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From: http://text.broadbandreports.com/forum/r18944131-Re-Comcast-is-using-Sandvine-to-manage-P2P-Connections  A patent Sandvine has: said by Sandvine Patent Application 20040006643-TCP proxy providing application layer modifications : [0097] State machine 100 will on occasion need to generate segments, for example when: [0098] a) ...

[Update]  I've posted instructions here on what to do if you're being affected.Being a skeptic, I didn't believe TorrentFreak's announcement that Comcast is resetting upload connections from BitTorrent. ''A misconfigured router, or an isolated problem'', I thought.  I was wrong. Since I didn't see any hard proof of this ...

Continued from Argotic on the Web: Part 1 (Solution Design)... Prerequisites: 1. Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition (direct link) We'll use this to design the website that we'll be building for the creation of RSS feeds.  The project will reference the Argotic library and will be end up being hosted on a GoDaddy ...

Recently I got excited about a the video about Argotic (blog) on dnrTV. Argotic is a .NET library for RSS/ATOM/OPML creation and consumption.  The library is very easy to use, and can be used in a shared hosting environment (creation) and desktop environment(consumption). So I decided to make amends for all the tutorials I've ...

Free .torrent file hosting provided by BTSharp at http://publish.btsharp.com. The real kicker for developers is the easy-to-use API published at http://publish.btsharp.com/services/ShareInfoHostService.asmx.  Check it out. If you like it, feel free to ping me at david(at)davidjsmitty.com.

Do you  like Dot Net Rocks?  You might like dnrTV too - that's Dot Net Rocks TV.  Carl Franklin and Richard Campell produce an educational and entertaining talk show about .NET and Microsoft technologies. Description: Interested in creating highly scalable data-driven applications with no servers?  David wrote his ...

P2P has huge advantages over existing server to client architectures.  In an effort to push these protocol advances to the .NET developer, I've developed a framework to ease integration of P2P technologies into your applications. So, I'm announcing http://share.btsharp.com/ Beta. This free .torrent file hosting web service is currently ...

*Initial comments on BitTyrant* I will probably revise these comments when I do more research into the peer-selection algorithm that BitTyrant uses. While I was at Michigan State University, a fellow group of students did a study into whether they could write a selfish TCP/IP stack.  Of course - it's possible. (It also ruins ...

This is an examination of how much Comcast throughput (not bandwidth) is worth to you.  How much does it cost? You pay $43 - $58 / month for you Comcast connection, $43 if you have cable TV too, and $58 if you don't have cable TV.        What do you get? It's important to note that Comcast will cut off your ...

I've been on the beta-testing team for Joost for a while now, and now that they changed their name, Google News Sci/Tech finally aggregated the story. I love to see the success of any type of P2P technology, so it's fun to see Joost on Google news.  The thing I think is especially exciting is that any .NET developer with some time ...