I doubt Halo 2 would show anything on most stats as its relatively low bandwidth. However, Half-Life 2 I believe did for some larger residential operators. Many moons ago when Doom 2 was released we busied out modems so we could get more bandwidth over to the US to get it downloaded quicker though. Pizza Hut and Doom Deathmatches on the LAN :-) Regards, Neil. [Transit capacity was 256kb/sec [yes k]

-----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On Behalf Of Eric Gauthier Sent: 08 December 2004 16:09 To: Fergie (Paul Ferguson) Cc: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: Halo 2 and broadband traffic

Heya,

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Has anyone actually noticed any increases in residential broadband traffic due to Halo 2?

http://news.com.com/Does%20the%20Halo%202%20effect%20threaten%20broadb

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and/2100-1034_3-5481727.html

Here's a really useless datapoint for you :)

We have about 12,000 students in our dorms. Because we force students to register their computers via the Web and the XBox/PS2's don't appear to have web browsers, we have somewhat of a handle on who many are in use on campus. We've generally average about four or five new XBox/PS2's per month over the past year but we registered 12 in November (all were on or after 11/9). We're also tracking down another five to ten hosts that we believe are also XBox/PS2s. There were three more registered so far in December. Obviously, this doesn't include any gaming systems that sit behind NAT-boxes.

Overall, we typically move around 190/230bbps inbound/outbound from our campus and we've seen no real noticable change in our bandwidth. We do have a few peer-to-peer limiters in the network, so its also possible that the gaming systems are being caught in there.

Eric :)

Overall, we typically move around 190/230bbps inbound/outbound from our campus

Oops.. that should read 190/230Mbps... Eric :)

Bob Snyder wrote:

And oddly enough, Sandvine offers a box that does this! :-) They're

jumping on the press coverage of Halo 2 to try and raise awareness of their product line. Not that what's being said doesn't have merit, but it's definately a PR push, and definately not a "End of the net predicted, film at 11" moment.

To quote Daniel Golding from a few months ago, one of my favourite ones:

It has become trendy, in some circles, to lament the Internet's poor performance/congestion/non-deterministic nature/lack of security/<insert issue here>. After firmly denouncing the Internet, the company or individual then touts their product, which will fix/replace/augment the Internet.

It's somewhat longer road without making the tabloid headlines, but I'd be happy to introduce interested parties to solutions we feel are elegant and seamlessly fit operational practises of ISPs. Pete