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Re: Should Virgin Media Throttle p2p traffic?
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Originally Posted by Chrysalis
I think most would be more forgiving if it was a blacklist rather than whitelist policy so unidentified traffic unthrottled or at least treated in high enough regard so it doesnt break mainstream apps. Yes the ISP wouldnt be saving so much in bandwidth costs but they would still be saving something.
According to sandevine whilst p2p remains a majrity of upload traffic it is now a minority of download traffic.
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That may be true worldwide, but Cisco's estimate in 2009 (can't find anything more recent) states that in the UK
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File sharing (i.e. peer-to-peer sharing where internet users connect with each other and directly share files stored on their hard drives) accounted for around 30% of traffic
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