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Title: Bandwidth use & limits
Post by: TeaLeaf on May 14, 2014, 05:30:49 PM
With almost everything now on the internet, ever bigger game patches, cloud storage uploads & retrieval, movie streaming via premium content providers etc, I thought it would be interesting to see how much bandwidth people use each month and how that relates to your data cap (if you have one).   I'm on an unlimited package with BT and apparently my home (with 4 people and >4 computers) has an average monthly data usage of 246.67 GB. :blink:

How about you?

Prompted by this article:
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/05/watch-out-for-data-caps-video-hungry-cord-cutters-use-328gb-a-month/
Title: Bandwidth use & limits
Post by: Sneakytiger on May 14, 2014, 05:56:40 PM
Is that including mobile data as well?
Title: Bandwidth use & limits
Post by: TeaLeaf on May 14, 2014, 06:16:46 PM
No, the home broadband connection only.
Title: Bandwidth use & limits
Post by: Milli on May 14, 2014, 06:33:24 PM
I'm on BT infinity also (unlimited) -

2 people
1 Pc

but can guarantee its dropped considerably due to not gaming etc as much in recent months.

Currently on average 113.65 GB

But yeah always interesting to see

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Title: Bandwidth use & limits
Post by: Sparko on May 14, 2014, 06:58:18 PM
I'm on the same tariff as you TL my average usage is 60gb that's with 2 of us in the house.  Only been on it for 3 months so that will probably rise considerably in the future, also only just started using all the download perks on sky as I've only just hooked it up to my broadband so that will increase it further
Title: Bandwidth use & limits
Post by: Jamin on May 14, 2014, 07:21:27 PM
I'm on Plusnet Unlimited Fibre and the missus and me used 41.55GB last month.
Title: Bandwidth use & limits
Post by: Jamoe on May 14, 2014, 09:32:34 PM
Eclipse ADSL - 50GB Limit - probably use on average about 20GB. Although this month I've done almost 50GB after getting steam up and running.

Most of our usage is browsing and LoveFilm Instant.
Title: Bandwidth use & limits
Post by: Sneakytiger on May 14, 2014, 10:15:12 PM
i have bt infinity 2 as well
have 2 pcs,xbox1,ipad,skyhd box
so probally using a fair bit
have the on demand thing as well.
Title: Bandwidth use & limits
Post by: smilodon on May 14, 2014, 11:06:57 PM
I'm with Virgin Media. They currently don't have any limits or caps on download speeds but are pretty harsh on uploads (so I have to upload clients photography before 4pm or overnight). There's also a lot of Netflix and iPlayer use. Virgin don't seem inclined to provide any details of how much data I've used so I have no idea. :sad:
Title: Bandwidth use & limits
Post by: Gorion on May 14, 2014, 11:13:45 PM
Currently 150GB monthly and any downloads between midnight to 6am are not counted, so that's when I usually do my heavy downloads.

There is no throttling though, and unlimited is available at a slightly higher price point with increased bandwidth rates.  Exchange to DSLAM run on fibre.

Then again, I'm not in the UK...
Title: Bandwidth use & limits
Post by: Tutonic on May 14, 2014, 11:57:34 PM
I'm on an unlimited PlusNet connection, and somehow have managed to rack up 284GB last month :blink:

Apparently 130GB of that was 'Web', which I find hard to believe - maybe it's classing Steam downloads as browser traffic?
Title: Bandwidth use & limits
Post by: smilodon on May 15, 2014, 12:02:32 AM
*
Pron-tube would be my guess

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Title: Bandwidth use & limits
Post by: Tutonic on May 15, 2014, 09:51:32 AM
Quote from: smilodon;384177*
Pron-tube would be my guess

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130GB's worth? I think I'd have trouble walking :blink:
Title: Bandwidth use & limits
Post by: BrotherTobious on May 15, 2014, 10:19:16 AM
Used 126.086 GB last month. Streaming lots from sky store.
Title: Bandwidth use & limits
Post by: Switchback on May 15, 2014, 04:29:07 PM
Quote from: Tutonic;384179130GB's worth? I think I'd have trouble walking :blink:

Rofl !

And an arm like Popeyes


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Title: Bandwidth use & limits
Post by: kregoron on May 16, 2014, 09:32:23 PM
running Energi Midt fiber 1Gibt/1Gbit atm, currently using about around 550-600Gig pr month /blush

Tho 75% of the data is used for work related things