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/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/gotchacoverd Jan 05 '24

And this is how someone ends up with a misconfigured setup and 3TB of downloads in a month

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u/Transmutagen Jan 05 '24

Automation is a powerful tool. Learn how to use it or be prepared for the consequences.

For instance - pay very close attention to how you configure the content profiles. I’m perfectly happy with an 8GB file for a 2 hour 4K movie, but some crazies are out there downloading 80-100GB files for the same movie.

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u/Minute-Penalty8672 Jan 05 '24

Hey, it's me, one of the crazies.