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Drop in P2P Traffic Attributed To Traffic Shaping
An anonymous reader writes "A new report based on data from 100 US and European ISPs claims P2P traffic has dropped to around 20% of all Internet traffic. This is down from the 40% two years ago (also reported by the same company which sells subscriber traffic management equipment to ISPs). The report goes on to say the drop is likely due to continued, widespread ISP P2P shaping: 'In fact, the P2P daily trend is pretty much completely inverted from daily traffic. In other words, P2P reaches its low at 4pm when web and overall Internet traffic approaches its peak ... trend is highly suggestive of either persistent congestion or, more likely, evidence of widespread provider manipulation of P2P traffic rates.'"
...is ofcource spam and porn.
Can we do traffic-shaping of spam?
If so I suggest this shedule:
12pm-8am: 100% drop
8am-4pm: 100% drop
4pm-12pm: 100% drop
shh you!
Invaders must die
Ahh, I have the answer.
Head over to thepiratebay.org, grab all of season 1 of Full House.
This serves 2 purposes.
1, takes up the all important empty space in both your download queue and in your HDD
2, gives you something to delete when it comes time to "slim down my collection to save space" and you won't miss it
Just for the love of satan, don't watch the damn thing :)
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The drop in traffic is easy to explain. Most distros nowadays have a NetInst option, where you can download a small CD to boot off, then download only the packages you need.
All that P2P traffic IS just "Linux ISOs", right?
You have a CD collection? Someone, help me pull him out of 2000!
Beautiful poem.
It's rare to find real art like this in a comment form.
best feed around
Lots of fun as long as she's got a pretty face.