5% of users use 46% of bandwidth [Archive]

piggy

11-07-2008, 20:01

http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/14484.cfm

this is in america but much the same here i would imagine

brundles

11-07-2008, 20:14

To be fair that is 250GB they're talking about being the soft-cap.

I'd consider myself a heavy user but that's got to be bordering on excessive surely?

piggy

11-07-2008, 20:22

To be fair that is 250GB they're talking about being the soft-cap.

I'd consider myself a heavy user but that's got to be bordering on excessive surely?

look at traxdatas post he does 250gb in a day!!

sstainer

11-07-2008, 20:22

blimey 250gb i know i like to download stuff but to that ammount not in a million years [ok maybe by then?]

Jelly

11-07-2008, 20:28

If I had a Giganews account, I'd certainly have used much more than that by now. Currently though, I'm stuck with VM's news server and 7 day retention.

TraxData

11-07-2008, 21:59

look at traxdatas post he does 250gb in a day!!

I do more than that counting torrents, streaming, IPTV etc :p:

Druchii

11-07-2008, 22:17

I do more than that counting torrents, streaming, IPTV etc :p:
Our servers at work top out at about 750Gb a day... And that's on patch day!
Around 150Gb normal data transfer. (Externally anyway)

Sirpingalot

11-07-2008, 23:28

To be fair that is 250GB they're talking about being the soft-cap.

I'd consider myself a heavy user but that's got to be bordering on excessive surely?

250GB? Not really, I can exceed 1TB each month.

TraxData

11-07-2008, 23:32

Our servers at work top out at about 750Gb a day... And that's on patch day!
Around 150Gb normal data transfer. (Externally anyway)

Ironically most of it is legal transfer :D

Druchii

11-07-2008, 23:33

Ironically most of it is legal transfer :D
Same at work.

Only illegal is stuff done by accident. (Copying the wrong license files to the wrong HUB)

TraxData

11-07-2008, 23:34

Well i'm on 25/25 (well, it peaks at 100 for the most part) + another 25/25 (2 apartments linked up ;) and backup adls+2 line.

I stream some legal HD content and upload distros to servers for some sites..so its fairly easy for me to chew up alot of bandwith...but no worries, my isp dont mind :)

danielf

11-07-2008, 23:37

250GB? Not really, I can exceed 1TB each month.

That's a lot of pings...

Seriously. What do you do that requires pulling down 1TB of data in a month?

Gary L

12-07-2008, 00:04

Seriously. What do you do that requires pulling down 1TB of data in a month?

and has it fell off yet.

Sirpingalot

12-07-2008, 03:07

and has it fell off yet.

rofl.

An excessive amount of torrenting HD movies if I'm honest.

xspeedyx

12-07-2008, 11:59

rofl.

An excessive amount of torrenting HD movies if I'm honest.

All legal right?

Welshchris

12-07-2008, 12:19

im lucky if i do between 6 - 20 GB a week, depending on how much work my friend has done. My friend is a Musician and he lives in Manchester and i live in swansea and when he writes material and records them i download the stuff from his FTP and listen and tell him what i think. Thats all i do and i cant even use a VM router cos it doesnt like FTP lol

Sirpingalot

12-07-2008, 15:52

All legal right?

Yeah : )

Uncle Peter

12-07-2008, 18:02

Either that or the worlds largest collection of Linux distros ;)

Welshchris

12-07-2008, 18:09

i dont see anything wrong with large downloaders aslong as they do it throughout the night when people r less likely to use the internet.

Sirpingalot

12-07-2008, 22:13

i dont see anything wrong with large downloaders aslong as they do it throughout the night when people r less likely to use the internet.

I don't see anything wrong with people downloading large quantities of data through the day if the infrastructure can support it. Which it should, since we are paying for what should be a world class service.

Welshchris

13-07-2008, 02:47

I don't see anything wrong with people downloading large quantities of data through the day if the infrastructure can support it. Which it should, since we are paying for what should be a world class service.

This is Britain we r talking about here, we should have a first class health service and a first class rail service to but thats life :erm:

Sirpingalot

19-07-2008, 08:07

This is Britain we r talking about here, we should have a first class health service and a first class rail service to but thats life :erm:

Yeah, but cmon dude, the rest of the world can manage it, so why can't we?