Good to know, thanks! Time to jump on a 2 hour conference call.Quote:
Originally Posted by 00tec
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Good to know, thanks! Time to jump on a 2 hour conference call.Quote:
Originally Posted by 00tec
I'm at 293 GB so far this month. Which is a high month for me. I have a roommate and we're both almost constantly using bandwidth. I can explain the increase (not here though lol). If someone is hitting 700 GB a month, I highly suggest you get some sort of internal monitoring setup to see how that bandwidth adds up. Watch times of the day where people are asleep/not home and see how much data you're pushing out during those times. At the least, run a packet capture on machines while doing minimal network functions and see how much traffic your NIC(s) are pushing out.
I really think some Netflix discipline is in order around here. I was talking to my wife about it and she said the kids had 3 different episodes of the same show streaming on 3 different TVs yesterday afternoon. Even at medium that 2.1GB per hour.
I've been monitoring usage on the firewall as well and everything was looking pretty normal till I decided to follow a link over to theblaze.com. Read a couple articles and looked at my usage, about 200MB in 10 min all served up from a CDN company.
you may also have to factor your porn addiction... I mean GUN porn addiction!Quote:
Originally Posted by th3w01f
I swear every time I click on a link someone posts that goes to that site it wants to bring up multiple pop-ups, instantly play a video clip and display multiple ads with video and sound embedded in them..Quote:
Originally Posted by th3w01f
YouTube is a Bandwidth hog.
Not sure how accurate this article is, but it throws out some alarming numbers.
This is from: http://www.whistleout.com.au/Broadba...nd-Usage-Guide
During the summer, our oldest teen was basically using YouTube as background noise watching stuff while playing online games. That Sh__ stopped real quick.Quote:
A common misconception about video streaming is
that it doesn’t use up as much data as downloading the same video would. In
fact, it uses about thesame amount of data.
You often end up using more. When streaming a video, the file buffers ahead
of time. This is the segment of the film that you have downloaded.
Unfortunately, if you refresh the page, or close it down and come back later
to re-watch it, chances are you'll have to download it all over again.
We logged how much data YouTube uses for a 5 minute video, using the more
common resolutions.
Here is a table of the speed at which each video downloaded, as well as the
amount uploaded per second and the final amount of data that had been
downloaded.
YouTube
Usage 240p 360p 480p 720p 1080p
Bits per second (down) 400-500Kb 900Kb-1Mb 1.5-1.7Mb 20Mb 20Mb
Bits per second (up) 5-9Kb 15-20Kb 20-26Kb 320Kb 320Kb
Data used in 5 minutes 8.3MB 13.3MB 20MB 37.5MB 62MB
720p is the lightest form of of 'HD' and is a popular resolution. For every 5
minutes of 720p video footage on YouTube you're using up around 37.5MB of data.
In 2012, the average YouTube viewer watched 6 hours of video per month.
YouTube has since stopped publishing this statistic, but does claim that the
number of hours watched by users goes up by 50% annually.
At 720p that long-surpassed 6 hours would have come to around 2.7GB of usage.
This is a drop in the ocean for a big 100GB cap, but something smaller like a
wireless 3G or 4G plan it can be devastating.
It also goes beyond YouTube. Videos are embedded in everything from online
newspapers to review sites and even Facebook. It all adds up, so be mindful if
you have a limited cap when it comes to video content.
I have essentially digitized my entire DVD/Blue Ray collection, and I can tell you a Blue ray feature film runs upwards of 20-36 GB. A DVD feature is between 4 and 8 GB. And that is just for the track that contains the film and the audio. Of course it has audio in other languages on the other track but that shouldn't account for much of the data in the track. A feature film is around 2 - 3 hours? Imagine streaming that from the internet.
Do you have multiple Netflix accounts? The normal account only allows 2 devices to be streaming at the same time.Quote:
Originally Posted by th3w01f
I just jumped through all sorts of hoops just to get access to their website so I could check my internet usage. We watch about an hours worth of NetFlix a night and we're only at 34gb so far this month.... I also log into my office remotely or over a vpn 5-10x a month...
Another thing to look into is if any of the people in your house have gotten into Skype or another similar voice and video chat service. The video quality setting might be at the maximum.
Looks like you can go to 4 now but we are only at two, she must not have realized that one had been disconnected. Thanks for the heads up.Quote:
Originally Posted by RCCrawler