Larry Roberts on ‘P2P hogs’
p2pnet news | Freedom:- Lawrence Roberts, who in 1960 invented computer networking via data packets, has weighed in on the Net Throttling debate on the side of ISPs such as Bell in Canada and Comcast in the US.
At Structure 80 he brandished the magic 5% statistic that’s so popular with Bell in Canada as it tries to justify its bandwidth throttling and net neutrality blocking practices.
Roberts layed out the “5 percent of the Net’s users are running P2P transfers taking up 80 percent of its capacity” theory as hard fact.
Five percent of users, file sharers all, are, “dramatically limiting the available bandwidth available to everyone else,” he said, according to Webware.
And by an amazing coincidence his company, Anagran, “Effectively manage 100% of P2P traffic without DPI at speeds up to 10Gbps,” it says.
As companies such as his, “help us start to control the situation, Roberts says we should see the P2P hogs dying down over the next few years,” says Gigcom, adding:
“That will allow for other services to have a better response time, and normal traffic will have more growth over 2 to 3 years.”
But until then, “unfairness exists in the Internet, says Roberts.
“Five percent of users receive 80 percent of capacity,” and “1000 broadband users typically share 180 Mbps.”
But he has, “no position on the legality of content being transferred over P2P links,” says Webware, adding:
” ‘Illegal or legal is not the issue at all.’ It’s about fairness, he says: equal capacity for equal pay.”
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5% statistic – Bell Canada tries to justify throttling, April 11, 2008
popular with Bell in Canada – Bell Canada`s ’5% of users’ claim trashed, April 25, 2008
Webware – Inventor of the Internet takes aim at BitTorrent, June 25, 2008
Gigcom – Anagran Founder Lawrence Roberts Fights P2P, June 25, 2008
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June 26th, 2008 at 12:47 pm
WHAT that NOOB DOESNT UNDERSTAND
is i pay for the bandwidth , i will use it. HE WOUDL WANT TO RIP US ALL OFF
5% of users are using what they paid for ,
EXAMPLE
imagine bell canada in the school bus industry
the guy above is basically saying that:
BELL CANADA with a 50 seat bus has booked 1000 seats and blame a minor few whom are getting what they pay for.
Also the number he gives is so false i wonder what cloud hes on.
JUST LOOK HOW OLD THESE JERKS ARE.
REMEMBER that planet of the apes movie
TRUST NO ONE OVER 30
( ok make it 37- my age)
If they do not improve our lot we should storm some buildings and rip them apart and send these noobs to the USA to live.
June 26th, 2008 at 1:04 pm
God don’t send them to us, it’s bad enough here the way it is. Just drop ‘em on an island of the coast of Costa Rica (re: Jurassic Park), where all these damn dinosaurs belong.
June 26th, 2008 at 5:29 pm
If they were so concerned with bandwidth usage then why not drop everyone’s speed to 512k / 1mb ? Instead they advertise high speed bandwidth at 8-10-20 mb/s to attract lots of users, then pull the, we don’t have enough infrastructure to support all these people, so let’s start restricting how they use it. It’s all because they don’t want to invest any money in improving the service. They want to maintain the status quo while adding huge numbers of users for $$$. What a bunch of self-serving assholes.
June 26th, 2008 at 7:19 pm
Ahahaha! 2.6% to 5.2% of all traffic.
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/06/25/tech-caip.html
June 28th, 2008 at 12:12 pm
As ernesto said of Tf;
Someone in the bandwidth planning department screwed up big time
Laws you, Need to get laid!