Astound (Now Charter) Filters BitTorrent
February 25, 2006
So, since Astound was recently eaten by Charter I've noticed a lot of bad things happening on their network. Firt they screwed up their SMTP servers. How exactly do you screw up an SMTP server? It's one of the easiest things to configure, especially since I'm supposing that Charter runs Windows. Now comes the final evil, which will probably cause me to switch to Qwest DSL.
Charter filters BitTorrent. At first, I thought I was just getting screwed up torrents - or that my client wasn't working correctly. But no, after my latest download of Kubuntu being at about 650k after three days; I called Astound. They confirmed that Charter (who owns Astound's network now) filters P2P-style traffic. I'm completely annoyed. I'm paying 35$/m for a slow connection (1.5Mps) , and I can't even download the latest Linux distro via my desired protocol. Video game demos included, I now must "wait in line" at FilePlanet, and the like, since Charter's network won't allow the venerable BitTorrent protocol.
I'm hoping that Qwest's DSL isn't too terribly expensive, since St. Cloud, MN now has but two ISPs (No, I'm not counting ClearWire since they service such a small portion of the area). Go go gadget duopoly! On the flip side, I could move to a town down the road containing but a bar, a church, and a grocery store - yet still experience the same quality of internet access as St. Cloud!
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