RE: Online games stealing your bandwidth

["Leigh Porter" <leigh.porter () ukbroadband com>]

-----Original Message-----
From: Jack Bates [mailto:jbates () brightok net] 
Sent: 27 September 2010 17:39
To: Adrian Chadd
Cc: NANOG
Subject: Re: Online games stealing your bandwidth

On 9/25/2010 6:47 PM, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> > I don't recall any protocols being standard.

> I don't either, though I recall bittorrent actually supporting it once 
> and pushing to have ISP support and stay away from encryption/ISP 
> circumvention. That was years ago. Haven't stayed current.

> > Plenty of people sell p2p caches but they all work using magic, smoke
> > and mirrors.

> Seem to recall some law suits concerning a few of them. Even if we had 
> ISP supporting caches, there is always the problem getting p2p clients 
> to support them (given they often are too busy trying to circumvent).


We had a great P2P cache from Cache Appliance. Did anybody else try
them?

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Leigh