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). 

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).

 

 

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