Monthly Bandwidth Usage

Users compare their personal and service-related monthly internet bandwidth consumption, debate data caps from ISPs and hosting providers, and discuss costs or overages for high usage.

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explain Nov 3, 2023 View on HN

Same here. What's your bandwidth usage? 500TB/month here for less than $4, on track to be serving petabytes in next few months. Feels so abusive.

UVB-76 Jul 22, 2013 View on HN

150GB/month usage?I often push 150GB in a single night!

alisonkisk Feb 15, 2021 View on HN

What do you think is happening currently? Do you think th median user uses over 100GB/month?

jbarham Mar 5, 2018 View on HN

Monthly cap is 200 GB. I typically use 50 GB/month, so it's effectively unlimited.

paulcarroty Jul 5, 2020 View on HN

100GB bandwidth/month for free, it's quite small traffic.

richardv Nov 8, 2013 View on HN

It's about 1Mbit a month... (1Mbit = 328.5 GB).

dpe82 Nov 5, 2013 View on HN

Curious: how many TB where/are you storing and what was your bandwidth usage like?

batou Jul 19, 2015 View on HN

I pull 120Gb a month down. That's going to be a fucking big OTP and side channel.

crtasm Aug 9, 2018 View on HN

500gb/month is fine for my needs.

Avshalom Nov 14, 2018 View on HN

just a reminder: if you read the small print your ISP probably has a monthly bandwidth cap after which they start charging you more. 54GB is probably a significant fraction.