@dudeinco wrote:
Which would make sense (kind of). You'd be using 1/4 of my bandwidth estimation of continuous streaming, or perhaps 1/6th - once again, don't want to get into the exact math. But you said you have 2 running live streaming 24/7, so you should be hitting 1/2 to 1/3rd your allotment on that alone... Giving you about ~300GB-400GB per 30 days. They can't be live streaming 24/7, and you'd have to be running pretty conservative on your streaming/update demands.
Most of my bandwidth was being eaten up by gaming consoles and a gaming PC. Just letting one PC update regularly on 200 titles equated to 800GB of use alone, with OS updates (and don't think that 200 titles were updating every month - you could bring that down to maybe a dozen or so, at the most). Of course, that behavior was modified by axing live updates. The consoles are also now turned off and disconnected.
So far this month, with all updates turned off, my daughter watching youtube ad nauseum, and nightly watching internet content on the new 4k TV (Netflix, youtube, etc. - we try to stay away from 4k content), doing my work from home (no gaming communications), and removing my cellphone from the network, I am on par to hit 500GB by the end of this month. I have 3 PCs running 24/7 (a few purposely turned off to avoid updates), and I have onedrive that uploads a 1GB file each time I need to do business finances (maybe once or twice a month). I do have to FTP files a lot, but never anything ridiculous. I refuse to turn off my security cams, but I do have them on ondemand (motion triggered).
So, you might call me a power user, but even by massively scaling back my digital life, I'm still treading a fine line...
And I pay for 120Mbps, not ~2...
This isn't water - it isn't like if I don't use their bandwidth, they can store it up and use it over time.... Let's call a spade a spade, and label it for what it is: exorbitant greed, fueled by lack of competition (thanks to municipal deals that were cut a decade ago).
well said. now we get the response telling you to use your neighbor's xfinitywifi
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