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Trying To Slow Down BitTorrent Traffic Will Backfire

2. January 2007, 21:33 Uhradmin

bittorrent traffic shaping Over the past couple of years, a bunch of ISPs have started (usually quietly) applying traffic shaping efforts to slow down your high bandwidth applications like BitTorrent. This is part of what the whole network neutrality debate is about, but this has more to do with the ISPs trying to keep out services that use up more bandwidth then they budgeted for.

What it really represents is the inability of ISPs to recognize a simple fact: if you offer people bandwidth, they’ll figure out ways to use it. The ISPs got into this big race with each other, and all promised unlimited bandwidth at cheap prices, making the calculation that the demand for bandwidth wouldn’t increase very much, and most people wouldn’t use very much at all.

They were wrong. But, rather than admit that they made a mistake, they suddenly pretend that the “all you can eat” broadband they sold you is something different — one where they can arbitrarily limit what you can do with that.

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20061226/100457.shtml

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