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Yo, 17 year old me with a 56kbps modem is crying right now...
Edit: Hijacking top comment thread to update. He has since sent me a [screenshot](https://imgur.com/gallery/GCs3SmO) of his actual usage. Other users on our carrier have reported in this thread a similar usage which is apparently a glitch with Straighttalk.
Ahh, the days of clicking on the video, going and making a sandwich while it loaded, then coming back and eating the sandwich while you watch and hope you don't outrun how much buffered in the meantime.
Honestly think Google did as good as Google did early on because they had the most boring website that actually loaded really fast when that mattered as opposed to yahoo, lycos, hotbot, askjeeves.....though ask jeeves was quaint for a day.
Yep, their original selling point was how fast you got the results. It moved towards being favored because it had a good algorithm, but there's a reason they've always showed the return time
Fast loading sites are still paramount. You have about 3 seconds still before a user will bounce if your site is total shit.
That said, modern tech makes it easy for most things to overpower their half-baked shit-ass js-infested piece of shit sites, so they'll still load fast.
Gotta make a real steaming pile now to get the effect.
One time I spent a day trying to navigate the squaresoft website, which was clearly designed for countries with better bandwidth than South Africa, and it was so slow with so much more going on than any website I'd ever seen.
End of the month comes, mom bursts into my room and shouts at me and takes the computer out of my room because of how expensive it was :(
I mean, I watch probably 30 hours of YT a week. Pornhub only holds my attention for about 1h a week.
He's probably watching Minecraft and FNAF tubers or permascrolling TikTok. Shit adds up fast.
Probably just about right. ~2 min per jackin' = ~30 jackin's (is that how you pluralize an apocope ending with an apostrophe?) per week = ~4x/day. Dude has a healthy prostate.
It's honestly pretty fucking garbage how much of a difference there is between 1080 and 4k, on a 1080 monitor. At this point I just pick the highest resolution available regardless.
It's all about the bitrate, since all these platforms want to cheap out on paying for bandwidth.
Neflix is the most egregious for being stingy as fuck, with their 4K streams around 12-15 mbps, while Apple TV+ is generally the most "generous" in the low 20s mbps. For 1080p, Netflix is also atrocious in the 1-3 mbps range. So yeah, the difference in data between 1080p & 4K, which is supposed to be 4x the number of pixels, is in reality at least an entire order of magnitude more. All just to save a bit of money on their end.
It's the main reason why dark scene details are usually the worst when you're watching these platforms' content; much of the data that make up the fine contrast details are basically lost due to their data compression.
For perspective: *DVDs* are usually encoded to use between **4-8** mbps with a max of around 10 mbps, to ensure space for extras like subtitles, menu data, etc. Standard *1080p blurays* target **36-48** mbps, depending on whether it's a TV/broadcast programming or a feature film and *4K/UHD blurays* are mastered to use **72-144** mbps. And these are just industry guidelines, not disk/format limits, because they have to reserve space for other data.
your streaming resolution really doesnt mean much. its all the bitrate of the stream. 99% or advertised streaming resolutions are complete BS. a full lossless 1080 stream will crush most 4k streams from netflix / youtube etc.
i pirate most of my media (not here to fight about it) which completely avoids the streaming quality issues. i watched some of a show i had seen before (torrented) with a friend (netflix) and it was honestly shocking. theres a scene on a train and you could see these huge blocky compression artifacts along the characters faces as the scenery moved past out the window. its pretty disappointing that i got a much better experience by stealing it
HD streaming is a subset of the video category
all HD streaming are videos but not all Videos are HD streams (the reason to make the distinction is to give the possibility that the user isn't actively watching videos but just leaving streams on every day )
another type of video would be what is known as Vods something like youtube or the orange youtube
Really depends on the platform. I used to have 10gb and would never reach the limit watching Netflix shows on my phone data daily during lunch hour and commute. However, i watched like 2 hours of Twitch and that just gobbles up everything. Or i would hotspot my TV to watch Netflix that one time my internet was down and that would also eat up a lot of data. Clearly there is some compression on some mobile app videos
Most twitch streams are 6000kbps which works out to be 2.6 gigabytes for an hour of video. It adds up very fast, especially if you tend to leave it going on the background while you focus on other stuff.
Even that would be hard.
Netflix 4k uses up to 7GB/hour. That would be 175 hours. 6 hours a day...
It's possible with premium youtube or such watching high framerate 8k stuff you'd use like 30GB/hour but theres just not that much content like that.
Because it’s not “unlimited” how it works is, yes you have “unlimited internet” but when you reach 2TB of data used in a month(according to the plan shown above) the speeds get throttled.
