> In the first quarter of this year, about 4% of internet subscribers consumed at least 1 terabyte of data
How? I have a 4K TV (and a couple of 1080), I work from home, my wife streams all day, and my torrents are always seeding, and have a gigabit line (with unlimited data).
I only average about 500GB a month, and my peak was 772GB.
I guess the only thing I don't do on a regular basis is play games.
Don't get me wrong, the caps are just rent seeking and also totally unfair (how come watching Comcast on Demand doesn't count against the cap but Netflix does, even though both come from servers on Comcast's network?), but it blows my mind that people can actually hit that 1TB cap.
I had an interesting time when I lived with 3 roommates and we got a gigabit connection (this was ~5 years ago, it was a big deal). We hit 3TB/month consistently and interestingly enough, it was about 80% going to consoles. We'd play a lot of Destiny and matchmaking would always make us "host" (because we had the beefy connection)... turns out a surprising amount of data gets pushed through your connection when you're hosting 16 player games for hours a day, on three consoles.
Sounds like you're not actually watching in 4k. A 4k video could be around 7-11GB/hour [1], so 10+ movies and binge several shows and you've over the 1TB easy. Sounds like a lot for a one person, but with a family it's easy to chew up 100+hrs in a month
Yes, of course not, because no one has that much 4k content. I guess that was sort of implied in my comment. Even with a 4k TV it's pretty hard to find enough 4k content to blow out that cap.
How? I have a 4K TV (and a couple of 1080), I work from home, my wife streams all day, and my torrents are always seeding, and have a gigabit line (with unlimited data).
I only average about 500GB a month, and my peak was 772GB.
I guess the only thing I don't do on a regular basis is play games.
Don't get me wrong, the caps are just rent seeking and also totally unfair (how come watching Comcast on Demand doesn't count against the cap but Netflix does, even though both come from servers on Comcast's network?), but it blows my mind that people can actually hit that 1TB cap.
Hats off to y'all.