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Dumb question maybe but about the only internet options I have is mediacom and they are offering a 2000gig option. The most I do with internet at home is stream movies and TV. I don't want cable really. I get any news and what TV I want from analog stations. So the question is how much streaming will 2000gig get me ?
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in advance..
Assuming they mean 2000GB of data transfer that is plenty... roughly speaking that would be about 400 hours of very high quality video at least for web standards.
Assuming they mean 2000GB of data transfer that is plenty... roughly speaking that would be about 400 hours of very high quality video at least for web standards.
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Dumb question maybe but about the only internet options I have is mediacom and they are offering a 2000gig option. The most I do with internet at home is stream movies and TV. I don't want cable really. I get any news and what TV I want from analog stations. So the question is how much streaming will 2000gig get me ?
Thanks
in advance..
2 TB?
A lot of ISP have a 1 TB soft cap, meaning that they will not cut you off, but you might get deprioritized, or otherwise dealt with, for exceeding it. No one is throttling that I know of, maybe Comcast, not sure.
Per AT&T data calculator you can get 350 hours of HD video for 875 GB, so 2 TB should yield you 800 hours, or 33 and 1/3 days straight, uninterrupted.
Basically you could watch as much HD video as you can on one device and still have data left over.
If you have more than one person viewing at the same time, that is when things start to get interesting. I wouldn't worry about it though. This is enough data for you to support several devices at once. Even if you were uploading a lot of data, either backing up to the cloud or uploading HD video files, you should be okay.
You will only get 343 hours of 4 K video though. Probably more than you'll watch but something to keep in mind.
Per AT&T data calculator you can get 350 hours of HD video for 875 GB, so 2 TB should yield you 800 hours, or 33 and 1/3 days straight, uninterrupted.
Video has variable quality, as the quality goes up so does the data transfer rate. The numbers I quoted would be for adequate quality where you are not compromising much. The quoted figures from AT&T would be on the very lowest end of what is possible for "HD". There is going to be a big difference in the quality of HD video off of Blu Ray, what I quoted and the AT&T figures.
If you are streaming Blu Ray quality video you are going to suck up that data cap in about 6 days.
Video has variable quality, as the quality goes up so does the data transfer rate. The numbers I quoted would be for adequate quality where you are not compromising much. The quoted figures from AT&T would be on the very lowest end of what is possible for "HD". There is going to be a big difference in the quality of HD video off of Blu Ray, what I quoted and the AT&T figures.
If you are streaming Blu Ray quality video you are going to suck up that data cap in about 6 days.
24 hours a day? Let's say that you're only watching 4 titles a day.
24 hours a day? Let's say that you're only watching 4 titles a day.
Yes that would be 24 hours, roughly speaking for Blu Ray you are looking at 14-15 GB's per hour.
4 titles a day assuming 1.5 hours per title you can watch for about 22 days.
As I said previously 2000GB is plenty of bandwidth.
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but about the only internet options I have is mediacom and they are offering a 2000gig option. The most I do with internet at home is stream movies and TV. I don't want cable really. I get any news and what TV I want from analog stations. So the question is how much streaming will 2000gig get me ?
