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Blog Piece: Trend Watch: P2P Traffic Much Bigger Than Web Traffic

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Ralf Maximus:
The thing about p2p is this: a few users can generate a disproportionate amount of traffic.  One p2p client can chew up gigabytes of bandwidth per day, as compared with typical users whose usage patters are more "bursty".  Normal folk may watch YouTube or download mp3s occasionally, but that pales in comparison.

It's why Comcast has been motivated to sabotage p2p networks and why the days of "unlimited" access may be numbered.  It's a bit like everyone in a house chipping in to pay for telephone service, but one guy spends all day monopolizing the phone.

If EVERYONE were to abuse p2p, the internet would probably collapse under the load.

f0dder:
If p2p was efficiently hampered, you'd see a massive decrease in fast ADSL lines :)

If EVERYONE were to abuse p2p... collapse... hmm. Perhaps. There's already a lot of 10/10 and 100/100, even some gigabit, "seedboxes" being used, coupled with the ever faster home connections (relatively inexpensive fiber with 10/10 as standard and even more available is becoming every more available). But we can already see that from the graphs :)

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