Why Australian Telco's Plan To Shape BitTorrent Traffic Won't Work

New submitter oztechmuse writes "Australian Telco Telstra is planning to trial shaping some BitTorrent traffic during peak hours. Like all other telcos worldwide, they are facing increasing traffic with a long tail of users: 20% of users consume 80% of bandwidth. The problem is, telcos in Australia are already shaping BitTorrent traffic as a study by Measurement Lab has shown and traffic use continues to increase. Also, the 20% of broadband users consuming the most content will just find a different way of accessing the content and so overall traffic is unlikely to be reduced."

Re:Dont need to reduce overall traffic

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Thankfully, we have these things called time zones which coincide with the rotation of the earth around the sun. Night *time* is fairly standard.