Throughput data/hour data/day data/month data/year --------------- ------------ ------------ ------------ ------------ 128 Kbit/sec 58.3 MByte 1.4 GByte 41.5 GByte 505.6 GByte 1 Mbit/sec 450 MByte 10.8 GByte 324 GByte 3.8 TByte 20 Mbit/sec 4.2 GByte 100.8 GByte 6.48 TByte 78.8 TByte 100 Mbit/sec 21 GByte 504.0 GByte 32.4 TByte 394.0 TByte 1 Gbit/sec 450 GByte 10.8 TByte 324 TByte 3.94 PByte 40 Gbit/sec 18 TByte 432.0 TByte 12.9 PByte 157.6 PByte 1 Tbit/sec 360 TByte 10.8 PByte 324 PByte 3.94 EByte 200 GByte a month is about 610 Kbit/sec ("kbps") continuous. 24 TByte a month is about 74 MBit/sec continuous. Networks must be provisioned for "peak use" periods, which likely correlate for users in the same region, so enforcing or charging for total throughput doesn't seem to make much sense? Rate Latency ops/hour ops/day 1 mil ops 100 mil ops --------- --------- --------- --------- ----------- ------------ 1/sec 1 sec 3.6k 86.4k 11.6 days 3.17 years 20/sec 50 ms 72k 1.7mil 13.8 hours 57.5 days 100/sec 10 ms 360k 8.6mil 2.7 hours 11.25 days 250/sec 4 ms 0.9mil 21.6mil 1.1 hours 4.58 days 1k/sec 1 ms 3.6mil 86.4mil 16.6 min 27.6 hours