Hacker News Reader

Comment by voltagex_ | Hacker News Reader

12TB? Is this a business or a residential service? How do you use that much data?

That is on Residential service, mostly Sling & Netflix. When I was on Centurylink's Prism IPTV product (which is great BTW (besides pricing), best linear TV experience out there, instant channel switching and live view of the last 5 channels you watched) we would regularly use in excess of 15TB as the IPTV traffic was constant unless you turned the STB off on each TV.

Right, I mustn't have been thinking properly - that's only about 36 megabits per second sustained. If that's multicast or from a local-ish node (which IPTV probably is), it's nothing.

Well, it was UDP Multicast when we were with Centurylink's IPTV, but now all that bandwidth has to transit an IX or transit provider.

Speaking of UDP Multicast, PFSense dropped all support for it without warning before updating, which was the end of me using PFSense at home as it broke TV until I could replace it with OpenWRT.

I'm guessing he's downloading "Linux ISOs".

Nope, that is minor portion of my traffic, nearly all of it is Sling with a bit of Netflix. Turns out high quality streaming video being left on 24/7 on multiple screens burns a ton of bandwidth :P

It seems wasteful to just leave on something streaming, just because you can.

Bandwidth is ephemeral, if you don't use it now, its not as though it will pile up and be usable later. With Fiber, there is no good reason to moderate usage, I'd be more concerned with the few watts the endpoint burns (which costs sub-$10 a year) than an extra TB of usage.

I have this on occasions. Action Cam footage which I backup to the cloud. If you use 4k it is a lot :)

Reply on news.ycombinator.com