On 12 Aug 2004, at 00:39, Dave - Dave.net.nz wrote:
not really wanting to say this but...
thats assuming that you use it 24hrs a day, the average user(not my average use, or probably yours but...) doesnt use their net connection 24hrs a day, assuming the average user does 8 hrs a day(a fairly high average I'd have throught), thats 12kbytes a second, which is just about fine.
The average, non-technical person who owns a windows box sees the green light on their ADSL or cablemodem blink more or less constantly, 24/7, as far as I have been able to see, regardless of whether their machines are owned by someone else (and you have to say, there's a good chance that they are).
I'd have throught the average user would be somewhere nearer to 4 or maybe 6 hours a day, but anyway.
And then the grandson comes round and tries to download some music with kazaa, and the computer never gets turned off because the family computer expert says it's better to leave it turned on. Joe