Topic 'Typical Customer Data Usage' in forum 'Time Warner Internet Services' - dslreports.com

Re: Typical Customer Data Usage

Mon, 11 Feb 2013 02:02:29 EDT

antdude posted :

You think his is high, i was at 800GB+ Last Month Lol

Wow, what are you doing to go that high? Wow. I thought my <100 GB was high.

Re: Typical Customer Data Usage

Tue, 05 Feb 2013 20:37:30 EDT

kilrathi posted : As long as TW offers highest tier "ultimate" package that has no caps (if there are caps) then thats what I will pay for. If they decide to cap at low 250 for all packages then I will switch to verizon fios which is now about to be fully available as they been running new infastructure here after hurricane sandy. simple. I am willing to pay a lot for a fast package that has no caps but if they try to cap me then its cya. Oh and I hover about 300GB or 350GB and no I dont torret at all. I do stream some stuff, newsgroup stuff, stream on twitch tutorials, and also sync a lot of files as I work on some dlcs for small developer.(this syncing sometimes will eat up 5gb in a day)

Re: Typical Customer Data Usage

Tue, 05 Feb 2013 19:35:15 EDT

dw3bb10 posted : You think his is high, i was at 800GB+ Last Month Lol

Re: Typical Customer Data Usage

Tue, 05 Feb 2013 19:00:13 EDT

hobgoblin posted : "Here is my usage for October thru February. I don't have TV service at all so I stream everything I want to watch."

How will your usage change at say $1 a GB over 250 GB?

Hob
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Re: Typical Customer Data Usage

Tue, 05 Feb 2013 08:58:15 EDT

antdude posted :

said by williamray507:

Here is my usage for October thru February. I don't have TV service at all so I stream everything I want to watch.

Wow.

Re: Typical Customer Data Usage

Tue, 05 Feb 2013 08:57:51 EDT

antdude posted :

said by whiteyonenh:

said by antdude:

said by whiteyonenh:

So... ummm... I'm guessing nobody wants to be in my neighborhood? :o

Also, a majority of the upload is cloud backup to Crashplan Pro. Download is mostly usenet.

Leecher. ;) I am surprised TWC didn't contact about your high usages. :P

Actually... I've been EXTREMELY surprised as well... the only alternative here is 1.5mbit adsl as well, so I'd be quite unhappy if they did decide to discontinue my service.

For me, no DSL, FIOS, and any fast affordable broadband services in my areas. :(

Let's hope TWC never enforces a cap!!

Re: Typical Customer Data Usage

Tue, 05 Feb 2013 05:21:38 EDT

williamray507 posted : Here is my usage for October thru February. I don't have TV service at all so I stream everything I want to watch.

Re: Typical Customer Data Usage

Tue, 05 Feb 2013 02:12:49 EDT

whiteyonenh posted :

said by antdude:

said by whiteyonenh:

So... ummm... I'm guessing nobody wants to be in my neighborhood? :o

Also, a majority of the upload is cloud backup to Crashplan Pro. Download is mostly usenet.

Leecher. ;) I am surprised TWC didn't contact about your high usages. :P

Actually... I've been EXTREMELY surprised as well... the only alternative here is 1.5mbit adsl as well, so I'd be quite unhappy if they did decide to discontinue my service.

Re: Typical Customer Data Usage

Tue, 05 Feb 2013 01:01:47 EDT

antdude posted :

said by whiteyonenh:

So... ummm... I'm guessing nobody wants to be in my neighborhood? :o

Also, a majority of the upload is cloud backup to Crashplan Pro. Download is mostly usenet.

Leecher. ;) I am surprised TWC didn't contact about your high usages. :P

Re: Typical Customer Data Usage

Tue, 05 Feb 2013 00:35:11 EDT

whiteyonenh posted :

said by sivran:

Do you have Crashplan backing up your entire disk or something?

Yes, about 5TB or so. 5x 2TB HDD's in Raid-5

Re: Typical Customer Data Usage

Tue, 05 Feb 2013 00:33:43 EDT

whiteyonenh posted : 7.2TB raid-5, yes... whoops, double post :/

Re: Typical Customer Data Usage

Tue, 05 Feb 2013 00:00:48 EDT

PhoenixDown posted : I average about 40 gig down and about 2 to 3 gig up.
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Re: Typical Customer Data Usage

Mon, 04 Feb 2013 22:29:30 EDT

sivran posted : Do you have Crashplan backing up your entire disk or something?

Re: Typical Customer Data Usage

Mon, 04 Feb 2013 21:26:10 EDT

Summit posted : Mine is light weight then I guess, lol.

