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Largest Thai ISP Caches P2P Traffic

May 13th, 2006

Trading small 5 megabyte songs doesn’t considerably hamper a ISPs bandwidth, yet 4.5 gigabyte DVD rips shared among millions of people does. Internet Service Providers aren’t stupid, and realize the success of the broadband revolution is largely attributable to the activities transpiring on P2P and file-sharing networks.

To some extent ISPs have in effect become victims of their own success. With a majority of their traffic absorbed by file-sharing, ISPs are in a continuous state of upgrading and investing their networks – a very costly affair. To mitigate these costs, ISPs have two choices; block P2P traffic or cache P2P traffic.

Dial-up provider loses Net access amid fee dispute

April 29th, 2006

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Service to thousands of dial-up Internet users in Massachusetts was disrupted this week after a federal court ruled against a Quincy company in a lawsuit that could have broad impact on the cost of dial-up service.

Broadband phone snag : Skype

March 29th, 2006

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Skype - which is “not a telephony replacement service and cannot be used for emergency dialings” - says it’s now fixed a problem that hit some of its UK users.

Punters complained that their SkypeIn service, which gives them their own regular phone number so non Skype users can call them, was floored for most of last week.

Despite reassurances the snags had been sorted out, a short service statement issued yesterday said: “Unfortunately there are again problems with UK numbers. The providers are working on it right now. Skype is apologising for the inconvenience.”

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A peer-to-peer (or P2P) computer network relies primarily on the computing power and bandwidth of the participants in the network rather than concentrating it in a relatively low number of servers. P2P networks are typically used for connecting nodes via largely ad hoc connections. Such networks are useful for many purposes. Sharing content files (see file sharing) containing audio, video, data or anything in digital format is very common, and realtime data, such as telephony traffic, is also passed using P2P technology.A pure peer-to-peer network does not have the notion of clients or servers, but only equal peer nodes that simultaneously function as both "clients" and "servers" to the other nodes on the network. This model of network arrangement differs from the client-server model where communication is usually to and from a central server. A typical example for a non peer-to-peer file transfer is an FTP server where the client and server programs are quite distinct, and the clients initiate the download.