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How is 3TB "HUGE"? If you're using computers like a normal person, that'll be gone pretty quickly. I remember using 1-4TB a month in my youth on a connection th
by kick 7y ago
How is 3TB "HUGE"? If you're using computers like a normal person, that'll be gone pretty quickly. I remember using 1-4TB a month in my youth on a connection that couldn't push 1MBps.
Given the recent emergence of high-definition video streamed to every home, it seems like three times that probably wouldn't be enough.
EDIT: Capitalization error, mbps > MBps.
- Alupis 7y ago> I remember using 1-4TB a month in my youth on a connection that couldn't push 1mbps Ya, but you didn't do that. 1TB pushed at a constant 1Mbps, would take 88 days... 4TB taking nearly an entire year. 4TB at a constant 100Mbps takes 3.5 days. It is a HUGE amount of data. > recent emergence of high-definition video streamed to every home Netflix claims about 3GB per hour of HD content streamed[1]. So if you were to stream 24 hours a day for an entire 30 day month, you'd barely peak over 2TB. That's 24 hours a day for 30 days straight - something nobody is doing. A data cap of 3TB is simply not a problem for almost everybody. If you're running torrents, or hosting files, then ya - you might have issues. But then why should I pay comcast more every month to subsidize your non-normal usage? [1] https://help.netflix.com/en/node/87 https://help.netflix.com/en/node/87
- kick 7y ago(1 tb) / (1 (mb / s)) = 11.5740741 days Ah, I see. mbps v. MBps. Capitalization error! Also, you're arguing against the past point which is fine because I messed up the capitalization (though the point still holds, because I wasn't doing anything abnormal; it was a two person household with a game console), but not against present use-cases: 4k 24fps video for Netflix is 7GB, and 1080p 24fps video is over 3GB/hr (HD is 720p). How many TVs are you aware of that are under 1080p? A house that has two people regularly watching Netflix in it on a modern data connection seems like it'd blow through that cap pretty quickly. Why should Comcast be able to sell you a data connection you can't actually use? Caps are only a thing because Comcast oversells every connection.
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- wyattpeak 7y agoEven at 7GB an hour, they'd have to both be watching separately for over seven hours a day, every day. At 3GB an hour, 16 hours a day. It's not impossible, but it certainly isn't blowing through the cap quickly.
- Dylan16807 7y agoSometimes people leave the TV on.
- wyattpeak 7y agoFor seven hours every day? Once again, I'm not saying it's impossible, just that it is in fact quite extreme for two people to use it up with Netflix.
- Dylan16807 7y agoFor sixteen or twenty four hours a day.
- Alupis 7y ago> Caps are only a thing because Comcast oversells every connection The caps are a thing because Comcast pays for ingress traffic into their network (they pay other providers from which the data comes from). At a point, you cost them more than you pay for. Which is where they charge you an overage. Seems more than fair to me - I pay currently $49.99 a month for 150Mbps connection with a 3TB cap (I'm aware they offer different rates, speeds, and caps in different areas). I do not want to pay more than $49.99 just because someone else in my area constantly uses 10TB each month - that person should pay more, not me.
- crooked-v 7y ago> Comcast pays for ingress traffic into their network Actually, in some cases, Comcast gets paid FOR it. https://qz.com/256586/the-inside-story-of-how-netflix-came-to-pay-comcast-for-internet-traffic/ https://qz.com/256586/the-inside-story-of-how-netflix-came-t...
- bathtub365 7y ago4TB/1mbps is 46 days. It’s impossible to use 4TB in a month with that connection.
- kick 7y agoI forgot that MBps is different than mbps. Just a capitalization error.
- sseveran 7y ago1mbps is 324 GB in a month.