P2P Services Consume The Majority Of Internet Bandwidth
Ipoque, the German deep packet inspection company, have released some new research which shows that P2P traffic consumes anywhere between 49 and 89 percent of Internet traffic during the day and upto 95 percent at night!
With permission from various ISP’s and Universities in Europe, the Middle East and Australia Ipoque gathered over three petabytes of information between August and September this year.
According to Ars Technica:
Game downloads account for 25.5 percent of P2P traffic in southern Europe, Movies make up 38.8 percent, while pornography is a mere 1.8 percent. By contrast games are downloaded far less (6.3 percent), but movies much more (48 percent) in the Middle East. Porn also makes up 5 percent of this traffic.
Another interesting trend is that 20 percent of P2P traffic now uses encryption of some kind or another. Increased attempts to throttle or block P2P will surely force the development and use of more potent encryption or protocol obfuscation.
With the above sample statistics, it is obvious why some ISPs are trying anything from bandwidth throttling to outright throwing heavy users off their networks to conserve bandwidth.
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bandwidth throttling, internet traffic, isps, p2p
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