{"id":63374,"date":"2014-04-15T11:56:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-15T09:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=63374"},"modified":"2014-04-15T11:57:34","modified_gmt":"2014-04-15T09:57:34","slug":"biggest-bandwidth-hogs-in-sa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/63374-biggest-bandwidth-hogs-in-sa","title":{"rendered":"Biggest bandwidth hogs in SA"},"content":{"rendered":"

One South African VDSL\u00a0user, with an uncapped Afrihost\u00a0account, has consumed 3.01TB of data over a month. Various other users consumed in excess of 1TB a month using uncapped services.<\/p>\n

Afrihost\u2019s \u201cData Kingpins\u201d section publishes regularly-updated bandwidth usage rankings for the ISP’s uncapped users.<\/p>\n

According to the latest figures, the top user, using an uncapped account on a 40Mbps VDSL connection, consumed 3,055GB (3.1TB) of data over the last month.\u00a0Other top users include another 40Mbps subscriber who consumed 2,057GB (2.1TB), and a 20Mbps user who used 2,059GB (2.1TB).<\/p>\n

Afrihost further revealed that its top ten 10Mbps uncapped ADSL\u00a0subscribers consumed a combined total of 10.16TB over the last month.<\/p>\n

The following table shows the top home uncapped DSL users on the Afrihost network.<\/p>\n

\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Afrihost uncapped data usage<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Account<\/strong><\/td>\nMonthly usage<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
40Mbps uncapped VDSL<\/td>\n3055GB<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
20Mbps uncapped VDSL<\/td>\n2059GB<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
40Mbps uncapped VDSL<\/td>\n2057GB<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10Mbps uncapped ADSL<\/td>\n1837GB<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10Mbps uncapped ADSL<\/td>\n1524GB<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n

Axxess also makes public the top uncapped ADSL account usage on its network through its \u201cAxxess Gig Guzzlers\u201d section.<\/p>\n

The biggest bandwidth hog on Axxess\u2019 network is a 10Mbps uncapped ADSL subscriber who consumed 1,526GB (1.5TB) over the last month.<\/p>\n

The following table lists some of Axxess’ top data users.<\/p>\n

\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Axxess uncapped data usage<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Account<\/strong><\/td>\nMonthly usage<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10Mbps uncapped ADSL<\/td>\n1526GB<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10Mbps uncapped ADSL<\/td>\n931GB<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10Mbps uncapped ADSL<\/td>\n835GB<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10Mbps uncapped ADSL<\/td>\n822GB<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10Mbps uncapped ADSL<\/td>\n787GB<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n

Openweb CEO Keoma Wright said that the ISP’s top data user, using a 10Mbps uncapped ADSL account, consumed 2.1TB last month.<\/p>\n

The top user on an Openweb 4Mbps uncapped ADSL account used 1.1TB.<\/p>\n

\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Openweb uncapped data usage<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Account <\/strong><\/td>\nMonthly usage<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10Mbps uncapped ADSL<\/td>\n2100GB<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10Mbps uncapped ADSL<\/td>\n1920GB<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10Mbps uncapped ADSL<\/td>\n1410GB<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10Mbps uncapped ADSL<\/td>\n1390GB<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10Mbps uncapped ADSL<\/td>\n1210GB<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
—<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4Mbps uncapped ADSL<\/td>\n1100GB<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4Mbps uncapped ADSL<\/td>\n1040GB<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n

Do any of you come close to reaching these data levels? Let us know in the comments and forum.<\/p>\n

Article courtesy of MyBroadband<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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When 1TB of data is not nearly enough to satisfy your download needs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":173,"featured_media":60515,"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":[20],"tags":[7412,293,21,297],"class_list":["post-63374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","tag-40mbps-vdsl","tag-adsl","tag-headline","tag-uncapped-adsl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63374","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\/173"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63374"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63376,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63374\/revisions\/63376"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}