According to a new report from Sandvine, a company that builds equipment for consumer internet service providers, Netflix has topped 35% of overall US internet traffic. The streaming service now reportedly uses 34.89 percent of downstream and 9.4 percent of upstream_bandwidth during peak periods on US fixed lines. Sandvine’s report suggests that Netflix is using a whopping 20% more bandwidth than the nearest downstream competitor, YouTube. Netflix is second only_to BitTorrent traffic for upstream bandwidth, with the torrenting protocol at a huge 25.49 percent. You might be wondering why Netflix uses upstream traffic when it’s not a peer-to-peer service; _Ars...

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