kd6cae
P2p Shouldn't Be A Crime
join:2001-08-27
Lancaster, CA
 ·RoadRunner Cable
 ·DSL EXTREME
| what about other methods of transfering data?
Why are ISP's such as Comcast so concerned with torrent traffic, when I thought the whole idea of torrent distribution was to lighten the load on distribution servers? There are other ways for me to use my upstream bandwidth if I so choose. Setting up an FTP server is one option, a web server is another option. I don't see Comcast blocking the use of home FTP servers. Why all this fuss over torrents? Linux ISO's for one I'm sure love torrents, since the load is distributed among many users and therefore their source servers aren't as bogged down with trafic. I can't imagine that a few 384k or 768k uploads are causing the backbone at Comcast to be overloaded! |
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telcolackey
The Truth? You can't handle the truth
join:2007-04-06
Death Valley, CA
| Running p2p allows the entire Internet to upload the content you have downloaded or made available. Depending on the amount and demand for content you have, this could amount to using your max upstream bandwidth 7x24. Hundreds of gigs / month.
Running a private use FTP server so you can get at your home files while away is completely different.
If you made your FTP server anonymous and it contained high demand content (like video, music, porn, etc) and google, many sites linked to it with »ftp://, I think you would make the list of people that an ISP wants to talk to. |
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espaeth
Digital Plumber
Premium,MVM
join:2001-04-21
Minneapolis, MN
 ·voip.ms
·Vitelity VOIP
·Callcentric
·VoiceStick
·ViaTalk
·Comcast
·Embarq
| reply to kd6cae
said by kd6cae  :I can't imagine that a few 384k or 768k uploads are causing the backbone at Comcast to be overloaded! It's not the backbone or Internet access circuits, but rather the access segments on the cable plant that present the biggest obstacle today. With much of Comcast's infrastructure still being DOCSIS 1.x that means a 38mbps shared downstream channel and 10mbps shared upstream channels. Even assuming a couple upstream channels are allocated per node, 10mbps is pretty easy to saturate when you have more than a few 384 or 768k users hammering away. |
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whocares
Premium
join:2003-07-26
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| Re:wow,LAST cple of days,week
castrate,(i mean comcast) has sure been doing or trying to do, everything it can,except the RIGHT THING to get as much $$ as it can & give the least amount of service to its customers.
Can only say,THANK Goodness,some people aren't as ignorant as Comcast would like to believe they are. |
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telcolackey
The Truth? You can't handle the truth
join:2007-04-06
Death Valley, CA
2 edits | Jazzy1120, before you post, perhaps you should ask yourself if what you are providing is informational value to the conversation or just a repetitive vent against a company that (by now) everyone knows you dislike. |
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