Not necessarily - there are thousands of reasons why HTTP traffic is to be used, including testing purposes
The point is that the rise in HTTP downloads (on a global scale) is related to circumvention in like manner to the rise in the quantity of NNTP traffic was related to binary transfers rather than the original intended use.
BUT this is the Internet, stuff seldom remains used according to its original intended design and that isn't a bad thing. What it does sometimes mean is that things can go off key for a bit while systems adapt.
i'm not angry at all at your http shaping i realize this is beta and you plan to make changes.....just warning you post launch exactly what people will think
getting shaped from excessive downloading =/= getting shaped because 1% of users have a secret method to disguise p2p as http.
one is understandable the other is just......
Also note that because a number of p2p clients fake the packets to look like http we have had to put in place a policy to shape http downloads if p2p and http file transfers are detected during the day at the same time. This can and does affect http download speeds.
even if its true it will and always will sounds exactly like an excuse(even though we know your telling the truth).
At least call it what it is. ie "heavy downloaders are shaped on everything except streaming during business hours"
because that's basically what it becomes when a single piece of p2p touches the network(not all p2p is torrents aka acestream,steam ,many game downloaders like blizzard(yes u can turn it off doesn't mean the average user knows how some are children) and if all of that flags it you will receive massive complaints and people will start accusing you of "openweb"ing us(that should become a verb lol)
if you are going to keep that at least find a way to differentiate(dont know if possible) to see if the downloads are from acestream/steam/blizzard.
right now it sounds like at first there was none. then there was p2p, shortly followed by nntp, then 2 weeks later was http.
for instance if someone finds out how to make http look like streaming are you going to shape that too :/
).....the whole day to add not a single hour wasnt shaped....
