[AusNOG] Netflix in AU, break up Go4, or TPG peering breakup?

[Mark Andrews]

In message <CAOu9xNKKisJoz3GFWb43mg+-ztR7ZHE8b84bZN8=YnPikiEn1Q at mail.gmail.com>
, Robert Hudson writes:
> 
> On 23 July 2014 20:57, Mark ZZZ Smith <markzzzsmith at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> 
> >
> > I still think it is significant that around half of all Internet
> > connections in Australia are wireless.
> 
> 
> The only thing surprising about that is that the figure you've quoted isn't
> higher.  That said, I find that particular statistic to be pretty useless -
> and here's why.
> 
> In my household, I have three wireless broadband connections (two mobile
> phones with data plans, plus a pre-paid 4G WiFi AP) and a single wired
> connection.  And I don't have children who have their own mobile phones or
> devices - that number could easily climb to six or more wireless
> connections without any significant effort - and that's without having
> extended family in the house - and it's becoming more and more common to
> have more than two generations in a household.
> 
> Wireless is brilliant for certain things.  Consuming large amounts of data
> is not one of those things (at least not in this market, I acknowledge that
> the bottleneck in Australia isn't the capability of the technology).
> 
> The consumption of content over wireless in this country is still very
> small.  It's possible to get a ridiculously large quota (I get 150GB a
> month if memory serves, I honestly don't even think about quota on my ADSL
> service any more, but I know I'm WAY below the maximum quota available on
> basic consumer ADSL services) on wired for less than I pay for 1.5GB a
> month on Telsta 4G (on which I can't even download a single DVD ISO without
> paying stupidly obscene excess data charges - assuming it works at all when
> I'm on the move, given even the best 4G network in the country still has
> black spots and massive congestion issues at times).
> 
> Back to my first line - what is more interesting than the number of raw
> wired and wireless connections is the volume of data consumed on wired vs
> wireless connections - wireless connections have been relatively static for
> years in terms of how much data is downloaded per month (and have actually
> gone backwards slightly over the last two years), whereas the amount of
> data consumed by wired connections seems to double every couple of years
> (if even that long) - and I bet if you found information on the data
> produced from wireless and wired connections, it'd be even more glaringly
> obviously biased in favour of wired).

Which is only two clicks away.

	Dec 2012:   N/A (dialup) vs 526472 TB (fixed) vs 28196 TB (wireless)
	Jun 2013: 66 TB (dialup) vs 629964 TB (fixed) vs 27232 TB (wireless)
	Dec 2013: 73 TB (dialup) vs 823421 TB (fixed) vs 37426 TB (wireless)
 
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Mark Andrews, ISC
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