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Shocking Study: Over 60% of Internet Upstream Traffic is P2P
Posted 10/22/08 at 12:27:07 PM | by Paul Lilly
Do you do a lot of uploading? If so, chances are high it's of the the P2P variety, according to a new study. You'll have to take the research with a grain of salt, as the company who performed the study, Sandvine, is the same one that manufacturered the hardware for Comcast's now infamous intentional throttling.
Be that as it may, Sandvine reports that while P2P traffic accounts for 22 percent of downstream bandwidth, upstream remains much more busy at just over 61 percent. A distant second is web traffic, which only accounts for 17 percent of bandwidth used, according to the report.
"Bulk bandwidth applications like P2P are on all day, everyday and are unaffected by changes to network utilization," says Dave Caputo, Sandvine's co-founder. "This reinforces the importance of protecting real-time applications that are sensitive to jitter and latency during times of peak usage."
Do the numbers surprise you? Hit the jump and let us know.
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Comments Print Email I don't find that surprising
Submitted by knexkid on Wed, 2008-10-22 14:10
Why is that surprising? Why else would people be uploading stuff? There might be the ocasional image, youtube video, and email, but there really isn't a whole lot else to be uploaded other than file for P2P.
60% of upstream is P2P, but
Submitted by cigar3tte on Wed, 2008-10-22 12:41
60% of upstream is P2P, but how many % of all traffic is upstream?
Submitted by GDDYUP on Wed, 2008-10-22 12:37
98% of all statistics are made up. ~Author Unknown
I'm not surprised by the "statistics". Sandvine and Comcast hand-in-hand? Say it aint so! Sounds like a sad attempt to justify Comcast's cry of throttling. No thanks. I'll let Fairpoint FIOS prove me wrong.
It's all Upload
Submitted by icebird on Wed, 2008-10-22 11:20
Umm, all internet traffice could be considered "upstream" depending on your point of view--especially on a P2P network. So you're downloading content from a P2P.. that means someone else is uploading to you. Sounds like a good way to inflate numbers to advance ones agenda!
i wonder if this fabled
Submitted by nekollx on Wed, 2008-10-22 10:46
i wonder if this fabled "p2p" is distinguising between the p2p of Bittorrent and the client2server of mmos....
Submitted by Velcrow on Wed, 2008-10-22 10:39
These numbers wouldn't surprise me. Most users probably don't stress their uploading bandwidth much except to drop another vid on YouTube or pics on MySpace.
Can't wait for the **AA's to somehow turn this number into piracy figures, even though we all know P2P does not necessarily translate into pirated data. Plenty of free software, etc. distributed this way.
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