brianiscool
join:2000-08-16
Miami, FL | Wow
How can consumers value from these statistics? |
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inteller
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join:2003-12-08
Tulsa, OK
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Who cares? I find it offending that people who actually USE what they pay for are considered "hogs"
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Jim Gurd
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join:2000-07-08
Plymouth, MI | reply to brianiscool
Re: Wow
And how much of that bandwidth is spam? |
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TKJunkMail
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| said by Jim Gurd  :And how much of that bandwidth is spam? Spam is an infitesimal amount of consumed bandwidth. It is a huge part of email traffic, but email traffic is a very small part of overall ISP traffic.
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TKJunkMail
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Avalon, NJ
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Re: and 100% of this survey is stupid
said by inteller :Who cares? I find it offending that people who actually USE what they pay for are considered "hogs" How about the people who design and manage ISP networks. They care a great deal about this info because it has a direct effect on their design changes and on infrastructure expenditures.
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inteller
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join:2003-12-08
Tulsa, OK | They should just be happy not all their customers are "bandwidth hogs"
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notasdumbasyou
@comcast.net | Yeah, right SPAM = infinitesimal bandwidth usage
Yeah those 100,000 SPAMS per hour per SPAMMER don't use any real bandwidth. And I won't cum in your mouth either...
Ferchrissake some people should BUY a clue. |
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P Ness
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join:2001-08-29
Mineola, NY
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Re: and 100% of this survey is stupid
said by inteller :Who cares? I find it offending that people who actually USE what they pay for are considered "hogs" ...and that they will terminate you..
...but those non-hogs dont get refunds and credits for being very very proftable customers
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Tikker_LoS
join:2004-04-29
Regina, SK
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said by inteller :They should just be happy not all their customers are "bandwidth hogs" ok, sparky!
having an idea of the profile of your customers lets you build out your network accordingly |
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amungus
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So, 5% of people actually use their connections to the max? Wow, that's a smaller amount than I thought.
I consider myself a light user these days, but from time to time I like to download large amounts of data, and it better darn well get there at top speed. Vongo, for instance, was able to download at about 1.1MB (yes, MegaBytes) per second on Cox's "normal" tier (now 7Mbps here I believe...).
As more people are using the 'net for more than email/text based communication, ISP's should plan for more users being "hogs" than they are now.
Gaming, yeah, that's not going to take a huge amount of data transfer. Video, gaming, voice (phone and in game chat), music, VPN, are all going to drive the next level of use. I'd bet these numbers are going to be flipped in 5-7 years time.
Better be ready.
Think 10 years from now with everything wanting a slice of connectivity, IPV6 enabling a plethora of otherwise "dumb" things being connected to the web, average households using WAY more things that rely on a fast and reliable connection.
...Who will "hogs" be then? You'd be abnormal at that point if you were NOT using enough of your connection. |
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arck1969
join:2006-11-27
Apple Valley, CA | reply to inteller
Re: and 100% of this survey is stupid
Imagine using what you pay for, and being punished for it. Now that is business. |
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thender2
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join:2004-05-16
Staten Island, NY
| Consider these people.
"Oh, cool, I can get TV, internet, and phone in one package, and play youtube videos. Let's do it!"
Then they wind up watching three youtube videos a week, checking their email once a day, and IMing.
Why should power users suffer because statistics claim most people who use broadband would be fine on dialup? |
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Dayton, OH
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Re: and 100% of this survey is stupid
said by inteller :They should just be happy not all their customers are "bandwidth hogs" Consumer-grade networks are designed and more importantly, sold, based on every customer NOT being a bandwidth hog. If every customer used 100% of their service 24/7/365, we wouldn't be paying $20/month for DSL or $40/month for cable. It's no different than the dial-up days when there was a 20-25% rule on number of incoming phone lines vs number of customers.
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inteller
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join:2003-12-08
Tulsa, OK | easy ISP budget equation...
buy as much bandwidth as you can afford. you can never have enough.
let some other fool pay for and read these statistics.
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rayeger
join:2003-07-05
North Royalton, OH | I wonder....
How much internet traffic would be attributed to file sharing? But the figure they have come up with makes sense, with all the gaming and VOIP traffic that is going on now. |
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BIGMIKE
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join:2002-06-07
Westminster, CA | reply to brianiscool
Re: Wow
Bandwidth hogs = JOB SECURITY |
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NJChris
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join:2000-02-08
Pompton Lakes, NJ | % of bandwidth?
But how much % of available bandwidth is taken up by that 5%? Just because they use 45.3% of the traffic doesnt mean they are maxing out their connections.
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Jamuka
join:2005-06-06
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Re: I wonder....
Yea but what's interesting is that fact that they consider online gaming being a bandwidth hog. That may be true, but what do you expect? What else do they think people are going to do with their connections? Just email and pay $40-$50 a month for that? That's what we were doing 8-10 years ago. Different ballgame today. They better think ahead to the future because its only going to get worse. Do you hear me now Comcast? Fiber looks to be the future that can handle the bandwith. |
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Kfedka
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join:2005-05-06
Spokane, WA | reply to NJChris
Re: % of bandwidth?
Well I know that I am one of those 5% "hogs" P2P all the way! |
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jgkolt
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join:2004-02-21
Lakewood, OH
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Re: I wonder....
fiber is great but can the isp's push the faster internet to everyone? can we look at it as if we are using a lot of bandwidth and it takes a shorter amount of time to transfer files then the bandwidth will be freed up quicker. |
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