Traffic Shaping

AP: Comcast Blocking Some Subscribers' File-Sharing Traffic

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on October 19, 2007 - 8:49am.
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New York - Comcast, the nation's largest cable TV provider and operator of a broadband access service with 12.4 million subscribers, or 20% of the U.S. market, is blocking the file-sharing traffic of some of its subscribers in an effort to manage the large amounts of bandwidth they are using, the Associated Press reported.