[72582] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Regional differences in P2P
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Sun Jul 18 03:12:31 2004
Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2004 03:11:56 -0400 (EDT)
From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
To: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0407180851350.14480-100000@uplift.swm.pp.se>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Sun, 18 Jul 2004, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
> Well, if the p2p program gets chunks of data from all sources, anyone with
> a faster uplink will complete faster and thus get more chunks (as the p2p
> program requests new chunks from each peer as the previous one is
> finished), and thus produce more traffic. Not much intelligence, just the
> way they work.
http://www.itic.ca/DIC/global/2003/09/Top_ISPs_by_P2P_Activity.jpg
