Re: Average Usage Per Month By Tier
 

How did you know :)

Re: Average Usage Per Month By Tier
 

I'm sitting at 195GB downloaded this month so far, with upload it's at 282.5GB This doesn't include parents PC and sisters laptop as they are on the superhub (which doesn't log as well as the DIR-615 with DD-WRT) which my PC and laptop is connected through.

I don't generally download much and do not download 'illegal' stuff, it's mostly browsing (with some youtube and iPlayer) but I stream a webcam via ustream for up to 12 hours a day and that is where much of the upload comes from.

Re: Average Usage Per Month By Tier
 

Just out of curiosity I've extrapolated some stats from:

A: "L"/10/1 Tier which appears to indicate 60GB down and 30GB up monthly on Brig15 and
B: "XL"/20/2 tier at 90GB down & 10GB up monthly via Brig16.

As the "main man" said - standard deviation and demographic breakdown would be interesting to see?

Re: Average Usage Per Month By Tier
 

Demographic breakdown?

I think we can guess which demographics are generally the heaviest users in both directions.

The heaviest usage per modem probably goes to students where there's a number of adults caning the thing. That group that VM whores itself to and oversubscribes various segments of its network with each and every year.

I'm curious as to what your arithmetic is based on however?

Re: Average Usage Per Month By Tier
 

Quite probably although somewhat incongruous when you think those almost predictable yearly "load cycles" should have normally been trivially anticipated using any number of "off-the-shelf" DOCSIS modelling software apps that various US research uni's have been utilising/publishing for last decade! ;)

Perhaps I should have tried to be cute and said Modulo 2 ? - naw base radix 10 I'm afraid! ;)

Sorry to dissappoint - totally uninspired,non-innovative,unscientific and statistically crude:

A: Lan backup/Timecapsule disabled for last week and (nic)throughput from one Macbook sampled eg today:
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2 Apple Laptops(inc 1 Win7 VM) +1 Win7 native Desktop - No serious streaming,no P2P, no multimedia,occassional OS distro's and just VM's castrated version of f-secures brain dead (unlimited) Backup&Storage constantly uploading to f-secures's vm data server and due to my frequent re-imaging of Mac OSX sandbox it is literally constant! Runs vintage (2009) SamKnows Performance trialist monitor 24x7.

B:1 user self built PC + Win7 - No backup - Medium/Heavy p2p + intermittent media streaming alternating with heavy gaming, and sporadic DVD downloads, no SK monitor but frequent remote desking from my systems and data extrapolated from VM SH eg today:
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Re: Average Usage Per Month By Tier
 

The increase in upstream usage with the uplift surprised VM somewhat.

Re: Average Usage Per Month By Tier
 

I would normally say fire the system Architect except I suspect they've still retained IBM/Cisco consultancy…. ;)

Re: Average Usage Per Month By Tier
 

I am surprised that they were surprised.

Historical data has shown multiple times when speeds go up on broadband usage usually goes up with it.

Re: Average Usage Per Month By Tier
 

Is it possible to give an indication of the rough number of subscribers per tier so you can put things in perspective?

Re: Average Usage Per Month By Tier
 

Certainly.

There's about 4,072,900 cable broadband customers, broken down thus (base):

http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/9881/vmtiermix.jpg

Re: Average Usage Per Month By Tier
 

yeah an ever increasing load on the docsis3 network based on that info. Large shift from 10mbit to 30mbit.

Re: Average Usage Per Month By Tier
 

Which is good.

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So when I downgrade from 50 should I go to 30 or the whole way to 10 considering my portion of the DOCSIS 3 network currently sucks big time?

Re: Average Usage Per Month By Tier
 

as long as capacity is increased with growth. Or if you on the 10mbit network :)

Re: Average Usage Per Month By Tier
 

Why!?

Until the uplift, VM had comparatively low upstream, so it made sense that people only used it when they absolutely had to.