Re: Online games stealing your bandwidth
Even if we had ISP supporting caches, there is always the problem getting p2p clients to support them (given they often are too busy trying to circumvent).
I fail to see the point. If an ISP needs to add caches they may as well just add a simple, cheaper, standard, http cache. No special clients required, no fiddling to make locality work and no extra, expensive in some architectures, last mile traffic brandon
On Mon, 27 Sep 2010 19:27:28 BST, Brandon Butterworth said:
I fail to see the point. If an ISP needs to add caches they may as well just add a simple, cheaper, standard, http cache.
It's a bang-per-buck issue, and depends highly on whether your particular network sees more HTTP or P2P traffic. If HTTP is 60% of your traffic, an http cache makes sense. If P2P is 70% and HTTP is 20%, it probably doesn't make sense. And the only numbers that matter here are what *you* measure at the point you intend to install the cache - I've seen so many conflicting numbers for different parts of the net that no firm conclusions can be drawn.
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