SG News: Bittorrent declares war on VoIP, gamers

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Gamers, VoIP and video conference users beware. The leading BitTorrent software authors have declared war on you - and any users wanting to wring high performance out of their networks. A key design change in the P2P application promises to make the headaches faced by ISPs so far look like a party game. So what's happened, and why does it matter?Upset about Bell Canadas system for allocating bandwidth fairly among internet users, the developers of the uTorrent P2P application have decided to make the UDP ...

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[YoshiMon]

Wow, what a hugely wrong and inflammatory post about the change to BT. The move to a UDP based protocol over TCP is a change designed to reduce the amount of network congestion.

There is a lot to be said about this subject because the matter of why UDP might be better than TCP for BT is a bit complicated. And there are indeed caveats that will need to be addressed to make sure that the UDP will work better but shame on SpeedGuide.net for posting this FUD.