Not all p2p rapes your Web traffic -

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peerimpact join:2005-11-07 Londonderry, VT 3 edits	Not all p2p rapes your Web traffic Have a Look at Peer Impact RCNMAN www.peerimpact.com They are a commercial hybrid peer to peer company that sells and distributes content from the 4 Major record Labels ,Game Developers and soon NBC universal . Peer Impact tries to attempt to keep as much traffic as possible within an ISPs network and only reaches out when it needs to find a chunk it cant find locally and it also keeps the nodes sorted geographically so network members can receive a faster download .They use a what they call "traffic cop" node to control their p2p network.They also have QoS built in so your computer is bogged down when you are using your PC and it ramps the download/upload when your computer is idle. Kontiki and Red Swoosh use similar methodologies for their p2p distribution platforms.AOL are using Kontiki for thier Hi-Q Video service and iFilm use Redswoosh for content distribution. Bit torrent on the other hand wastes a lot of network traffic because it uses a brute force approach to connecting peers and the Tracker is essentially a peer-cache so it connects users from all over the place and it is not managed in any way . Not all p2p traffic is bad its just that certain networks that decentralise them selves as much as possible because the people that developed them where trying to escape legal liability including Bram Cohen all they managed doing was wasting more bandwidth than the Network providers can handle . You will see more peer to peer traffic coming your way so get used to it and it will come from a variety of sources from content distribution to VOIP.
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rcnman Jason Nealis Premium,VIP join:2003-05-02 Herndon, VA kudos:10	said by peerimpact: Peer Impact tries to attempt to keep as much traffic as possible within an ISPs network and only reaches out when it needs to find a chunk it cant find locally and it also keeps the nodes sorted geographically so network members can receive a faster download Agreed, and no I don't believe all P2P is bad, I use it quite often myself The RCN implementation in it's current state does some of this traffic cop model. If the content is seeded on net by a RCN sub that someone one net is looking for it will redirect to that on-net seed. And there obviously no limits to the download nor to the seed. (as long as its on-net) -- Jason Nealis, Director, Operations RCN
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Maggs Premium join:2002-11-29 Woodside, NY Reviews: ·RCN CABLE	What RCN is complaining about is traffic going OFF network, if it's excessive, they pay big time. Residental connections are just that. Residental, if you want 24/7/365 connectivity, get some Dark Fiber from RCN. »www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,a···0,00.asp VOIP uses some upload, if you have people using too much upload, voice data gets slowed down. l "An E1 line (2.048 mbps) from Ghana Telecom using the new SAT3 fibre cable costs US$15,000 a month," - »www.apc.org/english/rights/handb···_04.shtm That's quite expensive considering some people could upload 10 GB a month with P2P easily There has to be reasonable rules in place, in order to protect infrastructure. Those CISCO CMTS's are expensive Froogle says: "CISCO UBR N+1 RF SWCH FOR CMTS RTR Price: $22,392 - $25,052 Description from CaliforniaPC: UBR-RFSW - CISCO UBR N+1 RF SWCH FOR CMTS RTR" Be reasonable its a RESIDENTAL connection you know. They say in their TOS/AUP that the service is provided on a "24/7 Best Efforts" basis -- "Silent leges inter arma" Float like a butterfly, sting like warm tea.
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