Re: modeling residential subscriber bandwidth demand

[Ben Cannon <ben () 6by7 net>]

A 100/100 enterprise connection can easily support hundreds of desktop users if not more.  It’s a lot of bandwidth even 
today. 

-Ben

> On Apr 2, 2019, at 10:35 PM, Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike () swm pp se> wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 2 Apr 2019, Paul Nash wrote:
> >
> > FWIW, I have a 250 subscribers sitting on a 100M fiber into Torix.  I have had no complains about speed in 4 1/2 
> > years.  I have been planning to bump them to 1G for the last 4 years, but there is currently no economic 
> > justification.
>
> I know FTTH footprints where peak evening average per customer is 3-5 megabit/s. I know others who claim their 
> customers only average equivalent 5-10% of that.
>
> It all depends on what services you offer. Considering my household has 250/100 for 40 USD a month I'd say your above 
> solution wouldn't even be enough to deliver an acceptable service to even 10 households.
>
> -- 
> Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike () swm pp se