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[Benjamin Scott]

On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 5:33 PM, Bruce Dawson <jbd at codemeta.com> wrote:
> Just keep in mind Comcast's 250 GB cap, which we ran up against in
> November. Nearly got shut down until we bought another internet-only
> line (and modem) and divided our traffic between the two. Unfortunately,
> even with a 2nd line we still don't have enough bandwidth to do
> everything we want.

  I've never come anywhere near the cap myself.  I've gotten up to 30
- 40 GB in a busy month, that's it.

  I suspect >500 GB/month is more than Comcast is really geared to sell.

> How much bandwidth does Netflix/Hulu/... consume? Just to get useful
> data, how much is, say, a typical Mythbuster's show and a 90 minute movie?

  I haven't seen official figures, but if it's anything like Tivo, a
little less than 1 GB/hour for standard definition, and anywhere from
2 to 8 GB/hour for higher definition.  With "smart" compression, it
can vary quite a bit by nature of the program -- the more motion, the
more bandwidth needed.

-- Ben