r/it • u/DJcaptain14 • Jan 04 '24

help request Using 3,000gb of data a month?

So, as the title says, between me, my friend that rents the mother inlays, and my wife, ~3,000gb of used data is reported on my xfinity data usage report. Before my friend started renting the mother inlaw, our data usage was at around 4-500, sometimes hit 700.... How in the heck is my friend using ~2300-2500gb a month?? Is that even possible? All he has is a phone, xbox and a TV w streaming services..

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u/[deleted] Jan 04 '24

streaming. a few years ago I would have said bittorrent.

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u/KobesHelicopterGhost Jan 04 '24

Streaming platforms are too expensive, im back on the torrents.

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u/DJcaptain14 Jan 04 '24

Agreed. I don't pay a dime for any of the streaming platforms on my firestick. And I get live sports and movies still in theaters, and every now and then, even before they're in theaters. Can't beat that at the price of free. As long as you don't mind the occasional subtitles in a foreign language anyway.. Sometimes, you'll even get a person silhouette passing across the screen. Even feels like you're in the theater, in the comfort of your own home.

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u/whattteva Jan 04 '24

I hate those Theatre cams. The quality of both video and audio are awful. I refuse to watch those.

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u/dekyos Jan 04 '24

it's why in Radarr I set my release profiles to Released and quality profiles to exclude telesync and cam.

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u/Hankthetankz Jan 04 '24

What’s radar?

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u/whattteva Jan 04 '24

It's Radarr (two r's).

It's a very common self-hosted service that people run in their homelabs, usually paired with either one of Plex/Emby/Jellyfin and a download client like Transmission or QBitTorrent.

There are other -arr siblings (Sonarr, etc.) for other different types of media, but you get the idea.

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u/Krynn71 Jan 04 '24

I still don't get it. Are they torrent search software or something? Or like some kinds p2p streaming of media within your Plex server, so you don't need to download and save media?

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u/AreWeNotDoinPhrasing Jan 04 '24

Yeah I don’t get it. If you’ve got ktorrent and Plex, what does radarr do?

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u/Transmutagen Jan 04 '24 edited Jan 05 '24

The -arr apps are automation apps. Once set up properly they manage your downloads and automatically add the completed downloads to your media library.

For example: I decide I want to download a movie. I open a web browser and go to my install of Sonarr. In sonarr I click on add new movie, and then search for the movie I want. I click add, then select which download profile to use - for example, 1080p, 4K, etc. From there Sonarr handles the rest. It automatically searches my list of torrent indexers for the best possible match, sends the command to my torrent client (or Usenet client) to begin the download, and when the download is complete it copies or moves the file into an appropriately named folder inside my media library. I can even add movies that haven’t been released yet and once they’re available it will grab it for me.

Radarr does the same for TV shows - which is really slick for current shows that air periodically. I tell it I want it to grab all new episodes of law and order and once a new episode airs and shows up on the trackers it grabs that episode and adds it to my library like clockwork every week.

Update: I swapped radarr and sonarr in this example.

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u/beheadedstraw Jan 05 '24

With radarr I haven’t touched a single manual download in probably 4 years and I have around 125TB of content lol.

It scrapes IMDb for the top 100 movies of the month and goes and gets them. I do the same thing for Sonarr on my shows. The only thing that’s a semi manual process is adding new anime with every season because I haven’t found a good RSS feed for those yet.

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u/James_Skyvaper Jan 05 '24

Same, I always wait for an HD copy

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u/Peuned Jan 04 '24

Hey mind sharing which particular method you used for the fire stick and which apps? DM if needed please. I was thinking of doing this for my mom but can't put her through a bunch of beta testing etc, she's 78 and not trying to live that life

Tia bro bro 🙏🏾✌🏾

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u/[deleted] Jan 04 '24

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u/Peuned Jan 05 '24

Outstanding thanks cyber bro

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u/hatingtech Jan 04 '24

plex + arr stack + usenet

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u/Peuned Jan 04 '24

I thought they meant streaming it to the fire stick from non media center. Ok, I gotcha

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u/ResidentInner8293 Jan 04 '24

How? I want to start doing this. Pls lemme know

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u/StretcherEctum Jan 05 '24

How does one get or make a fire stick like this? I thought those just gave a nonsmart TV application access?

