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>Now Comcast claims that 98% of its subscriber base won’t even come close to going over the 300GB cap. I am the 2% !!! Date Download Upload

by drbawb 11y ago

>Now Comcast claims that 98% of its subscriber base won’t even come close to going over the 300GB cap. I am the 2% !!! Date Download Upload Total 2015-10 419.63 GB 50.89 GB 470.52 GB 2015-09 601.49 GB 129.11 GB 730.60 GB 2015-08 1,011.83 GB 196.79 GB 1,208.62 GB 2015-07 504.28 GB 56.33 GB 560.61 GB 2015-06 398.04 GB 43.94 GB 441.98 GB 2015-05 305.05 GB 42.20 GB 347.25 GB 2015-04 375.06 GB 81.83 GB 456.89 GB 2015-03 215.10 GB 65.89 GB 280.99 GB 2015-02 316.11 GB 180.48 GB 496.59 GB 2015-01 413.11 GB 135.68 GB 548.78 GB 2014-12 457.10 GB 56.55 GB 513.65 GB 2014-11 270.25 GB 76.81 GB 347.05 GB 2014-10 311.27 GB 86.75 GB 398.03 GB 2014-09 381.53 GB 119.21 GB 500.74 GB 2014-08 237.63 GB 271.40 GB 509.03 GB 2014-07 277.23 GB 388.38 GB 665.61 GB 2014-06 213.32 GB 162.85 GB 376.17 GB 2014-05 223.88 GB 67.49 GB 291.37 GB 2014-04 258.21 GB 124.38 GB 382.60 GB 2014-03 205.78 GB 77.03 GB 282.81 GB 2014-02 315.23 GB 448.78 GB 764.01 GB 2014-01 342.07 GB 279.32 GB 621.38 GB 2013-12 128.54 GB 114.93 GB 243.47 GB

paublyrne 11y ago
What kind of things do you do that push you over a terabyte? I don't get anywhere near that. I'm just curious, and not in any way saying there is anything wrong with that.
- nitrogen 11y ago
  Reinstalling a Steam library could do it, restoring system backups, having a large household of frequent Netflix users, etc.
  - drbawb 11y ago
    I think you're right; my housemate built a new PC this summer. That download peak coincides with reformatting his old drive.
- drbawb 11y ago
  It's hard to say for sure, as I don't classify traffic in any way, and I only have traffic-by-IP for the past 24 hours. Personally I just watch an unhealthy amount of anime, which probably accounts for the majority of DL/UL traffic. My monthly offsite backup to Amazon Glacier accounts for ~30GiB UL. I don't think my household is that extraordinary: we're just three average millennials who all work first-shift. Something to point out is that we don't get any sort of regular broadcast television -- so all our media consumption is done either online or w/ physical media. --- A funny thing to note: AT&T has been trying to get my business for a while now, as they just installed fiber (to the node) in my neighborhood. I had to turn them down as the contract included a 300GiB bandwidth cap. The guy seemed genuinely floored when I actually produced logs showing I routinely exceed that cap. He claimed the caps are unlikely to be enforced, but I'm not willing to have it in writing that I agreed to such a thing.
- nathancahill 11y ago
  I get around the same numbers, especially streaming full quality TV shows and movies on Plex.
- Dylan16807 11y ago
  Note that a single screen tuned to a moderately high quality stream (3mbps) will use 1TB/month. Doing something daring like watching 4k content for one hour a day can blow past a 300GB cap all by itself.
- barrkel 11y ago
  I just checked my router; at over 130 GB D/L for less than 5 days worth of usage, our household is on track to use 800+GB D/L this month. I think it's streaming video, more than anything else. Netflix seems to use somewhere between 600 to 1000 kb a second, depending on the available quality and connection (I just checked a couple of shows that we watch regularly). Assuming 0.7 MB/sec, you'd hit 27 GB a day with only 11 hours of Netflix streaming. My GF usually works from home, and generally keeps a streaming show on a secondary monitor as background noise. With a bit of overlap in viewing, it really doesn't take much to hit big numbers.
- Corrado 11y ago
  For the past 4 months my family has used between 554GB & 968GB each month. We are just 3 people that surf the net, play a little bit of online games, and watch Netflix on 2 TVs. Nothing out of the ordinary at all, yet we would blow through 300GB in a couple of weeks.

by drbawb 11y ago

paublyrne 11y ago

What kind of things do you do that push you over a terabyte? I don't get anywhere near that. I'm just curious, and not in any way saying there is anything wrong with that.

nitrogen 11y ago
Reinstalling a Steam library could do it, restoring system backups, having a large household of frequent Netflix users, etc.
- drbawb 11y ago
  I think you're right; my housemate built a new PC this summer. That download peak coincides with reformatting his old drive.
drbawb 11y ago
It's hard to say for sure, as I don't classify traffic in any way, and I only have traffic-by-IP for the past 24 hours. Personally I just watch an unhealthy amount of anime, which probably accounts for the majority of DL/UL traffic. My monthly offsite backup to Amazon Glacier accounts for ~30GiB UL. I don't think my household is that extraordinary: we're just three average millennials who all work first-shift. Something to point out is that we don't get any sort of regular broadcast television -- so all our media consumption is done either online or w/ physical media. --- A funny thing to note: AT&T has been trying to get my business for a while now, as they just installed fiber (to the node) in my neighborhood. I had to turn them down as the contract included a 300GiB bandwidth cap. The guy seemed genuinely floored when I actually produced logs showing I routinely exceed that cap. He claimed the caps are unlikely to be enforced, but I'm not willing to have it in writing that I agreed to such a thing.
nathancahill 11y ago
I get around the same numbers, especially streaming full quality TV shows and movies on Plex.
Dylan16807 11y ago
Note that a single screen tuned to a moderately high quality stream (3mbps) will use 1TB/month. Doing something daring like watching 4k content for one hour a day can blow past a 300GB cap all by itself.
barrkel 11y ago
I just checked my router; at over 130 GB D/L for less than 5 days worth of usage, our household is on track to use 800+GB D/L this month. I think it's streaming video, more than anything else. Netflix seems to use somewhere between 600 to 1000 kb a second, depending on the available quality and connection (I just checked a couple of shows that we watch regularly). Assuming 0.7 MB/sec, you'd hit 27 GB a day with only 11 hours of Netflix streaming. My GF usually works from home, and generally keeps a streaming show on a secondary monitor as background noise. With a bit of overlap in viewing, it really doesn't take much to hit big numbers.
Corrado 11y ago
For the past 4 months my family has used between 554GB & 968GB each month. We are just 3 people that surf the net, play a little bit of online games, and watch Netflix on 2 TVs. Nothing out of the ordinary at all, yet we would blow through 300GB in a couple of weeks.