[101596] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ISPs slowing P2P traffic...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rubens Kuhl Jr.)
Sun Jan 13 15:27:10 2008
Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 18:26:17 -0200
From: "Rubens Kuhl Jr." <rubensk@gmail.com>
To: dave@mvn.net
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <200801131402.AA3969908830@mvn.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> 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
