ISPs in America

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Paddy O'Flanigan Power-User Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 255 Good Answers: 2	ISPs in America 06/28/2006 1:19 PM
	According to the CIA World Fact Book, there are about as many internet hosts in the US as there are users (195k vs 204k). How is this possible? http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/ us.html
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Bayes The Engineer Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Albany, New York Posts: 5060 Good Answers: 129	#1 That's a good question 06/28/2006 5:20 PM
	I think not all hosts will have a user, for instance a Storage Area Network (SAN) would have a host address yet wouldn't have a user that accessed the webfrom that address. Web Hosting servers as well. I think it's just coincidental that the two numbers are close and I would expect the web address number to grow much more quickly in the future.
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Anonymous Poster	#2 In reply to #1 Re:That's a good question 06/29/2006 12:18 AM
	204,000 users? That has to be a misprint. There are more users than that in any single U.S. city.
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Lapinbleu Commentator Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Douarnenez, Bretagne, France Posts: 80 Good Answers: 1	#3 In reply to #2 Re:That's a good question 06/29/2006 3:48 AM
	Well, no, but I wonder where they get the figures from. Read the original document and it's 204 million. But I wonder where they get these figures from - I just heard that the population of the states passed 300 million... Idem for the UK - 38 million users for a population of 60 million. That's 2/3 of the populace, which I find hard to believe. Do they mean regular users, folk who have surfed one time, or mail addresses, of which I have several? Do I count as an additional person if I connect at the library as well as at home? Hmmm... __________________ "Experience is a combination of the mistakes we have made, and those which we have seen made by others..." simeonlapinbleu.googlepages.com/home
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silverocks Associate Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 25	#5 In reply to #2 Re:That's a good question 06/29/2006 12:07 PM
	Actually a misread on your part, 205 million...
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Paddy O'Flanigan Power-User Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 255 Good Answers: 2	#4 ISPs in America 06/29/2006 9:16 AM
	Paddy transribed his units wrong - 195 million hosts vs 204 million users. Sorry for the confusion...
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HerbVic Power-User Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Detroit Downriver Posts: 119	#6 Hosts vs Users - Internet 06/29/2006 3:47 PM
	The CIA Factbook's own explanation: Internet hosts This entry lists the number of Internet hosts available within a country. An Internet host is a computer connected directly to the Internet; normally an Internet Service Provider's (ISP) computer is a host. Internet users may use either a hard-wired terminal, at an institution with a mainframe computer connected directly to the Internet, or may connect remotely by way of a modem via telephone line, cable, or satellite to the Internet Service Provider's host computer. The number of hosts is one indicator of the extent of Internet connectivity. Internet users This entry gives the number of users within a country that access the Internet. Statistics vary from country to country and may include users who access the Internet at least several times a week to those who access it only once within a period of several months. So, it's sort-of-a people vs machines statistic. - Herb __________________ The legacy of the digital age is that of segregation through differing formats. - HerbVic
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Egan Active Contributor Join Date: Dec 2009 Posts: 11	#7 In reply to #6 Re: Hosts vs Users - Internet 10/08/2011 3:02 AM
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