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P2P Bandwidth Hogging the Net

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the and-the-sky-is-blue dept.

zymano writes "zdnet has this article about bandwidth hogging p2p." I'm sure we'll see more rate limiting in the future and per-gig charges. The article says 60% of ISPs bandwidth is P2P, and that seems high to me, but not unrealistic. Besides, since most broadband is pretty seriously hamstringed in the upstream department, I'm not sure where they can go with this.

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  1. 60% Usage by mustangsal66 · · Score: 5, Informative

    We have a 45Mb DS3, we are a cable modem service provider. Watching the traffic I can confirm, that from about 3pm until 10pm 60+% of our traffic is from P2P clients. Thats only the traffic we can track. Kazaa 2 can use port 80, and only gets reported as web traffic.

    I see kazaa 2 traffic mostly. but also edonkey, kazaa 1, napster, and others.

    Less then 1% of our users use 85% of the bandwidth. They're alloted 1Mb/s download, and they use it constantly.

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