When 1TB is not enough – biggest bandwidth hogs in SA

When 1TB is not enough – biggest bandwidth hogs in SA
Staff Writer April 14, 2014

http://mybroadband.co.za/news/adsl/10030...in-sa.html



One South African VDSL user, with an uncapped Afrihost account, has consumed 3.01TB of data over a month. Various other users consumed in excess of 1TB a month using uncapped services.

Afrihost’s “Data Kingpins” section publishes regularly updated bandwidth usage rankings for their uncapped users.

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.

Other top users include another 40Mbps subscriber who consumed 2,057GB (2.1TB), and a 20Mbps user who used 2,059GB (2.1TB).

Afrihost further revealed that their ten top 10Mbps uncapped ADSL subscribers consumed a combined total of 10.16TB over the last month.


Axxess also makes public the top uncapped ADSL account usage on its network through its “Axxess Gig Guzzlers” section.

The biggest bandwidth hog on Axxess’ network is a 10Mbps uncapped ADSL subscriber who consumed 1,526GB (1.5TB) over the last month.


Openweb CEO Keoma Wright said that their top data user, using a 10Mbps uncapped ADSL account, consumed 2.1TB last month.

The top user on an Openweb 4Mbps uncapped ADSL account used 1.1TB.