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Re: Network end users to pull down 2 gigabytes a day, continuously?

  • From: Michael . Dillon
  • Date: Sun Jan 07 08:25:32 2007 
> > That might be worse for download operators, because people may 
> > download
> > an hour of video, and only watch 5 minutes :/

> So, from that standpoint, making a video file available for download 
> is wasting order of 90% of the bandwidth used
> to download it.

Considering that this is supposed to be a technically
oriented list, I am shocked at the level of ignorance
of networking technology displayed here.

Have folks never heard of content-delivery networks,
Akamai, P2P, BitTorrent, EMule?

--Michael Dillon