Bittorrent Still Dominates Internet’s Upstream Traffic

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New data suggests that people love sharing Linux ISOs more than ever.

A new report published by broadband management company Sandvine reveals that torrent traffic is now responsible for 29% of all U.S. Internet traffic in North America during peak hours, up from 25% last year. This means that well over a quarter all megabytes uploaded during the busiest time of the day can be traced back to torrents.
 
So how does Netflix dominate the downstream but it's barely a blip on the upstream?
Shouldn't the most downloaded stuff also translate to that place also being the one that uploads the most? I mean it's not like they're talking about from a home user's perspective only because those people obviously aren't uploading to Netflix.
 
sfsuphysics said:
So how does Netflix dominate the downstream but it's barely a blip on the upstream?
Shouldn't the most downloaded stuff also translate to that place also being the one that uploads the most? I mean it's not like they're talking about from a home user's perspective only because those people obviously aren't uploading to Netflix.
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If you mean because Netflix uploads to you, that's counted as your download.
If you mean what's uploaded to Netflix, I assume that's feedback to Netflix about your connection, increase/decrease quality, pause/resume and so on.
 
considering the other 75% is made up of end users botnet compromised machines its no wonder. lol
 
nilepez said:
If you mean because Netflix uploads to you, that's counted as your download.
If you mean what's uploaded to Netflix, I assume that's feedback to Netflix about your connection, increase/decrease quality, pause/resume and so on.
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See I thought about something like that, but there's no way that would be such a huge amount of traffic, 6.78% of all internet upload is pretty substantial and a bit too much for "note: pause, note: quality decrease" type of requests.
 
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