Re: Typical Customer Data Usage

Mon, 04 Feb 2013 20:35:09 EDT

hobgoblin posted : Thats a lot. An awful lot. And I would not want you in my neighborhood at any cost!

Hob

Re: Typical Customer Data Usage

Mon, 04 Feb 2013 20:28:36 EDT

whiteyonenh posted : So... ummm... I'm guessing nobody wants to be in my neighborhood? :o

Also, a majority of the upload is cloud backup to Crashplan Pro. Download is mostly usenet.

Re: Typical Customer Data Usage

Mon, 04 Feb 2013 15:41:58 EDT

dw3bb10 posted : I'm at 500GB+ a month.

Re: Typical Customer Data Usage

Mon, 04 Feb 2013 14:50:03 EDT

bn1221 posted : Netflix allows 7mbit per stream if they have a local content box with the ISP. I can see kids on on TV and parents on the other.

Re: Typical Customer Data Usage

Sun, 03 Feb 2013 21:04:54 EDT

TBusiness posted : I have U-Verse and when i login to check my usage- it tells me its unlimited even though the TOS at signup says 250gigs. I can provide a screen shot if needed.

Re: Typical Customer Data Usage

Sun, 03 Feb 2013 18:32:57 EDT

antdude posted :

said by mitchell:

I want to thank you guys/girls for this thread.

I was worried about my usage over the last few months after coming from att DSL and checked the TWC page and I'm averaging 10GB a month. I was sweating that level... After see y'all's usage I am smiling....

10 GB a month is nothing. ;)

Re: Typical Customer Data Usage

Fri, 01 Feb 2013 12:09:47 EDT

chamberc posted : Mine varies by month... if I occasionally have to do a clean backup, I can exceed 100gb a month, but over the past 4 months, my average has run 72gb a month.

75/5 ultimate now as of this week...

Re: Typical Customer Data Usage

Thu, 31 Jan 2013 21:15:42 EDT

hobgoblin posted : "I take a toll road to get to work and back. It's getting me to the same place, just faster and more expensive. I pay the extra to save 20-40 minutes a day. I consider this worth it. Someone else might not. Fine by me, but if they tell me I'm wasting my money, I'll tell them they're wasting their time."

Thats a nice analogy!

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Re: Typical Customer Data Usage

Thu, 31 Jan 2013 19:29:54 EDT

sivran posted : I got a better twist on it.

I take a toll road to get to work and back. It's getting me to the same place, just faster and more expensive. I pay the extra to save 20-40 minutes a day. I consider this worth it. Someone else might not. Fine by me, but if they tell me I'm wasting my money, I'll tell them they're wasting their time.
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Re: Typical Customer Data Usage

Thu, 31 Jan 2013 13:17:10 EDT

mitchell posted : I want to thank you guys/girls for this thread.

I was worried about my usage over the last few months after coming from att DSL and checked the TWC page and I'm averaging 10GB a month. I was sweating that level... After see y'all's usage I am smiling....

Re: Typical Customer Data Usage

Thu, 31 Jan 2013 02:56:02 EDT

iansltx posted : My usage has varied significantly over the past few months. Then again, what I've done with my connection has varied significantly over the past few months.

At the high end, I used 238 GB in a month. This included online backups, some TV show downloads, a few seasons worth of Netflix, a couple Steam game downloads, a partial backup reseed, and my normal assortment of general usage. Last month I used 57GB, but I was gone for half the month, more or less. This month I'll end up using between 85 and 90 GB, including an OS download and a few TV show downloads, plus the regular complement of activities.

What are those activities? Some YouTube viewing (in the highest possible resolution...I can SSH into a SoftLayer VPS to get better connectivity and remove all buffering issues), a significant amount of online gaming (not much traffic overall, even with patches for two different game installs) and online backup are probably the big consumers. Oh, and streaming of various gaming-related events, again in 1080p. Then I've got application downloads and updates for two dual-OS computers, updates for a couple Linux VMs for work, updates for an Android phone and an iPad, a significant quantity of web browsing across a variety of text/image-heavy sites, a few hours per week of Google Talk (voice) and/or Google Hangouts (mostly GTalk, for work)...and dealing with software version control that's not hosted on my system.

In other words, I use my connection for an extremely wide variety of traffic types. My usage isn't all that great, partially because lately I haven't wanted to tie up significant amounts of time watching online video, but I'm also one person, and outside of seeding a torrent there's only so much bandwidth that one person can consume. I've had my name more or less on accounts that have hit 750GB, but in those cases my usage was maybe half...okay, two thirds...of the entire amount, due to backup seeding. It's amazing what happens when you've got half a dozen folks sharing a fast, reasonably reliable 'net connection (50/15 Comcast at that point).

