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 RobIn Deo speramus, God Bless the USAPremium
join:2001-08-25
Kendall, FL
kudos:2 | reply to Matt
Re: All that money yet a 400 GB cap said by Matt:HD video will eat massive amounts of bandwidth, but there just isn't enough of it available yet to really eat up a monthly usage cap as most are crying about. No, I'm not following you! 
Yesterday I caught up on the rest of season 1 of Heroes. I watched 5 episodes in HD with my Roku box, with each episode being 40 minutes long.
According to my router, I downloaded a total of 5.6GB.
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 MattAll noise, no signal.Premium
join:2003-07-20
Jamestown, NC
kudos:12 | said by Rob:said by Matt:HD video will eat massive amounts of bandwidth, but there just isn't enough of it available yet to really eat up a monthly usage cap as most are crying about. No, I'm not following you! Yesterday I caught up on the rest of season 1 of Heroes. I watched 5 episodes in HD with my Roku box, with each episode being 40 minutes long. According to my router, I downloaded a total of 5.6GB. LOL, that's ok. That great info. I would have figured that Netflix HD would have eaten up more than 1GB or so, but I guess for a movie that would translate to 2GB-3GB ... sounds about right to me.
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join:2002-03-26
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said by Rob:Yesterday I caught up on the rest of season 1 of Heroes. I watched 5 episodes in HD with my Roku box, with each episode being 40 minutes long. According to my router, I downloaded a total of 5.6GB. That is helpful, putting some real numbers to it.
Doing the math, that's about 1.7 GB per hour. Extrapolating, that is 7.8 hours per day. Dividing, that is 3 streams running for 2.6 hours daily.
And that is BEFORE you deduct all the web browsing, email with attachments, YouTube, iPod downloads, games, VoIP, etc.-- all the stuff we do on a daily basis, that does NOT involve video streams, but still counts against the bandwidth cap.
Anyone with teenagers knows there is no end to what they can eat, or how many cell minutes they can talk away, or how much bandwidth they can consume.
And for $150/month just for internet service alone, I would expect to be able to satisfy the digital appetite without banging my head on a cap every month. | |
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