Regional differences in P2P

Thu Jul 15 13:55:56 UTC 2004

Sean Donelan wrote:

>Apparently CacheLogic based most of their conclusions on data collected
>from a European "tier 1" ISP.  However, another study by Sandvine found
>regional differences in file sharing networks.  Europe and the US don't
>have the same file sharing patterns, or even popular file sharing
>programs.
>
>http://www.sandvine.com/solutions/pdfs/Euro_Filesharing_DiffUnique.pdf
>
>  
>
If you leave BitTorrent out, which is probably the fastest growing 
protocol out there, the statistics are missing about one third of the 
bits moved.

Pete