I was reminded today that my ISP (Zen) provide a portal where their users can check out their broadband usage. I’m on an unlimited plan (Zen Office 8000 Max) so don’t need to worry about it month to month, but I thought the stats were interesting:
| Date | Download Usage | Upload Usage |
| May-2006 | 98.197 GB | 50.660 GB |
| Jun-2006 | 50.946 GB | 54.701 GB |
| Jul-2006 | 14.767 GB | 28.157 GB |
| Aug-2006 | 44.144 GB | 30.682 GB |
| Sep-2006 | 97.251 GB | 65.315 GB |
| Oct-2006 | 65.665 GB | 87.989 GB |
| Nov-2006 | 129.413 GB | 94.857 GB |
| Dec-2006 | 109.799 GB | 82.930 GB |
| Jan-2007 | 151.169 GB | 98.438 GB |
| Feb-2007 | 79.260 GB | 79.619 GB |
| Mar-2007 | 41.485 GB | 37.320 GB |
| Apr-2007 | 126.846 GB | 73.687 GB |
| May-2007 | 159.338 GB | 102.380 GB |
| Jun-2007 | 157.004 GB | 132.604 GB |
| Jul-2007 | 132.938 GB | 124.104 GB |
| Aug-2007 | 172.039 GB | 113.967 GB |
| Sep-2007 | 214.350 GB | 74.302 GB |
| Oct-2007 | 228.137 GB | 136.154 GB |
| Nov-2007 | 153.469 GB | 86.494 GB |
You can see the dip last year where I wasn’t doing much online, and the growth as more and more of my TV viewing is timeshifted not by Sky+ but via BitTorrent. In a climate where a lot of ISPs are introducing “fair-use” policies to limit bandwidth use, it’s a testament to the strength and speed of Zen’s network that my monthly average use over the last year or so is ~117 GB!
Probably also need to factor in the gamers usage… Notice it started to climb again once you’d activated the server again…
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That’s impressive bandwidth usage, and I’ll certainly look at Zen when my Demon contract’s up…