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From Netflix's own site they currently have around 15 million subscribers and from the world bank, there are about 230 million people with internet in the US so
by andrewjshults 16y ago
From Netflix's own site they currently have around 15 million subscribers and from the world bank, there are about 230 million people with internet in the US so about 6% of the internet users are taking up 20% of the peak bandwidth (assuming that all 15 million actually use the streaming service which is probably a gross over estimation). It'd be very interesting to see how the YouTube/Hulu numbers compare. I can see why Netflix would be such a high consumer (longer content and now a lot more HD content) but even still 20% seems very high when you factor in things like YouTube, Hulu, iTunes, Amazon and file sharing like Bit Torrent.