Biggest ADSL downloader

Internet Solutions has been offering uncapped ADSL accounts for a long time. We take a look at the biggest downloaders on their network.
Speaking at the recent MyADSL Broadband Conference hosted at Vodaworld, Internet Solutions’ General Manager for Internet Access, Alan Bacher, gave an overview of the top bandwidth users during September 2007.
The biggest downloader for September, on an uncapped 1 Mbps connection, used a combined total of 332 GB during the month. This consisted of 65 GB of uploaded data and 267 GB of downloaded data – close to the theoretical limit of a possible 332 GB of downloads on a 1 Mbps connection.
If this user had to pay per-GB rates for his data on the SAIX network it would have cost him in the region of R 18 000 at the discounted rate of R 55-00 per GB.
The top 10 users, which range between 332 GB and 232 GB per month, used a combined total of 2.69 TB during September. These users on average uploaded 46 GB per month and downloaded 224 GB per month.
The biggest downloader of them all
These users are however not the record holder, according to IS they have one individual who takes the cake. One of their subscribers – who was not limited to a 1 Mbps connection speed - previously downloaded more than 1 Terabyte of data in a single calendar month.
This can obviously put a tremendous amount of strain on any network, but what the IS engineers found more interesting was how it was possible for a single user to download that much information in a single month.
It emerged that this subscriber had 40 concurrent active connections to newsgroups open at any given time – downloading data for the full duration of the month. The 1 TB monthly download amount came very close to the theoretical limit of what is possible on a 4 Mbps ADSL connection.
Average monthly usage
Bacher revealed the interesting statistic that the majority of their uncapped users – on both their Business ADSL 512kbps & 1024kbps offering and their Business ADSL Fibre 512kbps & 1024kbps services – use less than 20 GB of data per month.
Only a small portion of their uncapped service subscriber base – typically under 10% - exceeds the 50 GB monthly usage limit.
Source: mybroadband.co.za