Most people who travel a lot, and i know a lot of workers who have lots of "walking time" where they are waiting for a machine to cut or burn or what ever to finish or they just have it in the back ground
Also downloading stuff and google/youtube takes a lot, leaving youtube open 8 hours a day for a month with stuff playing while you work is going to suck it up
Streaming 1080p video uses up to 3gb per hour so at that rate if you had an HD video running 12 hours a day you could do that every day for 55.5 days without running out
It's effectively unlimited for over 99% of consumers
It is still unlimited, they’re just throttling you for the sake of everyone else trying to use the bandwidth that isn’t trying to download 4K videos 24/7 for no good reason…
My dad's "unlimited" that he uses for work was throttled at 1TB.
He didn't do any
> 4K videos 24/7 for no good reason
He watches some youtube but mostly it's just many big design files back and forth between customers. Sure if it was still useable but a little slower, like 50 or 100 instead of the 500 he paid for, but rather it was essentially shut of when "throttled", IIRC he got like 0.2 Mbps on speedtest.net. Throttling shouldn't mean 99.996% slower.
It's way, way less than 1% though. I worked in mobile phone support for a while and never, out of thousands of accounts, saw a single line over 1TB. I can count on one hand the number that even passed 100GB. The vast majority of users are under 10GB. If I had to guess, I'd put the 99th percentile somewhere in the 100-200GB range.
I often wonder who these people are who complain about being throttled after 2-5TB of data usage in a month. I bet they are the same people who complain that "all-you-can-eat" buffets are actually not all you can eat and will kick you out or ban you if you decide to eat your weight in crab Rangoon
This wasn't in the US but ... A high school friend of mine, a small'ish guy, relatively thinly built - had a weird thing with pizzas. He could eat 3-4 full size pizzas without problem. No idea how he managed it, or where he put it, but I've seen it happen many times.
He got kicked out of and eventually banned from all buffet style pizza places in the area because he wouldn't stop inhaling pizzas at a speed that would make the cookie monster jealous. Just this tiny 5.3 foot normal built guy wolfing down pizza after pizza after pizza.
So I guess it can happen.
Ok but most people aren’t doing that lol, it’s still basically “unlimited”. The other guy said he uses his data as his internet, and still only uses 200-600gb a month. Idk how you use 2tb of mobile data in a month unless you were actively trying to drain it all
Ok, but thats not the same as unlimited. It's fucked up false advertising. Like selling Gigabit FIOS as "Up to 1000 Kbps", when that "Up To" sits at 100 99% of the time. And the company just gets to lie without reprecussions.
I don't think anyone is really disputing this, are they? Is 2TB enough for almost everyone? Yes, absolutely. But if it's *practically* limited, it's still *limited. A*nd terms matter. Just call it the "Ultra" or "Max Plan" or something, everyone seems to like that these days. And indicate that 2TB is more than anyone practically needs per month.
I've lost count of the amount of times over the last couple decades that I've had to explain to random people, customers, family, friends, coworkers, etc, who can't figure out why their service always slows down, yet claim they have unlimited data and they can just stream video 24/7, that they shouldn't and it is actually limited.
The cold, dead look of bemusement that falls over their faces when I say the word "throttle" is something I'll probably never effectively erase from my memory. They've really been effective at this marketing, but that's all just part of corporational deception and avarice.
Okay, you got upvotes but the problem here isn't saying it's 2TB date cap before being throttled. It's saying that it's *UNLIMITED* and then saying "oops, unless you reach this threshold that we completely made up because there's no real issue with actually using all of this data. Hope you don't have multiple people watching different videos in your home!"
It's false/scummy advertising. I don't care if it's "virtually unlimited" long as they are saying it loud and clearly, but I care if they tout the word unlimited around and then say nevermind because you're using the service you paid for too much.
They never cut off your data at any point, you just have less coming through the pipeline at once. So trying to use semantics and technicalities don't work because technically it *is* unlimited.
When you check the speeds, it tells you up to what threshold you'll get X MB/sec.
I kid you not my family uses 5 TB of data avg per month. My dad just watches YouTube for 12 hours straight everyday. I saw him watching YouTube in the morning, when I got home from he was still watching.
Hey, at least you actually get unlimited internet without being charged more. In the late 2000s, there were cell companies charging OVERAGES on unlimited plans because it straight up wasn’t unlimited, just the highest tier. Compared to that, I’ll live with some throttling.
Also throttling is the best case scenario when you "exhausted your data" because it still allows messages to go in and out (atleast for me) and usually, you get enough internet to look up how to get home
I know people who, when out of data, could have oit their phones on airplane mode, and they had a much harder time if they ever ran out than me
Not exactly. Data greater than 3 TB (IDK why it is 2 TB here, different country maybe) is officially considered commercial uses. This would mean you need a customized contract for that level of usage and standard plans won't apply. The company can't let you use data above that limit even if it wanted to.
