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Torrents accounts for 35 percent of all U.S. upload traffic

Written by Andre Yoskowitz @ 19 May 2013 9:51 User comments (1)

Torrents accounts for 35 percent of all U.S. upload traffic

In the same report in which Sandvine concluded that Netflix accounted for over 32 percent of all U.S. downstream traffic, the broadband management company also revealed that torrents account for almost 35 percent of all upstream traffic.
Also of note, SSL traffic increased significantly year-over-year, thanks to an increase in VPN use as torrent users try to remain anonymous.

During peak hours, torrents are good for 34.8% of all upstream data transferred with HTTP in second at 7.5%.

Around the globe, torrent usage was high outside of the U.S., as well, at 21.6 percent in the Asia-Pacific region, and 17.4 percent in Europe.

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123.5.2013 08:48

Nice information cover i have also been using torrent for downloading media files or other thing but in USA torrent have some issue thats why i am using Btguard VPN Service For Torrent Purpose and i got it from Bestvpnservice.com

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