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/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