cmaenginsb
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join:2001-03-19
Palmdale, CA
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May 7th, @01:23AM
| reply to iansltx
Re: How much b\w does your average and top customer use?
The average user really doesn't use that much.
I won't give a current estimate but from a past figure we had 300 1 Mbps customers. While the circuit was capable of bursting to 45 Mbps we would see a peak of about 6 Mbps with real occasion peaks (ie sudden burst of 10 minutes) at around 9 Mbps. So even with more bandwidth users simply didn't use it.
So that was an uncontrolled (as in each user was limited to 1 Mbps but that is the extent of the bandwidth management) oversubscription ratio of 50:1 with 300 users on a circuit capable of 45 Mbps. Suffice to say adding users increases this ratio to above 50:1 and from experience with other ISPs 1000 users runs around 100:1 or 125:1.
The reality is that most people have more to do than download a bunch of stuff on bit torrent. What we find when adding customers who never had broadband is that the first month they use a lot of bandwidth due to the wow factor and then usage trails off. Yes there are 1-2 PTPers that are downloading all the time but it's not a great as most think. |
