I hope you’re providing that feedback to them.
Direct Tv Now.
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I hope you’re providing that feedback to them.
Dentman
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I need to look into this further. I just checked the comcast site and it said customers are limited to 1 TB of usage. The message I got said I had used 101gb. Something is odd here.
I’m surprised how many people still think that going 100% streaming is only a millennial thing.
If you go streaming only for TV and watch as normal (4 hours a day or more as background white noise) how much data would you use?
Too many variables to say accurately but my Netflix shows me that I get 4K resolution at around 12Mbps and 1080p at around 6Mbps. DTVnow content won’t use anywhere near that much bandwidth and it varies by channel (among other things). DTVNow says they need between 2.5 and 7Mbps for HD. So let’s go with the high end and say 7Mbps.
4 hours X 60 minutes X 60 seconds is 14,400 seconds.
14,400 X 7Mbps is 100,800 megs (100.8 Gigs) of data per day.
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That would eat through roughly 3 TB/month. Even if you go with the low end of that estimate you're hitting near 1TB...that's a lot of data.
What happens when you hit the limit instituted by the ISP? Do they throttle or cut you off?
1TB is not that high. I once downloaded 7TB in a month. Another time, I uploaded 27TB over about six weeks. This is what can happen when you backup a NAS full of media to the cloud.
Sadly, I'm picking up a 1TB limit when I am forced to switch to Comcast at the new house.
1TB is way more than enough capacity for the non maniacs to stream content. You’re proclivity to horde and backup content isn’t shared by 99.9% of the world or even 99.0% of the AV enthusiast crowd.
Depends on the ISP.
If only there were a way for the ISP to idnetify video content and separate that chunk of data from the rest and bill appropriately.
Getting political, are we?
Just sayin
It’d also be kinda awesome if the ISP could bundle video data along with other products or services and exclude that chunk from the data cap.
Wait... I thought Net Neutrality was cancelled already.
Holy shit that's expensive.
Clearly I need to check how much data I'm using now, then during the D*Now trial see how much data I use. Cutting the cord is under further review.
Verizon had no caps, so I'm kinda pissed that I have to switch over to these clowns. I considered reducing my overall bandwidth by simply moving my entire server stack into the cloud, as I already have an up-to-date backup of everything I have on Google Drive. What held me back was that I did not want to put all my eggs in Google's basket when they can change their terms and conditions at any time. I also recoiled a bit at the thought of spending at least $50/mo on a VPS. The core problem is that my library does not fit on my NAS, all of my movies are uncompressed Blu-Ray rips and I cannot transcode down to a more reasonable bit-rate to save bandwidth, because the server is here.
They offered me a plan with symmetrical service and no caps for $299/mo, to which I demurred. I haven't even moved yet and I already hate Comcast.