Hacked!

[Not Bman]

What is a sandvine? I got Rogers. I don't think it is them, everything works without uTorrent. Which is weird.

 

[Xie]

What is a sandvine? I got Rogers. I don't think it is them, everything works without uTorrent. Which is weird.

It's this new fancy way for ISP's to mess with P2P traffic (ie uTorrent) that sends packets to the port the P2P app uses and basically tells it to kill the connection. So it basically fakes coming from the other people and tells your computer basically to drop your connection to them because they aren't there anymore, when they are. I know Comcast is a big user right now (is talks of lawsuits and FCC is currently investigating it).


*ps - let me know if wording makes sense - a bit beat right now so what makes sense in my head might not in words

 

[Not Bman]

Yea that made sense.

 

[Xie]

Just a note, that if your using uTorrent it would be a wise choice to make sure you have the new version (1.7.6) as there is a current exploit that could allow people/org's to crash your client/DoS you (and some say run code on your system) with any of the other versions.

 

[Dark Atheist]

glad i have ftp sites