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Mine too. Our ISPs didn’t build their infrastructure as though each customer would be maxing out their connection at all times. It does mean they have a good id
by kstrauser 3y ago
Mine too. Our ISPs didn’t build their infrastructure as though each customer would be maxing out their connection at all times. It does mean they have a good idea of how fat their pipes need to be to support the traffic loads they see on their graphs. Then they buy enough capacity to meet those needs, plus some safety margin.
For instance, if all customers had 1Gb service and peak usage on their end is everyone streaming Netflix at 40Mbps at 8PM, it would be prohibitively expensive for them to buy the capacity to support every customer downloading at 1Gb simultaneously when 40Mb is only 4% of that.