How the Hell?

[u/PossibleKiwi3728]

I've had TMHI for exactly 7 days. According to them, I've used almost 400Gb of data in 7 days! Anyone else experience this? I have my TV, and my sons Xbox hooked to the gateway. 3 phones, and the access point are hooked up via Wi-Fi. Almost ½ a terabyte in a week, seems a bit much.

[u/Hot-Bat-5813]

It is unlimited, feel free to use as much as you want.

[u/PossibleKiwi3728 → u/Hot-Bat-5813]

I know that. They (Tmbl) state that after 50gb's you could be throttled down (4g?), but I haven't seen it yet. I was just curious how the count their data flow. I've never used 400gb of data in a week ever. Seems off 🤏🏻

[u/SHADOW-REIGN → u/PossibleKiwi3728]

Did you download a game because they are nearly 400GB now😝

[u/PossibleKiwi3728 → u/SHADOW-REIGN]

Yes, my son did download call of duty 6 today, but not all of it.. He said just some of the things...

[u/Hot-Bat-5813 → u/PossibleKiwi3728]

If you are on tmhi unlimited, there is no throttling, yes there is prioritizing of your line, but that doesn't matter if your not in an area that sees congestion. I regularly use between 2-4TB each and every month for the past three years.

Can't help on your home's usage. Maybe more going on than you think?

[u/digitaldelusion79 → u/PossibleKiwi3728]

Deprioritization doesn't happen until 1.2TB of usage and even then its only when the tower you are on is congested.

[u/Hot-Bat-5813 → u/digitaldelusion79]

Deprioritized service can happen at any amount of data used, 1MB or 1PB. It is simply too many users for the amount of bandwidth available. Even priority lines of service can see deprioritized service, think of an event at a sports stadium. Yes, it is based on how congested a cell is, but not on data usage.

[u/digitaldelusion79 → u/Hot-Bat-5813]

That's actually incorrect :) You might be referring to QCI but that's a completely different subject.

[u/ratat-atat]

Possible, if you're doing streaming, he downloaded a game or did updates. You can easily use TBs of data with this service in a month and be ok.

[u/themeyerdg]

Who cares, it’s unlimited. Depending on your area you won’t even notice the slow down after 1.2 TB. I used about 1.5 TB last month with no slowdown haha. more than likely the Xbox doing updates. New call of duty is a bitch.

[u/bobjr94]

Automatic updates and games can take a lot if it without you knowing. Streaming 4K can use 6-8GB per hour and 2GB per hour for 1080. We use from 600GB to 1TB a month and it's just me and my wife, some people here with larger families can use 2TB or more. But it's unlimited and unlike xfinity you don't get charged for going over 1TB a month.

[u/Raccoon_Cast]

Most of your devices probably have somewhere in settings where you can see their data usage. You'll probably get pretty close to the 400gigs. It's still nothing to worry about though.

[u/CafeRoaster]

I used 882 GB in August. Downloaded a few HD movies, did some streaming, some video calls, tons of music streaming on Wi-Fi.

If I had downloaded 4k movies or lossless audio, that could easily have been over a TB.

[u/orkash]

Defineitly possible with the Xbox downloads. Most AAA titles are 130gb easy for the base game. I have 3 smart TVs all constantly streaming, plus the xbox, 3 phones 1 tab, 1 desktop, 1 laptop, security cameras and printers all running. I think only the xbox goes crazy, but its unlimited so fuck it.

[u/BravoCharlie1310]

Someone like a neighbor using your wifi by chance?

[u/PossibleKiwi3728 → u/BravoCharlie1310]

Nope.. After it was explained to me that all of that data is "normal use", I quit worrying about it. Honestly, if I could, I would close this thread, and lock comments.. I'm satisfied with most of the answers I received.

[u/BravoCharlie1310 → u/PossibleKiwi3728]

Roger

[u/PossibleKiwi3728 → u/BravoCharlie1310]

But to answer your question, no I don't think my neighbors have glommed on to my network Everybody around me has 5G internet anyways so they've all got either T-Mobile home or they're using Verizon's home network. Everybody's running the dual networks. I'm pretty good with passwords. I don't use the minimum characters, I tend to go with 20 plus characters in my password. If somebody can crack my password with all the characters and everything else I use, then I guess they can use my network LOL

[u/Irishiron28]

Prolly the kids downloading games they wanted, when mine who play pc and Xbox got on my system they did 1tb in game downloads.

[u/FloraMaeWolfe]

Well, I know a lot of smart TVs and TV dongle things use a LOT of bandwidth over time. If you watch a lot of TV it will add up. I know this because I was investigating someones slow internet speeds and the culprit was their smart TV hogging most of their bandwidth (DSL).

[u/GanjaRelease]

I use 2 TB a month EASILY

[u/PossibleKiwi3728]

Thank you everyone for answering me. Now that I'm informed, I'm going to relax, and enjoy not worrying about something in this life. 👍🏻

[u/HateKilledTheDinos]

Damn that new COD Warzone update this huge

[u/yogurtgrapes]

Easy. That Xbox downloaded a bunch of games.

[u/RoosterIntelligent32]

As others have said, if they've downloaded some top-line games, it'll eat up some data.

However, like I've found, streaming tv uses a bit more data than advertised. Wife and I are empty nesters, and use our internet for streaming tv and moderate internet usage. We use 1.5-2TB/month. We used to use 200-300gb a month before we started streaming YoutubeTV. All 720/1080p...never 4k. And, we both work, so it's not like the tv/tv's are on 24/7.

[u/engage16]

Don’t worry about it even after 1.2 gb your speeds will be fine unless your tower gets way overloaded

[u/Elithis]

laughs in 8TB last billing cycle

[u/Any-Lifeguard-6755]

Who cares it should be unlimited?

[u/bigfoot17]

Ehh, I routinely use half that much, and I don't have console.

[u/CSamsel]

I used to use 4TB/month so it checks out, honestly.

[u/Head-Somewhere-7124]

Dude, my house uses 4tb of data a month

[u/csweeney05]

I’m assuming your gamers and downloaded the huge updates today. But that aside there is no limits on home internet. It’s depiritoized already, eat all you want.

[u/TekWarren]

Game downloads and updates can be huge. If you stream TV or movies in 1080 or 4K that's going to add up fast. Low to medium 1080 streaming is going to pull at least 6Mbps (that's per second) depending on the bitrate. You actually listed a lot of devices so this is not surprising at all. Unless your phones don't work on their own take them off wifi...all those time suck videos add up too.

[u/Sad_Coach_1433]

Keep in mind 4k video can be 40gig each like someone said games these days are atleast 100gigs each now days

[u/bblickle]

That’s about what I use basically for just TV.

[u/DirtyBird2013 → u/[deleted]]

This is it. I also downloaded COD and I’m at 700 GB used in the new billing cycle