The next time you hear someone harping about how the tubes are clogged with filesharing, either legal or illegal, as the reason why your internet is slow or dropping out you should reference this chart. According to Sandvine, who would tend to know this sort of thing, just over 65% of all traffic is media streaming. Chances are that the vast majority of that traffic is legal, coming from Netflix, YouTube, Spotify and the wide variety of other online content providers. Indeed, chances are you pay to use that service so when your connection degrades and you contact your ISP about it make sure to have this handy as a reference.
If those companies want to charge you for a service they should actually provide it and not try to blame their lack of infrastructure or insight on something else. Unfortunately they will probably ignore the data and the only result of knowing this will be a sharp increase in your blood pressure. Still, knowing is half the battle so head to re/code for a look at the charts they have compiled into this article.
"Here’s the latest breakdown from broadband services company Sandvine of “fixed access” — for the purposes of this piece, read it as “home broadband” — Internet usage during peak evening hours. That big red bar in the middle is the one to focus on."
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I was thinking that it was
I was thinking that it was the upstream bandwidth that ISPs were all hot and bothered by, and filesharing is the big green chunk of that bar graph.
But really what else do users
But really what else do users use their upload for? there are alot of things to take in but for avg users very little to throw back out, plus many ISPs give 1/10 upload speed vs download speed.
Personally, I do a lot of
Personally, I do a lot of uploading on Wednesdays @ 7PM PST. 😉
I wish I could get 1/10, I am at 1/20 and have had to start selling organs harvested from strangers to be able to afford it.
cheeky
cheeky
so i’ve got the best
so i’ve got the best unlimited deal in my price range that canada will alow, 16m down 500k up. I dont wana do the math, it makes me sad
My server streams video
My server streams video through the plex app to a few select family members. It doesn’t happen everyday but it helps to have more bandwidth ready if more than one person hits it at the same time.
what is missing from those
what is missing from those graphs, are concrete numbers. percentages alone dont tell us the info required to answer the question you pose, although im inclined to believe you. if ISP’s viewed downloading and uploading, in the same light, then surely they would offer similar speeds for both, when selling to their customers. however, they dont. im sure there is a reason. whether or not the reason is founded in limitations in infrastructure or in pursuit of profits, is beyond me. although, im also inclined to lean one way over the other in this regard as well, fwiw.
Nah, ISP’s have historically
Nah, ISP’s have historically been shifty with Upload speeds because they don’t want people running their own servers of ANY type. DOCSIS standards were partially an issue until 3.0 where the parity is much closer between Downstream and Upstream capacity, yet still upload speeds suck because historical reasons. A side effect was that it also made piracy, or “file sharing” much more difficult for the common user because you used to grab it from individuals directly.
ISPs don’t like uploads as it
ISPs don’t like uploads as it cuts into their profits from peering arrangements. (Which seem bogus when their customers are the ones requesting the downloaded bits
Uploads are the concern and
Uploads are the concern and fileshareing is a huge chunk. There is a reason they often limit upload to a fraction of download.
Well now we know that Comcast
Well now we know that Comcast had nefarious plans all along. With this knowledge they clearly started rolling out data caps screaming and yelling about fair share along, file sharing and bandwidth costs. Then they turn around and offer their own video streaming service that also happens not to count against their caps. Sorry but this is unfair competition 101 stuff.
Why… is there no downstream
Why… is there no downstream filesharing?
The Outside Top 5 … as in
The Outside Top 5 … as in it isn't in the top 5 things consuming bandwidth
I don’t see how the content
I don’t see how the content type is the least bit relevant. Home broadband is marketed and sold primarily on the basis of data rate and monthly fee (and, in some places, total data transported.)
Once the customer has paid the required fee, the broadband provider should provide the advertised service without further comments or excuses. The bandwidth has been paid for by the end user, and attempts to re-sell and re-charge for that same bandwidth to the sending party at the threat of restricting the delivery of it should be illegal (on the basis that it is failing to deliver the service sold to the end user.)
The fact that the providers doing this double charging are in possession of government-granted monopolies on fat physical wiring to the home, and are doing it primarily to preserve their unrelated video delivery business, makes it doubly disgusting.