Bandwidth use 2008
I recently discovered that my ISP provides handy statistics about the internet traffic to my house. Here, as a historical curiosity, are the figures for 2008:
| Month | Download (GB) | Upload (GB) |
| January | 116.8 | 3.4 |
| February | 140.3 | 4.3 |
| March | 12.1 | 0.7 |
| April | 10.5 | 0.9 |
| May | 12.3 | 1.4 |
| June | 11.6 | 1.2 |
| July | 12.7 | 2.0 |
| August | 18.6 | 5.9 |
| September | 33.9 | 10.2 |
| October | 66.4 | 7.0 |
| November | 19.1 | 6.5 |
| December | 13.1 | 1.6 |
| Total | 467.4 | 45.0 |
| Average | 39.0 | 3.8 |
As background, we don’t make use of P2P for content that the original owners aren’t happy distributing, so I imagine there are heavier users of the net out there. We do use Miro though, so I imagine a fair amount of that traffic is video. The peak in October certainly is (I watched Democracy Now during the US election), and I imagine that was what Jan and Feb were too.
January 5th, 2009 at 2:35 pm
Do UK ISPs start bottlenecking your bandwidth after some predetermined amount ala Comcast? Even though their limits are quite generous (250GB/mo) it sets a dangerous precedent.
January 5th, 2009 at 3:57 pm
Yeah, many also have absolute caps on the monthly download amount. Jan, Feb and October would have busted over many UK ISP limits.
Not mine though :-)
January 6th, 2009 at 12:25 pm
That’s a lot of downloads, John; may I ask who your ISP is, please? Also, what sort of speeds are you getting?
At work we churn those sorts of numbers, although it’s mostly backups and the like.
January 6th, 2009 at 12:36 pm
I’m a happy customer of Zen, and I’ve been with them long enough that I have one of their actually unlimited plans (which I don’t think they sell so cheaply these days).
The price I pay is that I only have 512K download speed. Upgrading to a modern speed would mean paying a lot more for the bandwidth I use.