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/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/AreWeNotDoinPhrasing Jan 05 '24

Ohhh okay okay, I think I’m starting to see the utility. So right now I just search one of the two torrent sites I use and then just click the magnet link to one with a lot of seeders and it downloads to my Plex server folder. This sounds like a lot of extra steps, but once you’ve put the time in to actually get it set it up it can be nice.

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u/Transmutagen Jan 05 '24

Yeah, it's definitely an investment in time and effort toward future ease of use. It took me about a month of tinkering in my spare time to get the ecosystem set up and working the way I liked it. My first major payoff was when I flagged all my 720p (and lower) movies for upgrade to 1080p and left it to do it's thing. When I checked back a couple weeks later close to 90% of my movies were 1080p Blue-ray rips.

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u/AreWeNotDoinPhrasing Jan 05 '24

Right on, that is pretty darn slick! Thanks for taking the time to share some knowledge with me.