{"id":403,"date":"2007-10-20T00:06:09","date_gmt":"2007-10-20T07:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/?p=403"},"modified":"2007-10-20T00:06:09","modified_gmt":"2007-10-20T07:06:09","slug":"im-not-with-comcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/?p=403","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m not with Comcast&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;but apparently they sent RSTs both ways. And I wouldn&#8217;t put it past my ISP to forcibly reset Bittorrent connections either. So I&#8217;ve told my firewall to drop BIttorrent TCP packets with the RST bit set. The question is, when will ISPs understand the two fundamentals of the situation, viz. 1) I&#8217;ve paid for my bandwidth and I&#8217;m entitled to use it, 2) Bittorrent traffic isn&#8217;t all about teenagers downloading copyrighted material &#8211; what about Linux distributions, game patches, etc?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;but apparently they sent RSTs both ways. And I wouldn&#8217;t put it past my ISP to forcibly reset Bittorrent connections either. So I&#8217;ve told my firewall to drop BIttorrent TCP packets with the RST bit set. The question is, when will ISPs understand the two fundamentals of the situation, viz&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}