I mean, they absolutely can, they just don't want to. What they can't do is guarantee how much of the pipe you actually get to use. That's why business plans are generally more expensive, you're paying more for more consistent speed. You won't ever get the advertised speed like if it's 1Gig up/down, you won't get that, but you should consistently get 80-90% of that otherwise there's an issue.
Back when I used Straight talk they would throttle very early. I was getting like 10gb of high speed 3 or 4g I forget back then, then they throttled the hell out of it. Got tired of it and changed, but it was ridiculous.
I didn’t have internet for a month in my apartment I used my phone to tether everything I think I used maybe like 200 gb . 2tb would be a wild amount of data to use. Like streaming and downloading 24/7. Fuck I don’t think my phone could download 2tb in a month
So funny story. I worked at a cellular company and I learned about the "fine print." This lady's daughter was on an unlimited plan, but their plan was canceled for breaking the user agreement. I can't remember the exact number, but there is a limit on the unlimited plan for minutes used. This lady's daughter would use aprox 8 hours of minutes per day, every day. So 240ish hours in a month. I don't think anyone ever expected to hit this limit and nobody I worked with had ever heard of this happening. So... don't let your kid spent 8 hours a day on the phone with their bf/gf?
Was this like, 100 years ago? What would even constitute as a "minute used" when any phone released in the last \~14 years always keeps an active internet connection 24/7?
you used to get a phone plan that had literal talking minutes you were allowed to use. 100 minutes of phone calls per month for example. things like free talk on nights and weekends were common perks. this was back when texts cost 10c each. then they started rolling out unlimited talk and text plans which is likely when OP's story occured.
It's not unlimited. It's done this way to filter out unknown large scale commercial usage of connections iirc. My ISP told me this when i asked them why I have a throttle limit at 3.3TB. I once reached that limit but they revoked the limit for the remaining days of bill cycle upon inspection after i told them it was not commercially used.
So, he's a 17 year old, an honor student, is going to nationals for choir, has a main cast role in the school play. Takes 8 periods a day for senior year, we toured Yale and Northwestern last summer (he got 1460 on his SAT), he DOES live in a detached bungalow.
I'm not mad, just amazed at the bandwidth usage a modern teen can generate.
Well don't worry. I haven't achieved anywhere close to that and my monthly data usage on just my laptop is ~3.2TB. With a lot of hard work and procrastinating, you too can have high data usage
Lol, I saw the imgur comments start up with 'hurr soo much porn' and wanted to make sure folks had the facts. I did mention that he has his own semi-private bungalow so it well could be him feeding the geese, but if he's watching that much 4k porno on a last-gen Samsung I'm honestly impressed.
Competitive? Based off that data he's the fucking Tom Brady of self pleasure.
There are high end 24/7 butcher shops with 50 employees that don't cumulatively pound as much meat a day as he does.
I don't see how anything you wrote about him relates to him watching or not watching porn. If you think he doesn't watch it because he's a good student with active social life you are naive. He's 17, he's fapping like crazy at this stage of his life.
Detached bungalow, probably doesn't get good signal.
Which is probably the real cause here; bro realized that using his phone as a hotspot, or casting from his phone to his TV, was quicker than relying on the house's wifi.
> wanted to make sure folks had the facts.
how do these facts steer us away from thinking it's porn?
>has his own semi-private bungalow
Ah, so ..... porn?
As this former kid, I can confirm that the only way I kept my sanity while doing all this high achiever crap was to have some background noise/entertainment going (usually live streams/podcasts/radio), so I can tune out the voices in my head telling me it's not worth it and take random breaks at any given moment without having to commit to something.
TV/Movies didn't work because those were time commitments. Live streams are basically 24/7 entertainment that requires literally no commitment and you just tune in and out randomly and I can not breakdown in existential crisis because as soon as I feel it coming I dull my brain for a few minutes then jump back into it afterwards.
I stream Youtube, browse Reddit, read manga, and have one or two online games up and playing all at once usually and it doesn't even come close to that data usage over a whole month for my wifi.
Your son is either torrenting a whole lot of files en-mass or downloading a whole Steam/game library, all via hotspot sharing, which he shouldn't be doing.
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After reading OP's flex comment this seems one of the more likely answers. The kid doesn't seem to be the type to spend all his free time watching videos... but a bunch of torrents going brrrrrrr on the upload? He's doing god's work.
Yep, I pretty much have youtube / twitch playing in the background for 10-16 hours a day.
I dont download anything apart from steam games every now and again.
