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posted by mrpg on Thursday January 24 2019, @07:12AM   Printer-friendly
from the B-b-b-b-but-Information-Wants-to-be-FREE! dept.

1TB `Power Users' Double to 4.12% of All Households:

According to OpenVault, both average and median data usage for year end 2018 increased when compared with year end 2017 statistics. Importantly, the rate of growth for median usage continued to far exceed the growth rate for average usage, indicating that consumption is growing across service providers' entire subscriber bases, rather than only among heavy users.

OpenVault's year end 2018 data showed that:

  • Average usage for all households was 268.7GB/HH in 2018, up from 226.4GB/HH at the end of June 2018 and a 33.3% increase over the YE 2017 average of 201.6GB/HH.
  • Median usage was 145.2GB/HH in 2018, up from 116.4GB/HH in June 2018 and a 40% increase over the YE 2017 median of 103.6GB/HH.
  • The percentage of power users – defined as those households using 1TB or more – almost doubled in 2018, rising to 4.12% of all households from 2.11% in 2017, while the percentage of households exceeding 250GB rose to 36.4% from 28.4% during the same timespan.

How much data do YOU use each month?


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  • (Score: 2) by looorg on Thursday January 24 2019, @08:06AM (8 children)

    by looorg (578) on Thursday January 24 2019, @08:06AM (#791134)

    1TB doesn't sound very far fetched for a household that contain a few people, say two adults and two children. First there is all the normal work- and webstuff -- surfing, the facebook and the youtube, add in all the streaming of video (beyond the normal youtubeing) and audio (spotify and such). Perhaps you have make your "phonecalls" as part of you bandwidth to (not only skype etc). I think they can pass 1 TB without any issues in a month.

    1TB might not even be all that much for a somewhat active person, some online gaming, the usual streaming of audio and video of your choice, perhaps some normal amount of bittorrent usage (for those super important linux distros .. *cough*cough*) and the usual surfing. I imagine you would blow right past the 1TB mark in no time at all.

    How much data do I use in each month? Hard to say since it is split between home, work and mobile. Very low mobile usage, work usage unknown (not my problem). At home? I'm probably just shy or around the 1TB mark in a month, give or take a few GB. The ISP has not complained as of yet anyway.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 24 2019, @08:28AM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 24 2019, @08:28AM (#791138)

    If 1080p streaming is 8 Mbps, 1 TB is 11.5 days. Even a family each watching stuff separately may be hard pressed to hit that.

    Although it's far from impossible, you have to be pretty motivated to download a few hundred gigabytes a month. Chances are you don't need all of whatever you're grabbing.

    • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 24 2019, @10:07AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 24 2019, @10:07AM (#791165)

      If 1080p streaming is 8 Mbps, 1 TB is 11.5 days. Even a family each watching stuff separately may be hard pressed to hit that.

      OK, let's do the calculation.

      11.5 days is 276 hours. Let's say we've got a family of four, that's 89 hours per person; let's make that 90 hours for more easy calculation. Taking 30 days per month, this gives 3 hours per person and day. Certainly not impossible.

      Assume 4K instead of 1080p (i.e. 4 times the data rate), and the limit is reached by four people watching 45 minutes per day each.

    • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 24 2019, @11:55AM (2 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 24 2019, @11:55AM (#791189)

      You also forget games, games updates, OS updates, other applications, music, and all the other things that all add up.

      • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Thursday January 24 2019, @07:28PM (1 child)

        by bob_super (1357) on Thursday January 24 2019, @07:28PM (#791392)

        Someone got a new laptop for Christmas. Has to run Windows on it.
        I plugged it in the Gig-E port at the back of my dad's fiber box before letting it do a Win update.
        A minute later, the update is done downloading and starts installing. I was checking the port usage : That was a 3GB update !

        Yup, for less than 20 Euros a month, they really do have 500Mb/s down (200 up). That hurts.

        1TB ? Well, if you could keep that rate up (few peers will send you sustained 500Mb/s), apparently they'd reach a TB in about 5 hours. The math does check out, but usually the "down rate" advertised is hard to achieve. A One Drive backup that big would be a rare case where it works.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 24 2019, @09:14PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 24 2019, @09:14PM (#791442)

          What kind of faggy european shithole do they live in? (and how hard is it to get a visa?)

  • (Score: 2, Disagree) by isostatic on Thursday January 24 2019, @09:01AM (1 child)

    by isostatic (365) on Thursday January 24 2019, @09:01AM (#791145) Journal

    All our TV viewing is via internet (netflix, iplayer, amazon). All our radio is via internet (tunein). I work from home, as does my wife.

    Our maximum download in a single day averaged 3mbit, or about 30GB over the 24 hour period. Average is about 6GB a day, or 200GB a month.

    Passing 1TB/month, or 30GB a day, is not in any way normal for a 'somewhat active person'.

    However median usage of 145GB a year? Or 400MB a day? That sounds pitiful. I could believe median usage of 145GB a month, or even 50GB a month (600GB a year), but 145 a year? You're having a laugh.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 24 2019, @09:58AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 24 2019, @09:58AM (#791163)

      Our maximum download in a single day averaged 3mbit

      Wow, you download only up to three millibits per day? That makes about one bit per year! ISPs must love you! :-)

      No, wait, now I get it: You don't speak about the amount of data, but the amount of information in that data! ;-)

  • (Score: 2) by Freeman on Thursday January 24 2019, @06:16PM

    by Freeman (732) on Thursday January 24 2019, @06:16PM (#791344) Journal

    Online gaming takes very little bandwidth and thus doesn't account for much of the total usage. What does use a lot of data is downloading the game and/or updates. Though, even then, that depends on what game(s) you get. Terraria is less than 1GB to download, while Fallout 4 is over 10GB to download. Sure, Terraria has multiplayer, but assuming you're using cloud saves. You can easily use more data for the single-player offline game Fallout 4 than Terraria. Since, the save files for Terraria are miniscule and it doesn't use a lot of bandwidth for multiplayer. While Fallout 4 save games are much, much larger files. I ran into this recently, since my connection is kind of shoddy, so I have taken to limiting myself to a few save game files. So SteamVR doesn't take forever to sync the cloud saves. In contrast, streaming Video or Audio uses a lot more bandwidth, since they can do things like buffering. Which would not make for a good real-time (FPS/Arcade/Etc) game.

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