Data allowance and Fair Usage Policy

wizard · 6 Oct 2022 at 12:08

Often ISPs talk of unlimited date allowance. However, most have a compliance to Fair USAGE Policy in Terms.

So, approximately, what is considered fair usage of date per day / week per household in UK?

wizard · 6 Oct 2022 at 14:32

Glanza said:
It's more on mobile data these days, granted if you were hammering your connection constantly 24/7 i.e. uploading torrents constantly I could see a ISP getting in touch.

So, say 200-300Gb per month would be reasonable?

Looking ahead, Sky Stream box is out now. Apparently this gets rid of the Sky Dish and all goes via the Stream on the Internet. This might be "heavy" on the internet.

wizard · 7 Oct 2022 at 08:58

Ad_Augendae said:
20 days worth:
RX bytes:123398766998 (114.9 GiB) TX bytes:548948956280 (511.2 GiB)

Sorry, do not understand this being a newbie! What is RX and TX bytes?

wizard · 10 Oct 2022 at 19:59

I use windows 11

Related to this topic, is there a free /paid software that can monitor my data usage (including what is musing the most in and out data flows) that is fairly good data reports as well?

wizard · 11 Oct 2022 at 10:30

the-evaluator said:
I use Du Meter so that I can see network throughout but it can also log data usage and generate reports.

Thanks for this. Unless I am missing it, is there data on what app is using up the data?