How much faster do you think the Internet would be if there were no P2P services/apps?

Night201

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I was just thinking about how much bandwidth everyone uses and I was wondering what the performance would be like if there were no P2P sharing apps...

What do you all think? Are there any stats showing the percentage of P2P traffic on the internet as a whole?
 

Nitemare

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Originally posted by: Night201
I was just thinking about how much bandwidth everyone uses and I was wondering what the performance would be like if there were no P2P sharing apps...

What do you all think? Are there any stats showing the percentage of P2P traffic on the internet as a whole?

I'm sure these people know link

Will have to wait until they get unhacktified though to ask.
 

dabuddha

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this question should be asked to the spammers. how much faster it'd be without all the stupid useless trash spam
 

Sahakiel

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Originally posted by: Night201
I was just thinking about how much bandwidth everyone uses and I was wondering what the performance would be like if there were no P2P sharing apps...

What do you all think? Are there any stats showing the percentage of P2P traffic on the internet as a whole?

Whatever it is, it prolly wouldn't be as fast as if everybody on the internet logged off.
 

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Or how about if we got rid of those damn AOL'ers?

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ReiAyanami

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it would be as fast as it was before p2p took off. the exact same speed. 95% of the world's fiber goes unutilized, which is why global crossing, worldcom, and tons of others went bankrupt.

oh why cant they bring the fiber to the home!
 

Eli

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It wouldn't be any different because most peoples' connections are the slowest link.
 

Viper GTS

Lifer
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Originally posted by: Eli
It wouldn't be any different because most peoples' connections are the slowest link.

Yes, but all those little trickles of data add up upstream.

Viper GTS
 

jamesave

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Originally posted by: acidvoodoo
Originally posted by: UberDave
Originally posted by: dabuddha
this question should be asked to the spammers. how much faster it'd be without all the stupid useless trash spam

this question should be asked to the Neffers. how much faster it'd be without all the nefs.
 

Eli

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Since most peoples internet connections are the slowest link, it wouldn't be much different.
 

illusion88

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Originally posted by: oliver2k
i like mp3s and <<cough>>copyrighted<<cough>> software

HA! I caught you red handed now. In 5 minutes the FBI are going to swarm your house like ants on a hill. HAHAHA YOU SHALL RUE THE DAY YOU POSTED THIS MISTER OLIVER!!!!