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Re: FW: ISPs slowing P2P traffic...
From: Adrian Chadd <adrian () creative net au>
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 17:56:30 +0900
On Tue, Jan 15, 2008, Mark Smith wrote:
But the fat man isn't allowed to take up residence in the restaurant and continously eat - he's only allowed to be there in bursts, like we used to be able to assume people would use networks they're connected to. "Left running" P2P is the fat man never leaving and never stopping eating.
ffs, stop with the crappy analogies. The internet is like a badly designed commodity network. Built increasingly cheaper to deal with market pressures and unable to shift quickly to shifting technologies. Just like the telcos I recall everyone blasting when I was last actually involved in networks bigger than a university campus. Adrian
Current thread:
- Re: ISPs slowing P2P traffic..., (continued)
- Re: ISPs slowing P2P traffic... Marshall Eubanks (Jan 13)
- Re: ISPs slowing P2P traffic... Mark Radabaugh (Jan 13)
- Re: ISPs slowing P2P traffic... Joe Greco (Jan 13)
- Re: ISPs slowing P2P traffic... Mikael Abrahamsson (Jan 13)
- RE: ISPs slowing P2P traffic... Lasher, Donn (Jan 14)
- Re: FW: ISPs slowing P2P traffic... Joe Greco (Jan 14)
- Re: FW: ISPs slowing P2P traffic... William Herrin (Jan 14)
- Re: FW: ISPs slowing P2P traffic... Matt Palmer (Jan 14)
- Re: FW: ISPs slowing P2P traffic... Mark Smith (Jan 15)
- Re: FW: ISPs slowing P2P traffic... Adrian Chadd (Jan 15)
- Re: FW: ISPs slowing P2P traffic... Brandon Galbraith (Jan 15)
- Re: FW: ISPs slowing P2P traffic... Mikael Abrahamsson (Jan 15)
- RE: FW: ISPs slowing P2P traffic... Frank Bulk (Jan 15)
- RE: FW: ISPs slowing P2P traffic... Mikael Abrahamsson (Jan 15)
- RE: FW: ISPs slowing P2P traffic... Frank Bulk (Jan 15)
- RE: FW: ISPs slowing P2P traffic... Mikael Abrahamsson (Jan 15)
- RE: FW: ISPs slowing P2P traffic... Frank Bulk (Jan 16)