Want to test your ISP for Packet Forgery? Here’s how.

So much was said about traffic shaping and using packet forgery to block P2P by Comcast and others in months passed. Nothing has been do to stop the practice, and the story has faded as old news in the tech media.

It was recently discovered that Comcast was using forged TCP/IP packets to throttle upstream p2p bandwidth. While the Associated Press got credit for the discovery, it was actually one of our forum users that first uncovered the practice. In fact, site user Robb Topolski had already discovered how to thwart the systemdoing something similar. (from Broadband Reports)

You can help keep the net free of forged packed to “manage traffic” by helping keep watch on your ISP. The EFF can help. They have a published a guide for using Wireshark to test for ISP tomfoolery.