NAG LAN at rAge 2013 Internet traffic stats

staunchy said:
PC's directly visible to the big bad internet :eek: wondering how many pc's got scr3wed....
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Judging by the LANs I seen in the past, no more than normal.

You will be shocked if you see how much crap is running on the average home PC. Add 1600 of them, and you have a cesspool of note.
 
Those stats are amazing for an event in SA. If only gamers had access to these speeds daily :(
 
Ichigo said:
Wonder what they were downloading to use that much tb couldn't be on games.
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Some people have metered internet so a LAN like this is a great place to update your Steam library. I for one have about 40+ new games that I would love to install but with MWEB's new throttling I have to be selective on how much I get a month.
 
AlphaJohn said:
Some people have metered internet so a LAN like this is a great place to update your Steam library. I for one have about 40+ new games that I would love to install but with MWEB's new throttling I have to be selective on how much I get a month.
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Wow thats a lot of games only got like 3 I play here most of the time.
 
Over a 3 day window 15gbs doesnt seem like a lot per user (this is based on a single connection at home though and not governed).

I resell IS accounts on a weekly basis, its thought provoking that if they can offer this at a huge event to promote themselves then why is SA so backwards for the home users?

I cant and wish for the day that we have awesome interwebs at a competitive market price.
 
“The overall volume of Internet traffic served during the NAG LAN at rAge 2013 was 26TB, which consisted of 21.3TB downloaded, and 4.6TB uploaded,” said Parker.

“We are still awaiting the final breakdown of traffic, but loosely, the top sites included: Steam, Microsoft Update, YouTube, and local gaming servers.”
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Those numbers (for 3 days only) are staggering! Did they all decide to download all the games ever wanted from Steam?

Enter LAN just to update computer and download all the games bought from the last year's worth of Steam sales? It sure looks like it :)
 
McT said:
Those numbers (for 3 days only) are staggering! Did they all decide to download all the games ever wanted from Steam?

Enter LAN just to update computer and download all the games bought from the last year's worth of Steam sales? It sure looks like it :)
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Well why not some people don't have a great internet connection or are on capped accounts.
There is really no more lan games out there yeah there are a few but not everyone plays them.
 
Crzwaco said:
Well why not some people don't have a great internet connection or are on capped accounts.
There is really no more lan games out there yeah there are a few but not everyone plays them.
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I would do the same since that is the point of uncapped.
 
Well, 26TB between 1600 people is actually not that much. It works out to about 16gb per person (if IS uses the 1TB = 1024gb conversion, instead of the common misconception that 1TB is 1000GB), which really isn't that much. I don't know about you guys, but when I'm downloading stuff on my 2mb line I use an average of 20gb per weekend.

I expected the stats to be much higher, tbh.
 
Well - Lets hoe the stats are that low because everyone respected the lines and didn't use Torrents (I'm sure one of the network guys said that P2P was limited).
 
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