[75113] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BitTorrent is 35% of traffic ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew S. Hallacy)
Fri Nov 5 00:12:20 2004
Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2004 23:11:55 -0600
From: "Matthew S. Hallacy" <poptix@poptix.net>
To: Tony Li <tony.li@tony.li>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <98B61A90-2EBD-11D9-AA6C-000A95D1475E@tony.li>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 08:59:42AM +0900, Tony Li wrote:
>
>
> 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
It's also used for distributing large patches (XP SP2), the latest
ISO's of various (free) operating systems, any pretty much anything else
that would create a flash crowd load on a system that it could not handle
without distributing the traffic amoung the people downloading.
This isn't a made-for-pirating-software/audio program, don't treat it as
such.
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