Net Stats
It's a geeky topic, but that's my problem.
I'm in the process of getting a high-speed connection for my home office, so I thought I'd review my prior data use. Keep in mind that all the information provided below is for a 56kbps dialup modem that's online most of the day. I usually get a 46.6 kbps connection with it, which yields a peak pre-compressed download speed of 5 kBps and upload speed of 3 kBps. In the table below, the percent-capacity values assume the data isn't compressible. Any compressible data biases the value higher. On the other hand, I manually throttle some applications so other applications (like Remote Desktop) are more responsive. That really can decrease the total and average values.
| Period | Download | Upload | ||||
| MB | Avg. kBps | Avg. % Cap. | MB | Avg. kBps | Avg. % Cap. | |
| Daily (peak) | 401 | 4.8 | 95 | 85 | 1.0 | 34 |
| Monthly (peak) | 11045 | 4.3 | 84 | 595 | 0.24 | 7.6 |
| Overall (122 days of data) | 37053 | 3.6 | 72 | 1415 | 0.14 | 4.6 |
From the aspect this is an individual's usage (for the most part), I think it's impressive to be able to utilize a dialup modem so effectively. Most people won't want or need to push a dialup connection so hard, but I think this data set is useful for anyone planning on using multiple bridged and load-balanced dialup modems for a basic ISP or emergency backup network service. Using the average monthly values can help conservatively gauge the real-world capabilities of a near-fully utilized single dial-up connection. My own usage yields an approximate download compression of 3% and upload compression of 35%. These may not be realistic values for an ISP to use for projection. If web-use is heavier, the amount downloaded would be a lot higher as it's more compressible data. If P2P use is heavy, much more uploading would take place, which could impede download capabilities.
Of the presented data, Apache peaked at 74 MB-up / 9.7 MB-down per month and 22.6 MB-up / 2.2 MB-down per day. Obviously its contribution is nearly negligible, since it's for personal use. The daily averages over the last four months are 0.0025kBps-down and 0.024kBps-up.
Once you factor in that a documented 15-40% of my web traffic is from indexing/spidering robots, it's obvious that I don't know many people to begin with, nor is what I post of any real interest to people searching the web. (40% for the blog, 15% for other pages; likely 40-50% overall, since some robots may not be flagged as such by my filters.)
That just shows how unpopular I truly am... on the web, at least.
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