said by hehehehe :

Things here seem to hit the media pretty damn quick as of late.

said by darcmage :

Could someone clarify how Bell can continue to say only p2p will be affected by the throttling and quote the 70%-80% bandwidth figures without lying.

said by darcmage :

Could someone clarify how Bell can continue to say only p2p will be affected by the throttling and quote the 70%-80% bandwidth figures without lying.

said by Name96 :

The only way they can continue to say it without lying is if they don't know what traffic is going over their network. This would merely mean that they're incompetent rather than dishonest.

said by cacruden :



In the end, most traffic is P2P - so no Bell is not lying.... Personally I rarely use broadcast functions....

said by twizlar :

Yeah thats what amazed me, everything is pretty much being modified, hence all the traffic spikes. Scary.

said by TSI Gabe :

DNS uses UDP

said by TSI Gabe :

It's a netflow graph. Only a certain percentage of the data is collected. But it still represents a global view of the network.

said by BozoTheCl0wn :

I wouldn't trust it's P2P classification because BT/P2P apps tend to use ports all over the place... That's why they rely on DPI now because it goes further than just ports and looks at payload signatures to identify applications.

said by the cerberus :

Gabe, thats what I was about to ask, considering users that are maxing their torrents, most of them are using private trackers that block common p2p ports such as 6881-6889. I know If I'm helping someone set up port forwarding I never use these ports simply because some trackers block them. So, is this true? does it only look at port numbers? If so i'd say this graph is trash.