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

[James McMillan]

A few years ago while I worked at an ISP, at one point, the top 5% of users were using well over 90% of available bandwidth.
Pretty crazy when you think about just how much data that is.
We just bought more backhaul.

James



From: ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Paul Brooks
Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2013 8:26 AM
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Subject: Re: [AusNOG] News: Telstra to clamp down on peer-to-peer

On 05/02/2013 22:47, Adam Gardner wrote:
Hi Skeeve,

It's that old chestnut of course, but who decides when you change from being "a normal user" and a "heavy user" if you have an unlimited plan. (Apologies for slight movement of pure peer to peer throttling discussion.)

Applying Pareto (the '80/20 rule'),  'heavy users' are the top  20% of customers by usage,  that are causing the 80% of 'non-value add traffic'.
Of course, by definition the bar keeps lowering - once you've successfully eliminated the top 20% of users, the next 20% become the top users, so he'll work to encourage those to leave, and so on until you have no customers left.


/me wonders how many 'heavy users' will opt-out from the trial...

P.



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Paul
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