topic Re: How much data does Sky Stream consume per month? in Sky Stream

How much data does Sky Stream consume per month?

macnfun — Sat, 19 Oct 2024 13:36:19 GMT

Hi,

I'm on a wireless fixed broadband line (can't get fibre to the home)

It has speeds of 150Mbps and a monthly data cap of 1 terabyte

There are two sky stream pucks in the house, neither of them using UHD.

Would daily typical evening use (6pm to 10 or 11pm) exceed the monthly data cap?

Re: How much data does Sky Stream consume per month?

Nigelb1972 — Sat, 19 Oct 2024 18:34:12 GMT

Hard to say with Sky Stream but average data used by streaming services is 1.5 to 2.5 gb per hour for HD

Re: How much data does Sky Stream consume per month?

CoffeeDrinker — Sat, 19 Oct 2024 19:28:38 GMT

Going off Sky's '25 megabits per second' for HD, and assuming their HD runs at a constant, unvarying 25 Mb/ (it doesn't):

25 megabits = 3.125 megabytes

Megabytes per hour = 60 seconds x 60 mins = 11,250 megabytes per hour

1024 megabytes in a gigabyte, so 10.98 GB per hour

1 terabyte = 1024 gigabtyes

1024 gigabytes / 11 gigabytes per hour gives roughly 93 hours viewing of Sky HD material per month. Roughly 3 hrs 6 mins of HD each day, every day for a month.

Take this with a huge pinch of salt though. Sky is unlikely to be running at a constant, unvarying 25mb/s all the time, so the overall viewing time for your 1 TB cap is likely to be longer.

(Aplogies if I've stuffed up the maths. Happy to stand corrected!)

Re: How much data does Sky Stream consume per month?

Nigelb1972 — Sat, 19 Oct 2024 19:34:08 GMT

@CoffeeDrinker Sky aren't streaming at 25mbps. They recommend a minimum connection of 25mbps so that you have bandwidth spare for other internet usage.

I'm on a 500 Mbps connection and currently watching The Penguin in UHD HDR with Atmos and it's using around 20mbps

Re: How much data does Sky Stream consume per month?

Exiled-in-HH — Sat, 19 Oct 2024 19:47:56 GMT

Hopefully you meant 20 Mbps😉

Re: How much data does Sky Stream consume per month?

CoffeeDrinker — Sat, 19 Oct 2024 19:49:02 GMT

@Nigelb1972 wrote:
@CoffeeDrinker Sky aren't streaming at 25mbps. They recommend a minimum connection of 25mbps so that you have bandwidth spare for other internet usage.
I'm on a 500 Mbps connection and currently watching The Penguin in UHD HDR with Atmos and it's using around 20mbps

Sub 20mb/s and then some for HD? - even more viewing mileage from the original poster's 1TB/ month cap then 👍

Re: How much data does Sky Stream consume per month?

Nigelb1972 — Sat, 19 Oct 2024 20:03:54 GMT

@Exiled-in-HH didn't they up the minimums to 25mbps and 35mbps? Not that it matters to us as we've got lots of internets available. They could go to 100mbps and it still wouldn't make a noticeable dent 🤣

Re: How much data does Sky Stream consume per month?

Exiled-in-HH — Sat, 19 Oct 2024 20:12:49 GMT

In all cases the difference between mbps and Mbps is very significant😉

Re: How much data does Sky Stream consume per month?

Nigelb1972 — Sat, 19 Oct 2024 21:29:46 GMT

@Exiled-in-HH ahh I thought I'd made a booboo but I see what ya mean now. I thought his numbers looked off but I've had a few vodka and tonics because it's Saturday 🤣

Re: How much data does Sky Stream consume per month?

Skull+Treaty — Sun, 20 Oct 2024 08:31:01 GMT

@Nigelb1972 wrote:
@Exiled-in-HH ahh I thought I'd made a booboo but I see what ya mean now. I thought his numbers looked off but I've had a few vodka and tonics because it's Saturday 🤣

@Nigelb1972
Vodka aside, the main difference isn't the capital M...but the B. Mbps is the same as mbps; MBps (commonly shown as MB/s) is different 🙂

Most people reading your post would have known what you were meaning

👍🏻

Re: How much data does Sky Stream consume per month?

martswain — Sun, 20 Oct 2024 07:05:58 GMT

Using the data stats from my ISP and my viewing hours, I estimate that Stream uses around 3.3 GB of data per hour in HD.

Using @CoffeeDrinker's figures of 10.98 GB/hour at Sky's "requirement" of 25 then the actual bandwidth used in HD is somewhere around 7/8

Funnily enough, this is almost the exact drop on Speedtest.net that I get doing tests with Stream on/off.

I have a current sync speed of 33 on FTTC.

As I purchased Stream with the launch requirement of only 10, I still reckon 7/8 is fine for HD.

Of course, this has to be continuoulsy available and stable.

Re: How much data does Sky Stream consume per month?

