If there were four occupants in a house with only one connection… and everyone was online at the same time say downloading files or playing BF2 online, it would be slow… (or slower…)

You have some points… I’m not going to argue that but it’s difficult to count them… and I couldn’t find any substantial data about that.

I can’t make considerations for every single possible scenario… house “A” might have one connection with four users, house “B” might have one connection for one user.

User “C” might not have a connection at home but use it at work… now if there were one source that could break down the connection types, where they are in use, etc… but I couldn’t find that kind of data (at least specific enough for the purposes of this post).

Besides “Only 300 million” was to come off as slightly humorous.

Did you, even for a nanosecond, consider that many, if not most broadband connections would be shared between users? For example, why would one household with four occupants have four separate connections?

Did you also consider that each shared connection would only show up as a single user?

How about the users who only access the internet at work, where their access is owned in the company’s name? Eight of the 16 staff I work alongside of fall into this category. This would account for millions of regular broadband users worldwide.