RE: BitTorrent swarms have a deadly bite on broadband nets

2007-10-26 Thread Barry Shein
Back in the dawn of the public internet this same sort of thing was argued fiercely on lists like com-priv (commercialization and privatization of the internet.) It was usually around flat rate vs bandwidth charging. My take was that bandwidth pricing lets you buy as much pipe as you might

Re: BitTorrent swarms have a deadly bite on broadband nets

2007-10-25 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 24-okt-2007, at 16:44, Rod Beck wrote: The vast bulk of users have no idea how many bytes they consume each month or the bytes generated by different applications. The schemes being advocated in this discussion require that the end users be Layer 3 engineers. Users more or less know

Re: BitTorrent swarms have a deadly bite on broadband nets

2007-10-25 Thread Leigh Porter
Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: On 24-okt-2007, at 16:44, Rod Beck wrote: The vast bulk of users have no idea how many bytes they consume each month or the bytes generated by different applications. The schemes being advocated in this discussion require that the end users be Layer 3 engineers.

Re: BitTorrent swarms have a deadly bite on broadband nets

2007-10-25 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 24-okt-2007, at 17:39, Rod Beck wrote: A simpler and hence less costly approach for those providers serving mass markets is to stick to flat rate pricing and outlaw high-bandwidth applications that are used by only a small number of end users. That's not going to work in the long

Re: BitTorrent swarms have a deadly bite on broadband nets

2007-10-25 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 25-okt-2007, at 3:33, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I really think that a two-tiered QOS system such as the scavenger suggestion is workable if the applications can do the marking. Has anyone done any testing to see if DSCP bits are able to travel unscathed through the

Re: BitTorrent swarms have a deadly bite on broadband nets

2007-10-25 Thread Marshall Eubanks
On Oct 25, 2007, at 6:49 AM, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: On 24-okt-2007, at 17:39, Rod Beck wrote: A simpler and hence less costly approach for those providers serving mass markets is to stick to flat rate pricing and outlaw high-bandwidth applications that are used by only a small

Re: Internet access in Japan (was Re: BitTorrent swarms have a deadly bite on broadband nets)

2007-10-25 Thread Tom Vest
On Oct 24, 2007, at 8:11 PM, Steve Gibbard wrote: On Wed, 24 Oct 2007, Rod Beck wrote: On Wednesday 24 October 2007 05:36, Henry Yen wrote: On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 09:20:49AM -0400, Leo Bicknell wrote: Why are no major us builders installing FTTH today? Greenfield should be the easiest,

RE: BitTorrent swarms have a deadly bite on broadband nets

2007-10-25 Thread Frank Bulk - iNAME
] Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2007 8:34 PM To: nanog@merit.edu Subject: RE: BitTorrent swarms have a deadly bite on broadband nets The vast bulk of users have no idea how many bytes they consume each month or the bytes generated by different applications. The schemes being advocated

RE: BitTorrent swarms have a deadly bite on broadband nets

2007-10-25 Thread Rod Beck
The vast bulk of users have no idea how many bytes they consume each month or the bytes generated by different applications. The schemes being advocated in this discussion require that the end users be Layer 3 engineers. Actually, it sounds a lot like the Electric7 tariffs found in the UK

RE: BitTorrent swarms have a deadly bite on broadband nets

2007-10-25 Thread Geo.
Actually, it sounds a lot like the Electric7 tariffs found in the UK for electricity. These are typically used by low income people who have less education than the average population. And yet they can understand the concept of saving money by using more electricity at night. I can't comment

RE: BitTorrent swarms have a deadly bite on broadband nets

2007-10-25 Thread Rod Beck
On 24-okt-2007, at 17:39, Rod Beck wrote: A simpler and hence less costly approach for those providers serving mass markets is to stick to flat rate pricing and outlaw high-bandwidth applications that are used by only a small number of end users. That's not going to work in the long

RE: BitTorrent swarms have a deadly bite on broadband nets

2007-10-25 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Thu, 25 Oct 2007, Geo. wrote: Seems to me a programmer setting a default schedule in an application is far simpler than many of the other suggestions I've seen for solving this problem. End users do not have any interest in saving ISP upstream bandwidth, their interest is to get as much