For the record, I'm certainly paying my fair share...maybe more; I've got 50/5 service. When TWC comes out with a residential tier with more upload speed, I'll get it. If they come out with a tier with more download speed without additional upload speed, I won't get it. That's their own fault.

Re: Typical Customer Data Usage

Thu, 31 Jan 2013 01:08:03 EDT

MURICA posted :

said by hobgoblin:

said by sivran:

Do you just not realize how pointless your argument is? :uhh:

Here is an analogy.

I used to own a Sebring, I drove 20 miles to work every day. It took me 20 minutes.
I now own a Chevrolet Camaro. its still 20 miles to work, but the car is faster so it takes me 15 minutes.
I dont drive 25 miles for fun I save 5 minutes each trip.

Hop

That is a terrible analogy. Do you live in Germany and commute on the Autobahn or something?

Even the shittiest of cars can easily exceed American highway speed limits by 10+ mph.

Re: Typical Customer Data Usage

Wed, 30 Jan 2013 23:53:51 EDT

alexintexas posted : Sadly this is the tech for DSL, however.....

if you are speaking of sonic.net

Fusion℠ delivers our fastest residential broadband at up to 20Mbps and traditional home phone service with unlimited nationwide calling all for a single low price $39.95+$6.95 modem fee. and is not an intro rate according to the site.

home phone on TWC alone = $39.95 a month
15Mb line is $54 a month + modem
3Mb line is $39.95 + modem a month if not mistaken

so i would take a 5Mb line and home phone at that rate

the same level of phone service on ATT or verizon = $70+ a month.

Re: Typical Customer Data Usage

Wed, 30 Jan 2013 23:52:30 EDT

hobgoblin posted :

said by sivran:

Do you just not realize how pointless your argument is? :uhh:

Re: Typical Customer Data Usage

Wed, 30 Jan 2013 22:43:51 EDT

NormanS posted :

said by alexintexas:

even if this is the case a 15mb line is overkill for all above usage

My ISP charges my mother the same price for 5 Mbps Internet at her residence as they charge me for 15 Mbps at mine; less the stupid $6.50 modem rental fee they started collecting last year. No tiers, just a limit due to DSL and wireline distance.
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Re: Typical Customer Data Usage

Wed, 30 Jan 2013 22:29:15 EDT

sivran posted : Do you just not realize how pointless your argument is? :uhh:

Re: Typical Customer Data Usage

Wed, 30 Jan 2013 18:16:21 EDT

alexintexas posted :

said by Fleeced:

even if this is the case a 15mb line is overkill for all above usage
not just in speed but in total monthly avail data one could download in a month. you yourself state you only d/l 60gb a month.
so for an occasional game d/l or patch you overpay $60+ a month for speed you dont really utilize,,,,facts are facts,,,sorry

on a 50Mb line you could d/l upto 16tb in a month so you avg less then 200kbps on a 50mbps line. think about that

said by Fleeced:

Or the house near the college that has 4 guys all trying to torrent/stream/game at the same time. Speed doesn't matter then?

torrents id allow if legal and set QOS as you well know without this torrents will saturate a line

Re: Typical Customer Data Usage

Wed, 30 Jan 2013 18:12:10 EDT

anon posted : Steam will use a full 150Mbps FiOS connection to download demos and purchased games or updates no problemo.

»www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIBx0PoSqSg

When I go there and select 1080p, YouTube sends the data to my cache at 50Mbps which fills it then plays it locally.

Online gaming doesn't use that much data (256Kbps or so which is nothing), downloading updates however or new maps does. Last maps pack I downloaded was 2.6GB

Re: Typical Customer Data Usage

Wed, 30 Jan 2013 17:46:51 EDT

Fleeced posted :

said by alexintexas:

this is the mentality all isp's try to sell SPEED. people fail to see actual data usage.

TWC doesn't have caps. What does data matter in this situation> The only time actual data usage matters is with ISPs with data caps like mobile phones.

what game sites allow you to utilize your full 50Mb connection??
for that matter how many sites period allow it

the avg/most internet users use netflix, youtube, ps3, xbox, online gaming which NONE of these sites/services utilize no more then 3Mbps. these same sites would never go above/allow 5mbps let alone 50mbps

What about a household that has someone watching a movie on netflix, someone uploading and downloading files for work, one console gaming, another kid streaming her favorite TV show and the other kid hiding downloading porn trying not to get caught.

