Comments on: Comcast throttling widespread, says FCC http://www.p2pnet.net/story/15711 p2pnet.net - reader powered Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:11:09 -0300 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Sikakoira http://www.p2pnet.net/story/15711/comment-page-1#comment-430459 Sikakoira Thu, 24 Apr 2008 05:08:06 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/15711#comment-430459 It seems that Bell is stretching the truth a bit more than we thought about why traffic shaping is supposedly needed. http://gigaom.com/2008/04/22/shocking-new-facts-about-p2p-and-broadband-usage/ Here's an interview of Arbor Networks CTO Danny McPherson. Arbor Networks makes network management and traffic shaping tools for the ISPs and he has interesting data on bandwidth usage. According to him, only 20 percent of traffic is P2P applications. During peak-load times, 70 percent of subscribers use http while 20 percent are using P2P. Http still makes up the majority of the total traffic, of which 45 percent is traditional web content that includes text and images. Streaming video and audio content from services like YouTube accounts for nearly 50 percent of the http traffic. That would mean, from a traffic shaping point of view it's not even a that useful to throttle p2p users since all the lag is actually caused by Youtube and it's cousins - and Bell certainly has these statistics. "I wonder why they would say that?" It seems that Bell is stretching the truth a bit more than we thought about why traffic shaping is supposedly needed.

http://gigaom.com/2008/04/22/shocking-new-facts-about-p2p-and-broadband-usage/

Here’s an interview of Arbor Networks CTO Danny McPherson. Arbor Networks makes network management and traffic shaping tools for the ISPs and he has interesting data on bandwidth usage.

According to him, only 20 percent of traffic is P2P applications. During peak-load times, 70 percent of subscribers use http while 20 percent are using P2P. Http still makes up the majority of the total traffic, of which 45 percent is traditional web content that includes text and images. Streaming video and audio content from services like YouTube accounts for nearly 50 percent of the http traffic.

That would mean, from a traffic shaping point of view it’s not even a that useful to throttle p2p users since all the lag is actually caused by Youtube and it’s cousins – and Bell certainly has these statistics. “I wonder why they would say that?”

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