RE: BitTorrent swarms have a deadly bite on broadband nets

2007-10-25 Thread Geo.
Seems to me a programmer setting a default schedule in an application is far simpler than many of the other suggestions I've seen for solving this problem. End users do not have any interest in saving ISP upstream bandwidth, they also have no interest in learning so setting defaults in

RE: BitTorrent swarms have a deadly bite on broadband nets

2007-10-25 Thread Carpenter, Jason
and ignore it. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Geo. Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2007 3:11 PM To: nanog@merit.edu Subject: RE: BitTorrent swarms have a deadly bite on broadband nets Seems to me a programmer setting a default schedule

RE: BitTorrent swarms have a deadly bite on broadband nets

2007-10-25 Thread Andrew Odlyzko
Flat rate schemes have been spreading over the kicking and screaming bodies of telecom executives (bodies that are very much alive because of all the feasting on the profits produced by flat rates). It is truly amazing how telecom has consistently fought flat rates for over a century (a couple

Re: BitTorrent swarms have a deadly bite on broadband nets

2007-10-25 Thread Leigh Porter
Rod Beck wrote: The vast bulk of users have no idea how many bytes they consume each month or the bytes generated by different applications. The schemes being advocated in this discussion require that the end users be Layer 3 engineers. Actually, it sounds a lot like the Electric7

Re: BitTorrent swarms have a deadly bite on broadband nets

2007-10-25 Thread Leigh Porter
And with working QoS and DSCP tagging flat rate works just fine. Andrew Odlyzko wrote: Flat rate schemes have been spreading over the kicking and screaming bodies of telecom executives (bodies that are very much alive because of all the feasting on the profits produced by flat rates). It

Re: BitTorrent swarms have a deadly bite on broadband nets

2007-10-24 Thread Tim Franklin
On Tue, October 23, 2007 5:17 pm, Jack Bates wrote: Sorry, I am the incumbent. ;) I was just thinking of the copper necessary to do such a task on a massive scale. It's definitely not in the ground or on a pole at this point in time. One reason DSL was so desireable for many small ILECs was

Re: Internet access in Japan (was Re: BitTorrent swarms have a deadly bite on broadband nets)

2007-10-24 Thread Henry Yen
On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 09:20:49AM -0400, Leo Bicknell wrote: Why are no major us builders installing FTTH today? Greenfield should be the easiest, and major builders like Pulte, Centex and the like should be eager to offer it; but don't. Well, Verizon seems to be making heavy bets on

Re: Internet access in Japan (was Re: BitTorrent swarms have a deadly bite on broadband nets)

2007-10-24 Thread Joe Greco
I did consulting work for NTT in 2001 and 2002 and visited their Tokyo = headquarters twice. NTT has two ILEC divisions, NTT East and NTT West. = The ILEC management told me in conversations that there was no money in = fiber-to-the-home; the entire rollout was due to government pressure and

Re: BitTorrent swarms have a deadly bite on broadband nets

2007-10-24 Thread Joe Greco
I wonder how quickly applications and network gear would implement QoS support if the major ISPs offered their subscribers two queues: a default queue, which handled regular internet traffic but squashed P2P, and then a separate queue that allowed P2P to flow uninhibited for an extra

Re: Internet access in Japan (was Re: BitTorrent swarms have a deadly bite on broadband nets)

2007-10-24 Thread Larry Smith
On Wednesday 24 October 2007 05:36, Henry Yen wrote: On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 09:20:49AM -0400, Leo Bicknell wrote: Why are no major us builders installing FTTH today? Greenfield should be the easiest, and major builders like Pulte, Centex and the like should be eager to offer it; but

Re: Internet access in Japan (was Re: BitTorrent swarms have a deadly bite on broadband nets)

2007-10-24 Thread Tom Vest
In the future, people are not going to believe that we permitted this to happen. Coming soon: your plumbing will be disconnected. But never fear: an Evian vending machine will delivered to every deserving household... TV On Oct 24, 2007, at 2:39 PM, Larry Smith wrote: On Wednesday 24

