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ian@huth · 12-10-2003, 19:36

Phew, you must be swaying about on your soapbox after all that Erol. All that in answer to a simple statement that: "Between 60 and 80% of bandwidth is being eaten up by a fraction of customers - who are mainly engaged in peer-to-peer activity - and, according to the industry, the rest are penalised because of the heavy users sharing the network."

There are many myths, misconceptions, presumptions and instances of the lack of understanding of the subject and the technology behind it in your many, many responses and drifting off topic to boot that I doubt anyone would have the energy to fully put you right.

It would seem that you are unable to accept that any usage figures published are correct as they are provided by organisations that have an agenda to distort the truth. You seem to prefer your own ideas of what is going on, which have no scientific or logical explanation.

Your final post of "You think that P2P cause congestion but it is USAGE that causes congestion." is quite correct. But that takes us right back to the start as all p2p is usage and if 60-80% of that is p2p then that is the primary cause of congestion and most of this would not exist if everyone was law abiding.

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ian@huth Inactive Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Huthwaite, Nottinghamshire Services: VM 10Mb, TU, 1xSky HD, 2xSky+ (HD,all packs, sports & movies) 2xDVD PVR's, Freesat Freeview & other Posts: 4,536	Re: Goodbye to a flat rate for broadband? Phew, you must be swaying about on your soapbox after all that Erol. All that in answer to a simple statement that: "Between 60 and 80% of bandwidth is being eaten up by a fraction of customers - who are mainly engaged in peer-to-peer activity - and, according to the industry, the rest are penalised because of the heavy users sharing the network." There are many myths, misconceptions, presumptions and instances of the lack of understanding of the subject and the technology behind it in your many, many responses and drifting off topic to boot that I doubt anyone would have the energy to fully put you right. It would seem that you are unable to accept that any usage figures published are correct as they are provided by organisations that have an agenda to distort the truth. You seem to prefer your own ideas of what is going on, which have no scientific or logical explanation. Your final post of "You think that P2P cause congestion but it is USAGE that causes congestion." is quite correct. But that takes us right back to the start as all p2p is usage and if 60-80% of that is p2p then that is the primary cause of congestion and most of this would not exist if everyone was law abiding.