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Jivan Pal · 12w
Sharing the same IP address as other devices doesn't improve usability, it actively hampers it by breaking the end-to-end principle. If you care about using peer-to-peer applications (voice calls, onl...
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Regarding P2P filesharing:

* NAT has not stopped it to happen.
* Moreover, sharing an IP address has protected a P2P user from legal consequences (I'm Spain, at least):
https://www.abogacia.es/en/publicaciones/blogs/blog-de-innovacion-legal/a-vueltas-con-la-ip-y-con-la-pi/
Jivan Pal · 12w
> NAT has not stopped it to happen. I never said that it does. But do you care about increased latency, decreased throughput, more centralised points of failure? If so, then you should prefer avoiding the use of relays to facilitate P2P traffic, because relays result in all of these things. > More...