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DPI does not specifically slow down bittorrent traffic or speed up http traffic. DPI filters traffic based on the data in the packet, which affects all traffic
by Kejistan 17y ago
DPI does not specifically slow down bittorrent traffic or speed up http traffic. DPI filters traffic based on the data in the packet, which affects all traffic. What happens to that traffic is up to the person implementing the DPI.
The problem with DPI is that its akin to the post office reading all of your mail.
- pj 17y agoThe post office has a similar system, except they charge customers differently to get information to the recipient faster. Overnight costs more than first class for example. If DPI were used to allow customers to pay based on priority, would that be acceptable? For example, if you only want to pay 1 cent per GB for a torrent download that gets packets to you at 1/3 the rate of HTTP packets, which cost 2 cents per GB, would something like that work? I am not proposing it, just continuing the post office analogy.
- Kejistan 17y agoI've never understood this analogy. We already pay more for more bandwidth which is supposed to allow us to receive packets faster. This always sounds like they're expecting me to pay twice for service.