While more bandwidth could be clamored for, the majority of machine just sit then without some human at the keyboard. What you are likely seeing is P2P traffic.
Remove that from your totals and then what do you get.
Bob
I am the local tech for an cable ISP, they have been having major QoS and speed issues for the past few months. I keep telling them they need more bandwidth to support their users and they keep saying we added a little bit here and there and it doesn't help. The problem is; they don't add on enough. Here is my report and hopefully some of you out there can back me up on this one. (Keep in mind they sell 7.0/1.0 Mbps packages)
Modems: 1857 Active Modems (** & ********)
Our Pipe: 35Mbps Line
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35,000,000 bpsbits per second (default)
35,000 Kbpskilo bits per second
35 Mbpsmega bits per second
4,375,000 Bpsbytes per second
4,272.5 KBpskilobytes per second
4.2 MBpsmegabytes per second
21.6 T1T1s
3.3 e1010Mbps ethernet
0.3 e100100Mbps Ethernet
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Equals: 19Kbps per Customer Guarantee
This in return will yield these kinds of results in traffic:
Port 1 (Internal) on NETENFORCER_******* (**.***.***.**)
I had a graph here but I cannot post the pics. It showed us at 89% capacity throughout the whole day, then dropping off at 1:00AM.
Data for Sensor Port 1 (Internal) on NETENFORCER_******(**.***.***.*)
Group: NETENFORCER_*******
Host: **.***.***.*
State: OK
Current: 47,501 kbit/second
Interval: 10 s
When ******** is brought on to our network and the pipe is raised we will then have this:
Modems: 2244 Active Modems (** & *******)
Our Pipe: 45Mbps Line
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45,000,000 bpsbits per second (default)
45,000 Kbpskilo bits per second
45 Mbpsmega bits per second
5,625,000 Bpsbytes per second
5,493.2 KBpskilobytes per second
5.4 MBpsmegabytes per second
27.8 T1T1s
4.3 e1010Mbps ethernet
0.4 e100100Mbps Ethernet
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Equals: 20Kbps per Customer Guarantee
Conclusion:
This in return will make no difference, whatsoever, to our bandwidth usage and/or our quality of service. Keep in mind this is what it will be like BEFORE they raise the packages in *** **** to 7.0Mbps. Once *** **** is on our network with these new packages, we will have the most un-reliable network out of any ISP. The quality of service is already deplorable and no one can even use VoIP, play online games, or anything else within these types of categories. Business will suffer HUGE amounts of packet loss and connection errors as they already are experiencing some of these issues. We can keep addressing these small issues but it will never fix the real problem. No matter what we change in the NetEnforcer, the CMTS, the switches, or whatever piece of equipment, we will continue to have these problems until we have the bandwidth we need for the customers. In my opinion, we at least need a 100Kbps per customer guarantee. This will involve a second full 45Mbps DS3 and some new equipment. However if this not done before hand, there will be a huge amount of unsatisfied customers and if it comes out to how I think it will; there will be a substantial amount of disconnects. Customers will be getting 1/8 of what they are paying for. This is just my opinion but I do have many IT professionals whom agree completely with my hypothesis.

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