Skull+Treaty — Sun, 20 Oct 2024 10:11:46 GMT

@macnfun wrote:
Hi,

I'm on a wireless fixed broadband line (can't get fibre to the home)
It has speeds of 150Mbps and a monthly data cap of 1 terabyte
There are two sky stream pucks in the house, neither of them using UHD.

Would daily typical evening use (6pm to 10 or 11pm) exceed the monthly data cap?

@macnfun

From the 01/10 to the 20/10 (just now) my Stream device traffic was 581 GB (download) with 61.24 GB of upload traffic. A total of 642.24 GB. This includes traffic via any apps using the Stream device (ITVX, Netflix, iPlayer etc.)

Last week (slightly higher than average usage for us) was 121.72 GB of combined up and download Stream device traffic.

Re: How much data does Sky Stream consume per month?

Exiled-in-HH — Sun, 20 Oct 2024 10:27:35 GMT

@Skull+Treaty wrote:
@Nigelb1972 wrote:
@Exiled-in-HH ahh I thought I'd made a booboo but I see what ya mean now. I thought his numbers looked off but I've had a few vodka and tonics because it's Saturday 🤣
@Nigelb1972
Vodka aside, the main difference isn't the capital M...but the B. Mbps is the same as mbps; MBps (commonly shown as MB/s) is different 🙂
Most people reading your post would have known what you were meaning
👍🏻

B and b is only a multiple of eight... while M and m is a multiple of a million😂🤣😂

Re: How much data does Sky Stream consume per month?

Skull+Treaty — Sun, 20 Oct 2024 10:41:25 GMT

@Exiled-in-HH wrote:
@Skull+Treaty wrote:
@Nigelb1972 wrote:
@Exiled-in-HH ahh I thought I'd made a booboo but I see what ya mean now. I thought his numbers looked off but I've had a few vodka and tonics because it's Saturday 🤣
@Nigelb1972
Vodka aside, the main difference isn't the capital M...but the B. Mbps is the same as mbps; MBps (commonly shown as MB/s) is different 🙂
Most people reading your post would have known what you were meaning
👍🏻
B and b is only a multiple of eight... while M and m is a multiple of a million😂🤣😂

M is mega; while m is...wait for it...mega. B is byte, b is bit

Mbps

Stands for megabits per second.

MBps

Stands for megabytes per second.

The key difference between the two is that there are eight bits in every byte, so 1 MBps is equal to 8 Mbps.

Re: How much data does Sky Stream consume per month?

gerdav — Sun, 20 Oct 2024 15:57:41 GMT

For anyone who Sky's. Broadband after using the My Sky website or app to test the broadband connection you can then view the current and last 12 months data usage, ours is averaging 2-3tb a month over the past year, we have UHD but 80-90% of viewing is in HD, yes this does include everything in the house including a PS5 but I'd be surprised if that accounts for anything more than 100-200gb, if even that.

Re: How much data does Sky Stream consume per month?

Exiled-in-HH — Sun, 20 Oct 2024 16:04:19 GMT

@Skull+Treaty wrote:
@Exiled-in-HH wrote:
@Skull+Treaty wrote:
@Nigelb1972 wrote:
@Exiled-in-HH ahh I thought I'd made a booboo but I see what ya mean now. I thought his numbers looked off but I've had a few vodka and tonics because it's Saturday 🤣
@Nigelb1972
Vodka aside, the main difference isn't the capital M...but the B. Mbps is the same as mbps; MBps (commonly shown as MB/s) is different 🙂
Most people reading your post would have known what you were meaning
👍🏻
B and b is only a multiple of eight... while M and m is a multiple of a million😂🤣😂
M is mega; while m is...wait for it...mega. B is byte, b is bit
Mbps
Stands for megabits per second.
MBps
Stands for megabytes per second.
The key difference between the two is that there are eight bits in every byte, so 1 MBps is equal to 8 Mbps.

If only😂🤣😂

Re: How much data does Sky Stream consume per month?

Stickinfohere — Sun, 20 Oct 2024 16:50:16 GMT

@Exiled-in-HH wrote:
If only😂🤣😂

The reply of someone with their tail between their legs and cant admit they were wrong😂🤣😂

Re: How much data does Sky Stream consume per month?

Stickinfohere — Sun, 20 Oct 2024 16:51:49 GMT

@Exiled-in-HH wrote:
B and b is only a multiple of eight... while M and m is a multiple of a million😂🤣😂

Never heard of such poppycock, multiple of a million indeed. 😂🤣😂

Re: How much data does Sky Stream consume per month?

Stickinfohere — Sun, 20 Oct 2024 16:53:21 GMT

@Exiled-in-HH wrote:
In all cases the difference between mbps and Mbps is very significant😉

Haha, by a million some would incorrectly advise

Re: How much data does Sky Stream consume per month?

Exiled-in-HH — Sun, 20 Oct 2024 19:00:06 GMT

@Stickinfohere wrote:
@Exiled-in-HH wrote:
In all cases the difference between mbps and Mbps is very significant😉
Haha, by a million some would incorrectly advise

Well mbps don't exist while Mbps is a million times something that does exist 😂🤣😂