Re: BitTorrent swarms have a deadly bite on broadband nets

2007-10-24 Thread Dorn Hetzel
How about a system where I tell my customers that for a given plan X at price Y they get U bytes of high priority upload per month (or day or whatever) and after that all their traffic is low priority until the next cycle starts. Now here's the fun part. They can mark the priority on the packets

Re: Internet access in Japan (was Re: BitTorrent swarms have a deadly bite on broadband nets)

2007-10-24 Thread Dave Pooser
While probably more good than bad, it is my understanding that when Verizon (and others) provide FTTH (fiber to the home) they cut or physically disconnect all other connections to that residence. so much for any choice... At least around here, if you tell the installer you have an

RE: BitTorrent swarms have a deadly bite on broadband nets

2007-10-24 Thread Carpenter, Jason
PROTECTED]; nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: BitTorrent swarms have a deadly bite on broadband nets How about a system where I tell my customers that for a given plan X at price Y they get U bytes of high priority upload per month (or day or whatever) and after that all their traffic is low priority until

RE: BitTorrent swarms have a deadly bite on broadband nets

2007-10-24 Thread Frank Bulk
limitations or P2P control because that would be bad for marketing. Frank From: Dorn Hetzel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2007 8:12 AM To: Joe Greco Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: BitTorrent swarms have a deadly bite on broadband nets How

RE: Internet access in Japan (was Re: BitTorrent swarms have a deadly bite on broadband nets)

2007-10-24 Thread Frank Bulk
To: Leo Bicknell Cc: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Internet access in Japan (was Re: BitTorrent swarms have a deadly bite on broadband nets) On Oct 22, 2007, at 9:55 PM, Leo Bicknell wrote: Having now seen the cable issue described in technical detail over and over, I have a question. At the most

RE: BitTorrent swarms have a deadly bite on broadband nets

2007-10-24 Thread Rod Beck
The vast bulk of users have no idea how many bytes they consume each month or the bytes generated by different applications. The schemes being advocated in this discussion require that the end users be Layer 3 engineers. That might dramatically shrink you 'addressable market', not to mention

RE: Internet access in Japan (was Re: BitTorrent swarms have a deadly bite on broadband nets)

2007-10-24 Thread Rod Beck
On Wednesday 24 October 2007 05:36, Henry Yen wrote: On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 09:20:49AM -0400, Leo Bicknell wrote: Why are no major us builders installing FTTH today? Greenfield should be the easiest, and major builders like Pulte, Centex and the like should be eager to offer it; but

Re: BitTorrent swarms have a deadly bite on broadband nets

2007-10-24 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Wed, Oct 24, 2007, Rod Beck wrote: The vast bulk of users have no idea how many bytes they consume each month or the bytes generated by different applications. The schemes being advocated in this discussion require that the end users be Layer 3 engineers. You'd be surprised; users in

Re: BitTorrent swarms have a deadly bite on broadband nets

2007-10-24 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Wed, Oct 24, 2007, Rod Beck wrote: That misses the point. They are probably being forced to adapt by a monopoly or a quasi-monopoly or by the fact that transport into Australia is extremely expensive. The situation outside of Australia is quite different. A DS3 from Sydney to LA is

RE: BitTorrent swarms have a deadly bite on broadband nets

2007-10-24 Thread Rod Beck
That misses the point. They are probably being forced to adapt by a monopoly or a quasi-monopoly or by the fact that transport into Australia is extremely expensive. The situation outside of Australia is quite different. A DS3 from Sydney to LA is worth about 10 DS3s NYC/London. It is not

Re: Internet access in Japan (was Re: BitTorrent swarms have a deadly bite on broadband nets)

2007-10-24 Thread Joel Jaeggli
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Andersen Sent: Monday, October 22, 2007 9:21 PM To: Leo Bicknell Cc: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Internet access in Japan (was Re: BitTorrent swarms have a deadly bite on broadband nets) On Oct 22, 2007

Re: BitTorrent swarms have a deadly bite on broadband nets

2007-10-24 Thread Dorn Hetzel
people manage to count stuff they use when they pay for it. minutes(cell), kwh(electricity), gallons(gas), etc. people have managed to figure out cell phone plans where they get N minutes included and then pay extra over that. the only users this would affect are those that upload a lot,

Re: BitTorrent swarms have a deadly bite on broadband nets

2007-10-24 Thread Sean Donelan
On Wed, 24 Oct 2007, Adrian Chadd wrote: You'd be surprised; users in the Australian market have had to get used to knowing how much bandwidth they use. People are adaptable. Get used to it. :) Likewise, people seem to complain about anything. Even Australians seem to like to complain.

