[COLUG] Time Warner Screwing With Protocols?

[William Yang]

Dave Maxwell wrote:
> For the past few months I have been having trouble with scp from my home 
> machine to work.  Switching to sftp would cure the problem but now I'm having 
> trouble with that as well.  Basically, I can transfer about 400k or so before 
> the connection speed starts dropping.  By 800k, the transfer completely 
> stalls out. 
> 
> I've been reading that ISPs have taken to mangling most anything except 
> downloaded unencrypted http traffic.  Does anyone else think that Time Warner 
> is pulling these shenanigans here as well?

Probably not; I do a lot of scp from my home machine.  This sounds more 
like some kind of firewall policy timeout to me.

	-Bill

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