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Originally Posted by Kabaal
I think the point with that is where P2P dominates with % of all traffic is on the upload where heavy use affects everything for other users, ping, download and upload. Heavy downstream usage where Netflix and Youtube dominate doesn't affect others anywhere near the same extent.
At least that's how i see it.
It is quite staggering to read that Netflix and Youtube account for 51% (in the US) of all download traffic though.
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Netflix, Youtube, BBC Iplayer etc have a much more subtle effect on congestion. Although they do tend to consume what I consider a vast sum of bandwidth, typically 2-10Mb for a sustained period, this is nothing in comparison with P2P.
Due to the way in which TCPIP works, P2P is bad news.
Video services tend to just fire off one download / stream, which works well with TCP's built in congestion tools.
P2P on the other hand fires off tens if not hundreds of downloads for the same file, saturating the internet link.
It's not P2P's fault, however it isn't the fault of the ISP either.
P2P just doesn't play very nicely with the way the internet is currently designed.