brianiscool
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Miami, FL | Wow
How can consumers value from these statistics? |
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Jim Gurd
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Plymouth, MI | And how much of that bandwidth is spam? |
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GOLFnSUN
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| said by Jim Gurd  :And how much of that bandwidth is spam? Spam is an infitesimal amount of consumed bandwidth. It is a huge part of email traffic, but email traffic is a very small part of overall ISP traffic.
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BIGMIKE
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join:2002-06-07
Westminster, CA | reply to brianiscool
Bandwidth hogs = JOB SECURITY |
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newyorkslick
join:2001-12-19
Rosedale, NY | reply to Jim Gurd
I don't think very much. Even though there is a crapload of
spam, BT downloads makes up most of it, and I can assume 1/3rd of those BT downloads are porn. |
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kyramilan
join:2006-11-26
Pensacola, FL | reply to brianiscool
5% of users (aka "bandwidth hogs") generate 45.3% of traffic (which are mainly porn downloads). So 5% are basically perverts and the 40% lite users have girlfriends? Yep!  |
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bbskeptic
join:2005-09-12
Burlington, VT | reply to brianiscool
It's all BitTorrent and P2P apps. |
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nixen
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Alexandria, VA
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said by newyorkslick :I don't think very much. Even though there is a crapload of spam, BT downloads makes up most of it, and I can assume 1/3rd of those BT downloads are porn. Given that porn has driven the growth of the Internet even since the beginning (whether people want to acknowledge it or not), it wouldn't be surprising that at least 1/3 of the hogged bandwidth was porn.
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BVT
join:2004-10-25
Mount Juliet, TN | reply to kyramilan
Any real man can juggle a porn habit and a girlfriend or wife. |
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cdru
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Fort Wayne, IN
| said by BVT :Any real man can juggle a porn habit and a girlfriend or wife. What's a lot tougher is juggling a porn habit and a girlfriend and a wife.
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sweintz
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join:2002-03-01
Hamden, CT
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said by GOLFnSUN :said by Jim Gurd :And how much of that bandwidth is spam? Spam is an infitesimal amount of consumed bandwidth. It is a huge part of email traffic, but email traffic is a very small part of overall ISP traffic. True, but think about the fact that most spam is now sent from 0\/\/n3d or trojaned PC boxes running windows - the owner of the PC does not even now their machine is spewing spam.
I think in *SOME* cases, some of these "hogs" could actually be zombied PC's, spewing spam as fast as the outgoing pipe will allow.
Are they using much more upstream than downstream? If so, they might be zombies. |
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