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.'"

Comments

Re:Poor analysis

[commodore64_love]

>>>when most big TV series are on a break (and as a consequence there is a lot less to download).

You have it backwards. Because tv is on hiatus, people are searching sites like nbc.com or hulu.com to catch-up on shows they missed. For example I watched Heroes latest season. That would make the P2P traffic go down relative to these other bandwidth-heavy sites.

Re:Dial-up a decade ago

[commodore64_love]

His sig is meant to say "it's okay to have public options" for healthcare. What he fails to consider is that while people have the option for private school to get a better education, few can afford it because they are burdened with a ~$5000 a year school tax.*

He also failed to consider that the USPS is a monopoly, not an option, which is what the Uncle Sam healthcare is going to become effective 2013 (according to the Senate bill). Yes if you're a grandma or grandpa you can keep the private plan you've had for years and years, but the rest of us will no longer be able to choose a private insurer.

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* My proposal is that people who send their kids to private or home school, will be exempt from paying the school tax. That way they can have the extra cash needed to choose those options, using their OWN money (not taxpayer money), but are still supporting the local government school after their kid grows up.