according to this article the ABS recons Australian internet users downloaded 40 trillion megabytes last quarter. Then there's this:

"Internode project manager Jim Kellett said peer-to-peer traffic, often used to illegally download television episodes from the US ahead of their local release, accounted for a "ridiculously" high proportion bandwidth used by the ISP's customers."

So if that is to be believed, by my rough calculations and rounding up to 15 million internet users that's about 30 Gigabyte per Australian internet user per day last quarter.

Is that 40 trillion megabytes figure just pure bulls*** or is my calculation wrong? Is home users downloading TV really the main use of overall bandwidth or is there some other larger consumer than home users of retail ISPs?

Thats alot of porn

Good old Australian can do spirit.

Is home users downloading TV really the main use of overall bandwidth or is there some other larger consumer than home users of retail ISPs?

well I assume music and movies are still a nice chunk of the equation as well. But it wouldn't surprise me in the least to find out the majority of internet use is for that sort of thing. You seem surprised though? Or am I reading you wrong.

trillion = 1 x 10^12 (common usage), so 40 trillion megabytes = 40000000000000 megabytes, or rougly 40 exabytes. Divide it to gigabytes and you get what, 39062500000 gigabytes?

Despite the ‘Mexican Standoff’ between the government and Telstra on the issue of a regulatory holiday for new broadband infrastructure, broadband penetration is proceeding at high speed in Australia. By mid-2007 there were close to 4.5 million subscribers.

So, 39062500000 divided by 4500000 million users? Thats what, 8680 gigabytes?
And one quarter is 3 months right, so 2893 gigabytes per month, per user?

I must have already hit my cap.

last edited by icewyrm at 23:45:49 09/Aug/07

I didnt realise so many people had access to ADSL2 or better in Australia :P Telstra must be working really hard and even more secretly on the nations internet infrustructure... cause iinet sure as s*** isnt >:(

30gig per end user PER DAY f*** no!

Per month I would believe.

I think that "40 trillion megabytes" is probably a typo

40,000 million (or 40 billion) megabytes =
40000000000 megabytes

40 trillion megabytes =
40000000000000 megabytes


With those figures, you come out to around 3 gig per user per month, if I've got this right.

last edited by icewyrm at 00:07:29 10/Aug/07

Well if Australian tv wasn't so s*** then people wouldn't have to leech their programs off the net.

^
what he said.

man politicians and TV channel bosses should read this forum, they would learn something.

that's a lot of niggabytes

Australian Idol and Big Brother have driven me to the intarwebs...

I don't want to watch s***house 6th or 7th generation repetitive reality tv shows. HBO just have way too many awesome shows.

Until shows are airing same day between US and Aus WITHOUT ADS SCATTERED THROUGHOUT the general public is going to continue to download them, simple as that.

Until shows are airing same day between US and Aus WITHOUT ADS SCATTERED THROUGHOUT the general public is going to continue to download them, simple as that.

I dont know why more tv stations have not gotten on board the 'watch some ads then stream the episode' bandwagon. It would solve almost all of this bulls***. Its not like im going to break the law if a legal alternative exists as long as its a decent service...

wake the f*** up and stop complaining about 'lost revenue becuase of pirates' because you are too lazy/slow to get on board the wave of the future.

/cry

40 Trillion is definitely a typo it should be 40 Million Mega Bytes according to ABS page icewyn posted.

There are ~6,430,000 net users
From 1st Jan to 31st March there are 90days

40,000,000,000 / 6,430,000 = A / 90 = B
B = 69Mb per person per day or 2.05Gb per month

God every link has conflicting statistics on the number of net subscribers

last edited by Lynx at 01:57:50 10/Aug/07

i dunno about you guys, but i regularly download 30gig plus a day (everyday)

I think you would find YouTube has a big impact as well, I read a statistic that it is responsible for 10% of all bandwidth used in the world.

if they would stop releasing so many new versions of linux we wouldn't have this issue

I wasn't including dial up users in my calculations, most people don't bother to download tv eps on 56.6 K/bs.

I do :(

I dont think there is even 30gig worht of TV out every day, new eps anyway.

30gig a month maybe.

And I would've gotten more if it wasn't for those meddling gubbermints!

I almost missed getting a post up ins this thread