BitTorrent swarms have a deadly bite on broadband nets

Thu Oct 25 20:51:18 UTC 2007

IN fairness, most P2P applications such as bittorrent already have the
settings there, they are not setup by default. Also, they do limit the
amount of dl and ul based on the bandwidth the user sets up. The
application is setup to handle it, the users usually just set the
bandwidth all the way up and ignore it.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nanog at merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog at merit.edu] On Behalf Of
Geo.
Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2007 3:11 PM
To: nanog at merit.edu
Subject: RE: BitTorrent swarms have a deadly bite on broadband nets

> > Seems to me a programmer setting a default schedule in an
> application is
> > far simpler than many of the other suggestions I've seen for solving
> > this problem.
>
> End users do not have any interest in saving ISP upstream
> bandwidth,

they also have no interest in learning so setting defaults in popular
software, for example RFC1918 space zones in MS DNS server, can make all
the
difference in the world.

This way, the bulk of filesharing would have the defaults set to
minimize
use during peak periods and still allow the freedom on a per user basis
to
change that. Most would not simply because they don't know about it. The
effects of such a default could be considerable.

Also if this default stepping back during peak times only affected
upload
speeds, the user would never notice, in fact if they did notice they
would
probably like that it allows them more bandwidth for browsing and
sending
email during the hours they are likely to use it.

I fail to see a downside?

Geo.

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