| Typical Customer Data Usage Out of curiosity, I started monitoring data usage on my 30/5 service in North Carolina. For a long time, it was about 120GB. Last month it was 220GB. This month, it looks like it will be over 300GB. The increased traffic is probably due to Netflix. Traffic is measured on my Netgear router's Traffic Meter.
UVerse has a 250GB cap because they think that few customers will reach that level, which is silly.
Is there any way of knowing what the average TWC 30/5 or 50/5 customer data usage is? Has the average number increased very much in the last year? |
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| I don't do a lot of streaming anymore since my wife has full cable, but with me being the primary user, playing games after work, checking emails, browsing, downloading things and occasionally streaming, I barely hit 60GB.
You could possibly pulling that much, it's feasible by watching about 2-3 hours of shows/movies a night or more would throw you over that. But it doesn't matter (ATM) with TWC as they don't have caps. |
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ke4pymPremium
join:2004-07-24
Charlotte, NC | reply to neumannu47
I wouldn't worry too much about it.
As Fleeced noted, TWC doesn't have caps. And they've said no caps on Wideband services. |
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| I'm not worried about it. I'm curious. |
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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. |
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BJR
join:2012-10-04
Dallas, TX | reply to neumannu47
average usage might be tough to calculate without filters like age group and such. you have your gamers, movie watcher, youtubers, download junkies, house holds with multiple devices.
I am not a bit torrent user but I still average 500GB+ per month and that is due to having a large house hold with multiple devices and people doing various things like gaming, watching youtubes, pandora, updating said games and downloading games when steam has crazy sales, web surfing, various updates to computers; software; devices, etc.
I don't think I could survive on 250GB per month and let alone 10GB. probably why i don't own a smart phone. those dinky data plans just beg the customer to go over. |
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my usage, 2 streaming netflix, online gaming, youtube, twc tv, music, etc. total of 4 pc's, 2 tablets, 3 cells, tv, ps3 |
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| said by alexintexas:my usage, 2 streaming netflix, online gaming, youtube, twc tv, music, etc. total of 4 pc's, 2 tablets, 3 cells, tv, ps3
I am glad you aren't on my block with that usage. |
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ernliz
join:2001-11-25
Albemarle, NC | reply to alexintexas
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....... |
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1 edit | reply to neumannu47
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. |
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This is my usage. |
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| 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. |
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 NormanSPremium,MVM
join:2001-02-14
San Jose, CA
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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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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? |
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| reply to NormanS
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 |
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join:2000-05-24
Cleveland, OH
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·Time Warner Cable
| 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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 kilrathi
join:2005-04-22
Rockaway Park, NY
·Time Warner Cable
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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. |
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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. |
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| 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 |
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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. |
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