Dutch Don’t Use P2P Much?
Om Malik points to an article on Planet.nl. According to this article, the Dutch use their bandwith in the following way (according to data from the Amsterdam Internet Exchange – AMS-IX):
It is surprising to see this high amount of traffic from newsgroups, though there is a lot of downloading from newsgroups and from living in the Netherlands I remember that ISPs advertised usegroups as a feature early on.
The other highly surprising result is the low amount of P2P traffic. One thing Om misses, is that the article has an explanation for this: a lot of P2P traffic is not reported to AMS-IX, but handled decentrally by the ISPsthemselves. A lot of this traffic would hence not run through the central exchange.
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