News 45% of all traffic is P2P, say Sandvine

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2008/06/25/45-percent-of-all-traffic-is-p2p/1

Figures released by network equipment vendor Sandvine yesterday show peer-to-peer networking accounting for almost half of overall US Internet traffic.

 

I'd like to see this from someone other than a company who is in a position to make a profit from their statistics. Sounds like there could be some significant exaggerations; last time I saw something on traffic percentiles, something on the order of 45% of traffic was streaming video. So who is telling the truth?

 

Never once have I even had a letter from my ISP telling me that I download too much. In recent months I've been grabbing dozens of Linux distros and live CD's (Testing them for a little server, hard to find a suitable one!) and have been going over the 'limit' easily. Of course, there are the WoW patches too (That 1.1gb I had to download twice recently, which was fun), and the Eve client this month, which is another near-as-makes-no-difference gb file.

 

The UK is getting stupid with traffic shaping now, apparantly I am always in the "top 5% of downloaders each week" which I find an unfair allegation as if people barely use the internet and I'm not taking bandwidth I should not be punished. I need to shout at them later today actually.

 

Debian netinstall, all you need to know

I always tought 75% was SPAM going around...

 

i was gonna say the same thing for both...

 

I could never get on with Debian, no idea why, but the hardware is.. Weird. I'd go into detail, but we'd end up miles off topic :B

And yeah, I agree with the spam sentiment.

 

"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics."

 

45% of all statics are made up.

 

damm you beat me to it anyway

QFT +!

 

I heard that was more like 90%

 

Nope, 105%.

Anyways, IIRC P2P usage used to be estimated at 60-70% of all net traffic, not ~35%. Not that those numbers aren't 100% guesswork, but still... down?

 

only 45% lol

Think with connection always on ( computer always on usauly)

Download upload doesnt exeeed 60gb a month.

Never had a email saying im a heavy user.

 

As long as ISPs dont advertise 'always on' 16 Mb connections then limit you to 5gb transfer per month then they dont need this crappy hardware, they need a lawsuit from trading standards..

 

Unless they create a program that marks the legal p2p downloads (ie bittorrent game patches and research transfering) or spyware that monitors and blocks certain programs, the pirates will always win. I already knew that it took a lot of bandwith, but what would people do with their free time

 

Well if they would raise the upload speed, you would see more people using ftp servers out of their house, instead of p2p.
Also this is a bad idea of monitoring traffic, as this will just add more latency to the games you play; or VOIP calls you make. Even if they set it to ignore those protocals, thats one or more hops and inspections those packets make on their way to the destination.

 

Things like SkyPlayer, iPlayer, 4oD all use P2P protocols so a large chunk of streaming video could be classed as P2P.

 

i wonder if this 45% of pirate traffic also translates to about 45% of the clients pirating....

 

It used to be said that 75% of all internet traffic is SPAM. I saw a very recently survey that stated that 85% of all traffic was video streaming. Now it seems that the real villain is P2P networking. We should take this numbers with a huge grain of salt - of course Sandvine wants to sell their packet filtering gear!

The SPAM you and I get on our inboxes:

"Herbal solution to enl4arge you p3ni5"

The SPAM ISP staff gets in their inboxes

"Ultimate solution to r3duc3 your P2P overhe4d"