How much bandwidth do you usually use per month on your home internet?

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SheHateMe

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Jul 21, 2012
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800GB this month after emptying the contents of my seedbox to my NAS in an effort to run my own seedbox.
 

natto fire

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Jan 4, 2000
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This shows all traffic across the interface, and I watched a lot of shows in September off of a NAS. I would guess at least 75% of the total usage is the internet.

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zCypher

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Aug 18, 2002
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150-200GB would be a typical month, but I've done under 75GB (which is technically my "cap"). Last month I did slightly over 1200GB. I've never been charged any overages, and I'm paying about $65 after tax for a 60mbps/10mbps cable line that, so far in the few years I've had it has never seen any downtime or slow periods (with exception of 1 wiring issue in the building, not an issue with my provider).

TekSavvy is pretty good, but there are some other great resellers out there too. The situation is pretty dismal for interwebs in Canuckistan, so you have no choice but to go with one of the resellers. They are better, but still a lot. At least I get unlimited 2am-8am transfer, so it's easy to just schedule torrents. But still, I've done huge amounts of download outside those hours and they never seem to bill me for it, so I dunno. I really can't complain.

There is development with fiber to the premise, but the major telcos are charging an arm and a leg for it. So until we get fiber competition (google fiber anyone?), things not likely to change from that perspective up here.
 

Gillbot

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Jan 11, 2001
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I usually average around 400, probably top 600 this month since we've been inside a lot due to the cold and snow. November and December were low due to the holidays.

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Lots of devices streaming Netflix/Hulu/Amazon in this house. We shut off our cable TV and went strictly OTA or streaming.
 

Fritzo

Lifer
Jan 3, 2001
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I usually average around 400, probably top 600 this month since we've been inside a lot due to the cold and snow. November and December were low due to the holidays.

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Lots of devices streaming Netflix/Hulu/Amazon in this house. We shut off our cable TV and went strictly OTA or streaming.

I'm trying to fathom how much TV that is per week. :biggrin:

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Gillbot

Lifer
Jan 11, 2001
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Two kids + a wife streaming HD content nearly daily, it's not really too bad. Plus I redid my PC twice this month so I had to re-download my steam library multiple times. Might have to do it a third because i'm too lazy to back it up. Although I don't know why I bother, I rarely play steam anyway.
 

Muse

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Jul 11, 2001
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I don't know how I'd tell. I have a home network, access the Internet from 2-3 computers. I could call my ISP and ask them, they'd probably tell me (sonic.net, they are very personable and friendly) or tell me how I'd figure it out from here.
 

boomhower

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Sep 13, 2007
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Last four months low of 311GB to a high of 580GB. Probably hit 600GB this month. Between me and the wife watching a lot of HD Netflix and the kids running youtube pretty much nonstop it gets up there.