[75110] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BitTorrent is 35% of traffic ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tony Li)
Thu Nov 4 19:00:28 2004
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0411042133380.28357@sharpie.argfrp.us.uu.net>
Cc: Deepak Jain <deepak@ai.net>, nanog@merit.edu
From: Tony Li <tony.li@tony.li>
Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2004 08:59:42 +0900
To: "Christopher L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow@mci.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
For those not familiar, BitTorrent is a file sharing app that is
commonly
used for exchanging full movies. As such, folks are moving gigabyte
files regularly and it's not surprising that this is detectable.
Shuffling .mp3's around would be trivial by comparison.
Tony
On Nov 5, 2004, at 6:34 AM, Christopher L. Morrow wrote:
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> On Thu, 4 Nov 2004, Deepak Jain wrote:
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>> http://in.tech.yahoo.com/041103/137/2ho4i.html
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>> According to Reuters, BT is more traffic than web/other forms of
>> traffic? I'm thinking the sampling methodology here might be a little
>> skewed.
>
> 1) where was the measurement done?
> 2) how was the measurement done?
> 3) what population was sampled?
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> On some networks BT might account for far more than 30%, on others far,
> far less... Perhaps the writers will answer?
>
> -Chris
>
