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Nearly off-topic remark. The pandemic pushed our family to get a Netflix account. Yesterday, I did a small review of my router logs. Before Netflix we had an average 60GB download traffic per month, since Netflix we are at around 400GB per month.

Even so (or because) I started my Internet life with a 14.4 kbps modem, went through all the upgrades and now have a 70 Mbits DSL line at home, manage servers all over the world, I was surprised by the incredible amount of data streaming is moving.

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An extra 340GB per month. At 10Mbps that is roughly 75 hours of Netflix per month. And that is for the whole family. So really not that much.

But I have been mentioning this for quite some time, we are fundamentally limited by our time spent to watch video. Which means our appetite for Data wont grow forever.

Resolution and framerate requirements will only expand. If Facebook succeeds at the metaverse idea where everyone lives in VR after work, you’re going to have every member of a household consuming a serverside rendering of 360 degree extremely high resolution and high framerate feed.

I was also surprised, I was living in Finland for a while, and they often have unlimited data in their mobile phone plans there. We used an iPad to watch Netflix, while sharing my connection with my phone. Watched the data downloaded after 3 or 4 months, it was close to 2TB. It seems... unreal?

3.2TB/month ends up being 24/7 at 10mbs

How much Netflix were you watching?

I think the commenter you are replying to meant 2TB after 3 or 4 months. If so, I’m guessing that sounds more reasonable

just a quick note here, most of that traffic was probably served from your ISP's network and never reached AWS: https://openconnect.netflix.com/en/

And yet it still counts against my Xfinity monthly bandwidth cap. Pretty soon our wireline ISPs will be playing the same games we've seen in the mobile space for years, uncharging for data etc.

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