Also claims that P2P’s traffic dominates a low of 49% of all internet traffic in the Middle-East to as much as 84% in Eastern Europe, with this figure rising to a staggering 95% at night.
Ipoque, a provider of solutions for Internet traffic management, analyzed Internet traffic in five regions of the world between August and September 2007. While the emphasis of last year’s ipoque survey was on P2P file sharing, this study also includes data about Internet telephony (VoIP), Skype, video streaming, instant messaging (IM), file hosting and encrypted P2P protocols. Three petabytes of anonymous data representing over one million users in Australia, Eastern Europe, Germany, the Middle East and Southern Europe have been analyzed. The results for these different regions vary considerably.
In general terms this P2P study confirmed file-sharing’s continued dominance of all Internet traffic. Its share varies from between 49% in the Middle East to 84% in Eastern Europe. At night this percentage rises to an amazing 95%!
Additionally, the survey found that every fifth person connected to the Internet uses file-sharing software of some sort. BitTorrent is the most popular P2P protocol by far except in Southern Europe where Donkey still dominates. 57% of all P2P traffic. Also notable is the high amount of DirectConnect traffic in Eastern Europe (29%) and Gnutella traffic in Australia (9%). In Australia, the differing eDonkey and BitTorrent traffic volumes are particularly extreme with only 14% eDonkey and as much as 73% BitTorrent.
For the first time, ipoque even covered encrypted P2P protocols as well, discovering that about 20% of all BitTorrent and eDonkey traffic are currently encrypted.
As for content being shared, the study claims that BitTorrent is used mainly for downloading video files, accounting for some 62% of its total traffic in Southern Europe and 79% in Germany. Southern Europe has a particularly high amount of software traffic – 26% compared to 6% in Germany and the Middle East. German BitTorrent users also download more porn (13%) than the other regions (2% and 5%).
For the most part I don’t think this latest ipoque study contains any real new or groundbreaking revelations, but it is interesting to read that 49% of the people in the Middle-East are file-sharers. It just goes to show that we oftentimes have more in common with our fellow man then we realize.
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Wellthat should tell the ISP’s something….you fuck with our conncetion and we will fuck you up!
The ISP’s need to learn this lesson when thinking of throttling bit torrent or any other p2p app. They need to realize that if they cut off customewrs from p2p they just slit their own throat!
Fascinating and well-written insights as always meyou123. But unfortunately they had absolutely no relation to the article (as per usual).
Moving on the only relevant link I was able to see was about German file sharing. And I have to dispute the findings. NO WAY does porn only comprise 15% of the files shared by Germans. Its surely closer to 50%.
This shouldn’t be surprising to anyone. Internet has changed into media distribution tool and ISPs know that well. Only time will tell where is this going to end. I’d sure hate to see some laws against the P2P like those in France.
The Major Company that I work for has at least 50% P2P users from 18 yr olds to 60+ yr olds. The rest probably don’t own computers or just do E Mail !
20% ? I think that’s probably a conservative percentage. I mean there would be quite afew out there able to hide their activity.
So 20% let’s say they make p2p illegal overnight that’s a hell of a lot of voters there.
“#2 Fascinating and well-written insights as always meyou123. But unfortunately they had absolutely no relation to the article (as per usual).
Moving on the only relevant link I was able to see was about German file sharing. And I have to dispute the findings. NO WAY does porn only comprise 15% of the files shared by Germans. Its surely closer to 50%.”
Hey JosefStalin FUCK YOU!
Dumb fuck you always want to open up your big mouth when you need to keep it shut!
And for your information asshole maybe you should go back to school and learn what an ISP is!
It is a provider of internet service…..service that IF THEY THREATEN TO CUT OFF BECAUSE OF P2P useage (as a LOT of ISPs are being asked by the government to do) the users can then fuck them up. Dumbass.
@JosefStalin if you have a problem with me dumbass then send me a PM and we will settle it one way or another otherwise quit acting like an asshole and attacking me on a public forum when I have done nothing to you… fucking idiot!
If you do not have the GUTS to PM me and discuss this then you are a pussy.
There was nothing in the article about throttling bandwidth. But there were numerous recent articles here about there. So I dont know why you posted that here. It was totally irrelevant. This article is about the percentage of European (or German really) internet users who use P2P. Thats it.
Ill check what an “ISP” is on Wikipedia.
But yeah I wont be pm’ing you. Why would I? What are you going to do? Come to my house after school and beat me up? I live in London. You clearly live in the US (probably a Southern state). And besides I dont make it a habit of fighting with 14 year olds. I’m 29. So please refrain from your e-thuggish behavior. *Cyber punches meyou123*. Tough as fuck. Just type in the scars.
probably a Southern state !!!!
I wouldn’t live anywhere else ! Sunshine Fast Cars Great Women Big Houses Great Jobs NO SNOW most of the Wintertime and the Myth about Rednecks Yeah We got ‘Em But so does Everyone else ! even in London !
@Joisefstalin…no wonder you are a retard….You don’t even know what relevance this has on filesharing do you stupid fuck? Gee..all I can say is that if you are as ignorant as you sound I would hate to meet you in person.
And I don’t live in a southern state retard. So there you go making dumb statements. But yet you could not even come up with your own links to China in that other thread.
All you are is a pussy that is full of hot air.
meyou123 you are a twat