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Originally Posted by Hack&Lube
That's the University's problem. They should cut off access to the default BT ports although I'm sure some people will figure it out eventually. They should also just put a notice in the terms of usage that bitorrent use is prohibited and have some nasty consequences for anybody caught doing it.
But in your own home, BT is absolutely a good thing.
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The only difference between the 2 is the problem is more compounded at the university level since you are dealing with a single access point being flooded. The same problem exists between the Fiber optic node and coax that runs into your house, but at watered down level.
I read a study, although I can't recall where, that said over 40% of the traffic on the internet can be attributed to Peer to Peer traffic, the majority of which is currently torrents. The prof in my networking class claimed it was over 50%.
If you want to answer the question as to why people in
this thread are experiencing network congestion which is hurting their connection speeds, I suggest that the answer is looking you right in the face.
My problem with torrents is taking a little tiny bit of data, creating a new TCP connection (network overhead), packaging it up in a TCP packet complete with header and sending it off to the host who is requesting it. If you are using a single connection (like with usenet) you eliminate all the overhead from creating a connection every time it grabs a new host to 'test' it. You eliminate all those DNS server requests from every new host that gets randomly chosen for testing.
I do understand why people use torrents, I just think that it is a negtive thing for those people on the network who don't use them.
I can see why people use torrents, I just don't think they are good for the networks the hosts exist in.