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[ NNSquad ] Re: Blocking Comcast's Sandvine with simple firewall rules?


One correction...

On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 1:49 PM, Nick Weaver <nweaver@gmail.com> wrote:

> Likewise, I can tell you that my ISP does a "shape early" policy,
> where the start of large uploads receive more bandwidth (it starts off
> at 140 KB/s, quickly reducing to ~40 KB/s after about 1 MB.)
> regardless of congestion.

This is assuming you trust SSH's performance figures.  It could be bad
tool, and is just overestimating early transfer rates.  I haven't done
a low level packet count verification/graph yet.