In my opinion, if you have a reliable 2-3mbps available to you, that is plenty. The million dollar question is how much speed do you really need? Sometimes there may have been a little buffering, but in general it has not been a problem. There have been times when a lot of people were streaming something around the same time, and guess what happened? Things slowed down a little bit for everyone. We allow everyone to use what is available at any given time on the network. We have not had to throttle anyone, or impose data caps. But, there are still large swaths of time when nothing is happening.Īll of these individual usage patterns flow together to create the one at the top. This is someone streaming something high def (the large green blobs). Here is another person, with a different usage pattern: General web browsing, or youtube at lower rez is the other green blips. The larger blob at the far right is watching some video. Here is the usage graph for the connection from my house for that same 2 day period: I think those ISP’s that might do this, would probably not share this information, because it shows we actually use WAY less than we think we do. So, what about individual usage? Not all ISP’s graph this data, but we decided to do this so we could manage the network and identify any issues. Here is another graph that shows this same traffic over a weeks time.
Un throttled download#
So even though people may be able to download faster, the reality is they don’t consume that much, and it’s only generally in the evening. So, what does our overall bandwidth usage look like going out of the tank to the internet? But, that’s a far cry from the 1.5mbps that you sometimes got with DSL.
If you are several hops away, then that tends to drop to the 20’s.
If you are one or two hops from the tank, you can probably get upload and download speeds in the 40+mpbs range.
This allows people to test speeds to the tank. In order to test the speeds on our internal network, we installed a speed test mini webpage on a server at the water tank. We got the fastest upstream connection that we could, and then we built our wireless network out and tried to provide the fastest speeds possible in an affordable manner. The DBIUA decided to see what would happen without imposing either of these on its members. Probably all Internet services give people a choice of either speed or data caps.
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