Thread: P2P activity accounts for up to 60 per cent of the total traffic
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Old October 23rd, 2002
efield efield is offline
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If your school has money it can get a traffic manager which can limit peer to peer traffic to a portion of the total available bandwidth.
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Otherwise the file sharing apps themselves would need to do this local preferencing. I proposed a local connection idea some time ago in the LimeWire forum but I don't think anyone has taken it on yet.
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Last edited by efield; October 23rd, 2002 at 11:43 PM.
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