Cant recall which programme but on Radio 4 yesterday someone suggested that EBAY swallow up 25% of the global internet available bandwidth every single day.....could this be a correct assumption? What kinf of phenomenal bandwidth figure would that equate to and how much might it cost them to run such a massive global net presence...

Seems incredibly unlikely to me that any single organisation could possibly use that proportion of net bandwidth.

if ebay uses that much then surely Google with it constantly searching the entire net and cacheing everything AND allowing you to search it and view its caches must surely at LEAST use 25% the same...

so ebay and google use 50% of the worlds bandwidth?... i highly doubt it ;)

Originally posted by xafier
so ebay and google use 50% of the worlds bandwidth?... i highly doubt it ;)

If ebay & google eat 1/2 between them, then the other half must be spam...
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Thats right.

And with the Sheffield Forum taking up 50%, then that would leave 0% for any other sites, and that cant be right :rolleyes:

If anyone wants to know the busiest, check out Netcraft stats (http://toolbar.netcraft.com/stats/topsites).

Yeah ebay are busy, but quarter schmuarter... :loopy: :rolleyes: