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"Peer-to-peer transfer" is the term. You mean this hellspawn? https://www.akamai.com/us/en/solutions/products/media-delivery/netsession-interface-faq.jsp https

"Peer-to-peer transfer" is the term. You mean this hellspawn? https://www.akamai.com/us/en/solutions/products/media-delivery/netsession-interface-faq.jsp https://www.akamai.com/us/en/solutions/products/media-delive... I have seen my wife's Windows 10 computer upload crap from time to time and I suspected but could not confirm that it is this. How is this even possible, given that we're behind a NAT? TCP simultaneous open, I suppose? I've not yet been able to figure out how to block these shenanigans. I really don't appreciate MS/Akamai profiting off of my (rather limited) upload bandwidth.

xufi 10y ago
Ah yes thats the term, I believe (not for downloading) but another MS app Skype uses the same thing when youre talking to someone on a lower bandwith/ADSL connection. I believe it uses the same TCP mechanism of some sort which I havent looked in to.
- jodrellblank 10y ago
  SuperNodes, which Skype used up until Microsoft bought them out (in May 2011) and stopped doing that (in April 2012)? http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/05/skype-replaces-p2p-supernodes-with-linux-boxes-hosted-by-microsoft/ http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/05/skype-replaces-p2p-s...
  - xufi 10y ago
    Oh I see. I figured they still used them. Skypes Ui sure has suffered sadly.
    - riskable 10y ago
      It's not just the UI that suffered. The latency and performance of Skype calls dropped significantly after they switched from P2P to Microsoft Notification Protocol 24 (aka MSN Messenger Protocol)... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Notification_Protocol https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Notification_Protoco... They also introduced serious security problems when they made that change... So instead of Skype messages going from one client directly to another they go through Microsoft's servers (where they are stored and intercepted by TLAs) unencrypted. They also introduced a new "feature" whereby their systems read everything you write: http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/Skype-with-care-Microsoft-is-reading-everything-you-write-1862870.html http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/Skype-with-care-M...

xufi 10y ago

Ah yes thats the term, I believe (not for downloading) but another MS app Skype uses the same thing when youre talking to someone on a lower bandwith/ADSL connection. I believe it uses the same TCP mechanism of some sort which I havent looked in to.

jodrellblank 10y ago
SuperNodes, which Skype used up until Microsoft bought them out (in May 2011) and stopped doing that (in April 2012)? http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/05/skype-replaces-p2p-supernodes-with-linux-boxes-hosted-by-microsoft/ http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/05/skype-replaces-p2p-s...
- xufi 10y ago
  Oh I see. I figured they still used them. Skypes Ui sure has suffered sadly.
  - riskable 10y ago
    It's not just the UI that suffered. The latency and performance of Skype calls dropped significantly after they switched from P2P to Microsoft Notification Protocol 24 (aka MSN Messenger Protocol)... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Notification_Protocol https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Notification_Protoco... They also introduced serious security problems when they made that change... So instead of Skype messages going from one client directly to another they go through Microsoft's servers (where they are stored and intercepted by TLAs) unencrypted. They also introduced a new "feature" whereby their systems read everything you write: http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/Skype-with-care-Microsoft-is-reading-everything-you-write-1862870.html http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/Skype-with-care-M...