How much bandwidth have you used over the last month at home? Feb 2016 edition

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Visseroth

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I'd post a screenshot but unfortunately I had to blow away my installation a few days ago. Still trying to figure out why.

But my usage ranges between about 400 and 800GB/mo But seriously badskater, lol, 1 and 4TB, nice! LOL
 

T_Minus

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Feb 15, 2015
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7TB+ in wow -- either you watch a lot of TV or do a lot of work from home ;)
 
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Pete L.

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According to PRTG as of a few minutes ago for the last 30 days
In to my Firewall 45GB
Out of my Firewall 136GB
Total in / Out 181GB
 

wsuff

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Aug 16, 2015
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575GB for Jan. Still have Comcast TV since HOA includes it. Sadly will need to switch to biz class if/when the residential caps are imposed.
 

coolrunnings82

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707gigs down 100gigs up for the last 30 days. 3 kids, 2 adults with heavy netflix/hulu/other streaming, home lab, work, and general surfing. Good thing I'm on business class. With a 350gb cap, that'd be a big bill on residential Comcast. 85/15 connection here.
 

Rahvin9999

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17 TB in jan.

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Ekke, thats quite a bit of data. I always though I was a bandwith hog but... There is always a bigger fish.

After my old provider went bankrupt i had to get a new connection. This ofcourse took weeks. So the first opportunity that represented itself I got a second connection installed. Thats never happening again. 3G sucks for data intensive work and streaming.

Out of curiosity.
- What kind of connection is that?
- Do you use that at home or is it a connection @work or in the DC
 

ekke

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Ekke, thats quite a bit of data. I always though I was a bandwith hog but... There is always a bigger fish.

After my old provider went bankrupt i had to get a new connection. This ofcourse took weeks. So the first opportunity that represented itself I got a second connection installed. Thats never happening again. 3G sucks for data intensive work and streaming.

Out of curiosity.
- What kind of connection is that?
- Do you use that at home or is it a connection @work or in the DC
Ordinary home connection, lan cat 5e.
500/100 officially.
 

trippehh

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The previous month? 8.6TB. A couple months ago it went past 10TB.

Foreveralone dude household. Gigabit ("1000/1000") residential FTTH on a open access network in Norway.

The TV cord is cut. Yes - a lot of streaming. Both inbound and outbound. Netflix in UHD.

Thats a lot of data of course, and streaming doesnt explain all of it. There's some STUFF of course (foreveralone remember), and backups, live database replicas for various projects, experiments, working from home... So this is nowehere near representative for a normal household, cord cutting or not.

This is actually quite moderate compared to what it was while running a Tor relay, which consumed 5TB a day. Not an exit relay, mind you. ISP didn't mind, but I eventually needed to use the hardware for other things. :eek:
 

capn_pineapple

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Ordinary home connection, lan cat 5e.
500/100 officially.
WHAT>???

I'm on the highest tier available home connection in my country and can't even top out my advertised 100/40. I'm lucky if I ever get over 85/30. I have all the jealousy!
 

gigatexal

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The previous month? 8.6TB. A couple months ago it went past 10TB.

Foreveralone dude household. Gigabit ("1000/1000") residential FTTH on a open access network in Norway.

The TV cord is cut. Yes - a lot of streaming. Both inbound and outbound. Netflix in UHD.

Thats a lot of data of course, and streaming doesnt explain all of it. There's some STUFF of course (foreveralone remember), and backups, live database replicas for various projects, experiments, working from home... So this is nowehere near representative for a normal household, cord cutting or not.

This is actually quite moderate compared to what it was while running a Tor relay, which consumed 5TB a day. Not an exit relay, mind you. ISP didn't mind, but I eventually needed to use the hardware for other things. :eek:
High def pr0n uses a lot of bandwidth. No judgment here. :)
 
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ekke

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WHAT>???

I'm on the highest tier available home connection in my country and can't even top out my advertised 100/40. I'm lucky if I ever get over 85/30. I have all the jealousy!
Sounds that you are on docsis. Shared channels.

In my switch loop there are 12 switches in a single loop 1gbe to a aggregation switch not 2x1,just the single gbe, most switches are 24 ports some 48. Bandwidth utilization is soo low on average if you exklude me, often 1 to 5 Mbit total upload during the days, average at peak around 2100 is often 10 ish Mbit...

So on average a customer dont use bandwidth, you need hundreds of customer to even get some traffic going, average traffic that is. Since dl mostly is short and bursty.