https://gizmodo.com/will-your-isp-f-you-in-the-a-bandwidth-hogs-beware-378760
No , p2p is no longer the individual biggest traffic harlot , responsible for for only 20 percentage of total dealings . It ’s streaming video , like YouTube and Hulu , which is now 50 percentage of total traffic . During peak congestion — the time when Comcast will retard you down for hit the pipe too hard—70 pct of it is hypertext transfer protocol .
Which explains Comcast’sflip on internet managementand why it’sa total smokescreen . P2P is no longer the bit one sponger on meshwork , it ’s streaming video across regular old hypertext transfer protocol . So they do n’t need to throttle p2p exclusively any longer — they need to decelerate the whole tobacco pipe down , hence the new “ protocol agnostic ” strategy . But they can look secure showing offhow much they love p2p . It stay on to be seen how much of itthe FCC will consume up . [ GigaOM ]
https://gizmodo.com/comcast-pulls-an-about-face-teams-up-with-bittorrent-f-372833
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