pat_lc2000
join:2006-02-04
Ottawa, ON | reply to QuickSurfer
Re: Cogeco Bandwidth Throttling --MUST READ--
It's really a bad study, not because of the size...but because Azureus has done it.
Most bittorrenters have long changed to utorrent which is less of a resource hog then Azureus. |
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urbanriot
join:2004-10-18
St Catharines, ON
 ·Cogeco Cable
| That's... not a very intelligent conclusion.
Azureus is an extremely well programmed application, but resides on Java for portability so it can be utilized on practically every operating system. This java requirement is what utilizes a great deal of RAM (not resources), and only about 128mb stock which can be easily lowered to 53mb.
Azureus/Vuze is also GPL'd open source, so you can clearly see the code yourself, to determine if it's up to your quality of coding (although I'm fairly sure you're not a programmer)... while uTorrent is completely closed source.
Furthermore, a recent study put uTorrent at 12% of the market share of P2P applications, while Azureus has 5%. That's hardly 'most bittorrenters'. Another study by Digital Music News found Azureus had 3.2% installation base while uTorrent had only a 2.7% installation base. |
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Snickerdo
Premium
join:2001-02-28
Niagara Falls, ON
| said by urbanriot  :That's... not a very intelligent conclusion. No, but the intelligent conclusion as to why this is a bad study is because it was only using one method to determine throttling, while leaving out all other methods. The very fact that Rogers and Bell - the two largest and well-known BT throttlers in this country who are far larger than Cogeco - shows that this "study" really doesn't give a fair indication of what's going on in the industry, though it does indeed prove that Cogeco is throttling connections, albeit in a very sinister way that makes proper traffic shaping look pretty.
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