<OT> How do ISPs work?

[james at jamesmcdonald.id.au]

> Coming into this thread late, but yes, an ISP can do this and much
> more.  Comcast has become notorious for interfering with their
> customer's internet usage.  See the recent debates on network
> neutrality.
>
> A quick-n-easy way to determnine whether Comcast is fscking you over
> is to install the User Agent Switcher, and make Seamonkey identify
> itself as IE.  If the problem suddenly goes away, then Comcast is
> screwing with you:
> http://chrispederick.com/work/user-agent-switcher/
>

A lot of the highend kit the ISP's are using these days does deep packet
inspection and proactively throttles P2P traffic and a lot more.

If we can sniff the urls in traffic using tcpdump you can bet your
pu-nar-nies they will be able to do that and more.