Audie Leon Murphy Posted August 20, 2015 Share Posted August 20, 2015 I am now able to get Comcast Xfinity at my house. They have a 250 gb data limit per month. Will I exceed this by playing ET (a lot) and the regular internet stuff ? I have 12 mb dsl with no data limts now. I can save money getting tv / internet / phone with comcast but am concerned about the data limit. Anybody have any experience with this ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leader RedBaird Posted August 20, 2015 Leader Share Posted August 20, 2015 I just signed up for Triple-Play with them: TV, Internet and Phone services. Only the phone svc is new to me. My account says that the 250GB cap is suspended and here is a link to their latest statement on the situation: http://customer.xfinity.com/help-and-support/internet/common-questions-datapolicy Here is the data usage from my account for this month, for 19 days. 68GB used Note: Enforcement of the 250GB data consumption threshold is currently suspended. Note that I live alone, that I don't watch movies or listen to music online, that I do watch YouTube vids, download files and web-pages, etc. It does not look like I'd break the 250GB barrier anyway, having averaged 3.5 GB/day so far this month or about 102GB/month. You had better check what your local comcast-xfinity site says about your service area. I don't think that ET uses all that much data. It is not sending you each frame, like a movie would, but rather instructions-codes to your ET-client as to what to display to you. "What to display" is a simplification, but you get the idea. Instead of sending you a picture-frame of RedBaird turning left, it sends a code for "RedBaird turned x-degrees left" and your ET-client does the display-work. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vanaraud Posted August 20, 2015 Share Posted August 20, 2015 ET uses about 100kbps, in 1h=3600s it would make 360 000kb=360Mb~50MB. 4h per day and 30 days: 120x50MB~6GB per month for ET. For online gaming its more important to have stable ping and no packet loss\fragmentation than huge throughput. High speeds is purely for video streaming. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leader RedBaird Posted August 22, 2015 Leader Share Posted August 22, 2015 About my data usage: I have a bad habit of having over 30 Chrome tabs open and I close the browser sometimes to free memory. I don't know how much of those pages is re-sent to me when I open Chrome again. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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