Re: FCC proposes higher speed goals (100/20 Mbps) for USF providers

[Jim Troutman <jamesltroutman () gmail com>]

Some usage data:

On a rural FTTX XGS-PON network with primarily 1Gig symmetric customers, I
see about 1.5mbit/customer average inbound across 7 days, peaks at about
10mbit/customer, with 1 minute polling.  Zero congestion in middle mile,
transit or peering.

On Mon, Jun 6, 2022 at 7:09 PM Tony Wicks <tony () wicks co nz> wrote:

>    - Do you have any stats on what the average usage was before and after
>    the build out? I'd expect it to go up just because but was it dramatic?
>
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> Well, Back in the FTTC days of ADSL/VDSL (very little cable) as an ISP I
> seem to remember the average home connection was about 1.2Mb/s. Now its
> about 3Mb/s so no, the usage itself does not jump dramatically when the
> bottlenecks went away. A great example of this is the lowest speed on the
> GPON network recently jumped from 100/20 to 300/100 across the board and as
> an ISP we barely noticed anything.  Before this the two most popular speeds
> were the 100/20 and 1000/500 plans, 50% of users would order the 1000/500
> plan, most without really knowing why but it was only about $20 different
> so why not. As an ISP the 1G users only used about 10%-20% more overall
> capacity than the 100/20 users.
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