[100335] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Can P2P applications learn to play fair on networks?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Popovitch)
Sun Oct 21 23:29:27 2007
From: Jim Popovitch <yahoo@jimpop.com>
To: nanog <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <83C510C063924E3C92B899EC53158E15@control3>
Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2007 23:28:25 -0400
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Sun, 2007-10-21 at 22:45 -0400, Geo. wrote:
> Second, the more people on your network running fileshare network software
> and sharing, the less backbone bandwidth your users are going to use when
> downloading from a fileshare network because those on your network are going
> to supply full bandwidth to them.
Hmmmm... me wonders how you know this for fact? Last time I took the
time to snoop a running torrent, I didn't get the the impression it was
pulling packets from the same country as I, let alone my network
neighbors.
-Jim P.
