What is the actual bandwith you could use, continuously, given your ISP's bandwith usage cap?

[Stephen Partington]

Yeah. The cost for me to do that is insane.

On Nov 30, 2017 5:43 PM, "Eric Oyen" <eric.oyen at icloud.com> 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).
>
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