Yeah. The cost for me to do that is insane. On Nov 30, 2017 5:43 PM, "Eric Oyen" wrote: > I believe I did some recent calculations along those lines. > > btw, a standard video stream (1080p) uses just under 750 KB/s and if left > on 24/7 would exceed that cap about 22 days into the month. Now, most > people don't do that. In fact, the estimated tv viewing per week is about > 30 hours or so for a standard family of 4. given that, someone could watch > their programming, do some games, browse the net, etc and not exceed that > cap (barely). > > However, if you are like me and the room mates here, you use a hell of a > lot more than that. I checked the usage stats on the router and the last 30 > days saw 1.75 TB of data go through our connection here. good thing I went > to business class internet (my sales contact at cox business is Jame > Hidalgo at 623-500-3341 <(623)%20500-3341>). > > Anyway, given usage caps, residential service is going to start getting > restrictive. > > -eric > from the central offices of the Technomage Guild, Internet Sales and > Customer Retention Dept. > > On Nov 30, 2017, at 3:53 PM, Carruth, Rusty wrote: > > Here is the rabbit trail – has anyone else calculated the actual bandwidth > you could use (continuously) from your ISP and NOT hit their usage cap? > Yeah, that deserves a different topic, and here it is. > > Ok, under my plan at Cox, I think I get threatened with extra charges when > I reach 1TB of data downloaded. (If your number is different, then use > that number below). > > So, that’s 1,000,000,000,000 bytes of data per month I’m allowed to > download. Sounds like a lot, right? Nope: > > 1GB/month / 60 seconds/minute / 60 minutes/hour / 24 hours/day / 30 > days/month = 385,802 bytes per second! > > Yes, my wonderful 30Mbs max is actually only a 385KB link, if I want to > use it all the time. > > Balderdash! (Whatever that means). > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >