Consumer Internet Traffic Chart

so the average US person uses 10GB per month... yup I can see those caps coming down to much lower numbers
 
The 2015 predictions seem a bit extreme. I am also surprised China isn't higher. Then again this is per person and I imagine the average Chinese isn't on the computer that often. You can definitely see a correlation between bandwidth and infrastructure.
 
These are my monthly stats just from using Usenet. Comcast definitely doesn't like me.

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But then again, per person? Does this include people that don't have/use the internet
 
I'm also wondering whether or not they're including cell phone carriers in this and how it's done if they are.
 
wtiger said:
I'm also wondering whether or not they're including cell phone carriers in this and how it's done if they are.
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I was wondering the same thing, I would think that Japan would be much higher if they included cell phone use.
 
all things considered, i think this is surprising for our rank to be as high as 4th since we have some of the lowest broadband penetration and some of the slowest speeds compared to other countries
 
Isn't South Korea where 5Mbit connection to the Internet considered "crap", with an average connection in the 30Mbit range (for like $20!!!!).....???
Maybe if lazy-ass-corporate-pigs in US had some competition, we'd be up there in connection speed and availability....... Just maybe...
 
I have to say whoever did that research did a poor job, first of all Sweden isn't even on there, believe me, they use a lot of bandwidth with those 100mbit dirt cheap connections.
Second of all is it per capita? or per internet costumer?
Either way, this is more of a joke than "statistics"!
 
Isn't this chart effected by each nations average net connection speed? If America had a higher average internet speed wouldnt our consumption equal or even exceed South Korea?
 
mzs_biteme said:
Isn't South Korea where 5Mbit connection to the Internet considered "crap", with an average connection in the 30Mbit range (for like $20!!!!).....???
Maybe if lazy-ass-corporate-pigs in US had some competition, we'd be up there in connection speed and availability....... Just maybe...
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I don't know what your thinking but 5Mbit is a crap connection. Where I live I get a juicy 80Mbps download and 20Mbps upload.
 
Fendrix said:
Gotta be all the Starcraft.
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It's not just that. We've been importing Korean games into local servers of my country and i've had the chance to experiment with them (even creating dummy clients for some of them). The way the netcodes work seem to be based around really fast networks with the same reliability and consistency as a LAN and doesn't handle low bandwidth/unstable lines very well.

Other AAA game developers have games that have very good tolerance for crappy connections and games stay playable to some extent. An attribute that's isn't as prevalent in Korean games.

It's rather telling on what kind of network backbone the games were apparently developed on. You get an idea on the kind of internet connection they must have over there if netcode this crappy actually worked.
 
blame the canadian spike on people like me who do 300gb+ per month thanks to torrents, frostwire, and netflix :D
 
Guess that means it is time for ISP's to start charging more for lower bandwidth caps. You know cause we consume a lot. Greedy S.O.B.s
 
With all the Korean MMO's out and the people playing over there so long in one sitting until they literally die, the chart doesn't shock me at all.
 
This is such a skewed chart. It seems as if they've done it per capita, which would include people who don't even have access to the internet. :(
 
mzs_biteme said:
Isn't South Korea where 5Mbit connection to the Internet considered "crap", with an average connection in the 30Mbit range (for like $20!!!!).....???
Maybe if lazy-ass-corporate-pigs in US had some competition, we'd be up there in connection speed and availability....... Just maybe...
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Yeah, I'm sure it has nothing to do with South Korea only having 1% of the area and 14.5 times the population denity of the US, so obviously it's greedy business people.


TheDoctah said:
This is such a skewed chart. It seems as if they've done it per capita, which would include people who don't even have access to the internet. :(
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Yeah, I'd be interested to see how it would look if it only addressed people with internet connections.
 
DarkStar_WNY said:
Yeah, I'm sure it has nothing to do with South Korea only having 1% of the area and 14.5 times the population denity of the US, so obviously it's greedy business people.
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I could throw a rock and hit a major internet backbone, with something like a hand gun I can hit a half dozen more internet backbones ... yet the two major ISPs in this area are comcast and at&t where I get 3Mbps max, with Comcast I could probably double that... maybe.

This isn't about the entire US being wired with blazing fast speed, this is about companies not wanting to do much work (arguably it does get expensive in bigger cities) to wire a particular area with really fast internet access. I mean if you don't dole out your service slowly, first 1.5Mbps, then 3Mbps, then 6Mbps, then 12Mbps, the 20Mbps... how else are you going to milk your customer base for all it's worth?
 
Yeah population density is definitely the number #1 factor: Not only you can cable more people for cheaper, but you can also cable them with fiber to the home instead of copper, and if you have kick-ass broadband plans to boot, you have South Korea.

I am not surprised about France. It's cabled mostly via DSL, so basically everybody who has a landphone also has triple play Internet-Phone-TV, which has become the basic phone subscription offer for about $45. It's actually DSL2 or ADSL2 as it's called over there, using the 2 phone lines that are pre-wired into every home for twice the speed, over 20 MB/s in cities or 5-10 MB/s in the farthest mountain valley, all on copper. You'd think the U.S. would have at least the same offer, at least on cities, where population density is equivalent, but it's one case where deregulation and so-called competitive capitalism actually dragged the whole country down to the cheapest service, as opposed to the previous state-owned France Telecoms monopoly, which led to high standards to be developed and still be present after telecoms were introduced to the private sector.

The downside of this high bandwidth is that France has one of the highest piracy rate in Europe. ^-^
 
Look guys, I'm doing my best to bring our US average up, but I can't do it alone!
Last 6 months:
374.2GB, 257.3GB, 242.8GB, 237.4GB, 305.7GB, 285.5GB
So far this month: 49.8GB
My ISP must love me.
 
Kueller said:
Look guys, I'm doing my best to bring our US average up, but I can't do it alone!
Last 6 months:
374.2GB, 257.3GB, 242.8GB, 237.4GB, 305.7GB, 285.5GB
So far this month: 49.8GB
My ISP must love me.
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Nice. Good thing your ISP is not AT&T or Comcast.

My friends who have Verizon FiOS make me jealous w/ their unlimited 35M/35M or 25M/25M capability. While I'm stuck at 6M/512K and 150 GB cap. :( :mad:
 
Ya china's the pirate king....Now in South Korea, their national past time is playing Starcraft1 and 2. ;)
 
TheDoctah said:
This is such a skewed chart. It seems as if they've done it per capita, which would include people who don't even have access to the internet. :(
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Actually everybody does. Internet Cafe's may not practical in the US because of such low densities, but they're pretty much everywhere. You can over to the next street and find one. One of the most famous and powerful Ragnarok Online priests turned out to be some homeless kid.
 
My family lives in South Korea and the government mandated that all homes be able to get 100 Mbit connections for their internet.

My cousin did a bandwidth test and emailed me the pict. He regularly gets like 110-120Mbit download speeds. In the US i think the max we can get is like 50Mbit.
 
well they are predictions so i doubt it'll be anywhere near it.

This freaking thing needs hope puts some sense in US companies and provide faster internet.
 
They pulled those numbers out of thin air because there is no way Canada will ever use more bandwidth than the USA.
 
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