(10-07-2016 01:20 PM)MplsBison Wrote: Not to brush aside the implications of this -- I absolutely believe this is just the start ....
But who's really using 1024 GB of data in a month?? That's over 34 GB per day for 30 days.
I easily use more than that.
1 TB a month = 1000 GB a month = 33.3 GB a day
Netflix SD = 0.7 GB/hr
Netflix HD = 3 GB/hr
Netflix 4K = 7 GB/hr
So it takes just 5 hours a day of 4K Netflix to crush your cap. Other heavy users in similar content areas to Netflix would include Hulu, WatchESPN, Vudu, Vue, Sling, etc.
Other heavy users:
- Data backup services
- Video games (major AAA titles on Steam can easily weigh in at over 50 GB, and can have patch set updates over 5 GB in size)
- YouTube, particularly YouTube HD and 4K, particularly if you have kiddos
- Twitch, particularly in HD, particularly if you have kiddos
- Linux distributions and distribution upgrades (several GBs)
- Porn
I use the better part of a TB a month just in data transfer and backup. But, I do realize I'm a heavy user and behave. I do my most heavy traffic overnight when the pipe is mostly empty.
I just logged into my router to check my total transfer for the last 30 days: 1.4 TB