Comments on: How not to do P2P http://blog.proceranetworks.com/2010/02/23/how-not-to-do-p2p/ Procera Network's Blog Thu, 19 Aug 2010 20:50:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: George Ou http://blog.proceranetworks.com/2010/02/23/how-not-to-do-p2p/comment-page-1/#comment-25 George Ou Wed, 24 Feb 2010 13:19:37 +0000 http://blog.proceranetworks.com/?p=81#comment-25 P4P technology reduces the bandwidth strain on the core of the Internet, but it does nothing to reduce jitter and bandwidth hogging via the TCP multi-flow exploit. BitTorrent looked into using more evenly spaced packets to reduce jitter, but they determined that being polite and less aggressive resulted in BT ceding capacity to other applications and getting less performance. So BitTorrent chose to be selfish rather than polite. http://www.digitalsociety.org/2010/01/bittorrent-would-rather-be-selfish-than-friendly/ P4P technology reduces the bandwidth strain on the core of the Internet, but it does nothing to reduce jitter and bandwidth hogging via the TCP multi-flow exploit. BitTorrent looked into using more evenly spaced packets to reduce jitter, but they determined that being polite and less aggressive resulted in BT ceding capacity to other applications and getting less performance. So BitTorrent chose to be selfish rather than polite.

http://www.digitalsociety.org/2010/01/bittorrent-would-rather-be-selfish-than-friendly/

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