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Re: [Fwd: [IP] Japan facing bandwidth shortage due to take-up in
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jess Kitchen)
Wed Jun 9 23:35:35 2004
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 04:35:57 +0100 (BST)
From: Jess Kitchen <jk@burstfire.net>
To: nanog <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <40C7A7AC.2070709@outblaze.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Thu, 10 Jun 2004, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
[snip]
> And I do believe that a lot of the bandwidth for broadband (true
> broadband that is, not what the average US ISP would call "dsl" or
> "cable") there is online gaming traffic... bandwidth requirements for
> that would be increasing steadily if I don't miss my guess.
This would depend on the netcode of the engines involved, but historically
it's always been relatively low throughput per-client but high pps.
P2P decimating transit links is more likely to be the offender imo.
Regards,
Jess.
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