BitTorrent is No Longer the 'King' of Upstream Internet Traffic * TorrentFreak - eviltoast
  • NateSwift@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    8 months ago

    New data published by Canadian broadband management company Sandvine reveals that cloud storage, YouTube, and other apps have taken over. This marks the end of a period of declining dominance that started two decades ago when BitTorrent reportedly accounted for a third of all web traffic.

    The order is iCloud, Facetime, Google Cloud Storage, Google, Youtube, and then BitTorrent

  • Scott@lem.free.as
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    8 months ago

    Was it ever a competition? BitTorrent was that volume because that’s what people were doing. Now with streaming there’s less incentive to sail the high seas.