Archive for the 'sandvine' Category

BitTorrent Traffic Surges After LimeWire Shutdown

Tuesday, May 17th, 2011

A new Internet traffic trends report released by the Canadian broadband management company Sandvine reveals that BitTorrent traffic is on the rise globally. More than half of all upstream traffic during peak hours in North America and Europe now comes from BitTorrent. The report further signals that the shutdown of LimeWire killed traffic generated by the Gnutella P2P network.

Source: BitTorrent Traffic Surges After LimeWire Shutdown

Comcast To Compensate Throttled BitTorrent Users

Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009

Comcast has decided to settle one of the lawsuits brought about over their use of the Sandvine BitTorrent throttling hardware to ‘manage’ their network. For those who were affected, there is the possibility of receiving a payment from a $16 million fund set up by the Internet service provider.