I saw the flames growing higher as with the new U-Verse cap, hot on the proverbial heels of TWC trying out metered billing (and failing) a few years ago I'm curious as to how much bandwidth you guys use.

To keep it simple lets just look at downlink. And as a comparison see how that compares to the theoretical of how much I could have downloaded.

Connection Speed
5Mbit
Theoretical Capacity/day (approximate)
54000MB/day
Average Use/day (approximate)
1500MB/day
Percentage Utilization
2.7%

Just to keep perspective, to roll up 250GB in a 30 day period you'd have to average near 8500MB per day, or about 15% utilization (provided my math is remotely accurate )

3/13/2011 7:45:04 PM

my apartment:



191GB in February

granted, this is only with a max speed of 2.5-3Mbps ( ), but someone is usually on Netflix here almost every day.

3/13/2011 8:12:32 PM

Someone recently asked me this and I checked my newsleecher stats. I had re-installed newsleecher almost one year to the day from when I was checking and my download counter was at 3.98TB of data. So that breaks down to an average of 333GB per month, or about 11GB per day. On a 3Mb pipe, that works out to me downloading something about 1/3 of the time. That doesn't count http downloads, netflix, or any other streaming video sites.

3/13/2011 8:16:24 PM

how do you all track this, i'm interested what it is at our house

3/13/2011 8:17:23 PM

^^what's that chart generated by?

^Just curious, are these legit files or ?

[Edited on March 13, 2011 at 8:19 PM. Reason : I have been using freemeter, and where I have DDWRT installed it tells you since last reboot.]

3/13/2011 8:18:33 PM

my chart was also DD-WRT

[Edited on March 13, 2011 at 8:30 PM. Reason : router software]

3/13/2011 8:30:45 PM

Quote :

"Just curious, are these legit files or ?"

Come on now.

3/13/2011 8:37:41 PM

Just curious. We send about 4x that at work every day, just from me and the other video people (2 others.) HD video sucks it down. The amount is not unheard of.

If we had a 250GB cap we'd be so screwed. We're pulling down so much the telco erected a microwave tower on our roof to get off their network in the ground

3/13/2011 8:44:15 PM

Connection Speed
30Mbit
Theoretical Capacity/day (approximate)
324000MB/day (316GB/day)
Average Use/day (approximate)
9100MB/day (8.8GB/day)
Percentage Utilization
2.8%

I stream a lot of XM,Pandora,Netflix

~264GB/month

[Edited on March 13, 2011 at 9:19 PM. Reason : montly average]

3/13/2011 9:16:42 PM

Connection Speed: 24Mbit

Actual Capacity: 230.34 GB/day

Average Use (approximate):
min: 5 GB/day / max (usually): 20 GB/day
min: 150 GB/month / max: 600 GB/month

Percentage Utilization: 2.17%-8.7%

3/13/2011 11:42:03 PM

Tough to say as it fluctuates with whether or not I'm grabbing all seasons of The Wire, or if all my shows are on hiatus, but I'd probably be safe if my ISP ever tries to implement overages. (We swear this graph is totally just to alert our users they might have spyware... )

10Mbit
105GB/day
~1.6GB/day?
~1.5%

3/15/2011 10:57:31 PM

Wow, so I see us as some of the most prolific internet users, yet we're only using a tiny fraction of what we're paying for. On one hand I can see why they're putting these controls in. 250GB is a LOT of data. On the other I think it's a pandoras box of future metering by the gig.

Long live all you can eat!

3/15/2011 11:40:37 PM

it's not about how much data you use so much as it's having the speed at your fingertips when you need it.

i buy 30Mbit so I can get 3.5MB/sec download rates, not so I can theoretically use 9.4TB of information per month.

3/15/2011 11:49:18 PM

exactly. when i want something, i want it quickly. i'll pay for that luxury.

3/15/2011 11:57:26 PM

I feel the same except that for the moment 10mbit @ 29.99 is > 50mbit @ 129.99

3/16/2011 12:31:55 AM

3/16/2011 2:37:14 AM

The graphs on my router aren't working for whatever reason...

3/16/2011 6:16:03 AM

Quote :

"it's not about how much data you use so much as it's having the speed at your fingertips when you need it. i buy 30Mbit so I can get 3.5MB/sec download rates, not so I can theoretically use 9.4TB of information per month."

Good point. I have 50Mbit to download things fast not because I'll use that much in a month. You don't buy a fast car to have it go fast all the time, only some of the time.

3/16/2011 12:37:34 PM