{"id":116557,"date":"2017-04-03T18:00:04","date_gmt":"2017-04-03T16:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=116557"},"modified":"2017-04-03T16:29:19","modified_gmt":"2017-04-03T14:29:19","slug":"biggest-bandwidth-hogs-on-afrihosts-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/broadband\/116557-biggest-bandwidth-hogs-on-afrihosts-network","title":{"rendered":"Biggest bandwidth hogs on Afrihost&#8217;s network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Afrihost\u2019s uncapped ADSL leaderboard for the past month shows that its top users consume massive amounts of data.<\/p>\n<p>Afrihost\u2019s leaderboard \u2013 called Data Kingpins \u2013 details how much data its top uncapped DSL users consume over a rolling 31-day period.<\/p>\n<p>The leaderboard consists of Home Uncapped, Premium Uncapped, and Business Uncapped users across line speeds from 1Mbps to 40Mbps.<\/p>\n<p>The top user for the period was a\u00a0Premium Uncapped DSL account holder with a 20Mbps line \u2013 consuming\u00a05,589GB in 31 days.<\/p>\n<p>This works out to just over 180GB of usage per day.<\/p>\n<p>Even at the low-end of the range, users put in some serious downloading.<\/p>\n<p>A 1Mbps Home Uncapped user managed to consume 531GB of data, which works out to a respectable 17GB per day.<\/p>\n<p>The top users are detailed in the table below.<\/p>\n<div class=\"myg_table\">\n<div class=\"table-responsive\"><table class=\"table\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"7\">\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th colspan=\"3\">\n<div align=\"center\">Top Afrihost DSL Users<\/div>\n<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"46%\"><strong>Account<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"27%\"><strong>Line Speed<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"27%\"><strong>Data Consumed<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Premium Uncapped DSL<\/td>\n<td>20Mbps<\/td>\n<td><strong>5,589GB<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Business Uncapped DSL<\/td>\n<td>40Mbps<\/td>\n<td><strong>4,938GB<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Business Uncapped DSL<\/td>\n<td>20Mbps<\/td>\n<td><strong>4,127GB<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Business Uncapped DSL<\/td>\n<td>40Mbps<\/td>\n<td><strong>4,111GB<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Premium Uncapped DSL<\/td>\n<td>20Mbps<\/td>\n<td><strong>3,780GB<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Home Uncapped DSL<\/td>\n<td>10Mbps<\/td>\n<td><strong>2,439GB<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>This article first appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/adsl\/205354-when-using-100gb-a-day-is-childs-play.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>MyBroadband<\/strong><\/a> and is republished with permission.<\/em><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/adsl\/205292-telkoms-new-integrated-data-service-all-the-details.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Telkom\u2019s new Integrated Data Service \u2013 All the details<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afrihost\u2019s uncapped ADSL leaderboard for the past month shows that its top users consume massive amounts of data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":88513,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8812],"tags":[2289,13980],"class_list":["post-116557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadband","tag-afrihost","tag-bandwidth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}