Hi all,
I've noticed lately with all the heavy streaming etc our internet usage keeps going up. We're on unlimited and are hovering around 500gb a month, which i know isn't crazy. But was just curious to know if theres a rule of thumb quota where ISP's start watching you and possibly throttling your activities My last ISP, internode, did seemingly throttle me and now i'm with Leaptel and everything is going great i don't want it to happen again.
Thoughts appreciated.
A bit of a tongue in cheek answer, but I remember a reddit AMA from Aussie Broadband that a user was downloading 34TB a month and that they might be hearing of the fair use policy soon: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/hw8joz/comment/fyy5jc…
Yeah there was some tool doing the same on ABB a year or two back, wasn't DL'ing anything useful and just wanted to see how much he could download in a month.
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4 years ago tho; what's that in today's TB.
No-one will ever need more than 100MB NBN speed — Malcolm Turnbull allegedly
I would say heavy streaming is fair use in this digital society.
500GB is a drop in the ocean, you have nothing to worry about.
I consider myself a heavy streaming user (youtube, twitch, netflix, prime video, sailing on the 7 seas etc) and I regularly hit 2TB per month.
500GB is absolutely nothing these days. You could hit that in a month just updating games let alone downloading full games. The latest Rainbow Six Siege patch was 74GB.
The latest Rainbow Six Siege patch was 74GB.
far out, i havent played r6 seige since year 2 pass - 74g patch is crazy - my gaming laptop would be crying. (assuming i could download all the patches to get to current…)
Yeah, I don't really play very often at all. Every time I fire up a game to play there's another massive patch or update to download. Luckily our internet is pretty fast now. Would have had to wait all day or overnight in the past.
my family of 3 did 500g/mth back on ADSL2+ before the NBN reached us at the end of its roll out, so kinda impressed you can use so little in this day and age, 1-1.5tb usually now
I push 3-4TB a month and have never heard a peep from my ISP
Primary Connection - MTD is 14TB (last month was 31TB)
Starlink Connection - 2TB (last billing month 14th NOV to 14th DEV)
Using about 900GB a day (800GB up / 100GB down) on my primary connection.
500GB a month is nothing! As long as you are not this user, ABB cancels service with person who used 34TB in 2 days on an UNLIMITED plan you'll be fine.
Haven't heard another from either ISP. I am really wondering when Starlink will reach out, but have heard of people using 3-4TB in the US on Starlink and not having an issue.
500GB is two days of heavy downloads. If I buy a new computer I'll do 500GB in two days re-downloading all my games and software. It's nothing.
I wouldn't even worry about 5TB a month.
Maybe 50TB is getting a bit much.
As long as it's all legit streaming and you're not downloading / uploading pirated material, you'll be fine. ISPs don't typically care about piracy but if you're 10TB of it a month they might object. I think if you have Netflix open 24/7 they won't do a thing.
They (ISP) have nothing to do with the kind of content you download or upload (unless there is a formal accusation of some sort from Copyright owner). They are not supposed to know what you are downloading or uploading, or assume you are transferring illegal content even if you are downloading 100TB monthly. If you are using 100TB, they might object if they think it's too much, regardless of the content, which is not relevant for them.
If you stream one 60min episode of a TV series daily, that can be up to 45GB for a single 4k episode, or 1.35TB monthly.
Then you can stream random HD music, YouTube, games which will easily get you to 5TB monthly depending on your use.
It would vary from provider to provider and none would care about the bottom 99%!
It's the one percenters that are problematic for most ISPs …
I would guess to get into that top 1% you probably have to download continuously at 100Mbps for the month (~ 35TB) !
I think it depends more on Daily usage, rather than monthly. I know a user who was capped because they downloaded 5TB in 4 days
500gb? those are rookie numbers
I'm with Leaptel and my family sits at around 4-5TB/month. Close to 1TB of that is just the Samknows box
Similar situation here. Ive been with leaptel for over 2 years, with most months being multi TB downlaods; you have nothing to worry about
Wind back the clock 20 years and Bigond 10mb/s cable had a 3GB limit. Until they released their Unlimited* plans which were actually 10GB
I just checked my usage for December so far and it's at 890gb. We usually use between 1.5 and 1.8TB a month
They should not be randomly throttling you, I doubt that was specified in the terms?
i did torrent a small amount in the past without a vpn. That may have got me flagged. i'd just always assumed i had tech issues slowing my downloads down until i changed provider and everything worked well again.
Flagged for what though? Do the terms say they will throttle you if you do X activity?
Reboot your router each time you torrent because it can fill up the NAT tables. Some routers don't purge it properly afterwards.
I have this problem each time I torrent on I2P.
The data is less of an issue for ISPs than the time of day you use it. Download between 2 and 8am and nobody gives a hoot
https://www.itnews.com.au/news/nbn-co-looks-to-enforce-fair-…
I found this on Google but wasn't able to find any more regarding proposed download amounts.
I posted the article above about the user on 34TB. It was possibly the fact that it was 34TB in a short period of time. If it was 34TB for a month, they probably would've gotten away with it.
I also think the key from that IT News article is that it refers to Residential Plans usage and forces those high usage users to go onto the Business Tier. This would obviously be more expensive and then fit within the business usage.
Yeh echoing the other comments 500GB is nothing to worry about.
Previously I was on a cheaper 50/20 plan with 500GB quota and we managed to keep it under every month.
Then they bumped up the price and made it unlimited, and became less selective about things, started streaming a lot more etc.
Still only sitting around 1500GB a month now though, I'd say that wouldn't be uncommon for most households. Just the kids updating Fortnite could have used a fifth of our old quota.
500GB is normal mobile usage streaming 4k on the go.
2-3 TB is your average NBN user playing video games from home.
They'll monitor the top say 0.1% of users for potential abuse of fair use, not over a specific threshold of usage.
500GB/month is nothing for an unlimited plan. That doesn't even fill up a PS5.