P2P Bandwidth Hogging the Net

zymano writes "zdnet has this article about bandwidth hogging p2p." I'm sure we'll see more rate limiting in the future and per-gig charges. The article says 60% of ISPs bandwidth is P2P, and that seems high to me, but not unrealistic. Besides, since most broadband is pretty seriously hamstringed in the upstream department, I'm not sure where they can go with this.

that's a lotta emails!

[sweeney37]

let me break down the other 40 percent of the bandwidth for you:

18% Porn
12% Spam
6% RIAA "Cease and Desist" Emails
4% KaZaa Client Software

Now if you'll excuse me, I need to get back to downloading the complete works of Engelbert Humperdinck [allmusic.com]

Mike

spam and p2p are more than all the bandwidth

[Anonymous Coward]

Weren't people complaining about spam being over 50% of the bandwithd now p2p is 60%, that looks lie 110% to me.

Really?

[MooKore (675835)]

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Surely you jest..

[reidbold]

from the and-the-sky-is-blue dept.

That's a very apt dept.

As if gigantic movies and games along with lots of music files utilize more bandwidth than the 100kb of text and pictures per webpage.

60% ?

[MadKeithV]

I'm guessing there's some creative making-up-of-numbers going on. If 'they' (the anti-internet people) had their way, the breakdown would be as follows:

60%: p2p traffic
30%: Spam
20%: Kiddie porn
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110% evil.

60% from P2P + 45% from Windows Update??

[vrt3]

P2P uses 60% from the available bandwidth, Windows Update uses 45% [slashdot.org]. That leaves ... uhm ... less than nothing for all the other stuff?

This just in!

[Shoten]

"In a follow-up, we've also uncovered that 60% of home electrical use can be attributed to television usage. Now, we go live to Jack McDuh..."

"Thank you, Beavis...apparently, the majority of home electrical usage is going to things like watching television, playing video games, or playing music on a stereo. I have with me Mr. Mxlyplk, the general manager of ConEd for this region. Tell us, Mr. Mxlyplk, what can you tell us about this discovery?"

"Well, Jack, it's rather shocking. All along we assumed that home users were using our electrical output to cure cancer or develop space travel or something like that. But apparently, people who dutifully pay their monthly fees for a utility think they can just use it any way they want to, for any old purpose!"

Re:that's a lotta emails!

[sould]

Nonsense.

According to RIAA, the other 40% is used by students using all other available protocols to download copyrighted material.

Re:60% not so unrealistic

[Dot.Com.CEO]

If you also block www and ftp traffic I GUARANTEE you will see a drop of 95% of traffic. The boss will LOVE that.

Blame the RIAA

[Anonymous Coward]

The blame lies with the RIAA, which greatly increases p2p traffic with such tactics as polluting Kazaa filespace with bogus files (requiring repeated downloads to get a good file)

The RIAA can solve this by setting up their own free download site with free files, and get rid of the inefficiency of redundant and partial repeated p2p attempts to get songs.

Re:spam?

[Anonymous Coward]

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Back in my day I had to write games in BASIC, on a 4.7Mhz computer with no hard disk and 128K of RAM. And I was grateful

Yeah, but did you do it while walking uphill in the snow, barefoot?

Wait a minute!

[IpsissimusMarr]

Wait a minutem, wait a minute.....

Haven't ISPs like Earthlink, AOL, and the US Government been saying in this whole Spam(tm) battle that "Spam takes up over 50% of the Internet bandwidth?"!

Lets see: 50% Spam + 60% P2P = What internet are they using?!

Re:60% of ISPs bandwidth

[kryptobiotic]

Bandwidth is measured in base 2 so the maximum is 128%. Your email and browsing are tapping from the other 23%.

Re:I'm blocking p2p on my network

[aborchers]

What?! You're blocking my god-given right to download material owned by the record labels over the network paid for by the company to the computer you gave me to do my work during the time you pay me for doing it! You thought-police system administrator's are going to be second against the wall (after the RIAA lobbyists) when the revolution comes! Information wants to be free, man!

Re:pr0n, pr0n, pr0n, baked beans and pr0n...

[Andrewkov]

I would not be suprised if to 80% of *ALL* net traffic (web, usenet, p2p, email, etc.) is pr0n or pr0n related.

Yes, but don't let your own usage patterns cloud your judgement! ;-)

Re:Wait a minute!

[Realistic_Dragon]

An extract from the class 'press_release':

if (subject == piracy) {
banwidth = compare_to_arpanet(bandwidth);
prices = inflate(prices);
return;
}

Re:Bubba says hold the phone!!!

[Arbogast_II]

Dang, finally a reason to live in Snellville, :)

Re:Quit the crying

[EvilTwinSkippy]

And cable! (All 20 channels of it.) Believe me, single Mom's with 6 digit salaries have a lot of guilt they think spending money will fix.

(I can hear it now: You had a mother? I was sold to the circus, and only had an evil clown who hit me all the time with a mallet.)

Re:I'm blocking p2p on my network

[EvilTwinSkippy]

What is your account again?

the real breakdown

[djtack]

C'mon, everyone know by now that net traffic is about:

• 60% spam
• 60% P2P
• 45% pr0n
• 20% http
• and 35% email

yeah, reality is a bitch.

[twitter]

The real problem in our case is not so much the people downloading, but as we have a rather fat pipe to the internet, we're seen as very favorable download farm for people to grab files from.

True! and there's no way to throttle the Dean's XP desktop, no matter how many times it's owned.

"What?" He'll ask. "You let hackers break my computer? You are so fired!"

Better not mention it.