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said by TKJunkMail :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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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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| reply to newyorkslick 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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join:2005-09-12 Burlington, VT | reply to brianiscool It's all BitTorrent and P2P apps. |
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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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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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  BIGMIKE Premium join:2002-06-07 Westminster, CA | reply to brianiscool Bandwidth hogs = JOB SECURITY |
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| reply to Jim Gurd 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. -- -- My BLOG My Web Page |
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  Jim Gurd Premium join:2000-07-08 Plymouth, MI | reply to brianiscool And how much of that bandwidth is spam? |
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join:2000-08-16 Miami, FL | How can consumers value from these statistics? |
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