http://www.betterbroadbandblog.com Trends and tactics for the world of broadband Thu, 19 Aug 2010 13:40:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 http://www.betterbroadbandblog.com/2009/11/thepiratebay-bittorrent-tracker-takedown-and-affect/ http://www.betterbroadbandblog.com/2009/11/thepiratebay-bittorrent-tracker-takedown-and-affect/#comments Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:30:31 +0000 Don Bowman http://svblogserver/?p=69 In August 2009, the upstream provider of thepiratebay was forced to disconnect the popular tracker site. Now, this is one of many tracker sites (but a popular one). What effect would this have on Bittorrent globally? Sandvine did a short analysis and concluded that the effect was quite noticeable, a ~15-20% drop in overall bandwidth. You can read more detail [here], but the interesting thing is: bandwidth and applications are fickle and unstable. One applications 20% drop could be just as easily a 50% increase in another. When you are talking about the overall top applications, this can significantly skew the quality of experience and capital requirements for a broadband service provider.

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