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

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Mr. Pedantic

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120-160GB as measured by my ISP. If anything though, they underestimate my usage, so it's probably around 140-200GB a month. Capped at 160GB after which it slows down to 64kbps, which is pretty much like having your brains slowly beaten out with a rubber pencil.

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no idea why SEPT is so high, if i look at it day by day there is 150 gigs on sept 16th and i don't remember why

"Linux distros".
 

Mr. Pedantic

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yea but even that does not explain the 150 gigs in 1 day. im not even sure i can do that mathematically

Well, I don't know how fast your connection is, but it's eminently doable. All you'd need is a 14Mbps connection to get 150GB in a day.
 

Puppies04

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It varies so much I couldn't even guess. Could be 50gb or 1.5tb depending on what I am doing.

Edit. Drunk spelling :p
 
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SparkyJJO

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DDWRT tells me something like 60-80GB a month I think. Somewhere in there.

How anyone uses anywhere close to that - let alone more than that - on their PHONE of all things blows my mind o_O
 

mmntech

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usually between 1-4TB a month on DSL and about 100-150GB a month via 3G on my phone.

up and down depending on steam sales though :eek:

Are you running a server or something, or just going cuckoo with the torrents?
 

Carson Dyle

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About 1.1 TB per month.

Sep: 1082 GB
Oct: 987 GB
Nov: 1071 GB
Dec: 1169 GB (so far)

Lots of torrents, especially TV at 720p, movies at 1080p, and a fair amount of pr0n.
 

tommo123

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Are you running a server or something, or just going cuckoo with the torrents?

uploading almost 24/7 and downloading whatever i want. i have unlimited data on both dsl and mobile so make use of it.

my mobile provider gives an example of using 1000GB on their site and says it's ok - so why not?
 

Rebel44

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Around 1TB per month on 12/12mbps line, 70% of that is upload (torrents are running 24/7).
 

ch33zw1z

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regular web usage, lots of online streaming through netflix, amazon prime, hulu, etc...
 
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jumpncrash

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I use about 400-500GB at home, on my server this month I'm at 1.2TB this month, last month I hit my 5TB soft cap though.
 

Svnla

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I have a computer with Win 7 and plugs in directly into the DSL modem via RJ 45 cable.

Is there a cheap and easy way to find out how much data I use? I am just curious.
 

Imp

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Around 50 GB because the cap is 80 GB.

If I were able to let loose, probably average 3 GB per day, so 90 GB.