27 May
2011
27 May
'11
2:49 p.m.
I run a WISP, where we have moved customers from 3mb/s to 8mb/s to 20mb/s over the course of 5 years. We do this one tower at a time (about 150 customers) what we have learned is usage grows overtime not with the increase in available bandwidth. Our Per-Customer-Avg (PCA) stayed about the same with each bump in bandwidth, the avg user does not use more bandwidth because they have more bandwidth or at least not our 1200 customers. That said we have had our PCA move up more then 30% in the last 7 months due mainly to Netflix, the nice thing is this usage is "off peak" for our business customers and as such has not been a concern. Shaun Shaun Bryant sbryant@thepit.org