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Re: BitTorrent is 35% of traffic ?
From: "Matthew S. Hallacy" <poptix () poptix net>
Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2004 23:11:55 -0600
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. -- Matthew S. Hallacy FUBAR, LART, BOFH Certified http://www.poptix.net GPG public key 0x01938203
Current thread:
- BitTorrent is 35% of traffic ? Deepak Jain (Nov 04)
- Re: BitTorrent is 35% of traffic ? Christopher L. Morrow (Nov 04)
- Re: BitTorrent is 35% of traffic ? Tony Li (Nov 04)
- Re: BitTorrent is 35% of traffic ? Marshall Eubanks (Nov 04)
- Re: BitTorrent is 35% of traffic ? Petri Helenius (Nov 04)
- Re: BitTorrent is 35% of traffic ? Patrick W Gilmore (Nov 04)
- Re: BitTorrent is 35% of traffic ? Marshall Eubanks (Nov 04)
- Re: BitTorrent is 35% of traffic ? Tony Li (Nov 04)
- Re: BitTorrent is 35% of traffic ? Bastiaan Spandaw (Nov 05)
- Re: BitTorrent is 35% of traffic ? Christian Kuhtz (Nov 05)
- Re: BitTorrent is 35% of traffic ? Jeroen Massar (Nov 05)
- Re: BitTorrent is 35% of traffic ? Christopher L. Morrow (Nov 04)
- Re: BitTorrent is 35% of traffic ? Matthew S. Hallacy (Nov 04)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- RE: BitTorrent is 35% of traffic ? Matt Ryan (Nov 05)