Apologies for the headline, but it was too appropriate to resist. It seems that there is a feature of uTorrent 2.0 now in beta that automatically detects network congestion and self-limits bandwidth to lessen it. This might provide some much-needed relief to ISPs that feel a disproportionate amount of traffic is P2P. I’m not sure whether to call this self-policing action capitulation or accommodation, but either way it probably needed to happen.
The uTP protocol is an extension of the bittorrent protocol, and essentially times packets being transferred and calculates if there is any serious delay. The idea is that this would only kick in when the network is being stressed.
We’ll see how this turns out, but who knows what other implementations of this sort we’ll be seeing. The net neutrality battle is likely to be marked by compromises on both sides. Expect to see measures taken in other areas like VoIP. It’s progress… I guess.
It’s interesting to me. I keep reading/hearing posts regarding P2P sharing (uTorrent in particular). I’m still baffled that people actually still torrent. It was an adolescent phase of mine (not that long ago lol). ISP’s WILL bandwidth throttle because of the traffic. Most things are accessible much more easily, with faster speeds & in many cases, ISP support by using Newsgroups (on port: 119)
Best of luck to any who gamble on P2P sharing. Even releaser’s of content discourage the dissemination of their content via P2P.
J.
I agree, torrents were necessity when I was a broke-ass student. I don’t understand why anyone that earns a regular paycheck would not want to support the creators/distributors of the media that they enjoy.
some of us still are broke-ass students
Hey, if the distributers ain’t the ones distributing, I ain’t paying nobody :)