BitTorrent Still Dominates Internet’s Upstream Traffic

[Batu69]

New data published by Canadian broadband management company Sandvine reveals that BitTorrent can be credited for a quarter of all upstream Internet traffic in North America, more than any other traffic source. With heavy competition from Netflix and other real-time entertainment, BitTorrent's overall traffic share is falling.

 

Many Internet traffic reports have been published over the years, documenting how traffic patterns change over time.

 

A decade ago, long before the BitTorrent boom began, studies indicated that BitTorrent was responsible for an impressive 35% of all Internet traffic.

 

In the years that followed Internet traffic distribution underwent a metamorphosis, as video streaming took off with the launch of YouTube and later Netflix. As a result BitTorrent lost a significant share of total Internet traffic, in the United States at least.

 

However, BitTorrent is still here today and arguably more popular than ever before.

 

A new report published by broadband management company Sandvine reveals that torrent traffic is now responsible for 29% of all U.S. Internet traffic in North America during peak hours, up from 25% last year.

 

This means that well over a quarter all megabytes uploaded during the busiest time of the day can be traced back to torrents.

 

Traffic share in North America during peak hours
 

 

 

The increase is noteworthy as BitTorrent’s traffic share has consistently dropped in recent years, as other data sources grew more quickly. This drop is still visible in the overall peak hour traffic, where BitTorrent went from 5% to 4.4%.

 

This downward trend doesn’t mean that BitTorrent users share less data, as overall bandwidth usage has increased as well. However, Netflix, YouTube and several other entertainment services have certainly grown stronger.

 

Looking at the downstream traffic, we see that BitTorrent’s share during peak hours dropped to ‘only’ 2.7%. For the first time, both Amazon and iTunes are now using more data than BitTorrent and Hulu is closing in as well.

 

While BitTorrent has many legitimate uses most data is transferred by pirated files. This means that Netflix and the others are direct competitors for the popular file-sharing protocol.

 

Looking at the larger picture it’s clear that BitTorrent remains extremely popular in North America, but competition from legal services is growing.

 

It will be interesting to see how this trend develops during the years to come. It will certainly take a while before any other data source overtakes BitTorrent in terms of upstream traffic.

 

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[knowledge-Spammer]

its y i use utorrent  with player

[steven36]

37 minutes ago, knowledge said:

its y i use utorrent  with player

Just a few years ago before Megaupload  got shut down filelockers were more poplar .So things can change in a hurry  fast . And really these studies  are not accurate . People in places like France and the USA  witch gets strikes for p2p downloading  used vpns for years  so they show up as another country there not at (at) all . Really the p2p people are way, way ahead of legal services .

[straycat19]

Steven,  hope you can take a little ribbing.

filelockers were more poplar - so you are saying they were tall and stout like a tree

the USA witch - we have an Uncle Sam but no witch, at least that I know of, unless Hilary Clinton gets elected.

the p2p people are way, way ahead of legal services - yes they are running fast but the police are on their tails and closing in, as recent new reports state. (We use to say you can outrun a police car but you can't outrun Motorola (police radio) but now it would have to the internet)

 

I use to get so much ribbing for my typos I finally started proofreading every post before i hit the button.  I won't tell you how many I found in this post, it's embarrassing.  But I still enjoy a good typo, brings a smile to my face.  Thanks!

 

[steven36]

11 hours ago, straycat19 said:

Steven,  hope you can take a little ribbing.

filelockers were more poplar - so you are saying they were tall and stout like a tree

the USA witch - we have an Uncle Sam but no witch, at least that I know of, unless Hilary Clinton gets elected.

the p2p people are way, way ahead of legal services - yes they are running fast but the police are on their tails and closing in, as recent new reports state. (We use to say you can outrun a police car but you can't outrun Motorola (police radio) but now it would have to the internet)

 

I use to get so much ribbing for my typos I finally started proofreading every post before i hit the button.  I won't tell you how many I found in this post, it's embarrassing.  But I still enjoy a good typo, brings a smile to my face.  Thanks!

 

I don’t care how many typos  you found in my post . Its shows you have nothing better to do..Its normal for me to make them you just now figuring that out ? lol

I don’t really see the police doing nothing  much in the USA  . Every now and then  they arrest  some uploader  or bigwig and so  is the rest of the world punishing uploaders.

When they try to pass laws in the USA on  it they get threw  out of the house . Even they don’t do nothing  to people who get strikes but warn them and the strikes system in the USA  is only on a volunteer basis. Only like 8 isps send out strikes  at all.  All this does is teach people to use vpns and gives them a education on piracy  unless they don’t care that they get warnings .  Most people who get caught  uploading its there own carelessness  for leaving there personal info all over the net , Most don’t hide there ip from bittorrent trolls . they post there real names on there paypal and ask for donations and use there user-name  with there real name trough social networks.

You never hear of any real scene group getting caught  because there not careless like a lot  p2p users are .. Most TV shows on the internet come from the USA  and Canada .lol.