Is it normal to have 1.6TB of download and 600GB of upload a month in a 2 person household? - eviltoast

Hey guys,

So first of all - I live with my little brother, we’re both in our 20s. We watch streams here and there, we both own a smart TV, watch Youtube here and there, we both own PCs, and phones which are in the WIFI most of the time.

We’re not streaming / gaming 24/7, but more like a 3-4 hour gaming session every few days in the evening, maybe some Youtube here and there.

We don’t download huge games, we don’t upload anything at all, besides maybe an image here and there, or some videos over Whatsapp.

Today I checked my router because I feel like my internet’s just weird for whatever reason. I then found the “data usage” section on my router, and was kinda… surprised.

1.650.000MB of data used in the last month, 1,500,000MB this month, download. Upload, around 500,000MB last month, 450,000MB this month.

Let me mention that we’re running a 100mbit/s connection, with 50mbit/s upload.

Isn’t this weird for some reason? We’re not huge gamers, we live alone, this is our router, and nobody else is in it. We just enjoy watching streams in the evening, mostly just Youtube, and that’s it already.

  • MrPartyWaffle@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I’ve got a three person house hold, but it’s essentially 2 because the 3rd is 86 and doesn’t really use the internet, he does a lot of streaming but all of that is internal SMB streams.

    I run a few low use game servers and play games stream videos, a bit of file sharing, and I personally use 1.2tb a month on my PC, and my server very regularly uses 1.5-2tb. I see myself as a higher use user, but that’s just my example.

    So using a little math, if you were absolutely saturating your internet connection for 30 days straight you should be able to transfer 32,850 gigabytes so it’s certainly not unheard of that you’re getting 1.6tb speaking of, you’re 1.6tb comes out to about 5 megabits a second saturation over the course of 30 days which if someone is streaming 4k is easily done.

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    That’s all I can say so far. Is there any possibility to check 100% of my outgoing and ingoing data usage? Like every tiny detail, maybe even the programs that use this data?

    Yeah there certainly are software, but not for seeing other devices traffic, the traffic would have to go through your pc to see it all with programs like wireshark. Alternatively you can use dedicated router systems like Unifi or Omada and they should be able to do Deep Packet Inspection, and sniff where things are going, neither of them are very accurate though.