On Sunday, 23 בApril 2006 10:47, Ira Abramov wrote: > well, it's nice that you pay for online multimedia, most people > don't. in fact I don't know the latest numbers but well over 50% of > the world's IP traffic today are bittorrent streams
He. I was initially going to refute the above claim - are you out of your mind ? what about emails and web ? Well - I don't know how right you are, but the few numbers I could find seem to support at least the notion of bittorrent being the largest provoker of ISP limitations: According to this study (http://www.cachelogic.com/research/2005_slide07.php), P2P traffic (as a whole) took about 60% of internet bandwidth usage at end of 2004, of which about 35% is BitTorrent. It stands to reason that these numbers have grown significantly in the last two years. OTOH - this study was done by a company that sells bandwidth management products to ISPs, so it stands to reason that their numbers might be a bit exaggerated. -- Oded ::.. "No job too big; no fee too big!" -- Dr. Peter Venkman, "Ghost-busters" ================================================================To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
