Though Netflix has had a troubling few months, in the past few months alone thanks to price hikes, remaining customers show no sign of slowing down their streaming consumption. According to a new report, Netflix eats up 32.7 percent of peak downstream traffic in United States.

That's an increase of 10 percent since spring, according to Sandvine's Global Internet Phenomena Report, and makes Netflix the largest Internet service on North America's fixed access networks. Second to Netflix is HTTP, which eats up with 17.8 percent of bandwidth, followed by YouTube at 10 percent and BitTorrent at 9 percent.

Netflix also makes up 29 percent of peak period aggregate traffic, with HTTP coming in second at 16.6 percent, and 23.3 percent of daily aggregate traffic; BitTorrent is second at 16.5 percent, according to stats collected in September.

Sandvine is skeptical that recent PR woes will lead to a reduction in Netflix usage, but suggests that the service might have hit its peak.

"With so many Netflix-capable devices, the addressable market for the service is already enormous and will only increase, so it's hard to envision a scenario in which absolute levels of Netflix will decline," the report said. "However, Netflix is facing increased local competition, and as a result new services might grow at a faster rate. Globally, Netflix will grow  the service is available in almost 50 countries and the company is aggressively pursuing licensing deals with locally-focused contentbut in the United States specifically, we might have seen the peak."

Beyond Netflix, Sandvine suggested that we have entered the "post-PC era" since 55 percent of real-time entertainment traffic in North America is coming from game consoles, smart TVs, and mobile devices; the other 45 percent is from desktop and laptops.

"The fact that more video traffic is going to devices other than a PC should be a wake-up call that counting bytes is no longer sufficient for network planning," Dave Caputo, CEO of Sandvine, said in a statement. "Communications Service Providers need to have detailed business intelligence on not only the devices being used but also the quality and length of the videos being watched so they can engineer for a high subscriber quality of experience and not simply adding capacity through continuous capital investment."

On mobile devices, YouTube eats up the largest amount of downstream traffic, though apps like PPStream and Netflix "are making inroads," Sandvine said.

Just how much data are consumers using? The median usage in North America actually dropped from 7GB to 5.8GB per month; among heavy users it dropped from 23GB to 22.7GB.

"This shows that while subscribers aren't using more traffic overall the usage gap between heavy and light users is broadening and that more data is being used during the small peak period window," Sandvine said. "In Asia-Pacific fixed networks, median monthly usage is 17.7GB, which is the largest we have observed."