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 maartenaElmoPremium
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Re: they aren't going after the legal stuff said by odog:by a large for every appleTV user or Hulu user.... you've probably got 100+ hardcore BT users eating 100+GB per month. You're right on that. But you should also look at the bigger picture. These days, an average American family has 2 to 3 PC's, sometimes even more. With the way the web has been developing over the last few years with online gaming, youtubing, iTunes, and newer services such as the Netflix download service so that you can download you movies instead of waiting for them by mail.... and the fact that simple OS updates are getting bigger and bigger, not only on Windows. The amounts of data that an average family transfers, without even touching on the more shady side of internet, is ever increasing, and with the TV networks now placing full episodes online on their websites, HDTV finally breaking through, 12 Megapixel DSLR camera's (6 Mb per picture) becoming more affordable, VOIP services getting more popular, I don't see only an upwards curve in the amount of LEGAL data we transmit.
Add to that IT professionals such as myself. Last week alone I downloaded three Linux distros on DVD because I wanted to decide which would be best on my laptop. That is 12+ GB right there, and since I used torrents because they are often much faster, I also upload, so say 15 Gb of traffic. Then I downloaded Exchange Server 2007 SP1 from my MSDN subscription, a 5.5 Gb download. I also downloaded OS disks for Server 2008, another 3 Gb right there. Just in 1 week time, because I want to do some testing (I plan to bring online my first Exchange 2007 server, until now I have only done 2003's and I needed to test it first before I order the production software for my client), I have transmitted 25+ Gb of data.
And the rest of this month? Well, OpenSUSE 11 is about to be released, that's 4 Gb right there. But I think I also want the x64 edition, so make that 8 Gb. Oh, and to save everyone's bandwidth I always use torrents on Linux distros, so say 10 Gb because of uploading.
And that's just business, I haven't even started on pleasure yet.....
And did I mention I often have a Dutch TV station streaming into my office?
Time Warner Cable is wanting to cap at 40 Gb. I think that is total bull and that many, many users using 2008's internet will surpass that without a sweat and doing anything illegal.... 100 Gb would be more realistic. | |
 espaethDigital PlumberPremium,MVM
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1 edit | said by maartena:But you should also look at the bigger picture. These days, an average American family has 2 to 3 PC's, sometimes even more. According to Census bureau in August 2000 only 51% of US households had one or more computers, and only 41% of households had Internet access. Granted it's been 8 years, but do you think the other half of the country went out and bought not just 1, but multiple computers *AND* high speed Internet in the last 8 years? (In an economy that has been struggling with the costs of a war and lackluster economic growth)
Source: »www.census.gov/prod/2001pubs/p23-207.pdf | |
 MattAll noise, no signal.Premium
join:2003-07-20
Jamestown, NC
kudos:12 | said by espaeth:said by maartena:But you should also look at the bigger picture. These days, an average American family has 2 to 3 PC's, sometimes even more. According to Census bureau in August 2000 only 51% of US households had one or more computers, and only 41% of households had Internet access. Granted it's been 8 years, but do you think the other half of the country went out and bought not just 1, but multiple computers *AND* high speed Internet in the last 8 years? (In an economy that has been struggling with the costs of a war and lackluster economic growth) Source: » www.census.gov/prod/2001pubs/p23-207.pdf Actually, yes. Dell, HP, IBM, Lenovo and Apple have all reported record growth and minus the past couple years, record sales. | |
espaethDigital PlumberPremium,MVM
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| said by Matt:Actually, yes. Dell, HP, IBM, Lenovo and Apple have all reported record growth and minus the past couple years, record sales. Many of those sales were to both business and personal customers that already had a computer to begin with. You don't honestly believe we went from an average of 0.5 computers per household to 2+ computers per household in 7 years, do you? | | |
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MattAll noise, no signal.Premium
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Jamestown, NC
kudos:12 | said by espaeth:said by Matt:Actually, yes. Dell, HP, IBM, Lenovo and Apple have all reported record growth and minus the past couple years, record sales. Many of those sales were to both business and personal customers that already had a computer to begin with. You don't honestly believe we went from an average of 0.5 computers per household to 2+ computers per household in 7 years, do you? I personally know 4 households that did. Mine went from 1 to 3, so yes. | |
espaethDigital PlumberPremium,MVM
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| said by Matt:I personally know 4 households that did. Mine went from 1 to 3, so yes. Again, I'm not saying things aren't improving, but we're not to a household average of 1+ computers yet in the US. Heck, according to a study done this year about 20% of US head of households have never sent an email.
Source: »newsroom.parksassociates.com/art···_id=5067 | |
MattAll noise, no signal.Premium
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Jamestown, NC
kudos:12 | said by espaeth:said by Matt:I personally know 4 households that did. Mine went from 1 to 3, so yes. Again, I'm not saying things aren't improving, but we're not to a household average of 1+ computers yet in the US. Heck, according to a study done this year about 20% of US head of households have never sent an email. Source: » newsroom.parksassociates.com/art···_id=5067 What does 20% of households never sending an email have to do with whether the average number of households with more than 1 computer has increased? | |
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said by espaeth:said by maartena:But you should also look at the bigger picture. These days, an average American family has 2 to 3 PC's, sometimes even more. According to Census bureau in August 2000 only 51% of US households had one or more computers, and only 41% of households had Internet access. Granted it's been 8 years, but do you think the other half of the country went out and bought not just 1, but multiple computers *AND* high speed Internet in the last 8 years? Source: » www.census.gov/prod/2001pubs/p23-207.pdf Bought? Not necesarilly. Some did, prices have come way down since 2000. But what do you think has happened to all of the computers that have been replaced during that time? Many have been given to friends or relatives who didn't have a computer. I know plenty of people on welfare that have 3 or 4 computers (including laptops) and broadband internet. (And we'll leave the issue of whether welfare should pay for brodband for another topic). And in most cases, those 3 or 4 computers are all better than what I had in 2000 (after all, a 1 GHz machine is pretty well considered obsolete now, but was the top end in 2000). | |
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