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What's your average daily household internet usage?

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What's your average daily household internet usage?

  • Under 100MB

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • 101-250MB

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • 251-500MB

    Votes: 1 4.2%
  • 501MB-1GB

    Votes: 3 12.5%
  • 1GB-5GB

    Votes: 4 16.7%
  • 5GB-10GB

    Votes: 5 20.8%
  • 10GB-20GB

    Votes: 3 12.5%
  • +20GB

    Votes: 8 33.3%

  • Total voters
    24

Kaido

Elite Member & Kitchen Overlord
Feb 14, 2004
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Just a couple 4K streams will burn through bandwidth pretty easily.

We upgraded all of the household TV's to 4K Roku sets over the last couple of years & hit 4TB/mo pretty quickly. Had to upgrade the Internet package :(
 

Yakk

Golden Member
May 28, 2016
1,574
275
81
We upgraded all of the household TV's to 4K Roku sets over the last couple of years & hit 4TB/mo pretty quickly. Had to upgrade the Internet package :(

Yup, better believe it. Once you hit 4K the tiny GB pitance packages are completely useless.
 

WhoBeDaPlaya

Diamond Member
Sep 15, 2000
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slag

Lifer
Dec 14, 2000
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101
My wife works from home, but as a family of 5, we have regularly doing about 1.2 TB/month. Our cell phone plan is currently 12 GB a month shared between 4 devices and we went over it yesterday and the plan restarts on the 16th. My 16 year old used 7 GB of that himself because he turned off WiFi at scout camp and forgot to turn it back on when he got home and has been doing teenage things on the phone.
 

Scarpozzi

Lifer
Jun 13, 2000
26,392
1,780
126
Married with kids, I don't have time to download a lot anymore. I've got a laptop and a desktop, but rarely power either on. I've shut down at home almost completely and use my phone's web browser and apps for most tasks/searches I would have done previously.

My kids aren't online much because they're too young....but I have lots of DVDs for them. I turned off home internet a few years back to save $70/month because my I never used it. I couldn't justify throwing money away and now stream from my 10Gig max monthly hotspot connection that's already included with my Sprint plan.... (Unlimited plan @ 23GB max) We have DirecTV, but had them pause our service for a few months so we could enjoy Summer. We honestly don't miss it because we get 13 channels over the air.... There are a ton of people 'cutting the cord', but they're really just cutting cable and falling back to Netflix or some other service that requires Internet. We don't really mind sticking to HD OTA broadcast and DVDs we already own. DTV is $105/month for our house.....internet is $70....so that's $175/month saved if we leave DTV off....seems worth it for a few years. If nothing else, we could turn it off for 6 months to save $650 and get an introductory rate again when/if we sign back up.
 

amdhunter

Lifer
May 19, 2003
23,332
249
106
Before I was married - about 20-30GB downloading porn, music and movies.
After - a couple of MB that I waste looking at Facebook on my phone and occasionally ATOT.