BitTorrent is 35% of traffic ?

Thu Nov 4 23:59:42 UTC 2004

For those not familiar, BitTorrent is a file sharing app that is 
commonly
used for exchanging full movies.  As such, folks are moving gigabyte
files regularly and it's not surprising that this is detectable.
Shuffling .mp3's around would be trivial by comparison.

Tony

On Nov 5, 2004, at 6:34 AM, Christopher L. Morrow wrote:

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> On Thu, 4 Nov 2004, Deepak Jain wrote:
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>> http://in.tech.yahoo.com/041103/137/2ho4i.html
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>> According to Reuters, BT is more traffic than web/other forms of
>> traffic? I'm thinking the sampling methodology here might be a little
>> skewed.
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> 1) where was the measurement done?
> 2) how was the measurement done?
> 3) what population was sampled?
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> On some networks BT might account for far more than 30%, on others far,
> far less... Perhaps the writers will answer?
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> -Chris
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