Typical Home Bandwidth Usage?

Broadband writes "With a growing number of internet service providers imposing hard bandwidth caps, I too will soon find myself with a limit. In typical Slashdot fashion I use the Internet for everything from movie streaming to online backup and just realized I have no idea how much data traverses my pipes on a monthly basis. While I have wised up and installed a bandwidth monitoring solution, it'll be some time until I have a normalized average. So my question is: What is the average monthly data usage in your household? How many people share the connection and is there anything you've found essential yet bandwidth intensive that you couldn't live without? (E.g. VOIP, movie downloads, streaming audio, etc.)"

Comments

Re:150GB

[magus_melchior]

Yes I'm Australian, don't start the whole "OMG WE'RE SICK OF AUSTRALIANS IN SLASHDOT" BS.

For what it's worth, there's no slashdot*.uk, slashdot*.au, slashdot*.nz, slashdot*.ca, etc. So unless those are actual region-specific Slashdot sites, anyone complaining about non-US English-speaking commenters on Slashdot is:

1. A troll, and a particularly unsophisticated and stupid one.
2. A nationalistic bigot, which is worse.
3. A political mole, which is highly unlikely, but not past the evils of the power structures in play.
4. Any combination of the above.

Gotta love how the telecom lobbies have bought..

[plasmacutter]

Slashdot accounts like mad..

I wonder how many thousands of accounts telecoms have procured to make sure their sock puppets have enough mod points at any one time to shift conversations toward apologists like this.