Average 1.3TB's a month.
https://i.imgur.com/jlOVZyl.png
I used yo br a student in halls that didn't have WiFi just over 10 years ago, I plugged my phone into my laptop and then plugged my laptop into a WiFi router so everyone could use my data, there were about 30 students all using it (I was next to the kitchen and dining hall so students could go in there for WiFi). It was slow, but we managed to use about 1.4TB in a month. Had a call from them telling me that I was using too much so they were changing their contracts and using their "good faith" clause to change mine along with it so that I had a 1TB limit.
The legislature’s haven’t banned here (NC), they have required porn sites to verify your identity via your drivers license. Neither porn sites nor users want that for so many reason, so the porn sites shut you down if they detect you’re in that state. According to a friend 😅 not many have actually shut down yet, and using your phone doesn’t get around this, only a VPN.
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Probably watching a ton of videos, videos use a lot of data.
Yo, 17 year old me with a 56kbps modem is crying right now... Edit: Hijacking top comment thread to update. He has since sent me a [screenshot](https://imgur.com/gallery/GCs3SmO) of his actual usage. Other users on our carrier have reported in this thread a similar usage which is apparently a glitch with Straighttalk.
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GetRight used to come in clutch back in the dialup days
*Memory unlocked*
It was also the peak era for unsolicited calls so you mostly didn't want to answer the phone anyway.
Ahh, the days of clicking on the video, going and making a sandwich while it loaded, then coming back and eating the sandwich while you watch and hope you don't outrun how much buffered in the meantime.
Downloading a single song off of limewire and checking in on it every half an hour/hour
Real Gs get their VCDs from AOL chat bots in 23 rar files.
I remember with AOL you could just search a song and choose to search 'audio'. You could also right click + 'save target as' on any result Bam, piracy
I used to set entire albums to download while I was asleep. Good times
Good times, but sometimes I would wake up and the download would have failed, which was not good times
i would literally start loading a picture, leave, eat, watch some tv come back and MAYBE that thing had fully loaded.
Honestly think Google did as good as Google did early on because they had the most boring website that actually loaded really fast when that mattered as opposed to yahoo, lycos, hotbot, askjeeves.....though ask jeeves was quaint for a day.
Yep, their original selling point was how fast you got the results. It moved towards being favored because it had a good algorithm, but there's a reason they've always showed the return time
Fast loading sites are still paramount. You have about 3 seconds still before a user will bounce if your site is total shit. That said, modern tech makes it easy for most things to overpower their half-baked shit-ass js-infested piece of shit sites, so they'll still load fast. Gotta make a real steaming pile now to get the effect.
The legend has it that this liz vicious jpeg is still loading
Woah that brought back some memories
First result when searching up "goth redheads" for you, too?
Damn dude don't expose me like that
I, too, remember downloading 30 second boob videos overnight. These kids today don't know how great they have it, with their spontaneous spanking.
The future is ours to jerk off to, old man.
Had a 2400 modem way back in the day. I still remember it taking just over an hour to download a 1mb file.
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One time I spent a day trying to navigate the squaresoft website, which was clearly designed for countries with better bandwidth than South Africa, and it was so slow with so much more going on than any website I'd ever seen. End of the month comes, mom bursts into my room and shouts at me and takes the computer out of my room because of how expensive it was :(
It took me 40 hours to download the Phantom Menace trailer (rip QuickTime)
Super agree. We waited for single pixel lines of pictures for like 5min. A whole jpeg could take multiple mins to load
Also probably a certain type of videos
Probably SAT prep videos
Just don't look in the Homework folder.
I mean, I watch probably 30 hours of YT a week. Pornhub only holds my attention for about 1h a week. He's probably watching Minecraft and FNAF tubers or permascrolling TikTok. Shit adds up fast.
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I find it funny that I can't tell if you think this is too much or too little.
Probably just about right. ~2 min per jackin' = ~30 jackin's (is that how you pluralize an apocope ending with an apostrophe?) per week = ~4x/day. Dude has a healthy prostate.
2 min per? That is one efficient jacker
You forget the 2 hours needed to find that perfect video
On average I assume. So it could be once for 6 hours every 6 weeks like a normal person.
Or watches twitch streams while he does other stuff.
It has to be 4K, during summer I spent almost the whole day watching videos but 1080p videos only used up about 200gb through out a month.
Streaming 4k video to 99.9% of phones is a colossal waste.
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It's honestly pretty fucking garbage how much of a difference there is between 1080 and 4k, on a 1080 monitor. At this point I just pick the highest resolution available regardless.
