Fire Alarm Companies

ISPs and cell phone companies have been known to raise the specter of "bandwidth hog" to justify the tops of data or bandwidth. Considering most ISPs are also TV providers, regulation and Restrictions on the use of data can cause some customers to their televisions. (Depending on the number of eggs in the basket of the other company, which also helps to push the cinemas and tilting the head back to the regular old radio, as these hats that streaming services very few attractive)

Karl Bode DSL Reports has finally received some information that confirms what many of us had suspected all along:.'s bandwidth hog is a man of practical bag instead of a real being. Wagt Analysts Herman Benoit Felton and managed to speak of "small and medium enterprises anonymous DSL in North America" ??to share their data on the use of the customer. Not surprisingly, despite its open invitation to ISPs to oppose the "troublemaker" argument, no broadband / DSL offered to provide data, suggesting that they are already aware of what really show the use of numbers.



In a blog note Felten, the couple took the actual user data for all clients connected to a single link aggregation and analysis of statistics consumption data network - in increments of five minutes long - more than a day. What they found is that ISPs often blocked not understand customer usage patterns, consumption data and confusing (the amount of data has been downloaded more than one period) and the use of bandwidth ( the amount of bandwidth capacity is used at any given time).

What they discovered is that the data runs contrary to most claims made by some ISPs more time around the family to justify caps and excess. Among the conclusions of the couple is that 1% of consumer data (which they call "heavy users" instead of confrontation and "pig") represent 20% of global consumption.

looking deeper into the data, also found that nearly 61% of heavy data consumers download 95% or more, but only 5% DOD at least 95% of consumers are sometimes very large databases. While 83% of consumers very large data are among the 1% of broadband users for at least a time window of five minutes during peak hours, which represent only 14.3% of 1% of users the time.

's a lot of percentages and the percentages of percentages. Fortunately, a commentator on DSL Reports has been able to use the analogy "dreaded" drive for simplicity:

1% of trips
drivers on the road miles a disproportionate amount compared to the average driver. But they are on the road all the time. Most of the time are on the way there are no drivers at peak times are subject to heavy congestion.The be involved in traffic jams during rush hour, but only a small, not very relevant, the fraction of the total drivers in traffic jam.Limiting the number of miles that the driver can handle, it does nothing to widen roads and few people off the roads during traffic jams, so it does not help the congestion.

In other words, Internet use tends to be abundant at certain times of the day, and installation of ceilings or users supposedly stronger regulations does nothing to relieve congestion. Instead, users are punished across the board, beating some of them with additional costs and offers very little in the way of improving the connection or the speed for the remaining users line in the "jam."


Felten concludes that ISPs are required to better understand the difference between the use of data and bandwidth consumption, or face to lead their customers to competitors more reasonable. This is assuming that consumers have a choice, caps exist in many markets due in large part due to the non-competition. expands as follows:

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