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Why would that be sensible, from their perspective? Seems to me that P2P is an ISP's nightmare, even if only from the logistical perspective of routing.
by acjohnson55 9y ago
Why would that be sensible, from their perspective? Seems to me that P2P is an ISP's nightmare, even if only from the logistical perspective of routing.
- loup-vaillant 9y agoMaybe now, considering they tailored their network for ADSL. If they did it from the start, that wouldn't have been a problem. By the way, even now, a user have to send requests to the right place to get any data. IP packets still have to go both ways.
- icebraining 9y agoWell implemented P2P can reduce pressure on their external pipes by keeping some traffic local. Back before we had "unlimited" caps, my ISP had three levels of caps - International (1GB), National (20GB) and in-ISP (Unlimited) - and some national developers actually made a fork of Emule that could filter and prioritize peers to prefer the closest ones.