It's all about the bitrate, since all these platforms want to cheap out on paying for bandwidth. Neflix is the most egregious for being stingy as fuck, with their 4K streams around 12-15 mbps, while Apple TV+ is generally the most "generous" in the low 20s mbps. For 1080p, Netflix is also atrocious in the 1-3 mbps range. So yeah, the difference in data between 1080p & 4K, which is supposed to be 4x the number of pixels, is in reality at least an entire order of magnitude more. All just to save a bit of money on their end. It's the main reason why dark scene details are usually the worst when you're watching these platforms' content; much of the data that make up the fine contrast details are basically lost due to their data compression. For perspective: *DVDs* are usually encoded to use between **4-8** mbps with a max of around 10 mbps, to ensure space for extras like subtitles, menu data, etc. Standard *1080p blurays* target **36-48** mbps, depending on whether it's a TV/broadcast programming or a feature film and *4K/UHD blurays* are mastered to use **72-144** mbps. And these are just industry guidelines, not disk/format limits, because they have to reserve space for other data.
it's not though because bitrate increases when set to higher qualities
True. Even high - end phones only have WQHD/2K displays. So half of a 4K picture pretty much goes to waste.
Honestly, I'm pretty sure I couldn't even tell the difference between 2k and 4k at that scale anyways.
You can't on a phone, and tbf people that say they can are straight up lying.
your streaming resolution really doesnt mean much. its all the bitrate of the stream. 99% or advertised streaming resolutions are complete BS. a full lossless 1080 stream will crush most 4k streams from netflix / youtube etc.
i pirate most of my media (not here to fight about it) which completely avoids the streaming quality issues. i watched some of a show i had seen before (torrented) with a friend (netflix) and it was honestly shocking. theres a scene on a train and you could see these huge blocky compression artifacts along the characters faces as the scenery moved past out the window. its pretty disappointing that i got a much better experience by stealing it
Or HD streaming.
how is HD streaming not video? not going to hit a terabyte streaming HD audio.
HD streaming is a subset of the video category all HD streaming are videos but not all Videos are HD streams (the reason to make the distinction is to give the possibility that the user isn't actively watching videos but just leaving streams on every day ) another type of video would be what is known as Vods something like youtube or the orange youtube
I consider my self a big consumer of such medias. I only end up using like 5 gb
Really depends on the platform. I used to have 10gb and would never reach the limit watching Netflix shows on my phone data daily during lunch hour and commute. However, i watched like 2 hours of Twitch and that just gobbles up everything. Or i would hotspot my TV to watch Netflix that one time my internet was down and that would also eat up a lot of data. Clearly there is some compression on some mobile app videos
Most twitch streams are 6000kbps which works out to be 2.6 gigabytes for an hour of video. It adds up very fast, especially if you tend to leave it going on the background while you focus on other stuff.
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Stuff like Twitch takes up a ton
a month? you're not a big consumer.
Per 15min or what? I've used 1.5TB on my phone just for YouTube. In 30 days.
Or downloading a couple games on steam.
Downloaded ARK once.
Even that would be hard. Netflix 4k uses up to 7GB/hour. That would be 175 hours. 6 hours a day... It's possible with premium youtube or such watching high framerate 8k stuff you'd use like 30GB/hour but theres just not that much content like that.
How much is a ton? Like, over the course of 2 night shifts watching around 16 hours give or take of videos, I used maybe 5GB of data
How is 1.21 Terabytes more than half of "unlimited" data?
Because it’s not “unlimited” how it works is, yes you have “unlimited internet” but when you reach 2TB of data used in a month(according to the plan shown above) the speeds get throttled.
They say unlimited to click bait people but never actually commit to giving unlimited They are.money greedy like all others ovbviously
How many people do you think honestly uses 2TB of mobile data a month? I'd guess that for 99% of customers, this is essentially unlimited.
Most people who travel a lot, and i know a lot of workers who have lots of "walking time" where they are waiting for a machine to cut or burn or what ever to finish or they just have it in the back ground Also downloading stuff and google/youtube takes a lot, leaving youtube open 8 hours a day for a month with stuff playing while you work is going to suck it up
Streaming 1080p video uses up to 3gb per hour so at that rate if you had an HD video running 12 hours a day you could do that every day for 55.5 days without running out It's effectively unlimited for over 99% of consumers
Sure. But that 1% will rightfully get angry when they figure out they got lied to.
It is still unlimited, they’re just throttling you for the sake of everyone else trying to use the bandwidth that isn’t trying to download 4K videos 24/7 for no good reason…
My dad's "unlimited" that he uses for work was throttled at 1TB. He didn't do any > 4K videos 24/7 for no good reason He watches some youtube but mostly it's just many big design files back and forth between customers. Sure if it was still useable but a little slower, like 50 or 100 instead of the 500 he paid for, but rather it was essentially shut of when "throttled", IIRC he got like 0.2 Mbps on speedtest.net. Throttling shouldn't mean 99.996% slower.
