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Re: ISPs slowing P2P traffic...
From: "Rubens Kuhl Jr." <rubensk () gmail com>
Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 18:26:17 -0200
The wireless ISP business is a bit of a special case in this regard, where P2P traffic is especially nasty. It's not the bandwidth, it's the number of packets being sent out. One customer, talking to twenty or fifty remote hosts at a time, can "kill" a wireless access point in some instances. All those little tiny packets tie up the AP's radio time, and the other nine customers call and complain.
Packets per second performance is specially low with Wi-Fi and Mesh Wi-Fi, but not with all wireless technologies. WiMAX in the standards side and some proprietary protocols have much better media access mechanisms that can better withstand P2P and VoIP. Rubens
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- Re: ISPs slowing P2P traffic... JC Dill (Jan 14)
- Re: ISPs slowing P2P traffic... Joe Greco (Jan 14)
- RE: ISPs slowing P2P traffic... Frank Bulk (Jan 14)
- RE: ISPs slowing P2P traffic... michael.dillon (Jan 13)
- RE: ISPs slowing P2P traffic... Joe St Sauver (Jan 09)
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- RE: ISPs slowing P2P traffic... Frank Bulk - iNAME (Jan 09)
- Re: ISPs slowing P2P traffic... Steven M. Bellovin (Jan 09)
- RE: ISPs slowing P2P traffic... Frank Bulk - iNAME (Jan 09)
- Re: ISPs slowing P2P traffic... Rubens Kuhl Jr. (Jan 13)
- Re: ISPs slowing P2P traffic... Joe Greco (Jan 13)
- Re: ISPs slowing P2P traffic... Marshall Eubanks (Jan 13)
- Re: ISPs slowing P2P traffic... Mark Radabaugh (Jan 13)
- Re: ISPs slowing P2P traffic... Joe Greco (Jan 13)
- Re: FW: ISPs slowing P2P traffic... Joe Greco (Jan 14)
- Re: FW: ISPs slowing P2P traffic... William Herrin (Jan 14)
- Re: FW: ISPs slowing P2P traffic... Matt Palmer (Jan 14)