iansltx
join:2007-02-19
Golden, CO
kudos:2 Reviews:
 ·Comcast
| My Situation I could never live on a 5GB per month MBB connection. While I was doing work on such a connection back home, I used ~1GB in a day. So 30GB in a month just for me.
Granted, looking at DD-WRT logs, the rest of the family (four people) used ~12GB in the month, without me home. However that was on a crapy 512k connection. I GUARANTEE they would've used more if the connection was 1.5/512 with high quality. YouTube won't even load on it.
Then again, every family member has their own computer, and my brothers like to play various games.
On my 22/5 connection I've used 73.2 GB so far this month. Yes I'm sure I'm in the top 10% but OTOH I'm not int he top 1%. Yes I download HD TV shows but I do my torrent seeding elsewhere and download only two TV shows per week, or about an hour of high quality video. The rest is YouTube or similar, with other folks using my connection on a periodic basis. Mostly just me though.
I transfer files over the connection for my job at school, upload large-ish PDFs, etc. over my cable internet. I'm using under 250GB per month and not hosting any public-facing servers on the connection, so I'm not going to sign a business-class contract that I'll have to break in a little over a year when I graduate.
Last month I used 164GB.
I have two laptops, a desktop, a Wii and an iPhone that tend to be on the network on a regular basis. One laptop tends to serve as an HTPC. The other is what I take to class, so maybe 20% of its internet traffic is on my campus network. If you add in file transfers on the campus LAN, the number is actually more like 80%.
I'm definitely not the normal case for internet usage; I think the rest of the guys in my apartment complex use ~50GB per month on a Qwest DSL connection, and there are about twenty of them. OTOH they also ahve the campus network, which is a lot faster than a 5/896 DSL connection...and none of them are gamers or the like. |
