<html><head></head><body><div dir="auto">Hi Jason,<br><br>Thank you very much for the information!<br><br>Regards</div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="auto">On 14 November 2023 11:37:26 GMT-05:00, "Livingood, Jason" <jason_livingood@comcast.com> wrote:</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="k9mail"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;"><div dir="auto">Joking aside, how representative is this ratio of users to peak traffic for what you know about residential users? I am not looking for anything more than a very coarse replay, like same order of magnitude or not ;)<br></div></blockquote><div dir="auto"><br>Based on my experience, this is representative in so far as: <br>- People tend to use less bandwidth than they think [1]<br>- Downstream/upstream asymmetry remains is prevalent / normal<br>- The only real use of 1 Gbps is a speed test (artificial driver); there are no user applications that place those demands naturally on the network<br><br>Jason<br><br>[1] In a way, more bandwidth is like an insurance policy for possible usage and ensures capacity is not a constraint - and it has historically been a fair proxy, if indirect, for QoE.<br><br><br></div></pre></blockquote></div><div dir="auto"><div class='k9mail-signature'>-- <br>Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.</div></div></body></html>