[AusNOG] News: Telstra to clamp down on peer-to-peer

[Mark Delany]

On 05Feb13, Joshua D'Alton allegedly wrote:
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> And not to mention P2P torrent traffic is only about 10% of illegal
> traffic, compared to the 30%+ of file locker and 60%+ of usenet.

With a large retail network such as Telstra has, you'd think that some
of this P2P traffic actually stays "on network". I have not looked at
P2P implementations, but low-latency and apparent network proximity
surely play a part in peer selection too?

The net result being that P2P customers are actually reducing transit
traffic for their ISP. You'd think a sensible network operator would
appreciate this.

As has been endlessly pointed out by many, there are legitimate uses
for P2P and with the imminent arrival of decent upload speeds due to
the NBN there could be many more, such as distributed P2P backups or
home-based CDN proxies.


Mark.