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Originally Posted by gTen
Its math time again...
lets say you are using verizon fios which is 15mps/5mbps..this is the standard one as some go to 50mbps/20mbps. My optimum goes 30mbps/5mbps.
To do 3tb in a month you would need to do 1tb every 10 days and 100gb a day (ok 102.4gb a day but lets not be picky)
In hour that will be 4.16666 gb an hour and 0.0694gb a min(69mb a min) and (1.15mb a sec)
15mbps=1.875 megaBYTES a sec
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5mbps=0.625 megaBYTES a sec
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That will give you a total of 2.5megaBYTES a sec speed.
So to reach 3tb a month you would need to stream a minimum of 12 hours a day upload and download at max on a regular verizon fios.
So 3tb like a bit of a stretch...unless you got a 100mbps connection from optimum/verizon that came out recently.
(In my case I do 1 tb a month which seems to make sense according to the calculation if using a 30mbps/5mbps connection)
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Your calculations seem extreme for a single man. But for a family of 6 or 8 or something like that, it's not far fetched at all. Again- On Demand and Netflix are the ONLY thing some people watch these days. I hear about people on an almost daily basis who tell me they only watch On Demand programming and stream Netflix. I think we're probably not too far away from all premium tv being IP based. And when you're talking about HD video and surround sound, that's a lot of data getting transferred. Not to mention more and more people are using VOIP phone services and security cameras streamed online.
Put it like this- how much data does your DVR hold- a few hundred gigs? Now, is there anyone out there who doesn't think they could fill it up in a month? Imagine if all you watched was On Demand and Netflix progamming- and you have 4 or 5 others in the house, each with their own receiver, and they mostly watched On Demand and Netflix too. That data would add up pretty quick...