Reality check This week's netflow for the Internet 2 http://netflow.internet2.edu/weekly/20041025/ has BitTorrent taking up about 4.8 % of the traffic, http is 15 to 18%, and all file sharing is about 10%, down from 50% 2 years ago. Since file sharing and related uses are generally heavy traffic sources on I2, I would conclude that the Reuter's numbers are too high. regards Marshall Eubanks On Fri, 5 Nov 2004 08:59:42 +0900 Tony Li <tony.li@tony.li> wrote:
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:
On Thu, 4 Nov 2004, Deepak Jain wrote:
http://in.tech.yahoo.com/041103/137/2ho4i.html
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.
1) where was the measurement done? 2) how was the measurement done? 3) what population was sampled?
On some networks BT might account for far more than 30%, on others far, far less... Perhaps the writers will answer?
-Chris