Forget throttling, start cooperating

摘要

Growth in peer-to-peer (P2P) downloading has led some ISPs to limit, or "throttle", connection speeds to preserve bandwidth for everyone else. But the University of Washington in Seattle has hit on a promising alternative.rnBottlenecks occur most when people download P2P content that is stored a long way from their homes; internet links overrnthousands of kilometres get tied up delivering it.