http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Does-streaming-take-up-bandwidth-usage-21971920 en Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:13:07 EDT Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:13:07 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Does-streaming-take-up-bandwidth-usage-21975481
Instead of increasing backbone capacity on dsl or cable, the isp does the opposite, enforce cap and charge more for overage which would be in any amount of GB such as 5,10,20,40,60,80,100. speed is no longer an issue but bandwidth the transfer of data is now limited and an embarrassing solution

That the user is the problem and not the limited capacity
How ironic. ^_^]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Does-streaming-take-up-bandwidth-usage-21975481 Wed, 25 Feb 2009 14:30:12 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Does-streaming-take-up-bandwidth-usage-21974293
You have nothing to worry about.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Does-streaming-take-up-bandwidth-usage-21974293 Wed, 25 Feb 2009 11:19:59 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Does-streaming-take-up-bandwidth-usage-21974026
If on the other hand you are talking about streaming videos from your home computer to your STB (set top box), then that doesn't use any verizon bandwidth. Your data flow isn't correct in that case. It would be from your computer, to the verizon router, then to the STB. It does not leave your local network.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Does-streaming-take-up-bandwidth-usage-21974026 Wed, 25 Feb 2009 10:39:45 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Does-streaming-take-up-bandwidth-usage-21973771 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Does-streaming-take-up-bandwidth-usage-21973771 Wed, 25 Feb 2009 09:49:31 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Does-streaming-take-up-bandwidth-usage-21971978
If you're talking about streaming of movies from something like Netflix, for HD content it'd use anywhere from 4 to 8 Mbps or so (perhaps more). Even more for HD video on demand through the verizon STB (to your TV).

Put it this way, if you were to stream HD movies 24/7 at 6 Mbps for the entire month, that'd consume:

= 6 Mbit/seconds * 60 seconds/1 min * 60 min/1 hour * 24 hours/1 day * 30 days/1 month

= 6*60*60*24*30 = 15552000 Megabits

= 1898 Gbytes (or ~1.9 TB)

That's a lot (8 times what Comcast's bandwidth cap is, for comparison), but I still doubt Verizon would throw the book at you.
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He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have. -Socrates]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Does-streaming-take-up-bandwidth-usage-21971978 Tue, 24 Feb 2009 22:34:46 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Does-streaming-take-up-bandwidth-usage-21971920
hopefully i explain that right. its kind of hard to explain.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Does-streaming-take-up-bandwidth-usage-21971920 Tue, 24 Feb 2009 22:25:17 EDT