Some usage data: On a rural FTTX XGS-PON network with primarily 1Gig symmetric customers, I see about 1.5mbit/customer average inbound across 7 days, peaks at about 10mbit/customer, with 1 minute polling. Zero congestion in middle mile, transit or peering.
On Mon, Jun 6, 2022 at 7:09 PM Tony Wicks <t...@wicks.co.nz> wrote: > > > - Do you have any stats on what the average usage was before and after > the build out? I'd expect it to go up just because but was it dramatic? > > > > Well, Back in the FTTC days of ADSL/VDSL (very little cable) as an ISP I > seem to remember the average home connection was about 1.2Mb/s. Now its > about 3Mb/s so no, the usage itself does not jump dramatically when the > bottlenecks went away. A great example of this is the lowest speed on the > GPON network recently jumped from 100/20 to 300/100 across the board and as > an ISP we barely noticed anything. Before this the two most popular speeds > were the 100/20 and 1000/500 plans, 50% of users would order the 1000/500 > plan, most without really knowing why but it was only about $20 different > so why not. As an ISP the 1G users only used about 10%-20% more overall > capacity than the 100/20 users. > -- Jim Troutman, jamesltrout...@gmail.com Pronouns: he/him/his 207-514-5676 (cell)