{"id":79593,"date":"2013-06-12T22:55:28","date_gmt":"2013-06-12T20:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=79593"},"modified":"2013-06-12T22:58:39","modified_gmt":"2013-06-12T20:58:39","slug":"what-sas-adsl-users-do-on-the-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/adsl\/79593-what-sas-adsl-users-do-on-the-internet.html","title":{"rendered":"What SA\u2019s ADSL users do on the Internet"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cybersmart<\/a> has revealed that most traffic on its network is used for website visits (http and https), video streaming, and peer to peer (P2P) services.<\/p>\n

Cybersmart CEO Laurie Fialkov<\/a> said that their biggest bandwidth consumption during business hours comes from web services (37%) and video streaming (30%).<\/p>\n

This changes during off-peak hours when video streaming consumes most bandwidth (35%), followed by P2P (23%) and web services (22%).<\/p>\n

“We are starting to see a similar kind of profile to that of overseas ISPs where streaming is generating the biggest network demand,” said Fialkov.<\/p>\n

Good news for ISPs is that video streaming can be supported by good caching strategies. This is unfortunately not the case for many P2P services.<\/p>\n

To alleviate the impact of P2P services on its ADSL network, Cybersmart limits P2P bandwidth to 15% of their total capacity during business hours and 23% during off-peak times.<\/p>\n

“P2P has double the contention of everything else, so if we took off the limits, it would require more than 30% of the total capacity,” said Fialkov.<\/p>\n

Breakdown of ADSL network traffic<\/h3>\n

The full breakdown of Cybersmart’s ADSL network traffic during business hours and off-peak periods is as follows.<\/p>\n

\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
ADSL Traffic during business hours<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
HTTP and HTTPs<\/td>\n37%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Streaming<\/td>\n28%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
P2P<\/td>\n15% (limited)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Software updates<\/td>\n8% (limited)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Skype and equivalent<\/td>\n4%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Email<\/td>\n3.5%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Gaming<\/td>\n3%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
VPA, L2TP, IPSEC<\/td>\n1.5%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Other<\/td>\n1%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
ADSL Traffic after hours<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
HTTP and HTTPs<\/td>\n22%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Streaming<\/td>\n35%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
P2P<\/td>\n23% (limited)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Software updates<\/td>\n10% (limited)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Skype and equivalent<\/td>\n4%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Email<\/td>\n1%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Gaming<\/td>\n4%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
VPA, L2TP, IPSEC<\/td>\n0.5%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Other<\/td>\n0.5%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n

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The latest statistics from a South African ADSL network shows what subscribers do on the Internet<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79595,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[71,2954,35,4358],"class_list":["post-79593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adsl","tag-adsl-2","tag-cybersmart","tag-headline","tag-laurie-fialkov"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79593"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79593"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79623,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79593\/revisions\/79623"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}