Re: BitTorrent swarms have a deadly bite on broadband nets

2007-10-24 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 15:44:53 BST, Rod Beck said: The vast bulk of users have no idea how many bytes they consume each month or the bytes generated by different applications. Note that in many/most cases, the person signing the agreement and paying the bill (the parental units) are not the ones

RE: Internet access in Japan (was Re: BitTorrent swarms have a deadly bite on broadband nets)

2007-10-24 Thread Steve Gibbard
On Wed, 24 Oct 2007, Rod Beck wrote: On Wednesday 24 October 2007 05:36, Henry Yen wrote: On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 09:20:49AM -0400, Leo Bicknell wrote: Why are no major us builders installing FTTH today? Greenfield should be the easiest, and major builders like Pulte, Centex and the like

Re: BitTorrent swarms have a deadly bite on broadband nets

2007-10-24 Thread Sean Donelan
The problem isn't a particular type of traffic in isolation, its usually the impact of one network user's traffic on all the other network user's traffic sharing the same network. Network Quotas for Individuals - A better answer to the P2P bandwidth problem?

RE: Internet access in Japan (was Re: BitTorrent swarms have a deadly bite on broadband nets)

2007-10-24 Thread Rod Beck
Exactly. And because they installed fiber, the FCC has ruled that they do not have to provide unbundled network elements to competitors. It's this last bit that seems to be leading to lots of complaints, and it's the earlier pricing of unbundled network elements at or above the cost of

Re: BitTorrent swarms have a deadly bite on broadband nets

2007-10-24 Thread Bruce Curtis
On Oct 24, 2007, at 1:28 PM, Sean Donelan wrote: The problem isn't a particular type of traffic in isolation, its usually the impact of one network user's traffic on all the other network user's traffic sharing the same network. Network Quotas for Individuals - A better answer to the

Re: BitTorrent swarms have a deadly bite on broadband nets

2007-10-24 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Wed, Oct 24, 2007, Sean Donelan wrote: Again, is there no alternative between such extremely low data caps on everyone and extreme usage by a a few? Sure, I'll sell you a 1:1 pipe that you can use 100%. AUD $400 a megabit. No worries. :) Adrian

RE: BitTorrent swarms have a deadly bite on broadband nets

2007-10-24 Thread michael.dillon
The vast bulk of users have no idea how many bytes they consume each month or the bytes generated by different applications. The schemes being advocated in this discussion require that the end users be Layer 3 engineers. Actually, it sounds a lot like the Electric7 tariffs found in the UK

Re: BitTorrent swarms have a deadly bite on broadband nets

2007-10-24 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 02:33:35 BST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I really think that a two-tiered QOS system such as the scavenger suggestion is workable if the applications can do the marking. Has anyone done any testing to see if DSCP bits are able to travel unscathed through the public Internet?

Re: BitTorrent swarms have a deadly bite on broadband nets

2007-10-23 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Tue, 23 Oct 2007, Sean Donelan wrote: Ok, maybe the greedy commercial folks screwed up and deserve what they got; but why are the nobel non-profit universities having the same problems? Because if you look at a residential population with ADSL2+ and 10/10 or 100/100 respectively, the

Re: BitTorrent swarms have a deadly bite on broadband nets

2007-10-23 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Tue, 23 Oct 2007 00:35:21 EDT, Sean Donelan said: This doesn't explain why many universities, most with active, symmetric ethernet switches in residential dorms, have been deploying packet shaping technology for even longer than the cable companies. If the answer was as simple as