Or the house near the college that has 4 guys all trying to torrent/stream/game at the same time. Speed doesn't matter then?

Re: Typical Customer Data Usage

Wed, 30 Jan 2013 17:30:53 EDT

NormanS posted : WRT Netflix Super HD, is TWC part of their "Open Connect" network? Your ISP needs to participate in "Open Connect" and you need compatible hardware.

My ISP is a participant:
[ATT=1]
... but I lack compatible hardware.
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Re: Typical Customer Data Usage

Wed, 30 Jan 2013 16:56:19 EDT

alexintexas posted :

said by MURICA:

The big XXX networks all output >150 GB of new content each month.

this is not typical user action no not watching porn,,,watching 150gb of it much less in 1080p

said by MURICA:

It's not true that Netflix never goes above 3 Mbps. Netflix's new HD streams are now 7 Mbps

Requirements

Netflix Super HD is included for free with your Netflix membership.
Netflix Super HD requires an internet connection with at least 5Mb/s download. Not all devices can play Super HD. Super HD is only available via Internet Providers that are part of the Open Connect network.
Click here to see the full list of supported devices.

so like me you also can not stream this, which is also 100's of millions of internet subscribers.

said by MURICA:

1080p videos on YouTube average 5 Mbps, as do 1080p downloads from itunes

they do not simply put after compression its not even that,,,sorry.
itunes??? can you max your d/l speed from itunes? i dont know i dont use it. now as for 4k video that is completly irrelavent. no consumer tv's that one could afford and to stream true 4k content you would need fiber period..

Re: Typical Customer Data Usage

Wed, 30 Jan 2013 16:08:06 EDT

MURICA posted : How do you guys get the usage tracker to work?

Mine has always said this:

[att=1]

said by alexintexas:

said by Fleeced:

You're talking about something different than I am. I don't care how much you download, I'm talking how fast can I download that game or expansion

this is the mentality all isp's try to sell SPEED. people fail to see actual data usage.

what game sites allow you to utilize your full 50Mb connection??
for that matter how many sites period allow it

said by Fleeced:

The people who do a lot of downloading/uploading are just using more of their connection for longer periods than I am.

the avg/most internet users use netflix, youtube, ps3, xbox, online gaming which NONE of these sites/services utilize no more then 3Mbps. these same sites would never go above/allow 5mbps let alone 50mbps

You just don't know how to use a connection. Adult sites can help fill a connection legally. A sub to Brazzers for example and you can use over 400 GB a month if you d/l all the 1080p scenes they release in that month. Manwin outputs a ton of content, and as they use 1080p MPEG-4 @ 12 Mbps as the standard for their HD scenes each scene is typically around 4 GB in size...

The big XXX networks all output >150 GB of new content each month.

Steam's got some mighty big games on their service. If you ever have a HDD crash and need to reinstall all your games from the cloud that number can get into the TB's.

It's not true that Netflix never goes above 3 Mbps. Netflix's new HD streams are now 7 Mbps. 1080p videos on YouTube average 5 Mbps, as do 1080p downloads from iTunes. And 4K videos on YouTube are encoded to 20 Mbps.

Re: Typical Customer Data Usage

Wed, 30 Jan 2013 15:27:30 EDT

alexintexas posted :

said by Fleeced:

You're talking about something different than I am. I don't care how much you download, I'm talking how fast can I download that game or expansion

said by Fleeced:

The people who do a lot of downloading/uploading are just using more of their connection for longer periods than I am.

Re: Typical Customer Data Usage

Wed, 30 Jan 2013 14:58:49 EDT

antdude posted : 77 GB as of this morning for me. Lower than last month's.

Re: Typical Customer Data Usage

Wed, 30 Jan 2013 14:06:33 EDT

Fleeced posted : You're talking about something different than I am. I don't care how much you download, I'm talking how fast can I download that game or expansion pack versus standard. It would take me twice as long on standard as it would on my extreme (minimum, assuming perfect connections no overhead losses.)

The people who do a lot of downloading/uploading are just using more of their connection for longer periods than I am. Doesn't mean I don't want or "Need" my faster connection any less than they do.

I've never seen an ISP try to sell how much you can download, unless it was in the form of a cap. They always sell how fast you can download. Big difference.

Re: Typical Customer Data Usage

Wed, 30 Jan 2013 13:48:20 EDT

alexintexas posted :

said by Fleeced:

Just remember, you're not paying for how much internet you get in total, you're paying for how fast your internet comes

This is the selling point of every isp to over sell a product no one will come close to utilizing

said by Fleeced:

So while you can possibly pull 600GB/m with standard, you won't get it as fast as you would with Ultimate.

the total on standard "15Mbps" is 4860Gb you could never achieve more then this in any given month.

