<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000'>Vanity is what most of this is about.<br><br><div><span name="x"></span><br><br>-----<br>Mike Hammett<br>Intelligent Computing Solutions<br>http://www.ics-il.com<br><br>Midwest-IX<br>http://www.midwest-ix.com<span name="x"></span><br></div><br><hr id="zwchr"><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><b>From: </b>"Michael Thomas" <mike@mtcc.com><br><b>To: </b>"Tony Wicks" <tony@wicks.co.nz>, nanog@nanog.org<br><b>Sent: </b>Monday, June 6, 2022 6:13:25 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: FCC proposes higher speed goals (100/20 Mbps) for USF providers<br><br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 6/6/22 4:08 PM, Tony Wicks wrote:<br>
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<li style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">Do you have any stats on
what the average usage was before and after the build out?
I'd expect it to go up just because but was it dramatic?</li>
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<p>Well, Back in the FTTC days of ADSL/VDSL (very little cable)
as an ISP I seem to remember the average home connection was
about 1.2Mb/s. Now its about 3Mb/s so no, the usage itself
does not jump dramatically when the bottlenecks went away. A
great example of this is the lowest speed on the GPON network
recently jumped from 100/20 to 300/100 across the board and as
an ISP we barely noticed anything. Before this the two most
popular speeds were the 100/20 and 1000/500 plans, 50% of
users would order the 1000/500 plan, most without really
knowing why but it was only about $20 different so why not. As
an ISP the 1G users only used about 10%-20% more overall
capacity than the 100/20 users. <br>
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<p>Excellent, so you're printing money catering to people's vanity
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<p>Mike<br>
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