Why am I using 600 GB of Internet per Month?!??! HELP

[Vargur]

600GB isn't a lot for that many people, especially assuming you people have no jobs.

[Chrno]

Companies have been doing it more and more because it makes them more money due to people having things like Netflix, etc. Certain towns will be bought out by one provider, so people only have the option of using that one company, or the other companies don’t have fast enough internet speeds.

reading this im glad i live in holland where we have multiple company's to choose from.
hang in there and go watch video's in 420p ....

[kail]

I'm $69 CDN/mo for 1gb up & down (separate), with unlimited volume.



Canada will accept data refugees from the US after net neutrality dies today

The idea is looking better over time.

[Notdev]

Wait... waaaaait... You pay for data usage? What are you using, mobile internet? Or is the US just this shitty?

I can use as much data as I ever want, it will never effect my monthly bill.

In very rural areas mobile internet plans can be people's only options for low latency high speed internet. It isn't the norm in the US. We pay like $70 for unlimited 100mbps internet.

[mauserr]

And here I am paying 25$ a month for a 900/300 with unlimited data, no throttling or packages/plans (like video streaming, p2p or whatever the fuck US ISPs charge you for).

It's good to live in Europe.

[Gorsameth]

In the US there's a cap on data usage. This is rarely advertised. It's a clause in your contract. Usually it is around 1T nowadays, after which either surcharges are applicable or your speeds get lowered.

We are obsessed with connecting everything to the internet, with storing everything in the cloud and streaming and downloading everything. On principle there's nothing wrong with this, but in a climate where you have to pay both for volume and not just bandwidth this means we are all going to get ripped off.

Now without Net Neutrality it's about to get a whole lot worse too.

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I'm pretty sure that your data isn't actually unlimited in the sense you think it is, but while it is virtually unlimited after a certain volume it is lowered. Or you just have a very very high cap or a cap that is applied up to the discretion of your ISP.

If I were you I'd check my contract for that clause and your physical bill, it's usually there somewhere in a fine print.

I live in Spain, I got 50 up and 30 down, with a fine print cap at 1T for 38€, could get the 100/100 for another 10€, but I don't actually need that much bandwidth. I know for a fact that I surpassed it a couple of times, tho they never actually lowered my speeds. Tho if I'd be breaking 3 or 4 Tera a month, every month it's sure as fuck they would cut my speeds, to force me onto a business package, those cost 4 or 5 times as much as a private one, but have no real caps at all.

The only 'cap' in most Dutch contracts that I know of is a vague 'unreasonable amount' so they have a tool if you decide to download a Petabyte per month.

Otherwise no, there are no hidden caps or throttles.

[Orlong]

Laughs in Latvian for 10$ and unlimited data we arent living ind dark ages here and i can upgrade if needed to 1gb/s upand down not that expensive

Latvia is also about the size of New Jersey and has little to no vast areas of rural territory so it doesnt cost much to build and maintain the infrastructure. In fact the entire EU could fit in the United States about 5 times over and you expect the entire country to be wired for fiber?, especially when there are many stretches between big cities where you can drive for 4 hours and not see a town of more than 1000 people

[Felrane]

You can go into your netflix and throttle how much data can be streamed from it an hour. Youtube unless you are paying 100% attention to it no reason to have it higher then 720HD. That alone will save you a ton of data. I switched to .7gig an hour and stopped going over my cap.

Browsing/gaming doesn't use alot of data unless you are buying and downloading games since most AAA titles are 50gigs+.

[SL1200]

Someone steals your wifi?
Is your computer a "zombie"?

I was thinking same as Asaliah.

[Eon Drache]

Wait... waaaaait... You pay for data usage? What are you using, mobile internet? Or is the US just this shitty?

I can use as much data as I ever want, it will never effect my monthly bill.

You'd be surprised. My internet is $50 for every 10GB over our cap at 250GB a month. That is "High speed" internet in my area. And the only one really available in my town.

[Deleted]

Laughs in Latvian for 10$ and unlimited data we arent living ind dark ages here and i can upgrade if needed to 1gb/s upand down not that expensive

Yeah but you lot are choked under the boot of Dr Doom, you can keep it.

