Re:South Africa (Score 1)

It wasn't a "normal" month. ;-) FREEDOM!!! It was nice to experience it for a month. Now it's back to normal. It's not really relevant to compare SA usage to what this topic line is, as we ALWAYS have to consider the additional cost of download, whereas the main poster is trying to establish "typical" use without these constraints. I don't think there really is such a thing. The variance would be too big for you to base your usage on what others are doing, even in the same country or industry. If you like downloading movies on usenet or torrents, your usage would be orders of magnitude larger than those who only browse and download the occasional driver. Ditto for Linux users who always like to be up to date (medium usage) or those who always like to try out the latest distros and compare it to their standard Ubuntu box (heavy users). So best is to measure yourself over a "normal" month, and see what you get. My measurement always gets skewed by normal network traffic between the PCs in my home. You could probably seperate BW based on subnet destinations, but I've never been that interested. I try to manage my monthly bill, but other than that... Cheers! K