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qasdfdsaq · 07-03-2012, 11:30

I'd agree with you there. There is often an increase, but it's far from linear, and often made up of things people could now do that previously couldn't, rather than more of the same. Last time I had any information on this I think it was around 20% more usage when you doubled someone's speed. There are exceptions of course, the day after I got my 50mb installed I downloaded at full speed for 24 hours straight just to try it. Managed to hit 500GB in one day.

The argument in the past was VM couldn't keep up with capacity upgrades because every time they'd add more capacity the users would suck all of it up immediately. That's only the case if bandwidth demand before the upgrade was already higher than what was provided after.

07-03-2012, 11:30	#1049
qasdfdsaq cf.mega poster Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 11,207	Re: Think Broadband Ping Monitor Results (POST YOURS) I'd agree with you there. There is often an increase, but it's far from linear, and often made up of things people could now do that previously couldn't, rather than more of the same. Last time I had any information on this I think it was around 20% more usage when you doubled someone's speed. There are exceptions of course, the day after I got my 50mb installed I downloaded at full speed for 24 hours straight just to try it. Managed to hit 500GB in one day. The argument in the past was VM couldn't keep up with capacity upgrades because every time they'd add more capacity the users would suck all of it up immediately. That's only the case if bandwidth demand before the upgrade was already higher than what was provided after.