[c-nsp] Typical broadband aggregation rates

[Mikael Abrahamsson]

On Sat, 12 May 2007, Frank Bulk wrote:

> Our numbers are about 8 kbps/subscriber, insignificant of their broadband
> speed, and it includes a mixture of residential and business.  For higher-ed
> where the students/staff have 10/100 Mbps Ethernet connections I've seen
> rates up to 15 or ever 20 kbps/computer.  I'm sure there are people on this
> list that can offer exceptions, but I think you would be pretty safe
> following these numbers.

I've heard people quoting everything from 12 to 100 kilobit/s for larger 
adsl populations and several times that for 10/100 ethernet.

Traffic to people usually doesn't change much with access speed, traffic 
from people will go up if you give them a lot of upstream.

-- 
Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike at swm.pp.se