Re: An interesting definition of "Heavy User"
 

I must admit i'm not an average user, 25+Gb's per month (Never broke 40 though) but this is usually due to excessive use of Googles Video services and webcam chatting (basically video conferencing)
Does this put me into the heavy user category ?

I mean, the person down the road from me thinks nothing of averagin 6Gb's a day. (God knows what he uses that much for, he never says what he downloads)

On BT's 2Mb service i used to use between 15 and 20Gb, so not much has changed with my slightly faster 4Mb connection.

Re: An interesting definition of "Heavy User"
 

Well under the terms of my 10 meg contract 70 gig a month, I'm about average :D

Re: An interesting definition of "Heavy User"
 

But what does that mean using 70 gig a month, is that downloading 70 gig a month or is that uploading and downloading which also could amount to 70 gig a month?

At the mo my stats are like this:

Download 4.6 gig
Upload 4.2 gig

Sum 8.8 gig



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Re: An interesting definition of "Heavy User"
 

It includes uploads as well, i made sure to include it :)

Re: An interesting definition of "Heavy User"
 

Yep, up and downloads combined, add that to gaming, streaming etc etc and you could soon find yourself getting there :tu:

Re: An interesting definition of "Heavy User"
 

20gb per user is heavy from an overall pov, how many people use the internet and how many of those use p2p/other file moving methods? A very small minority. Most are just surfers / msners.

Re: An interesting definition of "Heavy User"
 

You need to bear in mind when looking at the average there will be a ton of users who pay their bill and possibly not even use their broadband due to been too busy etc. or may use it but very rarely they just pay for it so its there ready for when they need it. These are the perfect customers for isps since they pay for something they not using, same with pensioners in a way as they may well be spending more time working out how to use the mouse or struggling to read then actually using bandwidth.