Comcast Data Usage

I have an HD security camera that is constantly uploading to the cloud, 3 kids that all watch netflix a lot, and my wife and I are online probably more than average.

Looking at my account it's pretty weird, it shows less than 1gb for January, 186gb for Feb, 282gb for march, and 184gb so far this month. No idea why nothing show up for Jan, everything worked on our end.

Here's mine... 3.5 cell phones, 2 tablets, 1 laptop, 1 desktop, cameras/alarm, television, and netflix

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I'm at about 300 Gb per month average. No streaming except music, just web surfing and such. VOIP phone (magicjack) maybe 60 minutes a month.

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Originally Posted by th3w01f

Data breech is very unlikely, passwords are secure and rotated, same with a bot infection. That being said our usage does seem high, I've never really thought much about it since my co workers typically run 500-1TB per month but they're probably running other stuff as well. I don't think we've been below 200gb a month in years.

We we don't do any movie or file downloads, no peer to peer, etc.

Maybe online backups of PST files, I have about 50gb of frequently updated PSTs. I guess it's time to do some traces.

Anyonk know if Minecraft is data intensive?

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Are you running full backups of those pst's or incremental?

I think Netflix is the main culprit for the recent increase. .7GB per hour is over 500GB a month and I think she has just been leaving it on as background noise. We typically have 20+ active devices connected so we're not typical users but the increase is concerning.

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Originally Posted by 00tec

Are you running full backups of those pst's or incremental?

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Should be incremental but I'll have to dig into it. Running Backblaze and Mozy.

I was averaging 11 gig a DAY. Then I got my own cable modem ...cable modem only not with all the extra crap like wifi and telephone jacks etc... and I am averaging 1.83 immediately upon switching.

Forgot to add were also using comcast VoIP for about 5 hours a day..... It's all starting to add up. :-)

I know the data cap discussion/rumor has been going on for some time. Is there some recent news or something that indicates Comcast is going to be imposing limits in Colorado markets? Last time I did any checking, it was just all rumor...

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Originally Posted by th3w01f

Forgot to add were also using comcast VoIP for about 5 hours a day..... It's all starting to add up. :-)

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Comcast voice doesn't impact your data use.

Voice would only show on usage if you were using Vonage, Magic Jack, or some other voip means.