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|  Devorius
join:2008-06-06 | Re: Statistics quote:
Is it just me, or do these sound like made up numbers?
Never trust round, even numbers. | |
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R4M0N
Brazilian Soccer Ownz Joo
join:2000-10-04
Glen Allen, VA
 ·Comcast
1 edit | Re: Statistics said by Devorius  : quote:
Is it just me, or do these sound like made up numbers?
Never trust round, even numbers. I find that highly offensive!
Sincerely,
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NetAdmin
CCNA
join:2008-05-22
| said by MrMoody : quote:
they can speed up P2P transfers by as much as 235% across US cable networks and up to 898% across international broadband networks.
Is it just me, or do these sound like made up numbers? 898% of a few kbps, say 10Kbps, is only 89.8kbps. It is like saying that the murder rate increased 100% in a small town, even though they only had two murders because last year they only had one.
Without meaningful numbers, like how many kbps the average file transfer is before and after, those "increased by" percentages are worthless, just like in the murder rate example.
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swhx7
Premium
join:2006-07-23
Elbonia
·RoadRunner Cable
| The promised speedup is based on preferentially getting files or pieces from within the ISP's network, and going out to other peers elsewhere as little as possible.
Of course that's the advantage for the ISPs, they don't have to pay the big-pipe providers for "internal" traffic, so to the extent they get their customers using this instead of regular p2p, they save on "external" traffic charges. | |
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