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Comcast Blocks Web Browsing

Submitted by MacRonin on April 7, 2008 - 12:46pm
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Comcast Blocks Web Browsing - Via Slashdot: Your Rights Online:

An anonymous reader writes "A team of researchers have found that Comcast has quietly rolled out a new traffic-shaping method, which is interfering with web browsers in addition to p2p traffic. The smoking gun that documents this behavior are network traces collected from Comcast subscribers Internet connections. This evidence shows Comcast is forging packets and blocking connection attempts from web browsers. One has to hope this isn't the congestion management system they are touting as no longer targeting BitTorrent, which they are deploying in reaction to the recent FCC investigations."

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vpn can solve the problem

Submitted by Anonymous on April 14, 2008 - 4:45am.

The problem is easily solved using VPN service for anonymous surfing on the web. Personal VPN account offer many VPN providers. And it is cheap.

[Editor] The three links to the same website were removed. This is not a free advertising site.

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