Beck38
09-14-2013, 07:59 PM
Every once in awhile, I trip over a site with Usenet Traffic analysis (there are several); I don't 'keep an eye' on such things as a general rule, but it does yank ones thinking somewhat as to why things as working (or not) in the world of the Usenet bucket-brigade.
If folks have been reading (read.. yea, what's that uh?) my recent postings on Giganews peering and such, it almost (ALMOST!?!) starts to make sense if one looks at the recent statistics.
The US is far an away the top originator of traffic, a bit over 4 times as much as the second source. It's that second source that's a head scratchier: Russia.
In fact, if one combines it and the third largest originator, Ukraine, together they are about 1/3rd as much traffic origination as the US. That may explain why GN and others have been changing their peering around (automated or otherwise) lately. Sheer bulk of traffic.
Another 'interesting' thing that pops out at one, is that the fourth largest originator is...Brazil. Yes, larger than the UK (but just barely), and yes, if one adds the UK together with some of the other European (western and eastern), like Poland, Romania, France, and tosses in some of the British commonwealth countries like Canada and Australia, their numbers begin to look pretty 'ok', about half of what the US generates.
I only took a look at one site for these numbers, but I'm sure that they are probably about correct no matter who is collecting them up. Them da*n commies are really going at it, and like I said, it does explain some of the goings on lately. I do know that lots of transmission companies have been working at breakneck speed to tie all of Europe to Russia with top of the line fiber constructs and large bandwidth pipes. That seems to be paying off in the Usenet numbers.
Oh, as usual, it's simply too darn early in the morning, and my fingers got crossed up (along with blurry eyesight) and yes, I mis-spelled 'statistics' and there apparently isn't any 'spell-check' on the thread titles. ?!**!?!!
If folks have been reading (read.. yea, what's that uh?) my recent postings on Giganews peering and such, it almost (ALMOST!?!) starts to make sense if one looks at the recent statistics.
The US is far an away the top originator of traffic, a bit over 4 times as much as the second source. It's that second source that's a head scratchier: Russia.
In fact, if one combines it and the third largest originator, Ukraine, together they are about 1/3rd as much traffic origination as the US. That may explain why GN and others have been changing their peering around (automated or otherwise) lately. Sheer bulk of traffic.
Another 'interesting' thing that pops out at one, is that the fourth largest originator is...Brazil. Yes, larger than the UK (but just barely), and yes, if one adds the UK together with some of the other European (western and eastern), like Poland, Romania, France, and tosses in some of the British commonwealth countries like Canada and Australia, their numbers begin to look pretty 'ok', about half of what the US generates.
I only took a look at one site for these numbers, but I'm sure that they are probably about correct no matter who is collecting them up. Them da*n commies are really going at it, and like I said, it does explain some of the goings on lately. I do know that lots of transmission companies have been working at breakneck speed to tie all of Europe to Russia with top of the line fiber constructs and large bandwidth pipes. That seems to be paying off in the Usenet numbers.
Oh, as usual, it's simply too darn early in the morning, and my fingers got crossed up (along with blurry eyesight) and yes, I mis-spelled 'statistics' and there apparently isn't any 'spell-check' on the thread titles. ?!**!?!!