How much network traffic do you have per month

stefan11111 · l33t Joined: 29 Jan 2023 Posts: 922 Location: Romania

I recently found some nice linux iso's, ~1TB, to download.
I looked up how much data I used this month, and it seems that I just crossed 9 TB.
How much do you use the network?
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pa4wdh · l33t Joined: 16 Dec 2005 Posts: 815

If you mean traffic to/from the internet it's ~4TB/month, almost equally distributed between uplink and downlink.
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szatox · Advocate Joined: 27 Aug 2013 Posts: 3169

9TB? How do you even do that?
I find fairly modest 100GB enough for personal use most of the time... (And I still can't understand why should I pay extra for an international phone call which uses next to no bandwidth and runs on the same wires). Once in a while getting close to 150GB.

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rfx · Posted: Sun Aug 20, 2023 6:21 am Post subject:

Oh wow, i thougt our traffic (4 people) is much per month. In July we had 1,42 TB. August so far 750GB

Perfect Gentleman · Veteran Joined: 18 May 2014 Posts: 1252

~1TB - in, more than 10TB - out.

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Sun Aug 20, 2023 10:18 am Post subject:

Its less than 1 TB/Month from home.

Based on my last router update and reboot ... for my uplink.

stefan11111 · l33t Joined: 29 Jan 2023 Posts: 922 Location: Romania

pa4wdh · l33t Joined: 16 Dec 2005 Posts: 815

My ~4TB/month is mostly TOR traffic, i'm running a relay (not an exit relay).
Besides that, a daily off-site backup contributes a few GB upload each day, the rest is personal use and some home-hosted stuff (mail, web, etc).

@stefan11111: Out of curiosity, what software do you use for your seeds?
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stefan11111 · l33t Joined: 29 Jan 2023 Posts: 922 Location: Romania

szatox · Advocate Joined: 27 Aug 2013 Posts: 3169

I've been recording my usage with vnstat for some time, i'm pretty sure it's monthly
I don't run servers are home though. Most of that data must be consumed by video streaming etc, but then again 720@30 is more than enough for a movie to look good, and stuff like news and other talking heads can get by with 480p or even 360p, which uses less than 1Mbps.

Gentoo updates are not THAT big (compare it e.g. to arch, lol ) and portage + distfiles can be shared locally, and even when I run some backups over the internet, I just use rsync for a quick incremental, so it typically ends up being only a few hundred megs at a time instead of doing a full disk copy, so... I suppose I'm good at reusing resources I already have at hand?

eccerr0r · Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2023 1:45 pm Post subject:

I have crappy internet access, it's physically impossible for me to download 2TB/month... 1TB is very hard as it is.

I don't check my logs (I do add all traffic info to an rrdb) but I venture I'm no more than 150GB/month, and likely less than that.

Sometimes I also wonder how much traffic is wasted by people probing my ssh port. In terms of raw TCP connections, this by far dominates all the TCP connections my computers operate.

--- edit ---
Looks like I only got around 500GB the past *Year*...
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Spanik · l33t Joined: 12 Dec 2003 Posts: 960 Location: Belgium

Checked the modem but the data is minimal there. Looks like about 10GB/day.
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Goverp · Advocate Joined: 07 Mar 2007 Posts: 2021

If I've read my modem's statistics correctly, 1.013 TB in 46 days, though about 10 of those I was away from home. So either about 1 TB/month, or about 666 GB/month . That of course should be everything, PC, phone, tablet, some TV.
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Leonardo.b · Guru Joined: 10 Oct 2020 Posts: 301

I have a 70Gb/month data plan, on a SIM card.

stefan11111 · l33t Joined: 29 Jan 2023 Posts: 922 Location: Romania

checked the stats again.
12.29 TB in the last 30 days.
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Syl20 · l33t Joined: 04 Aug 2005 Posts: 619 Location: France

The smaller choice is one terabyte per month. Wow.

With a 24/7 bittorent instance, and a regular video streaming usage :

eccerr0r · Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2023 4:50 pm Post subject:

I was wondering how I could have possibly gotten this many bytes through my Ethernet card...

stefan11111 · l33t Joined: 29 Jan 2023 Posts: 922 Location: Romania

How do y'all use a couple hundred GB's every month?
Do you watch 100 mb 480p movies?
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eccerr0r · Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2023 6:24 pm Post subject:

As I don't stream or watch movies through the network, it's easy to never hit the 1TB mark, not to mention the bandwidth limit. Heck I shrugged off youtube sh** which mostly is just that, sh**...
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