Australian p2p ‘de-prioritization’
p2p news / p2pnet: Canada isn’t the only country with p2p "de-prioritization" problems.
Wireless ISPs in Australia have, "admitted to throttling peer-to-peer (P2P) traffic on their networks," says Whirlpool News.
"Eric Hamilton, Unwired’s chief technical officer, told The Australian that its policy, which has been in force for a number of months already, was aimed at giving normal users priority speeds over those who would otherwise bog down the network," it states.
iBurst also "de-prioritises" p2p traffic with cto Mark Russell saying voice, DNS and the web get the highest priority, while p2p get, "the lowest," says the story.
(Thanks, Bondi Bill ; )
Also See:
de-prioritization – Canadian ISPs vs BitTorrent, February 6, 2006
Whirlpool News – Wireless ISPs limiting P2P speeds, February 7, 2006
February 8th, 2006 at 6:12 pm
“was aimed at giving normal users priority speeds over those who would otherwise bog down the network.”
I love the classification they use – “Normal”. Prey may i ask how they determine that the majority of users just browse websites? Sounds more like they packet shape higher bandwidth traffic so they don’t have to spend as much money on their networks.
This is what alot of ISP’s are doing now. They want users to pay $30 or more a month just to website browse and use email, that way they wont have to invest in the network infrastructure. It’s a purely invented association by money grabbing ISP’s
February 8th, 2006 at 10:48 pm
Sounds like uTorrent is on the right track. An estimated 60% of net traffic is being attributed to bittorrent transfers. Would that not make bittorrent users “normal”? These ISPs better wake up and figure out where their revenues are comming from.
February 9th, 2006 at 3:54 am
ISP’s are banking on that only 80% of thier users are using burst trafiic for casual websurfing and email and maybe the occasional download or video stream .While p2p traffic is 60% of the total traffic only 20% of thier customers are running p2p aplications 24/7 this is why they are shaping trafic to keep the casual web surfer happy.