I recently discovered that my ISP provides handy statistics about the internet traffic to my house. Here, as a historical curiosity, are the figures for 2008:
| Month | Download (GB) | Upload (GB) |
| January | 116.8 | 3.4 |
| February | 140.3 | 4.3 |
| March | 12.1 | 0.7 |
| April | 10.5 | 0.9 |
| May | 12.3 | 1.4 |
| June | 11.6 | 1.2 |
| July | 12.7 | 2.0 |
| August | 18.6 | 5.9 |
| September | 33.9 | 10.2 |
| October | 66.4 | 7.0 |
| November | 19.1 | 6.5 |
| December | 13.1 | 1.6 |
| Total | 467.4 | 45.0 |
| Average | 39.0 | 3.8 |
As background, we don’t make use of P2P for content that the original owners aren’t happy distributing, so I imagine there are heavier users of the net out there. We do use Miro though, so I imagine a fair amount of that traffic is video. The peak in October certainly is (I watched Democracy Now during the US election), and I imagine that was what Jan and Feb were too.