[Deleted]

Latvia is also about the size of New Jersey and has little to no vast areas of rural territory so it doesnt cost much to build and maintain the infrastructure. In fact the entire EU could fit in the United States about 5 times over and you expect the entire country to be wired for fiber?, especially when there are many stretches between big cities where you can drive for 4 hours and not see a town of more than 1000 people

US education lol. US is smaller than Europe.

[Deleted]

Wait, why are you paying for data use? :O You can't even get that here anymore, unless it's for mobile. :O

I'm really wondering what country you're from.

[Ellarielle]

I'm in the US and have comcast. They implemented a terabyte limit on us about a year ago. We've gone over quite a few times and it really adds up since it's $10/50GB you go over.

(Note: Comcast is our only option unless we want to go with wireless internet or DSL).

First step would be to check your router and see what devices are using the most. Ours ended up being the xbox which the kids primarily use to watch netflix or stream other things that they aren't even watching half of the time anyways. The solution was we turned the quality down on netflix for the kid section and I don't let them watch netflix hardly at all anymore.

We do have a plex account/server that has all of our movies on it and if they want to watch tv, they have to watch that since it doesn't use our data.

[Ichifails]

I'm pretty sure that your data isn't actually unlimited in the sense you think it is, but while it is virtually unlimited after a certain volume it is lowered. Or you just have a very very high cap or a cap that is applied up to the discretion of your ISP.

If I were you I'd check my contract for that clause and your physical bill, it's usually there somewhere in a fine print.

I live in Spain, I got 50 up and 30 down, with a fine print cap at 1T for 38€, could get the 100/100 for another 10€, but I don't actually need that much bandwidth. I know for a fact that I surpassed it a couple of times, tho they never actually lowered my speeds. Tho if I'd be breaking 3 or 4 Tera a month, every month it's sure as fuck they would cut my speeds, to force me onto a business package, those cost 4 or 5 times as much as a private one, but have no real caps at all.

Yeah, no. There are no data caps in Romania and the speed stays the same.

I pay 10€/month for 1000up/500 down:


My average data usage is around 2 TB a month with the highest I've had being 10TB+ during summer and my speed never dropped.
I have 2 1Gb/s internet connections from 2 ISPs in case there's something wrong with one of them, something I did a few years ago because I disconnected once for 5 minutes.

I live with my girlfriend and we have my PC, 2 laptops, 2 phones, 2 smart TV's and we just moved so I didn't really use my PC for 2 weeks and here's my data usage for the last 30 days FOR MY PC ALONE:


To answer OP's post, 600 GB as 3 people is literally nothing. If you want to lower it, don't stream or download videos or if you do, do it in low quality.

[Deleted]

I've got 500 mbit connection and pay like 50€ per month. No cap, at least none that I can read in the contract or that I've noticed when I've been downloading a lot of torrents.

Hehe. Exactly the same in Estonia Same price, same speed and it includes TV and phone. No caps in contract, no throttling. Torrent client running all day long in background.

Its good to have modern internet infrastructure!

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US education lol. US is smaller than Europe.

Actually he's right.

EU countries combined: 4,475,757 km2
Contiguous US: 8,081,867 km2
Entire US: 9,833,517 km2

So EU is about twice smaller, but has about 1.5 times more population. That means EU has 3 times higher population density.

[Daedius]

Lay off the Donkey porn.

[Deleted]

Actually he's right.

EU countries combined: 4,475,757 km2
Contiguous US: 8,081,867 km2
Entire US: 9,833,517 km2

So EU is about twice smaller, but has about 1.5 times more population. That means EU has 3 times higher population density.

Europe:
10 180 000 km²

US:
9 834 000 km²

[GreenJesus]

I think your wife is watching a lot of HD porn when you aren't there.

[Deleted]

Europe:
10 180 000 km²

US:
9 834 000 km²

Europe <> EU. Europe is continent. Europe includes large chunk of Russia until Ural Mountains. You are looking at wrong land mass.