Psyber wrote:Psyber wrote:Mr Beefy wrote: Perhaps some exponential growth in traffic volumes should be factored in. The current levels of data transfer would be a lot higher if the capacity of the network was higher.
Dunno about that...
Internode recently doubled my downloads to 10GB per month at no extra charge, but I don't use much over half most months.
My average consumption may be up about 10% because I'm prepared to download updates twice for two machines rather than transfer them on a USB stick now.
I can see that business use and the big private download users may escalate consumption once unleashed, but how much should we the majority be subsidising that group.
(It is like the SA public paying to upgrade the Adelaide Oval for the less than 2% of the population who ever go there.)
It does grow.
The advent of a new woman in my life who is a rather technically and socially connected one lead to my download use escalating to about 13 GB per month - that included hooking up her Smart TV to my system. Last month we hit a new record high of 30GB, but that did include having just come back from 3 months away (in an area of restricted Internet access) and having between us 4 computers and two smart phones in need of catch up updates...
I expect it will settle back to about 15GB now
However neither of us see any need for speeds faster than my present 25/5 NBN deal.
fair to say I use a ton more now. for instance, right now i am watching arsenal/chelsea, and also have the aus india ODI on foxtel go, and the davis cup streaming, and the mrs is watching netflix in the lounge (i also have the F1 on foxtel. ridiculous night for sport)