Then Beginning of the End of P2P??

The Australian ISP Exetel decided to cut the available bandwidth for P2P traffic in half from noon to midnight. This move will save Exetel about 45.000 US dollars per month, while it only takes $75.000 dollar to implement the bandwidth throttling mechanisms.

Exetel noticed that the percentage of P2P traffic is relatively high relative to the rest of the traffic on their network. To counter the increasing cost that are involved with the rise in P2P traffic they decided that it would be better for everyone if they cut the available bandwidth in half.

If ISPs are thinking this, then lets start our own “cult” ISP that increases bandwidth from noon to midnight :P

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  • 5 Responses to “Then Beginning of the End of P2P??”


    1. Gravatar Icon 1 forzaq8 Oct 16th, 2006 at 11:37 am

      why would you want high speed if you don’t P2P

      if it was for web browsing a dail up or 64 ADSL is great

      i wouldn’t be needing a 512 or 1 MB if they shut down p2p

    2. Gravatar Icon 2 Marzouq Oct 16th, 2006 at 1:03 pm

      ISPs in Kuwait would be too lazy to figure out how to use their current equipment to throttle at P2P leave, and then there is Torrents which operate on a different level. In the states it would be illegal to single that out, and a lot Civil Rights agencies would go nuts on em!

    3. Gravatar Icon 3 Yazeed Oct 16th, 2006 at 1:06 pm

      ay civil rights
      where is the civil rights with my isp?
      they banned downloading .torrent files all together!!!

    4. Gravatar Icon 4 KtheKuwaiti Oct 16th, 2006 at 1:37 pm

      If Kuwaiti ISPs want to save money (and make their customers happy). They should create a unlimited bandwidth network within Kuwait. People will be trading within kuwait to gain faster speeds. It would only cost them the amount to interconnect the isps and beef up the data network; that money could come from the bandwidth cost they are saving.

    5. Gravatar Icon 5 forzaq8 Oct 16th, 2006 at 3:26 pm

      yeah K but that would be smart

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