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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 wron

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.

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.