SolarPup
IT Geek-Dawg
Premium
join:2002-03-07
The Pound
clubs: | And they know this data because...
90% of the large class ISP's in the world use their hardware and report back to them?
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Voyager2K2
join:2001-10-04
Wayne, PA | It's That Low?
They gotta have "their music". |
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moonpuppy
join:2000-08-21
Glen Burnie, MD | VOIP only 0.2%?
Wonder why HSI companies complain about the amount of traffic it uses.  |
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mod_wastrel
join:2008-03-28 | Sure...
now is there any reason why I shouldn't view this "report" as simply a marketing/self-promotional tool for Sandvine? |
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andyb
Premium
join:2003-05-29
SW Ontario | Thier competitor,ellacoya,says that streaming and http have surpassed p2p so who do you believe? I'd say neither of em and just scrap thier equipment since it's all done for marketing. |
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nasadude
join:2001-10-05
Rockville, MD
 ·Comcast
| reply to moonpuppy
Re: VOIP only 0.2%?
said by moonpuppy  :Wonder why HSI companies complain about the amount of traffic it uses. HSI = incumbent phone or cable company in 90+% of cases.
telco doesn't like VOIP competition to landline business, hence it is "bad" and must be demonized.
cableco doesn't like competitor VOIP because they are getting into that market, hence it is "bad" and must be demonized. cableco VOIP, of course, is OK. |
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FicmanS
Premium
join:2005-01-11
Brownsburg, IN
clubs: | Not sure I buy it...
Those numbers seem difficult for me to buy into 43.5% for file sharing and on the flip side .2% VOIP? O Really...? |
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fireflier
Coffee. . .Need Coffee
Premium
join:2001-05-25
Limbo
 ·Skype
| Proof?
Would Sandvine care to list these "leading" ISPs they compiled data from? How about actual traffic stats from those ISPs?
So I'm supposed to believe the claims of a company that's selling equipment to fix a problem they say exists without direct evidence the problem really exists? Did you guys know there's a special breed of Hippo that's purple? It must be true because someone said it was.
Next up: Sandvine's unverifiable numbers will be quoted by "leading" ISPs as proof that P2P is eating up their network bandwidth.
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TKJunkMail
Enjoy the sun
Premium
join:2002-03-03
Avalon, NJ
 ·Sprint Mobile Broa..
·Comcast
1 edit | reply to FicmanS
Re: Not sure I buy it...
said by FicmanS :Those numbers seem difficult for me to buy into 43.5% for file sharing and on the flip side .2% VOIP? O Really...? VOIP streams can be compressed in to about 64 kbps upstream. The amount of bandwidth needed is very little. Even if the compression is not as severe, VOIP at most will use about 256 kbps. Not surprised that VOIP traffic is so low. 10 years ago, we compressed VOIP down to 32 kbps with dedicated hardware cards in our internal network. So even software based compression can easily do 64 kbps.
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knightmb
Everybody Lies
join:2003-12-01
Franklin, TN
 ·AT&T DSL Service
1 edit | Our Stats.
ISP Stats - WISP |
Based off of this week (48 GB 'gigabytes' used among all customers)
This is just the download, not the upload.
Our customers range from Clueless Grandmom to Linux Master Bob.
Note: P2P can technically fall under "other" if it's encrypted traffic |
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backness
join:2005-07-08
K2P OW2
| and zero % business
This study accounts for is residential accounts and ignores all the business data that moves across the net and leads the reader to belive that 44% of the internet data is P2P.
What kind of news is this? Obivously people use their home connections to do stuff like this from home.
The fact that this study does not mention the results of residential traffic vs. the total internet data makes this a big pile of FUD |
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BK3
join:2001-04-10
Geneva, IL
·AT&T Yahoo
| Where's email?
I believe that at one time I read that a very large chunk of internet traffic was email (specifically spam). Yet, I don't see a consumption percentage for email at all.
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chronoss2008
Premium
join:2008-03-29
·TekSavvy Solutions..
·Bell Sympatico
1 edit | SaNDVINE LIES wow
how is it possible that 44% is p2p when bell throttles to point of unusability for even normal stuff, such that for ten hours or 10/24 (do the math) almost half the net is off.
Sandvine ought to be raided , arrested and jailed for hacking and exploiting and violating the privacy act of canada.
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in off case thats correct that means that of the 25 million net accounts , 11 million are using p2p
using those old 2005 stats , 5.4 million ( sept 2005)
march 2006 9.8 million ( march)
which as we are today this means that there attempts to stop it have FAILED.
MOVE on get a new career, your not needed sandvinigar |
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XknightHawkX
join:2003-02-13
Morton, IL
clubs:
| reply to BK3
Re: Where's email?
That was my question to. Where's the email. And Sandvine better never say that email was so little that they didn't measure it. There is so much spam and they seem to use pictures in almost all of it. Email isn't in the list so I say it isn't a valid list. |
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Capitalist
@cgocable.net
| Nice brochure
Don't forget the downstream only numbers:
Web browsing and streaming have combined to overtake file sharing in terms of traffic on downstream Internet connections. As a stand-alone category, P2P file sharing is still the leader at 35.5% of traffic, followed by web browsing at 32% and streaming at 18%.
All data included in this study was gathered at the subscriber access network only. Therefore, P2P numbers (due to the nature of the protocol) will be significantly increased.
Capacity and utilization are unmentioned. |
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prestonlewis
Premium,MVM
join:2003-04-13
Sacramento, CA
·VoiceStick
| No point in faster speeds . . .
If they take away our right to faster speeds, even if it's for P2P as they are claiming, what need is there for superfast speeds? Might as well stay with DSL speeds of 3,000/768 which works perfectly fine with CNN Video or YouTube. The only reason why you really need 10,000/2000 or higher speeds is for large file transfers. Most servers don't respond that quickly or even at those high speeds. Sure they'll be a few people who legitimately need fast speeds for something but the vast majority of us won't pay the high prices for fast internet if we can't use it. I guess ISPs want us all to become Slowskys. |
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Chiyo
Save Me Konata-Chan
Premium
join:2003-02-20
Minneapolis, MN
clubs:
·Comcast
| well DUH they are a hardware vendor
ok seriously why has nobody said this? They are selling hardware to ISPS to throttle connections and stuff. Its their business model are they going to say say they are wrong and push customers away from them? NO!!
either way this is just company propaganda why is this news/
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centsofhumor
join:2007-01-20
Two Rivers, WI | We should have a national NO internet use day.
Maybe they will stop complaining |
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lordofwhee
join:2007-10-21
Everett, WA
| Then they'll just sell hardware to flood the ISP's network with random packets guaranteed to be identified as "P2P" packets.
Anyway, as any tech-savvy Comcast user knows, you should always obfuscate as much P2P traffic as possible, which would make those packets undetectable as "P2P", which means those numbers should be much lower right there.
Also, there's no mention of consumption versus available bandwidth. It's yet another propaganda campaign. |
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NetAdmin
CCNA
join:2008-05-22
| Definitely don't trust those numbers...
When a gear vendor comes out with numbers that obviously push their product, I'm highly suspicious. We definitely need someone to confirm those numbers otherwise their results get filed under the "BS, these numbers were cooked up to sell out gear" category.
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