News 45% of all traffic is P2P, say Sandvine

Tiered Broadband Usage Pricing on it's way?

Stay tuned. Tiered broadband usage pricing will be here soon, Comcast, Time Warner, At&T and Verizon are "testing" it as we type. (See my links below)

The 1.5 - 3.0 mb DSL plan I pay for never goes but a smidgen above the 1.5 mb minimum (http://www.dslreports.com/speedtest). I'd love to experience that theoretical 2-3 mb download speed I have purchased. I don't know if so called broadband "hogs" are the reason I don't get that speed.

Comcast, Time Warner : http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/03/AR2008060303248.html
AT&T : http://www.thestreet.com/story/10421256/1/att-mulls-surcharge-for-high-dsl-use.html

 

75% of all statistics are made up

75% of all statistics are made up. The other 25% of statistics come from a conspiracy of chimpanzee's in a secret room deep in the bowels of the pentagon.

 

I only believe in statistics I faked myself...

anyway, everyone who has ever used p2p and looked at how hard it clogs down the connection even when its downloading at slow speeds knows how inefficient p2p is, It sends and receives far more data than you actually download.

one click hosters Cheesecake

 

iwelller distance from exchange effects dsl speed to get anything 2mb + u need to be within 3mile of exchange.

 

The CRTC (Canadian Radio-television Telecommunications Commission) seem to have found that it was all of a 2-5% inconvenience over a 2 month test for BELL CANADA. I have not studied the article, but at a glance, even that estimate appears to be putting forward a misleading picture for the general public.

http://www.rgbfilter.com/?p=67

It needs looking into by someone with more eyes and brains than me.

 

Best Linux distribution = Ubuntu.

 

Aye, Hardies the best to date: I believe it's also responsible for 45% of congestion on the Internet!

 

Good grief, I've been using joost a lot over the past few months, that's P2P as well. Although I've no idea how popular it is.

I'm also seeding hardy as well.

 

Greetings!

Cisco says 51%:
Peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing networks are now carrying 600 petabytes per month more than they did this time last year, which means there is the equivalent of an additional 150 million DVDs crossing the network each month, for a total monthly volume of over 500 million DVD equivalents, or two exabytes. Despite this growth, P2P as a percentage of consumer Internet traffic dropped to 51 percent at the end of 2007, down from 60 percent the year before. The decline in traffic-share is due primarily to the increasing share of video traffic. A secondary factor in the decline is a trend toward web-based file sharing in place of P2P file sharing in some regions.

 

Extra Extra, we’re getting ripped off!

Atlantic Canada has horrible ISP choices and service. I’m paying through the nose for a 7 mb/s connection and it only clocks at 3, 5 at the most. I call to complain and they tell me its my computer, not them. BS it’s my computer… and now they slap on a 60gb download cap, so, no more folding, and I have to limit my torrents. AND the government has taken away our digital rights act. F this, I’m not going to pay 22.99 for a Metallica cd, I’m steeling that. And hey, when you make such crappy albums, you shouldn’t get any money.

Sorry, I’m tiered…