Greetings All
This would be so funny if it were not so serious, turns out the Chief of NBN Co, wanted to blame gamers for high bandwith, but then NBN Co, said no he didnt say that lol
Here are the links to this comical situation.
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/nbn-co-denies-blaming-online-gamers-for-congestion (https://www.sbs.com.au/news/nbn-co-denies-blaming-online-gamers-for-congestion)
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-06-04/nbn-chief-blames-gamers-for-congestion/9832596 (http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-06-04/nbn-chief-blames-gamers-for-congestion/9832596)
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-06-06/online-gamers-nbn-bandwidth/9836186 (http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-06-06/online-gamers-nbn-bandwidth/9836186)
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Cheers and have a great weekend.
Gaming was only 1% of the total of internet traffic in 2016. IP video traffic was 73% in 2016 and it would have grown since then. Even file sharing (bit torrent etc) was only 8% of the total.
(source: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/solutions/collateral/service-provider/visual-networking-index-vni/vni-hyperconnectivity-wp.html )
No wonder they backpedalled, it was pure ignorance.