[140995] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Contention/Oversubscription maths
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jacob Broussard)
Fri May 27 09:04:16 2011
Date: Fri, 27 May 2011 06:02:07 -0700
From: Jacob Broussard <shadowedstranger@gmail.com>
To: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
I don't use almost any bandwidth outside of Netflix, Steam game downloads,
and getting my daily dose of streaming starcraft videos and ntop tells me I
averaged 1.7mbps over the last month. Mind you this is on an 8mbps peak
connection. With peak speeds of 8m I would be pissed if I was getting 500k,
much less if I had a 100m connection and got less than a meg. I have no
doubt that if I had a faster connection that I would have used even more
bandwidth... With the popularity of streaming video now a 1000:1 or even a
100:1 oversubscription rate is almost definitely just going to cause you
headaches... Back in my days of noc, 9 out of 10 bandwidth AUP abusers
weren't even using torrents, they were almost all netflix or people that got
rid of cable to watch video online.