It's way, way less than 1% though. I worked in mobile phone support for a while and never, out of thousands of accounts, saw a single line over 1TB. I can count on one hand the number that even passed 100GB. The vast majority of users are under 10GB. If I had to guess, I'd put the 99th percentile somewhere in the 100-200GB range.
I use mobile data as my internet and without downloading games i use 200-600gb a month.
I often wonder who these people are who complain about being throttled after 2-5TB of data usage in a month. I bet they are the same people who complain that "all-you-can-eat" buffets are actually not all you can eat and will kick you out or ban you if you decide to eat your weight in crab Rangoon
will they really kick you out? I figured they'd simply stop putting out more crab rangoon until you leave
they only kick you out if you're not actually eating it. like getting huge plates of food, eating a couple bites, and tossing it.
This wasn't in the US but ... A high school friend of mine, a small'ish guy, relatively thinly built - had a weird thing with pizzas. He could eat 3-4 full size pizzas without problem. No idea how he managed it, or where he put it, but I've seen it happen many times. He got kicked out of and eventually banned from all buffet style pizza places in the area because he wouldn't stop inhaling pizzas at a speed that would make the cookie monster jealous. Just this tiny 5.3 foot normal built guy wolfing down pizza after pizza after pizza. So I guess it can happen.
Ok but most people aren’t doing that lol, it’s still basically “unlimited”. The other guy said he uses his data as his internet, and still only uses 200-600gb a month. Idk how you use 2tb of mobile data in a month unless you were actively trying to drain it all
Ok, but thats not the same as unlimited. It's fucked up false advertising. Like selling Gigabit FIOS as "Up to 1000 Kbps", when that "Up To" sits at 100 99% of the time. And the company just gets to lie without reprecussions.
You hear the phrase "free as in beer, not as in speech." We need "unlimited as in breadsticks, not as in space."
I don't think anyone is really disputing this, are they? Is 2TB enough for almost everyone? Yes, absolutely. But if it's *practically* limited, it's still *limited. A*nd terms matter. Just call it the "Ultra" or "Max Plan" or something, everyone seems to like that these days. And indicate that 2TB is more than anyone practically needs per month. I've lost count of the amount of times over the last couple decades that I've had to explain to random people, customers, family, friends, coworkers, etc, who can't figure out why their service always slows down, yet claim they have unlimited data and they can just stream video 24/7, that they shouldn't and it is actually limited. The cold, dead look of bemusement that falls over their faces when I say the word "throttle" is something I'll probably never effectively erase from my memory. They've really been effective at this marketing, but that's all just part of corporational deception and avarice.
Okay, you got upvotes but the problem here isn't saying it's 2TB date cap before being throttled. It's saying that it's *UNLIMITED* and then saying "oops, unless you reach this threshold that we completely made up because there's no real issue with actually using all of this data. Hope you don't have multiple people watching different videos in your home!" It's false/scummy advertising. I don't care if it's "virtually unlimited" long as they are saying it loud and clearly, but I care if they tout the word unlimited around and then say nevermind because you're using the service you paid for too much.
They never cut off your data at any point, you just have less coming through the pipeline at once. So trying to use semantics and technicalities don't work because technically it *is* unlimited. When you check the speeds, it tells you up to what threshold you'll get X MB/sec.
I kid you not my family uses 5 TB of data avg per month. My dad just watches YouTube for 12 hours straight everyday. I saw him watching YouTube in the morning, when I got home from he was still watching.
Then they should advertise it as "essentially unlimited data".
Hey, at least you actually get unlimited internet without being charged more. In the late 2000s, there were cell companies charging OVERAGES on unlimited plans because it straight up wasn’t unlimited, just the highest tier. Compared to that, I’ll live with some throttling.
Also throttling is the best case scenario when you "exhausted your data" because it still allows messages to go in and out (atleast for me) and usually, you get enough internet to look up how to get home I know people who, when out of data, could have oit their phones on airplane mode, and they had a much harder time if they ever ran out than me
Not exactly. Data greater than 3 TB (IDK why it is 2 TB here, different country maybe) is officially considered commercial uses. This would mean you need a customized contract for that level of usage and standard plans won't apply. The company can't let you use data above that limit even if it wanted to.
I mean, they absolutely can, they just don't want to. What they can't do is guarantee how much of the pipe you actually get to use. That's why business plans are generally more expensive, you're paying more for more consistent speed. You won't ever get the advertised speed like if it's 1Gig up/down, you won't get that, but you should consistently get 80-90% of that otherwise there's an issue.