Re: Internet access in Japan (was Re: BitTorrent swarms have a deadly bite on broadband nets)

2007-10-23 Thread Dragos Ruiu
On Monday 22 October 2007 19:20, David Andersen wrote: Followed by a recent explosion in fiber-to-the-home buildout by NTT.   About 8.8 million Japanese homes have fiber lines -- roughly nine   times the number in the United States. -- particularly impressive   when you count that in

Re: Internet access in Japan (was Re: BitTorrent swarms have a deadly bite on broadband nets)

2007-10-23 Thread Tom Vest
On Oct 23, 2007, at 9:33 AM, Dragos Ruiu wrote: On Monday 22 October 2007 19:20, David Andersen wrote: Followed by a recent explosion in fiber-to-the-home buildout by NTT. About 8.8 million Japanese homes have fiber lines -- roughly nine times the number in the United States. --

Re: BitTorrent swarms have a deadly bite on broadband nets

2007-10-23 Thread Sean Donelan
On Tue, 23 Oct 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now if any of you guys have a lead on an affordable way to get 225 40GigE's from here to someplace that can *take* 225 40Gig-E's... ;) http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/EPO0611.pdf It does not cost all that much, relatively, to upgrade a

RE: Internet access in Japan (was Re: BitTorrent swarms have a deadly bite on broadband nets)

2007-10-23 Thread Rod Beck
I did consulting work for NTT in 2001 and 2002 and visited their Tokyo headquarters twice. NTT has two ILEC divisions, NTT East and NTT West. The ILEC management told me in conversations that there was no money in fiber-to-the-home; the entire rollout was due to government pressure and was

Re: Internet access in Japan (was Re: BitTorrent swarms have a deadly bite on broadband nets)

2007-10-23 Thread Tom Vest
Yup, matches my experience (designing/deploying AOL's swan song JP network infrastructure) during the same period. The ILECs were artifacts of the Japanese regulators' 1997 effort to relieve the last mile facilities death grip on services, ala the (1984) US MFJ / ATT breakup. The new c.

Re: BitTorrent swarms have a deadly bite on broadband nets

2007-10-23 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Tue, Oct 23, 2007, Brandon Galbraith wrote: I believe the bittorrent client Azureus actually does prioritize based on subnet, picking local subnet hosts first (such as when used in a large NAT'd environment). -brandon That hasn't been my experience with some of the statistics coming out

Re: BitTorrent swarms have a deadly bite on broadband nets

2007-10-23 Thread Tim Franklin
On Tue, October 23, 2007 2:55 am, Leo Bicknell wrote: 3) Is there any chance US providers could offer similar technologies at similar prices, or are there significant differences (regulation, distance etc) that prevent it from being viable? For the UK (and NL), on the tech side we're seeing

Re: Internet access in Japan (was Re: BitTorrent swarms have a deadly bite on broadband nets)

2007-10-23 Thread Leo Bicknell
In a message written on Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 10:20:49PM -0400, David Andersen wrote: The Washington Post article claims that: [snip] b) Fresh new wire installed after WWII I have to wonder what percentage of the population is using phone lines installed before WWII? I live in a suburb

Re: Internet access in Japan (was Re: BitTorrent swarms have a deadly bite on broadband nets)

2007-10-23 Thread Tom Vest
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Oct 23, 2007, at 3:20 PM, Leo Bicknell wrote: In a message written on Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 10:20:49PM -0400, David Andersen wrote: The Washington Post article claims that: [snip] b) Fresh new wire installed after WWII I have to wonder

Re: BitTorrent swarms have a deadly bite on broadband nets

2007-10-23 Thread Joe Provo
On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 03:13:42AM +, Steven M. Bellovin wrote: According to http://torrentfreak.com/comcast-throttles-bittorrent-traffic-seeding-impossible/ Comcast's blocking affects connections to non-Comcast users. This means that they're trying to manage their upstream

Re: BitTorrent swarms have a deadly bite on broadband nets

2007-10-23 Thread Jack Bates
Tim Franklin wrote: For the UK (and NL), on the tech side we're seeing some success with EFM on copper, in this particular case on an Actelis platform. It's a new unit in the CO, from 1-8 pairs from the CO to the customer premises, up to a total bandwidth across all pairs of 40Mb/s in each

Re: BitTorrent swarms have a deadly bite on broadband nets

2007-10-23 Thread Tim Franklin
On Tue, October 23, 2007 4:06 pm, Jack Bates wrote: Errr, 8 pairs per customer? Even 4 is a step backwards. If we're going to do construction at that level, might as well drop in fiber. We're still enjoying the fact that ADSL runs on 1/2 a pair while the customer's phone service is out.

