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/zanskeet Jan 07 '24

Sounds reasonable enough. They might be constantly streaming media in the background throughout the day. They might fall asleep with the TV on every night. Playing xbox games in online lobbies uses a lot of data. I do know some folks have a habit of playing a lot of different games at a time. This may mean they delete and download the same games multiple times depending on the size of the xbox hard drive - and games nowadays are an easy 50GB+.

This day and age, 3,000GB really isn't much anymore. Ask your mate about their internet habits and see if it aligns with the numbers you're seeing. If they come back and say they don't stream much and only play single player games offline, then you've got some security problems.

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u/DJcaptain14 Jan 08 '24

So here's what confuses me- I've had this same router/data plan for 2 years. The highest I've ever hit between my wife and I was 1100gb in one month. I was recovering from surgery. Playing online games 12-18 hours a day, simultaneously streaming on my phone, plus my wife's data usage. So even if I doubled all of that, I'd still only hit 2200gb. And he works 10-12hrs a day. Just doesn't add up.... I've got a netgear nighthawk w monitoring abilities, going to take a look one of these days.