[Phpwm] Broadband provider

[Darran Rimron]

Phil Beynon wrote:
> Interesting that West Yorks Police have only just upgraded to 10Mbits / Sec
> for their force network across 72 police locations / networks including
> video conferencing etc etc.......... (computing magazine, last week or so)
>   
It's all about usage patterns.

While the police *may* use Video Conferencing I'm pretty sure they're 
not to keen to be able to leave their P2P stuff running while I'm 
listening to streaming radio and the preverbial wife is watching some 
streaming TV show and the kids are on the "xbox live", surfing the web 
and using iTunes to buy/download stuff....   oh, and my neighbour is 
stealing my wifi to steal porn.

Welcome to the connected family....

Gosh, did my wifi VoIP phone just ring? Should I tell everyone to hold 
on while I see who it is? Including little Jimmy's deathmatch?

Okay, while not married with kids I do have pretty much all of those 
things setup in my home and when my mates are over could easily be doing 
a good chunk of that, at once....

I'm more interested in the upstream than the downstream, anyway....
> So still can't see why anyone on here would need to have a 24Mb line :-)
>   
NTL have recently found enough of their 10Mbit users consistantly going 
over 75GiB transfer a month that they're removing all usage caps....

That gives you a rough idea of how heavy "normal" home users are getting....

-Dx