How to calculate data usage of internet?

[Sandman77]

Before I leave Europe and come back to thailand I want stream my slingbox in hd quality to thailand!

My cable internet Isp have a upload of

4 Mbit fastest upload I can get

And now it comes a fair use policy

Calculating upload and download together

The total data usage limit is 1 terabyte a month

Then speed limit will be reduce only to 0,5 Mbit until rest of the month!

Can someone help me to calculate

How long I can use the upload stream of my slingbox to thailand with 4 Mbit?

How long it would need time to reach the total allowed data limit of 1 terabyte a month?

[Chicog]

I would forget HD if I were you. It will probably buffer like crazy.

SD you're talking about 6-800Mb per hour, maybe less but it depends on the compression

My ISP has a login where I can check my usage. Don't you have something similar?

Edited August 21, 2015 by Chicog

[Sandman77]

Ok thx for the website , how many 0 have one terabyte ? 5 or 6?

[Chicog]

A Terabyte is 1000Gb.

So if your TV streams at 500Mb/hour you are going to get 2000 hours a month.

Considering there are only 744 hours in a month, you should be able to watch what you like and download a fair bit too.

[KhunBENQ]

This ??

http://www.numion.com/calculators/time.html

Fortunately this calculator gives roughly the same result as my "calc"

A steady upload of 4 Mbit/s would run about 22.6 days (24 h per day) to reach 1 TByte.

I must admit I am too long in Thailand to know about offerings in the west.

You really get 1 TByte per month? About 33 GByte per day?

Thats more than I could watch (in a good TV quality)

Edited August 22, 2015 by KhunBENQ

[KhunBENQ]

Which Calculator did you use ?

The one you linked and my windows calc

I did some simplification:

slingbox steady uploading 4 Mbit/s no download (as the poster seems to intent mainly uploading to Thailand)

decimal factors

no protocol overhead, 8 bit = 1 Byte

1'000'000'000'000 / (4'000'000/8) = 2'000'000

2 Million seconds is

555.5 hours (!)

23.1 days.

The link that you provide obviously uses correct 2^x values and results in that number of 22.6 days.

Sure this is not exact science (e.g. ignoring protocol overhead).

I just wanted to proof that the 1 TByte limit should be more than enough for what a human can watch on TV in a month

(humans need sleep )

Edited August 23, 2015 by KhunBENQ

[Roman51]

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