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how could they guess he's streaming a video and not downloading a large file?
by GhotiFish 13y ago
how could they guess he's streaming a video and not downloading a large file?
- adrianpike 13y agoTiming of packets going both ways. Netflix is a bad example since they use HTTP to wing packets, but with a UDP connection you won't see the regular ACKs heading back upstream.
- jlgaddis 13y agoIn this case, the VPN being used is a Juniper SSL VPN, which runs over 443/TCP. Comcast would see TCP ACKs being sent back to the VPN endpoint but they obviously can't see the encrypted data.