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Old 25-09-2016, 16:45   #28
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Re: Traffic management - Still a thing?

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Originally Posted by Ignitionnet View Post
The DPI stuff is, depending on route traffic takes, either in monitoring mode only, no more policing of traffic, or will be shortly.

The proportion of traffic that's P2P has dropped dramatically as more convenient and relatively cheap options to get content legitimately have been introduced, so the hardware being there to monitor network traffic patterns is really useful but there's limited value in having it police anything.
Traffic also has dropped, at least in the UK, because most torrent sites are denied to all but the determined file sharer. To access them, VPN is essential.

I hadn't realised that P2P traffic had dropped so much, to the point that policing may not be worthwhile. The number of seeders does not appear to have dropped per torrent, but I guess the global picture is different than the national one.
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