Comcast Data Usage

[th3w01f]

I know we have several Comcast employees on the forum, can someone provide any details on upcoming plans for usage restrictions and additional fees? I've read the FAQs but there is nothing specific for Denver.

Our usage seems extremely high to me and I'm not sure where it's coming from, we have Netflix (set to medium, just moved to low quality) and no other streaming services. We don't stream movies or watch much on youtube so it seems that work should be the main culprit, or maybe Comcast on-demand (we watch about 1 movie a week)? Before adding Netflix we were still averaging 200 - 300GB per month and now that my daughter found a show she likes we're sitting at 700GB this month (hence the move to low quality).

Comcast says the average usage is about 25GB per month which seems very low to me.

I'd also be curious to hear if ours is out of whack or if others are using a lot of data, you can see your usage here https://customer.comcast.com/Secure/...terDetail.aspx

[sniper7]

I'll swap the minute they charge me any fees for data usage.

[Zundfolge]

I thought that Obama's new "Net Neutrality"/FCC takeover of the internet was specifically supposed to stop this?

[00tec]

Hearing nothing for our area, or even any of the West division (except Tuscon).

That being said, you are using a LOT of data. I don't think Netflix alone is the culprit.


My record was ~700gb in one month and I was downloading much more than netflix. That was 2-4 1080p movies per day for a month.

[ruthabagah]

Holly gigs! Thats a lot of data! If I were you, I would change my wifi password settings right now.... The kid next door is probably torrenting on your dime.

UPDATED WITH MY COMCAST AVERAGE.



This is for a house of 4 connected users. 2 on vpn 24/7, movie downloads / streaming, tons of multiplayer gaming time, skype and other.

[MED]

Get a 1.5mb connection like me; it will cut your data usage to almost nothing.

[MED]

Holly gigs! Thats a lot of data! If I were you, I would change my wifi password settings right now.... The kid next door is probably torrenting on your dime.

+1 either that or you have a breach resulting in unwanted activity, you joined a botnet, etc.

[Great-Kazoo]

This is for cell related usage, not in home cable? Never seen a Data Usage Report before, mmmm.

[def90]

14GB for me so far this month.. I don't stream movies at all and occasionally play music via online services. Any security cameras or anything else? Either someone is tied into your account or your daughter is playing music 24hours a day.. Any family members doing a lot of FaceTime via their phones or other phone based apps over the house network? Obviously if you have an unlimited data plan on the phone you want to keep it off your home internet account. Also look into viruses on your computers, one of them could be running as a server without you knowing.

[th3w01f]

+1 either that or you have a breach resulting in unwanted activity, you joined a botnet, etc.

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?