That's my point. NANOG users are not the average user. For every one of you there are at least a thousand people who just want good Netflix connections and even if they might be backing up stuff remotely they are sending a few selfies and a couple Word docs.
Steven Naslund Chicago IL >Hmm... my copy of crashplan is reporting 8mps of upload right now. >Granted, that's not average, but it can be sustained for a while, whenever I >shut down a virtual machine (Parallels on a Mac, the entire virtual image >takes a while to back >up - not all that uncommon). I also expect that most >folks who buy a network backup service just use the default settings for when >to do backups - which suggests an >awful lot of backup traffic going on at the >same time every night. >Miles Fidelman
