Re: [CenturyTel] Being terminated for excessive usage
You'd have to download 8 HD movies a day every day of the month to use that much! If I had kids I'd turn off Youtube and Netflix and switch to PBS instead and send them outside to play instead of sitting in front of the TV all day.
An average HD movie is around 6Gb. If one person watched one HD movie a day, you'd hit around 180Gb a month. Now expand to more than one a day, or more than one person in the household at any given time.
Parenting advice notwithstanding (and really not needed in the thread), you're a bit off on your calculations.
Depends on what you are watching I guess. The ones I've checked were 800Mb-1.2Gb for HD movies using Navi-X or Netflix and Youtube is even less since it's mostly SD. Where did you find one that's 6Gb anyway? That would be a data rate too large for most people to even watch unless they have fiber. We aren't talking about the size it would be on a Blu-ray disc since they are highly compressed for downloading.
It may be tied to personal bandwidth of the household. I have Centurylink 40/20 Fiber, and I stream Netflix and Amazon Prime at the highest settings. With MLB.com starting up (which I stream to my HDTV) for baseball, I can hit 200Gb a month pretty easily.
I do think that Netflix and Amazon reduce the bitrate depending on network throughput. I guess my argument is that you can easily brush up against the cap if you have the throughput to do so. If CL is going to disconnect people for exceeding the cap, they really ought to provide a bandwidth meter.
Joe, that sounds like a first world problem that only concerns the privileged 1 percent! Most people are complaining about the slow speeds and could never download enough to hit a cap if they let it run 24/7.
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