Re:Anti-Intellectual Environment (Score 1)

That wasn't exactly the whole reason for the 1000+ pings. P2P was definitely to blame for the increased bandwidth load that ResNet faced, but the reason the pings got out of hand was that the whole network was based on old 3Com hubs. With all those packets going to every port on the box, things got insane fast. The major thing that helped improve things (along with the bandwidth capping, which I had not heard about) was that they upgraded everything to smarter switches that didn't have the problems of the old gear.