It sounds like they are trying to make sure that general use does not slow down for specialty use.

It is not perfect -- but what else would you do. The Internet backbone can't take the traffic it gets.

I mean, who still uses usenet. (Google groups lets you do it on the web without slowdown).

I thought it was going to be something terrible like some of ultra-low proposed DL content limits per month coming from Frontier (5G).

Mike from Morgantown

I, for one, hope that all BitTorrenters and the like get their bandwidth throttled to hell. The few mess it up for the many.

@ JaggedSac

I hope you realize there are many legal uses for torrents?  Other things that may be throttled are game updates and windows updates.

@ StrategyKing

I just want to make sure we all know Jordan likes Cox

The main problem I have with what Cox did is that they sold internet service to many people (including me) that sais we will get 7 mbps or 15 mbps.  It is apparent that they cannot fulfil thier promises.  Neither are they refunding us nor are they giving compensation to test a new system on us.  Also, I was not notified by mail or phone call that this would be happening.  They should have gotten it right in the first place;  They should have said "for this price, you will get X speed except during  peak usage which you will get at least Y".  Seems that thier practices are unethical.

On the other hand, if they have to do something about thier inability to meet demand, what they are proposing seems to be better than what other ISPs have been doing.  Only time will tell what they are really planning.  I hope that by March I will be leaving for Air Force officer training and I won't have to worry about it.

So that's why my connection has been sucking so much for the past few days... It got so bad awhile ago that I couldn't even load the Google start page...

According to Cox, this traffic management system should make html traffic faster when the network is under heavy traffic.