* Posts by Phil Green

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BT rubbishes BBC bandwidth throttling reports

Phil Green

Stopping KService

The only problem with stopping the KService is that it renders the whole P2P concept useless if everybody does it as the BBC servers will suffer the Slashdot effect (and then there'll be complaints about it being slow) when noone else hosts the files.

Lest we forget, it's only if you've got a programme that someone else wants to watch that the service then starts to use your upstream bandwidth, just like any P2P file. Even then, if 300 people have the programme then you'll get less bandwidth usage as the one who wants to watch it doesn't have to get it all from you. It would be nice to have some limiting, but anybody hardcore enough to care about how much upstream is being used will have QoS enabled on their customised router so they can continue playing WoW without lag.