[130066] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Online games stealing your bandwidth
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Leigh Porter)
Mon Sep 27 12:46:50 2010
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 17:44:37 +0100
In-Reply-To: <4CA0C8AF.7000808@brightok.net>
From: "Leigh Porter" <leigh.porter@ukbroadband.com>
To: "Jack Bates" <jbates@brightok.net>, "Adrian Chadd" <adrian@creative.net.au>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
-----Original Message-----
From: Jack Bates [mailto:jbates@brightok.net]=20
Sent: 27 September 2010 17:39
To: Adrian Chadd
Cc: NANOG
Subject: Re: Online games stealing your bandwidth
On 9/25/2010 6:47 PM, Adrian Chadd wrote:
>>
>> I don't recall any protocols being standard.
>>
>I don't either, though I recall bittorrent actually supporting it once=20
>and pushing to have ISP support and stay away from encryption/ISP=20
>circumvention. That was years ago. Haven't stayed current.
>> Plenty of people sell p2p caches but they all work using magic, smoke
>> and mirrors.
>Seem to recall some law suits concerning a few of them. Even if we had=20
>ISP supporting caches, there is always the problem getting p2p clients=20
>to support them (given they often are too busy trying to circumvent).
We had a great P2P cache from Cache Appliance. Did anybody else try
them?
--
Leigh
