Study Reveals Cox Cable Disrupting Traffic

[GhostShip]

While nothing new here in hearing this news, its nice to see them nailed to the fence for their anti file-sharing activities.

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5g4MtXwTvN9ReaZ5W76pwZxV3nhqAD90M3KS00

Cox Communications appears to be interfering with file-sharing by its Internet subscribers in the same manner that has landed Comcast Corp. in hot water.
Of the 788 Comcast subscribers who participated in the study, 491, or 62 percent, had their connections blocked. At Cox, 82 out of 151 subscribers, or 54 percent, were blocked, according to Krishna Gummadi at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems in Saarbruecken, Germany.

"To ensure the best possible online experience for our customers, Cox actively manages network traffic through a variety of methods including traffic prioritization and protocol filtering," the company said it a written statement. Cox denied that protocol filtering amounts to discrimination of any specific services.

What a suprise, I suppose Cox will next say blocking any sort of file sharing is a "useful user experience", when in fact its a fast track way to lose customers.

[White Stripes]

unfortunatly in many areas cox (and possibly comcast) are the -only- ways to get on the web faster than 56k....