So what is the need for even a 10Mbps line other then torrenting or to download a file a few seconds faster

Re: Typical Customer Data Usage

Wed, 30 Jan 2013 10:54:52 EDT

Fleeced posted : Just remember, you're not paying for how much internet you get in total, you're paying for how fast your internet comes into your computer at one time. So while you can possibly pull 600GB/m with standard, you won't get it as fast as you would with Ultimate.

Re: Typical Customer Data Usage

Wed, 30 Jan 2013 01:11:25 EDT

kilrathi posted : I am hitting about 300-350gb a month and I dont even use net until 8pm-4am lately due to sandy aftermath work I have every day. Oh and no I don't torrent since 2005 at all. However, as I said before for $100 a month just for internet I consider 350GB usage a month quite acceptable if not low.

Re: Typical Customer Data Usage

Wed, 30 Jan 2013 01:03:15 EDT

trparky posted : According to my Linksys router running TomatoUSB, these are my bandwidth utilization numbers...

Jan 2013: 185.04 GB
Dec 2012: 160.09 GB
Nov 2012: 509.98 GB
Oct 2012: 183.08 GB
Sep 2012: 232.55 GB
Aug 2012: 168.81 GB
Jul 2012: 176.35 GB
Jun 2012: 364.15 GB
May 2012: 258.63 GB
Apr 2012: 237.61 GB
Mar 2012: 149.53 GB
Feb 2012: 228.46 GB
Jan 2012: 342.28 GB
Dec 2011: 590.00 GB
Nov 2011: 191.23 GB
Oct 2011: 122.13 GB
Sep 2011: 103.94 GB
Aug 2011: 117.19 GB
Jul 2011: 143.52 GB
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Re: Typical Customer Data Usage

Tue, 29 Jan 2013 15:56:31 EDT

alexintexas posted : right and according to TWC usage tracker im over paying $30+ a month more then i need to.

a 3Mb connection is more then sufficient for my usage according to TWC graphs

Re: Typical Customer Data Usage

Tue, 29 Jan 2013 15:40:31 EDT

alexintexas posted : and im glad you dont live on mine, give me a break!

now what would my monthly usage be if used my "paid" 30Mb connection 24/7?

Re: Typical Customer Data Usage

Tue, 29 Jan 2013 05:22:27 EDT

NormanS posted :

said by ernliz:

Yeah, right. I wouldn't be soooo proud of that usage. As the other person wrote, I'm glad I'm not living on your block, but eventually ALL of us are paying for your incredible usage. No wonder the bills are getting higher and higher.......

Why is Internet sold in speed tiers? My ISP's CEO says it costs his company the same to deliver 3.0 Mbps as to deliver 20 Mbps; hence why all of his customers pay the same rate despite the variations in speed.
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Re: Typical Customer Data Usage

Tue, 29 Jan 2013 04:17:31 EDT

motorola870 posted : average about 30GB a month in downloads/uploads which I don't upload a lot of stuff other than college work and the usual upload traffic for requesting data.

use:
youtube 240p videos (really don't care for the HD as I watch some user channels and listen to music videos and music lyric videos)
facebook/facebook games
regular web browsing
sometimes will use the TWCTV app

overall the service is great have extreme 30/5 constantly get 31 down 5.10~ (greater than 5Mbps) up

beats att in my area which I can get the 24Mbps package from them without bonding pair as I live about 500 feet from the fiber-node VRAD which if you include the loop would be in the range for 24Mbps.

Re: Typical Customer Data Usage

Tue, 29 Jan 2013 01:59:45 EDT

dcn66100 posted : This is my usage.

Re: Typical Customer Data Usage

Mon, 28 Jan 2013 22:25:00 EDT

Trebonious posted : Typical usage: Lots of gaming, youtube streaming / smart tv youtube streaming (albeit lately it's been absolutely horrible trying to watch anything on youtube... buffer buffer buffer), netflix & Hulu, skype, & steam downloads.

4 PC's, 2 laptops, Smart TV, & tablet.

said by Fleeced:

If you averaged everyone that uses the internet, I wouldn't be surprised if the "average" user barely does 10GB a month. You have huge skews in both directions (Never use it and people who constantly torrent), but for such a vague term as "average user" I wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't 5-10 GB a month, if not less.

My average is roughly 2GB per day on this PC alone. That's simply youtube, gaming, skype, etc. Not including any updates on steam, other games, or the rest of the house hold.