[Fwd: [IP] Japan facing bandwidth shortage due to take-up in broadband]

Thu Jun 10 03:35:57 UTC 2004

On Thu, 10 Jun 2004, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:

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> And I do believe that a lot of the bandwidth for broadband (true
> broadband that is, not what the average US ISP would call "dsl" or
> "cable") there is online gaming traffic... bandwidth requirements for
> that would be increasing steadily if I don't miss my guess.

This would depend on the netcode of the engines involved, but historically
it's always been relatively low throughput per-client but high pps.

P2P decimating transit links is more likely to be the offender imo.

Regards,
Jess.

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