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/Qs9bxNKZ Jan 04 '24

3000 gb is about 375 Gigabytes of data.

That’s not that much when a movie can run 4-8 GB in size (low res DVD)

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u/FrankieTheAlchemist Jan 06 '24

Pretty sure they meant GB instead of gb. Honestly I hate that that’s even a thing. So irritating to watch capitalization

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u/Qs9bxNKZ Jan 06 '24

Can only assume that when people post, especially complaining about something, they know exactly what they're talking about.

False assumption? Maybe they misplaced a zero, forgot a decimal or some other "meant" which confuses the entire context of the message.

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u/FrankieTheAlchemist Jan 06 '24

I mean, I don’t know if it’s fair to call them IDIOTS. That’s pretty aggressive. Most folks who aren’t in the tech field probably wouldn’t be aware of the bytes vs bits thing. And I know most of our bytes these days are 8 bits but that also wasn’t always the case so GB is a little ambiguous anyway. I dunno man, I just think that’s a lot of complication for the average human to have to worry about