torrentfreak.com — Sandvine, manufacturers of BitTorrent throttling technology has seen its first quarter sales drop 88% in a year. After achieving 42,000% growth in 5 years, the company - best known for providing the technology which put Comcast into the spotlight recently - has seen its value plummet 42% in a single day.
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marrowmanMar 8, 2008
heh look who's getting throttled now
uberklingMar 8, 2008
Looks to me like their share price has been throttled.
yawnstretchMar 8, 2008
Shaping traffic should be done on the consumer end. Giving ISPs the power to monitor and control the speed of our traffic is a bad thing. You're the ignorant one.
roodammy44Mar 8, 2008
How about expanding capacity?You could have argued the same thing if dial up was the only access to the internet and the traffic was being used by VOIP.If the network is being used in majority by a certain protocol - it's probably because THAT'S WHAT WE WANT THE INTERNET TO DO.Throttling the consumer's main use of the internet is retarded.
mrviklundMar 8, 2008
Headline says "BitTorrent Throttling Company". I don't expect them to sell Ice cream too. But that's beyond my point.
chodaMar 8, 2008
Holy playing with numbers...42000% isn't necessarily very big people. That number is heavily dependent on their value 5 years ago. The link shows Mkt cap. @ 198M, that puts them at 471k 5 years ago. Very good growth to be sure, but just remember how much youtube sold for...They do deserve to lose their shirts, for making a tool which should have been banned from the start.
scott12087Mar 8, 2008
You can't do this at the consumer end. Even if you do this on the customer end, that doesn't stop the bittorrent protocol (or any other protocol) from eating up all of the bandwidth on the ISP's backbone. This causes a seemingly really bad connection for the rest of the customers. By prioritizing traffic, a Sandvine device makes a seemingly faster connection for all users. Now this of course is assuming that the ISP is using it properly, and not just saying "turn down all bittorrent" and nothing else.
scamper22Mar 9, 2008
Yeah, I can't really understand why people are against throttling as long as it is made public.I mean, the alternative would be pay per MB. Maybe companies should be forced to offer pay / MB but with no throttling whatsover.Then they could also offer a 'managed' network. I'd still choose the managed network. I'm sure many people would too. Email/web/IM is what I value. P2P is stuff I can leave in the background and when its done, its done. Now the using of reset on torrent sessions, I agree is bad. That is not throttling, but actively cancelling the connection. That should be illegal or again...made public as part of a managed plan.
shv2Mar 9, 2008
Rather fitting don't you think? :P
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