{"id":4353,"date":"2008-01-23T10:56:27","date_gmt":"2008-01-23T17:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2008\/01\/23\/hogging-the-trough-the-eff-strikes-back\/"},"modified":"2008-01-23T10:56:27","modified_gmt":"2008-01-23T17:56:27","slug":"hogging-the-trough-the-eff-strikes-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/23\/hogging-the-trough-the-eff-strikes-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Hogging the Trough: The EFF Strikes Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tMy latest salvo in the ongoing debate with the EFF over Comcast is up at the Register today, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2008\/01\/23\/benett_eff_neutrality_response\/\">Hogging the Trough: The EFF Strikes Back<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nBitTorrent&#8217;s behavior on the Comcast network is like a glutton at an all-you-can-eat buffet who insists on planting himself at the trough, preventing others from getting to the food. This causes multiple problems for DOCSIS cable networks, which caused Comcast&#8217;s network managers to throttle uploads under high-load conditions (but not prohibit them outright) using a technique called Reset Spoofing.<\/p>\n<p>The EFF has a preferred way of dealing with this, random packet drop. For EFF this is the One True Method of traffic management. But as I&#8217;ve explained to Eckersley both in print and over the phone, the problems BitTorrent causes can&#8217;t be healed by random packet drop.<\/p>\n<p>Packet drop would work with the regular diner who takes a plateful and moves on, but not with this super-hungry dude.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This discussion will be continued Saturday at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.netneutrality2008.org\/About.html\">Toll Roads symposium<\/a> in Frisco, which you can catch via webcast on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ustream.tv\/nn\">UStream.tv<\/a>.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My latest salvo in the ongoing debate with the EFF over Comcast is up at the Register today, Hogging the Trough: The EFF Strikes Back BitTorrent&#8217;s behavior on the Comcast network is like a glutton at an all-you-can-eat buffet who insists on planting himself at the trough, preventing others from getting to the food. This &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/23\/hogging-the-trough-the-eff-strikes-back\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hogging the Trough: The EFF Strikes Back&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-net-neutrality"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-18d","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}