QUOTE (Harkonnen @ Jul 1 2009, 04:56 PM)
On a personal note, I've downloaded 25gb and uploaded 7.6gb in the past 36 hours alone. And the other 4-5 computers in my house are probably chugging away at the bandwidth metres too.
This isn't bragging or anything, i'm just saying that 99% of the bandwidth in my household is torrent packets, rather than http packets (youtube, etc). This is probably not the norm, but not too far from the average either.
99% of the internet is not home users such as yourself.
I'd
really love to see the figures on what uses what around the web. I'm almost certain I've seen them before, but I can't remember where/what.
I know spam makes up a huge percentage of it. Torrents are also a huge percentage.
Banks, huge corps, etc wouldn't make up as much as you think - afaik, most of them have private links for their major data routes.
*shrugs*