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Originally Posted by raymor
The above calculations would only be valid if you used exactly 50 Mbps all month, with no busy times and no slow times, or if you AVERAGED 50 Mbps. But Mbps isn't normally measured as an average, so you can't just calculate it by multiplying by the number of seconds. Rather, bandwidth is measured by either peak or 95th percentile.
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Dude, thank you so much. The 95th percentile explanation explains why I thought I had forgotten all my college math. Doing my own calculations always brought me too far off the reported mark. Now it makes much more sense.