Re: BitTorrent swarms have a deadly bite on broadband nets

2007-10-23 Thread Leo Bicknell
In a message written on Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 10:34:00AM -0400, Joe Provo wrote: While I expect end-users to miss the boat that providers use stat-mux calculations to build and price their networks, I'm floored to see the sentiment on NANOG. No edge provider of geographic scope/scale will

Re: BitTorrent swarms have a deadly bite on broadband nets

2007-10-23 Thread Jack Bates
Tim Franklin wrote: Doing (or getting the incumbent to do, where the last mile is a monopoly) a little bit more of what you already do seems to be an awful lot easier than doing something completely different. Certainly in the (admittedly all European) countries where I've seen it done,

Re: BitTorrent swarms have a deadly bite on broadband nets

2007-10-22 Thread Mark Smith
On Sun, 21 Oct 2007 19:31:09 -0700 Joel Jaeggli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steven M. Bellovin wrote: This result is unsurprising and not controversial. TCP achieves fairness *among flows* because virtually all clients back off in response to packet drops. BitTorrent, though, uses many

RE: BitTorrent swarms have a deadly bite on broadband nets

2007-10-22 Thread Frank Bulk
Jaeggli Sent: Sunday, October 21, 2007 9:31 PM To: Steven M. Bellovin Cc: Sean Donelan; nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: BitTorrent swarms have a deadly bite on broadband nets Steven M. Bellovin wrote: This result is unsurprising and not controversial. TCP achieves fairness *among flows* because

RE: BitTorrent swarms have a deadly bite on broadband nets

2007-10-22 Thread Crist Clark
On 10/22/2007 at 3:02 PM, Frank Bulk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wonder how quickly applications and network gear would implement QoS support if the major ISPs offered their subscribers two queues: a default queue, which handled regular internet traffic but squashed P2P, and then a separate

RE: BitTorrent swarms have a deadly bite on broadband nets

2007-10-22 Thread Buhrmaster, Gary
... Why not suck up and go with the economic solution? Seems like the easy thing is for the ISPs to come clean and admit their unlimited service is not and put in upload caps and charge for overages. Who will be the first? If there *is* competition in the marketplace, the cable company does

RE: BitTorrent swarms have a deadly bite on broadband nets

2007-10-22 Thread Paul Ferguson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - -- Crist Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] How many P2P protocols are already blocking/shaping evasive? The Storm botnet? :-) - - ferg -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP Desktop 9.6.3 (Build 3017)

Re: BitTorrent swarms have a deadly bite on broadband nets

2007-10-22 Thread Majdi S. Abbas
On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 05:16:08PM -0700, Crist Clark wrote: It seems to me is what hurts the ISPs is the accompanying upload streams, not the download (or at least the ISP feels the same download pain no matter what technology their end user uses to get the data[0]). Throwing more bandwidth

RE: BitTorrent swarms have a deadly bite on broadband nets

2007-10-22 Thread Frank Bulk
7:16 PM To: nanog@merit.edu Subject: RE: BitTorrent swarms have a deadly bite on broadband nets On 10/22/2007 at 3:02 PM, Frank Bulk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wonder how quickly applications and network gear would implement QoS support if the major ISPs offered their subscribers two queues

Re: BitTorrent swarms have a deadly bite on broadband nets

2007-10-22 Thread Leo Bicknell
In a message written on Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 08:24:17PM -0500, Frank Bulk wrote: The reality is that copper-based internet access technologies: dial-up, DSL, and cable modems have made the design-based trade off that there is substantially more downstream than upstream. With North American

