excessive use. Sending roughly 250,000 photos or downloading more than 30,000 songs a month might also raise an eyebrow at Comcast, he said.

Continues @ News.com

[banj0]

m.oreilly, on Aug 22 2007, 05:00 PM, said:

well, i'm now a proud user in the ssh scene thanks ep and banj. banj0, in the firefox fields, the second to last one ("no proxy for..."), do you leave this blank as default, or...because firefox defaulted to entering the 127 addy there...

ssh2.jpg

No, you should leave it with 'localhost, 127.0.0.1.'

And you have PM MO.

[eniparadoxgma]

"the banjer man" said:

If you are on Vista, you would have to download a copy of SSH and a grab a reg file from here. Install SSH but don't open it and double-click the reg file you downloaded.

Actually I had trouble with the SSH client they link to on the site now. It's a different version than I'm used to, and when attempting to run it it asks for some type of licensing files, etc. I had to locate a copy of the the earlier version here about halfway down the page (SSH Secure Shell Client v3.2.9 5.52MB) instead.

Just an FYI. Maybe I just wasn't doing something right with that Tectia version they're linking to now.

For the record, this only pertains to the SSH client that you would have to use with Vista or if you just prefer it to the Secure Tunnel software.

"banjer" said:

And since I'm fluent in crazy, I can translate this for the Enip. impaired...

[banj0]

ah, good to know. thx man.