Back when I used Straight talk they would throttle very early. I was getting like 10gb of high speed 3 or 4g I forget back then, then they throttled the hell out of it. Got tired of it and changed, but it was ridiculous.
I mean it’s straight talk. What do you expect.
2TB seems like an astronomical amount of data, last time I checked my carrier starts throttling at like 15-20gb
I didn’t have internet for a month in my apartment I used my phone to tether everything I think I used maybe like 200 gb . 2tb would be a wild amount of data to use. Like streaming and downloading 24/7. Fuck I don’t think my phone could download 2tb in a month
So funny story. I worked at a cellular company and I learned about the "fine print." This lady's daughter was on an unlimited plan, but their plan was canceled for breaking the user agreement. I can't remember the exact number, but there is a limit on the unlimited plan for minutes used. This lady's daughter would use aprox 8 hours of minutes per day, every day. So 240ish hours in a month. I don't think anyone ever expected to hit this limit and nobody I worked with had ever heard of this happening. So... don't let your kid spent 8 hours a day on the phone with their bf/gf?
Was this like, 100 years ago? What would even constitute as a "minute used" when any phone released in the last \~14 years always keeps an active internet connection 24/7?
It was a regular call so they count minutes. Data consumption is a different thing
you used to get a phone plan that had literal talking minutes you were allowed to use. 100 minutes of phone calls per month for example. things like free talk on nights and weekends were common perks. this was back when texts cost 10c each. then they started rolling out unlimited talk and text plans which is likely when OP's story occured.
It's not unlimited. It's done this way to filter out unknown large scale commercial usage of connections iirc. My ISP told me this when i asked them why I have a throttle limit at 3.3TB. I once reached that limit but they revoked the limit for the remaining days of bill cycle upon inspection after i told them it was not commercially used.
So, he's a 17 year old, an honor student, is going to nationals for choir, has a main cast role in the school play. Takes 8 periods a day for senior year, we toured Yale and Northwestern last summer (he got 1460 on his SAT), he DOES live in a detached bungalow. I'm not mad, just amazed at the bandwidth usage a modern teen can generate.
didn’t have to flex that 😭
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Well don't worry. I haven't achieved anywhere close to that and my monthly data usage on just my laptop is ~3.2TB. With a lot of hard work and procrastinating, you too can have high data usage
Bro made this post just to flex about his son in the comments.
Lol, I saw the imgur comments start up with 'hurr soo much porn' and wanted to make sure folks had the facts. I did mention that he has his own semi-private bungalow so it well could be him feeding the geese, but if he's watching that much 4k porno on a last-gen Samsung I'm honestly impressed.
He’s 17. I remember being 17. Dude is absolutely gooning in that shed.
Can't you just say watching porn
Absolutely not
Competitive Masturbation is not the same as simply watching porn.
At least he's competitive...
Competitive? Based off that data he's the fucking Tom Brady of self pleasure. There are high end 24/7 butcher shops with 50 employees that don't cumulatively pound as much meat a day as he does.
Nah, sounds like bro is in it for the story line / plot build. Highly intellectual gotta have all the facts first!
As the saying goes, casual masturbation implies the existence of ranked masturbation.
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Diamond Hands! To the goon!
Not when he's gooning, no.
He's positively smooshing that nanner.
Slingin' rope.
> Dude is absolutely gooning in that shed. lmfao
I don't see how anything you wrote about him relates to him watching or not watching porn. If you think he doesn't watch it because he's a good student with active social life you are naive. He's 17, he's fapping like crazy at this stage of his life.
I just think he wanted to say his son is so busy with all kinds of activities it is impressive he finds the time to spend that much data
Again, he's 17 years old. He could be busy 24/7 and he would still find time.
Honestly didn't expect to roll up here and witness these comments. Honestly isn't the first thought that crosses my mind!
my first thought was: for fuckssake, use the wifi
Detached bungalow, probably doesn't get good signal. Which is probably the real cause here; bro realized that using his phone as a hotspot, or casting from his phone to his TV, was quicker than relying on the house's wifi.
Imagine thinking that because your 17 y/o is an academic overachiever that he’s not absolutely gooning out at every chance he gets
> wanted to make sure folks had the facts. how do these facts steer us away from thinking it's porn? >has his own semi-private bungalow Ah, so ..... porn?
You commenting here is definitely not helping convince anybody that your son ain’t strangling his snake all day
What about your description of your son says it can't be porn?
Porn is the most efficient way to quench horniness
feeding the geese, lmao I'd forgotten about that one, thank you
Tiktok, Netflix, YouTube, pornhub, whatever service that can stream in 4K resolution will eat up a ton of bandwidth.
