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Re: BitTorrent is 35% of traffic ?


From: Tony Li <tony.li () tony li>
Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2004 08:59:42 +0900



For those not familiar, BitTorrent is a file sharing app that is commonly
used for exchanging full movies.  As such, folks are moving gigabyte
files regularly and it's not surprising that this is detectable.
Shuffling .mp3's around would be trivial by comparison.

Tony


On Nov 5, 2004, at 6:34 AM, Christopher L. Morrow wrote:



On Thu, 4 Nov 2004, Deepak Jain wrote:



http://in.tech.yahoo.com/041103/137/2ho4i.html

According to Reuters, BT is more traffic than web/other forms of
traffic? I'm thinking the sampling methodology here might be a little
skewed.

1) where was the measurement done?
2) how was the measurement done?
3) what population was sampled?

On some networks BT might account for far more than 30%, on others far,
far less... Perhaps the writers will answer?

-Chris



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