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Re: Can P2P applications learn to play fair on networks?

  • From: Sean Donelan
  • Date: Sun Oct 21 15:09:28 2007


On Sun, 21 Oct 2007, Florian Weimer wrote:
In my experience, a permanently congested network isn't fun to work
with, even if most of the flows are long-living and TCP-compatible.  The
lack of proper congestion control is kind of a red herring, IMHO.

Why do you think so many network operators of all types are implementing controls on that traffic?


http://www.azureuswiki.com/index.php/Bad_ISPs

Its not just the greedy commercial ISPs, its also universities, non-profits, government, co-op, etc networks. It doesn't seem to matter if the network has 100Mbps user connections or 128Kbps user connection, they all seem to be having problems with these particular applications.