DSL, dialup, T1, locally connected ethernet, wireless, P2P high speed
wireless.

And if they are doing a long term average of 1Mbps, they are very likely
breaking the TOS or have a virus or are doing file trading. Most people
just can't use that much as an average, and average is the important
word. I use a ton of bandwidth compared to a lot of people, but my long
term average is well below 50Kbps.

We manage a dormitory which is mostly grad students, and the people who
use large bandwidth are mostly file traders. These people can be
assigned to 2 groups - those who actively trade, and those who installed
a file trading program, used it and think they disabled it. Guess what,
many aren't disabled when you disable them. They may still search for
peers, and may also still run as an upload/download point even though
the computer owner thinks it's disabled. I deal with this once or twice
per week on a dorm with about 300 users.

Uninfected, non-file trading users average less than 10Kbps in/out even
though their connection is "free".

And 1Mbps sustained is fairly trivial and normal. It gets missed all
the time, at least for a while. Unfortunately it gets lost in the noise
until someone looks at ALL the MRTG graphs. And again, it may be
perfectly ok, not violating the TOS. Inwhich case all the ISP can do is
call the customer and make ask them to check for a virus. And maybe not
even that, depending on the fed and state laws.

tom
K0TAR

Joel Kolstad wrote:

Tom Ring wrote:

And I forgot to mention that almost all our customers are of the
unlimited type, so we don't don't monitor their traffic rate, or amount.


Are you offering dial-up service only, or cable modem/DSL services?

Where I live, cable modem users get well over a megabit per second of
bandwidth, and someone filling that connection 24 hours a day is going to
make a noticeable mark in the ISP's overall bandwidth usage.