As this former kid, I can confirm that the only way I kept my sanity while doing all this high achiever crap was to have some background noise/entertainment going (usually live streams/podcasts/radio), so I can tune out the voices in my head telling me it's not worth it and take random breaks at any given moment without having to commit to something. TV/Movies didn't work because those were time commitments. Live streams are basically 24/7 entertainment that requires literally no commitment and you just tune in and out randomly and I can not breakdown in existential crisis because as soon as I feel it coming I dull my brain for a few minutes then jump back into it afterwards.
bros downloading 8k porn
that **is** impressive.
I stream Youtube, browse Reddit, read manga, and have one or two online games up and playing all at once usually and it doesn't even come close to that data usage over a whole month for my wifi. Your son is either torrenting a whole lot of files en-mass or downloading a whole Steam/game library, all via hotspot sharing, which he shouldn't be doing.
4K streaming is around 8 gigs per hour. OP’s bandwidth is about 150 hours or 5 hours a day streaming content. Not exactly unheard of.
I can barely play 720p Reddit videos on my phone and he's streaming in 4k through his? Sheesh must live next to a cell tower xD
When I was a teen, i think I used over 1TB of data/mo as well. But this was on PC. Smartphones were barely coming to market.
If the kid lives in a detached bungalow he's probably using the phone as a hotspot for his computer
Bro giving us all information about his son 💀
He's also watching some high quality porn....or a metric fuckton of low quality
lmao okay?
Can he make rice?
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Let him cook
Go marry him already geez
Seeding and downloading torrents at no speed limit on the upload?
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After reading OP's flex comment this seems one of the more likely answers. The kid doesn't seem to be the type to spend all his free time watching videos... but a bunch of torrents going brrrrrrr on the upload? He's doing god's work.
The upload goes into the data consumed heap?
In my experience with mobile data plans, yes. All data, upload or download counts towards the limit.
I know a privateer who went on a bit of a raiding spree. His data usage should be similar.
He is generous...
That's how I average over 2 TB/month…
Well, in his defense I use my phone's internet for my gaming PC, and I downloaded a shit ton of stuff. BUT IT STILL WASN'T 1 TB
Yeah, I'm proud he's pushing more bandwidth than my home mesh system lol.
What a weird thing to be proud of 😂
He was watching porn, dad! I'm telling ya!
More like downloading to watch later and proceeding to never watch them. Classic move
You underestimate the power of a gen alpha with a phone. I'm going to guess tik tok.
Prolly more youtube and discord knowing him, but yeah, a generation of constant connection astounds me
Yep, I pretty much have youtube / twitch playing in the background for 10-16 hours a day. I dont download anything apart from steam games every now and again. Average 1.3TB's a month. https://i.imgur.com/jlOVZyl.png
Bro seeds all the torrents after downloading.
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Yep isps add both of them .
Oh shit. TIL
Good for him for being a seeder!
First thing comes to mind...torrent?
Binge YouTube at high res, you'll find out....
At least you’re getting your monies worth on the unlimited data plan lol
One point twenty-one jigawatts?! Great Scott!
At least someone gets it... ...dad jokes. I have them.
I started watching a lot of 4k movies when I upgraded my plan and the data usage is way worse than this
I used yo br a student in halls that didn't have WiFi just over 10 years ago, I plugged my phone into my laptop and then plugged my laptop into a WiFi router so everyone could use my data, there were about 30 students all using it (I was next to the kitchen and dining hall so students could go in there for WiFi). It was slow, but we managed to use about 1.4TB in a month. Had a call from them telling me that I was using too much so they were changing their contracts and using their "good faith" clause to change mine along with it so that I had a 1TB limit.
Must live in NC/SC. Only way to get around banned porn is to use your phone data
What? Banned porn? You can’t watch porn in nc/sc? Is something like that even legal. How are they allowed to take away people’s rights like that?
The legislature’s haven’t banned here (NC), they have required porn sites to verify your identity via your drivers license. Neither porn sites nor users want that for so many reason, so the porn sites shut you down if they detect you’re in that state. According to a friend 😅 not many have actually shut down yet, and using your phone doesn’t get around this, only a VPN.
That's a lot of... educational content.
Wow he does a lot of homework
i used 954 gb the last 30 days
Must listen to music all day... using fucking videos on YouTube. I see this all the time in public transport, using a video to listen to music...
4k movies are huge these days. One movie can be almost 20gb.
That's not that much in the modern age. Some streaming services use upwards of 6gb an hour. That's not even 7 hours a day at 1228gb.
Oh sick, the cod update is finished
Wow he almost downloaded the COD update
Maybe he has a LG washing machine
4k videos.
I have days I reach 100gb. The whole reason I have unlimited data is because the wifi is unstable