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Originally Posted by Fbone
I imagine it would be hard to stay under 20GB for a moderately heavy internet user.
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Two teens in my household, both of them grew up with their own PC's in their rooms. Everything is wired, one internet connection (to bind them all). I always-always-always paid extra for unlimited internet. No Netflix.
And than one day, the message came from my ISP informing me that Canadian CRTC decided to accept (in)famous Usage Based Billing proposal, and that caps will be applied if I decide to stay with them. A quick check of my router stats left me in complete shock: last 10 days (firmware upgrade, all previous stats were lost) the bandwidth consumption was... 27 GB.
What? How? It turns out that major drain came from... Youtube. It was, and still is, used as a modern equivalent of jukebox. One picks up the tune and minimizes the browser once it starts to play. That's how you listen to music on Internet, dad. The digital generation and its birthrights.
Half a million Canadians signed up online petition, and UBB went away. I learned how one becomes a "bandwidth hog".