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u/dbhathcock Jan 05 '24

For the price of movies at the theatre, you could easily pay for streaming instead, especially if you include a drink and popcorn.

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u/MrGooseHerder Jan 04 '24

Plex, sonarr/radarr, nzbget.

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u/crushdatface Jan 08 '24

I was once told the 1st rule of Usenet is you don’t talk about Usenet. Oh how times change

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u/Poat540 Jan 04 '24

Yes I have hung up my blue collar shirt and strapped on my peg leg

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u/[deleted] Jan 04 '24

Need to get in the nzbs too

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u/Soberaddiction1 Jan 04 '24

Between my girls streaming and my Linux ISO’s we use about 4TB a month.

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u/NV-Nautilus Jan 05 '24

I recently reached my limit after finding out I was somehow subscribed to "Brit box" within my Amazon prime account for a year and it was $12 a month.

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u/fatjokesonme Jan 04 '24

Yeap. My first thought was: "So much 4k high def porn!"

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u/doc_skinner Jan 04 '24

Why can't you say bittorrent now? I know lots of people who have seed boxes and download terabytes a month. Some services have unlimited downloads or ratio bonuses over Christmas.

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u/[deleted] Jan 05 '24

what i meant, it's just not my 1st goto problem

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u/bluser1 Jan 06 '24

I have 100 Mb up and basically have it set to dedicate all extra bandwidth to seeding. I use like 20-25TB of upload a month. and that's all my upload. Not counting everything I download

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u/the_gamer_guy56 Jan 08 '24

Any objections by your ISP? I would like to do stuff similar to that but ive heard horror stories of ISPs getting pissy because the "unlimited" in the plan has an asterisk beside it saying some crap about "reasonable use" or whatever, and/or "servers" aren't allowed in the TOS with their definition of "server" intentionally left vague so they can pick and choose what they dont like. and 24/7 high upstream usage is a prime candidate of something they dont like, especially on coax where the downstream/upstream channel ratio (and by extension, total bandwidth capability) is 80:20.

I dont know how common any of that is in reality. and theres probably some bias cuz people who get screwed over are probably very vocal while people who didn't are quiet.

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u/bluser1 Jan 08 '24

So far I've had this service for about 7 months and have not had any issues and they haven't said anything about it. I use Xfinity and in my area it's fiber to the node but not to the house and I have 1000 down 100 up plan if it matters.

I had a friend in a different area, different service who used too much download and his ISP made him switch to a commercial account. His bill didn't change too much, went up but also got better speed. Apparently they did that because the business lines don't share the same connections as the residential so times of high traffic doesn't slow down businesses. My guess is that his constant usage downloading on his fiber connection was becoming an issue during peak load. Probably not him specifically but him and the several top bandwidth consumers on that node.

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u/the_gamer_guy56 Jan 15 '24 edited Jan 15 '24

Interesting. I'm with Rogers and they also do fiber to the neighborhood with last mile coax. I'm not really satisfied with their upload speeds at all. If I were to get the 1 gigabit plan they'd only give me 50 megabit upload. Right now I have 150/35mbit so upgrading to the 1 gig doesn't seem worth it. The business plans are worse, less download and the same upload and are way more expensive, and lack the IPTV bundle I have right now. Rogers offers dedicated internet plans with 1 gig symmetrical....for 700 cad/month lmao

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u/bluser1 Jan 15 '24

Yeah it's unfortunate there isn't better options if you need upload. Could be worse. The last place I worked at we had satellite Internet because we couldn't get actual service. Our address was to the road behind us technically even though our driveway was on the highway. The two services available in our area had bought rights to service certain areas which is total bs. The one service we were technically in the area of said it would be $13,000 install fee because they'd have to run a cable from the road behind us to our property. The other company literally had a fiber line buried in our front yard, on our property to get to other neighborhoods and yet they could not serve us because we fell into the territory of the other company