Thanks to BitTorrrent, Net neutrality debate reignites

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Absolutely agree here.

jjjjofus noted:
Also, I'm sure if someone did a study they would find that the network stress would be lower if they just let one person download their video at full speed in 3 minutes instead of having them strain the network for 2 hours on a throttled service. The overall costs for the ISP, the user, and the content provider would probably drop. Time is money.
Precisely. Unfortunately, you do see situations where throttling is necessary (i.e.: 7000 people all needing the same 867Mb file [True story, during the Anarchy Online initial Beta] when the FTP server was not setup to handle the massive load. Their solution, though, was quite ridiculous, as I (on DSL) was getting 4.5kbytes/sec when I normally (at the time) got roughly 120kbytes/sec. Took me 4.5 DAYS to get the file, only to discover that it didn't support my 3D card's chipset.)

BitTorrent has made things a LOT easier, as I can typically get such files in a day or so at worst. However, most of the BitTorrent clients are greedy, and reserve all your bandwidth whether they need it at that moment or not. I'm seeing improvement on that front with the newest uTorrent, but it's a long-overdue thing. I can see a torrent client needing 50-75% of your bandwidth, but hogging it so bad that even browsing the Internet is impossible? Dumb, and poor programming. Auto-throttling at the client end is the way to go, not the currently escalating war to stop all use of the technology.

Posted by: Raymond Danner   Posted on: 11/08/07 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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