Speaking at the recent MyADSL Broadband Conference hosted at Vodaworld, Internet Solutions’ General Manager for Internet Access, Alan Bacher, gave an overview of the top bandwidth users during September 2007.<\/p>\n
The biggest downloader for September, on an uncapped 1 Mbps connection, used a combined total of 332 GB during the month. This consisted of 65 GB of uploaded data and 267 GB of downloaded data – close to the theoretical limit of a possible 332 GB of downloads on a 1 Mbps connection.<\/p>\n
If this user had to pay per-GB rates for his data on the SAIX network it would have cost him in the region of R 18 000 at the discounted rate of R 55-00 per GB. <\/p>\n
The top 10 users, which range between 332 GB and 232 GB per month, used a combined total of 2.69 TB during September. These users on average uploaded 46 GB per month and downloaded 224 GB per month.<\/p>\n
The biggest downloader of them all<\/strong><\/p>\n These users are however not the record holder, according to IS they have one individual who takes the cake. One of their subscribers – who was not limited to a 1 Mbps connection speed – previously downloaded more than 1 Terabyte of data in a single calendar month. <\/p>\n This can obviously put a tremendous amount of strain on any network, but what the IS engineers found more interesting was how it was possible for a single user to download that much information in a single month.<\/p>\n It emerged that this subscriber had 40 concurrent active connections to newsgroups open at any given time – downloading data for the full duration of the month. The 1 TB monthly download amount came very close to the theoretical limit of what is possible on a 4 Mbps ADSL connection.<\/p>\n Average monthly usage<\/strong><\/p>\n Bacher revealed the interesting statistic that the majority of their uncapped users – on both their Business ADSL 512kbps & 1024kbps offering and their Business ADSL Fibre 512kbps & 1024kbps services – use less than 20 GB of data per month.<\/p>\n Only a small portion of their uncapped service subscriber base – typically under 10% – exceeds the 50 GB monthly usage limit.<\/p>\n