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Re: [Internet] Internet usage up 200% since upgrade to Fibe 25? Well Pat and Judy I have bad news for you. You think bell gives 2 (you know whats) about your usage? The more you use the more they like it. That extra $80 is pure profit to them. Call it a cash cow, call it whatever you want. Its despicable they set these caps on such high speeds. If you haven't learn't your lesson by now I'm not sure how to help you.
I know your asking for insight into what might be wrong. You gotta be the bandwidth police, not rely on bell. read up on google how to monitor your bandwidth. There are many different ways.
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| Netflix can eat up alot bandwith close 1gb/hour at a low setting
Netflix (HD): 3600MB for a 2 hour HD movie.
Netflix (SD): around 500-700MB each |
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| said by The Doctor:Netflix can eat up alot bandwith close 1gb/hour at a low setting
Netflix (HD): 3600MB for a 2 hour HD movie.
Netflix (SD): around 500-700MB each
Assuming the amount of NetFlix they watch hasn't gone up though, they wouldn't be using any more of their cap for it now than they were on a 16Mbps connection. |
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1 edit | If we assume only one user logged into netflix this would not cause much of dent but multiple users using netflix would increase usage.
The faster the connection the more one uses without noticing we do more because it's done faster.
Youtube/netflix/hulu so many sites to eat up our bandwith.
It's possible that the wifi connection is being used by someone else as bell wifi key/password are very weak first thing i changed when the tech left when i had fibe 25/7 installed few months ago. |
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| said by The Doctor:If we assume only one user logged into netflix this would not cause much of dent but multiple users using netflix would increase usage.
It would have taken quite a few concurrent SD streams to bottle-neck a 16Mbps connection. And even if they were somehow saturating the 16Mbps connection with SD quality Netflix, a 56% increase in speed wouldn't translate to a 200%+ increase in usage. The math just doesn't work that way.
So again, if they haven't changed how much they watch Netflix, it's very unlikely to be the cause of the drastic increase in monthly internet usage. |
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1 edit | I am still trying to figure out how 3-4 people could use up so much bandwith during a month if none of their habits changed.
If bitorrent & netflix was used would drive usage but not 200% either |
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kudos:8 | depends if you upload at 10mbps vs 800kbps. |
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| said by kovy:depends if you upload at 10mbps vs 800kbps.
That would also be my first suspect. Torrents seeding at 10x the speed it used to do before. Or any other P2P technology where you are suddenly uploading 10x faster than you used to do, and didn't took the time to cap the upload speed in your P2P client. |
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