[130074] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Online games stealing your bandwidth
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brandon Butterworth)
Mon Sep 27 15:55:26 2010
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 20:54:27 +0100 (BST)
From: Brandon Butterworth <brandon@rd.bbc.co.uk>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> > I fail to see the point. If an ISP needs to add caches they may
> > as well just add a simple, cheaper, standard, http cache.
>
> It's a bang-per-buck issue, and depends highly on whether your
> particular network sees more HTTP or P2P traffic.
Orly.
No, I mean if there have to be caches why use p2p in the first place,
once there's a network of caches p2p becomes a more complicated http
and that model has been well optimised by some.
I know the people stealing things don't want to pay akamai but games
charging for access are a different matter.
brandon
