Varies a bit from month to month, but my mobile data services (both unlimited data) use between 8 and 20GB. Generally it’s higher when we’re away for several days because there’s a lot of streaming from my home server and Remote Desktop usage.
Home internet, blimey I doubt I could count it properly
I’ve got a 350Mbps unlimited and no traffic management connection. But as no-one else (or very few) people where I live seem to have that, my actual speed on a large download varies between 350Mbps and 500Mbps.
So I tend not to think twice about downloading something, whether I keep it or not. I also run a media server of, well I’m not sure. My server is currently at 52TB, but that also includes my music backups, books, comics and several TB of game backups (including fan made hacks and Homebrew games) from the Atari 2600 onwards.
Aside from us, 5 other friends and family use that a lot. I’ve been ripping all of my purchases since back in the VHS days, so I’ve a somewhat large collection. Which also means there’s a lot of bandwidth used on that, albeit that’s uploads.
Anyway, on average my home connection downstream use varies between 2 and 4 TB a month. Though I have been known to do more than that. Hell, downloading a ton of demos alone eats up a lot of data.
Before anyone says it, no, I don’t do torrents. I stay away from that sort of thing. I’ve made my standpoint on piracy known before. I don’t but I won’t tell people not to, it’s none of my business.
Well, I’m all in favour of the “grey” area of backing up your own collection. Hell, some of my Commodore/Amstrad/Spectrum/MSX tapes and disks have long since stopped working. If it weren’t for the backups and the amazing work done by the hardware chappies, I’d not be able to play them anymore. Plus some games are just too damn valuable to actually use.
Man I waffle on something rotten when my morphine kicks in
