Web Traffic exceeding P2P usage ?

[GhostShip]

Could it possibly be true that web traffic has overtaken P2P traffic as the dominant bandwidth hogger ?

http://www.slyck.com/story1502_P2P_Remains_Dominant_Protocol

Last week, a press release was issued by Ellacotya that suggested something quite startling - HTTP (Hyper Text Transfer Protocol, aka Web traffic) had for the first time in four years overtaken P2P traffic. The results were surprising, as BitTorrent alone has dominated the Internet with some estimates suggesting it can consume up to 60% of an ISP's traffic.

Yet within a few hours, Ellacotya's findings were quickly becoming headline news. Could it be true that YouTube, with its enormous popularity, had finally led Web traffic back to its previous glory?

This debate looks a tad unprofessional in my opinion, the figures should be clear and concise on the matter , instead we are treated to a lot of self-serving opinions from companies with a vested interest in their aspect of the web trade, this then that in reality means no reasonable conclusion can be reacheded, although it would be suprising for bit torrent to be usurped just yet, with its claimed 80% usage of most ISP,s traffic, this is unlikely to change over night

[Lagerlout666]

Or maybe the fact that throttling at peak times has become so rife that most peeps now dl via http to beat the system.

[SamSeeSam]

That's (in my opinion) impossible with any normal user base.

Almost all within a few months find and use P2P

Cheers

[Bearded Blunder]

it may well be true for those isps who "traffic shape" in ways that simply prevent use of p2p applications..
it's getting to the stage where enough do it may well skew overall usage towards http though if it would be enough to bring it above p2p when the other isp traffic is accounted for is moot, it seems unlikely to me it would, but then youtube uses a LOT of BW transferring video & is VERY popular, for the likes of rogers & shawcable, http usage is undoubtedly higher than p2p, as they have you blocked from p2p, which i think was tiny's point.. makes no difference if a user knows about p2p when their isp stops them using it.........