[100523] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: BitTorrent swarms have a deadly bite on broadband nets
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mikael Abrahamsson)
Thu Oct 25 15:27:38 2007
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 21:26:45 +0200 (CEST)
From: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <EKECJMGPAACGOMIGLJJDMEOKJLAA.geoincidents@nls.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Thu, 25 Oct 2007, Geo. wrote:
> Seems to me a programmer setting a default schedule in an application is
> far simpler than many of the other suggestions I've seen for solving
> this problem.
End users do not have any interest in saving ISP upstream bandwidth, their
interest is to get as much as they can, when they want/need it. So solving
a bandwidth crunch by trying to make end user applications behave in an
ISP friendly manner is a concept that doesn't play well with reality.
Congestion should be at the individual customer access, not in the
distribution, not at the core.
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Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike@swm.pp.se