In Through The Out Door

An article over at TorrentFreak this week took a look at the alternatives that ISPs can consider to deal with their BitTorrent problem . The article cites a number of different suggestions that would be more customer-friendly than the currently popular ISP practice of throttling. However, the ultimate suggestion is that ISPs need to get used to the idea that BitTorrents are the future and must upgrade their networks accordingly.

The Internet is only a few years old, if the plan is to keep using it in the future, ISPs need to upgrade their networks. So, invest in more Internet gateway capacity, 10Gbps interconnect ports, and peering agreements. BitTorrent users are not the problem, they only signal that the ISPs need to upgrade their capacity, because customers will only get more demanding in the future. The Internet is not only about sending email, and browsing on text based websites anymore.

There are pros and cons to all of the alternatives to BitTorrent throttling. However, even the negative ones seem to be more acceptable to most BitTorrent users than the current practices that are in place.


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