Internet access in Japan (was Re: BitTorrent swarms have a deadly bite on broadband nets)

2007-10-22 Thread David Andersen
On Oct 22, 2007, at 9:55 PM, Leo Bicknell wrote: Having now seen the cable issue described in technical detail over and over, I have a question. At the most recent Nanog several people talked about 100Mbps symmetric access in Japan for $40 US. This leads me to two questions: 1) Is that

RE: BitTorrent swarms have a deadly bite on broadband nets

2007-10-22 Thread Frank Bulk
. population. Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Leo Bicknell Sent: Monday, October 22, 2007 8:55 PM To: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: BitTorrent swarms have a deadly bite on broadband nets In a message written on Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 08:24

Re: Internet access in Japan (was Re: BitTorrent swarms have a deadly bite on broadband nets)

2007-10-22 Thread Jeff Shultz
David Andersen wrote: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/28/AR2007082801990.html snip Followed by a recent explosion in fiber-to-the-home buildout by NTT. About 8.8 million Japanese homes have fiber lines -- roughly nine times the number in the United States. --

Re: BitTorrent swarms have a deadly bite on broadband nets

2007-10-22 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
According to http://torrentfreak.com/comcast-throttles-bittorrent-traffic-seeding-impossible/ Comcast's blocking affects connections to non-Comcast users. This means that they're trying to manage their upstream connections, not the local loop. For Comcast's own position, see

Re: Internet access in Japan (was Re: BitTorrent swarms have a deadly bite on broadband nets)

2007-10-22 Thread David Andersen
On Oct 22, 2007, at 11:02 PM, Jeff Shultz wrote: David Andersen wrote: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/28/ AR2007082801990.html snip Followed by a recent explosion in fiber-to-the-home buildout by NTT. About 8.8 million Japanese homes have fiber lines --

Re: Internet access in Japan (was Re: BitTorrent swarms have a deadly bite on broadband nets)

2007-10-22 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, David Andersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: But no - I was as happy as everyone else when the CLECs emerged and provided PRI service at 1/3rd the rate of the ILECs Not only was that CLEC service concetrated in higher-density areas, the PRI prices were often not based in reality.

Re: BitTorrent swarms have a deadly bite on broadband nets

2007-10-22 Thread Sean Donelan
On Mon, 22 Oct 2007, Majdi S. Abbas wrote: What hurt these access providers, particularly those in the cable market, was a set of failed assumptions. The Internet became a commodity, driven by this web thing. As a result, standards like DOCSIS developed, and bandwidth was allocated,

Re: BitTorrent swarms have a deadly bite on broadband nets

2007-10-22 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Tue, Oct 23, 2007, Sean Donelan wrote: On Mon, 22 Oct 2007, Majdi S. Abbas wrote: What hurt these access providers, particularly those in the cable market, was a set of failed assumptions. The Internet became a commodity, driven by this web thing. As a result, standards like

Re: BitTorrent swarms have a deadly bite on broadband nets

2007-10-21 Thread Marshall Eubanks
Note that this is from 2006. Do you have a link to the actual paper, by Terry Shaw, of CableLabs, and Jim Martin of Clemson ? Regards Marshall On Oct 21, 2007, at 1:03 PM, Sean Donelan wrote: http://www.multichannel.com/article/CA6332098.html The short answer: Badly. Based on the

Re: BitTorrent swarms have a deadly bite on broadband nets

2007-10-21 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
On Sun, 21 Oct 2007 13:03:11 -0400 (EDT) Sean Donelan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.multichannel.com/article/CA6332098.html The short answer: Badly. Based on the research, conducted by Terry Shaw, of CableLabs, and Jim Martin, a computer science professor at Clemson

Re: BitTorrent swarms have a deadly bite on broadband nets

2007-10-21 Thread Joel Jaeggli
Steven M. Bellovin wrote: This result is unsurprising and not controversial. TCP achieves fairness *among flows* because virtually all clients back off in response to packet drops. BitTorrent, though, uses many flows per request; furthermore, since its flows are much longer-lived than web