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- theinept, on 10/10/2007, -4/+71I just conducted a study and the results suggest that P2P traffic could account for between 0 and 100% of worldwide traffic, including automobile traffic, circuit-switched telephone traffic and drug trafficking.
- reeder, on 10/10/2007, -3/+52This is COMPLETE *****.
- austin63, on 10/10/2007, -4/+42Just remember peer-2-peer may not be piracy file-sharing (a la joost).
- vault, on 10/10/2007, -2/+20The article says 50 to 90 %...that is quite a big range.
FTA: The company said in June that P2P traffic accounts for just 37 percent of North American traffic, compared with 46 percent for HTTP traffic. Of that 46 percent, over a third consisted of streaming video, à la YouTube. - jennamalia, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9So, has P2P traffic increased or decreased in the last 3 days (when this story was last on Digg's front page)?
http://www.digg.com/tech_news/BitTorrent_Continues_to_Dominate_Internet_Traffic - nubious, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9Burried - Opinionated, inaccurate information
- abandonedhero, on 10/10/2007, -3/+11Show me something better. Don't just slag on something because you don't like it - and not mention something better.
- valkyries, on 10/10/2007, -1/+9wasnt there a study done showing that most internet traffic was spam?
- lengau, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8Bittorrent
/tongue-in-cheek - SwissCamel, on 10/10/2007, -4/+11***** linux distros....
- linuxrebel, on 10/10/2007, -5/+11Actually it is arguable that P2P is 100% of all traffic. Depends on definition. For example is E-mail peer to peer? It is arguably both client-server. and P2P.
- yourmightyruler, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7Between 50~90%? That is one big gap.
- dark_helmet, on 10/10/2007, -2/+8Or skype, certain games ie: supreme commander. theres many things that use p2p for their communications.
- Skooma714, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7Well there are gamers, but we are too few to prop it all up.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -2/+8This lead me to believe one thing: as soon as P2P is outlawed, internet users will no longer demand high bandwidth, and the growth of internet speeds will be staggered.
Hopefully it'll never come to that. - venom8599, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5Game servers aren't really that bandwidth intensive. They just require connections with low latency.
- huskerdude, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5Then how come I can still never find anybody seeding any of my damned torrents?
- fremeer, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5irc is still used by alot of manga and anime scanlation groups. the speeds you get off some of the bigger xdcc bots are much better then bittorrent but sometime u get queues which suck.
- DeFex, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5"as much as" is a BS phrase used by advertisers. it could mean that it was 90% on a campus for a minute. on a Tuesday 2 years ago.
- EXreaction, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5I don't know whether or not to digg or bury this article...
Digg it so more people can see and laugh at the stupidity of it, or bury it because of it's retardedness. - lordtyros, on 10/10/2007, -10/+13joost sucks.
- mastercheif, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4I logged in just to digg you up.
- adoggz, on 10/10/2007, -2/+5yes
- spikes, on 10/10/2007, -5/+8ISP's also need to realize a good deal of their higher (read expensive) speed tiers are only bought because of P2P users. Joe Blow web/email users could give a ***** less if their web pages load at over 1Megabyte/s.
- jcaino, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4im with valkyries on this one...reports were saying that 90% of the net's traffic was spam.
working at a webhost, i'm leaning towards spam ftw here. - lengau, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3And remember, World of Warcraft uses bittorrent for its updater.
- mousky, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3Just wait a few days. Another study will come out with a different number. Then yet another study will have a totally different number.
t's no different from the MPAA numbers on camcorder copying 'originating' in Canada. The numbers were all over the place, but by the end of their propaganda campaign, the actual number didn't matter, just the 'fact' that there was camcorder copying in Canada and the Government of Canada had to do something about it. Sure enough the Canadian government introduces new legislation to make an already illegal act, well, more illegal.
Anyways, I thought the Telcos in the US were given a wad of money for more bandwidth - what ever happened to that money and that bandwidth? - odsae, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3And just last month it was spam.
- BlackJackJester, on 10/10/2007, -2/+4between 0 and 100% of people on earth have read this article. Therefore, nearly everyone on earth reads Digg.
- Degriz, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2"German traffic management firm" Could it be they have some software that will fix this??? God I hate these ***** "Marketing Dressed Up as Research"
- antdude, on 10/10/2007, -2/+4On demand and free?
- bdbr, on 10/10/2007, -3/+5No one wants to hear that.
- samcrut, on 10/10/2007, -2/+450-90% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
Lame. Buried. - meatmcguffin, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3Hardly any of that made any sort of sense.
- spookyttws, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3I agree, i tend to choose the Bit Torrent option when offered to me, let it be Revision 3 content, large programs, and even linux distos. Sometimes they're not as fast but for the most part they are comparable to th direct link. It also saves the servers which allows for cheaper distribution, allowing more money can be spent on production.
- demodawid, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2I thought the bulk of internet traffic was spam?
- toastmonster, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1so?
- abandonedhero, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3I don't really think much has changed as far as the protocol is concerned. But, if you look at changes in the way people use BitTorrent, then it has come a long way - new improvements have been rather small. RC4 encryption is probably one of the biggest improvements out there along with DHT and a few others.
- trollick, on 10/10/2007, -5/+6OK... And the problem is?...
It's like saying "Cars are responsible for 90% of road traffic! OMG! We are doomed!"
- brim4brim, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Funny, last time I saw something like this it was spam. Seems you can put whatever you like as the cause of the traffic.
Purple monkey dishwashers responsible for as much as 90% of all 'net traffic'!
See people believe it because I said 90% instead of saying a lot. - Zaetha, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2As it should be...
- dissident, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2any my response: So What?
- lengau, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2I don't remember one showing that, but I do remember one showing that 90% of e-mails sent were spam (maybe that's what you're thinking of)
- sykotic, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2Inaccurate, buried
- nateabel, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I read that as PSP, as in 90% of net traffic is coming from people using their PSP's browser... I was like "what?!?!"
- Error601, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1What? No, it's not dirt cheap. It's rather expensive.
- agentarsenic, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1If this ***** happens it's time to make a blackweb (an underground network made solely by it's users allowing no restrictions)
Everyone just sling a network cable over the fence or out the window to your neighbors house and let's get started. - mrASSMAN, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3"The wide variance in the figures is due to local preference, according to ipoque: in some parts of the world, eDonkey still reigns supreme when it comes to P2P traffic."
- rheaume, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1***** paranoid propaganda. Burritoed.
- Scott2, on 10/10/2007, -1/+190%? *****. 50% is probably more likely.
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