SA's biggest bandwidth hogs of 2022 revealed

[Mawirepower]

It showed that Facebook dominated traffic — with 10.78% of bandwidth usage — followed closely by Netflix with 10.43%. TikTok also accounted for a significant chunk of traffic — 7.86%.

Where is YouTube? Looks at chart - Youtube 11.86%. Peace prevails!!

 

[whatwhat]

Actually very easy...If you have streaming services like Netflix, IPTV and Youtube, you can use as much as 7GB per hour on streaming per app alone. In my household we do streaming, downloading files and uploading to cloud. The kids download games on Xbox and PS - some games are 70GB+ in size, not forgetting the updates that have to be downloaded. General web browsing and Apps like Instagram, Tiktok and Facebook also consumes lots of data. Working from home, you have to download and upload files and have Zoom meetings. If you love movies and series, you use many GB's to download and stream them. We have a 200/200 line and average use are about 25TB+ per month - lets not forget the extra data used when the family comes to visit...The most we did in a busy month with family was 55TB for the month.

Please don't come ruin a good story with facts. South Africa is extremely conservative when it comes to the internet and if anyone uses a TB of data it is considered abuse.

Let's not forget that 63TB is just under 6 days of download on a 1GB fiber connection. So people screaming "hog" really have no idea.

Also, the rest of the world is busy launching 5 and 8 Gbps fiber.

Google Fiber Blog: Ready for faster internet? Be a trusted tester for Google Fiber’s new 5 Gig and 8 Gig plans.

fiber.google.com

Can't wait for the "hogs" when this reaches South Africa in a few years.

 

[Speedster]

Please don't come ruin a good story with facts. South Africa is extremely conservative when it comes to the internet and if anyone uses a TB of data it is considered abuse.

Let's not forget that 63TB is just under 6 days of download on a 1GB fiber connection. So people screaming "hog" really have no idea.

Also, the rest of the world is busy launching 5 and 8 Gbps fiber.

Google Fiber Blog: Ready for faster internet? Be a trusted tester for Google Fiber’s new 5 Gig and 8 Gig plans.

fiber.google.com

Can't wait for the "hogs" when this reaches South Africa in a few years.

Who touched you on your studio?

The question was simply how one manages that? We're a family of 5 with what most people would probably consider above average use (Netflix, YouTube etc) and we do maybe 600GB a month.

I'd love to see a chart from one of these ISPs giving some sort of indication of what average/median usage would be.

 

[OhYeah84]

Please don't come ruin a good story with facts. South Africa is extremely conservative when it comes to the internet and if anyone uses a TB of data it is considered abuse.

Let's not forget that 63TB is just under 6 days of download on a 1GB fiber connection. So people screaming "hog" really have no idea.

Also, the rest of the world is busy launching 5 and 8 Gbps fiber.

Google Fiber Blog: Ready for faster internet? Be a trusted tester for Google Fiber’s new 5 Gig and 8 Gig plans.

fiber.google.com

Can't wait for the "hogs" when this reaches South Africa in a few years.

whatwhat meets High Horse...

 

[cavedog]

138TB usage for the year on my 1Gbps Metro line on Afrihost.

 

[whatwhat]

whatwhat meets High Horse...

What do you mean? I'm saying that these article are dumb.
I'm on a 2Gbps connection and can download the equivalent of the 693TB "highest hog" in 33 days.

These aren't high values at all.

 

[Speedster]

What do you mean? I'm saying that these article are dumb.
I'm on a 2Gbps connection and can download the equivalent of the 693TB "highest hog" in 33 days.

These aren't high values at all.

We know you "can" technically. The question is with what? One can only watch so much Netflix etc in a month. What would the data be used for?

 

[OhYeah84]

We know you "can" technically. The question is with what? One can only watch so much Netflix etc in a month. What would the data be used for?

Download for the sake of downloading. You can also only play so many games in a month unless you're supplying games and movies/series to others. Like the 1990s/2000s.

 

[whatwhat]

We know you "can" technically. The question is with what? One can only watch so much Netflix etc in a month. What would the data be used for?

So one of my friends does translations for movies and documentaries, from home. Some places prefer SRT files and others prefer the subtitle to be burned in. In those cases, you are looking at around 80GB for files.

80GB downloaded for one movie. Subtitle added, 80GB uploaded. Usually it goes through 2-5 iterations as people find mistakes or some localization wording. So that's easily half a TB in a day. She works on 1-3 files at a time, so this adds up quickly. Even a single spelling mistake means another 80GB upload.

 

[Speedster]

So one of my friends does translations for movies and documentaries, from home. Some places prefer SRT files and others prefer the subtitle to be burned in. In those cases, you are looking at around 80GB for files.

80GB downloaded for one movie. Subtitle added, 80GB uploaded. Usually it goes through 2-5 iterations as people find mistakes or some localization wording. So that's easily half a TB in a day. She works on 1-3 files at a time, so this adds up quickly. Even a single spelling mistake means another 80GB upload.

And obviously a unique, niche case. Also, as someone who's edited my fair share of video in my life, why not do the drafts at lower quality? The rendering time is significantly less.

 

[whatwhat]

And obviously a unique, niche case. Also, as someone who's edited my fair share of video in my life, why not do the drafts at lower quality? The rendering time is significantly less.

There is no lower quality. Everything is done and will be assumed to be the final version that can be sent to the next person/company/process in the chain. Do you know how long it takes or how much it costs to video process a movie? That is normally done by an external company as well that charge for everything they do. This isn't editing home videos on an iPad.

As for being unique and niche, well, it's a valid case for high data usage. There are lots of other jobs as well.

 

[lexity]

Yo, these people need to stop "hogging" for what they pay their ISPs for. Not enough spectrum available to the rest of us.

How many people have suffered at the hands of these so called "hogs"

When flights are double/triple booked, you're a 'hog' for checking in first.