There was an interesting study quoted by Bill St Arnaud on his mailing list recently. Internationally 80% of last mile traffic is peer to peer. I'd guess that that could go on 24 hours/day. Its also fairly symmetric. Internationally = America/Europe/Asia. Richard. Dave - Dave.net.nz wrote:
J S Russell wrote:
Disclaimer: The following math will be done in my head, so may be wrong. 10GB/month? That's roughly 340MB/day (for 30 days). Which is 14MB/hour. Or 242Kbytes/min. Or 4Kbytes/second. Or, if you like, slower than dialup speeds. What a fine wholesale "broadband" offering this is. And to think, we nearly went down that whole unbundling road!
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.
I'd have throught the average user would be somewhere nearer to 4 or maybe 6 hours a day, but anyway.