Data allowance and Fair Usage Policy

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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?
 
Ask the ISP. Many are unmetered these days, but they don't exactly sit down and decide what 'fair use' means together. It varies by provider. You'll have to read the T&C and maybe search online. Not all companies are explicit about it, but you might find forum posts of 'I got told I crossed X TB and was throttled' or whatever.
 
wizard said:
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?
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My fair use is not your fair use is not someone elses fair use is not a companies fair use. The only way to get an answer to this is to ask the company who made the fair use policy and have a read.
 
If you're planning to max the connection out 24x7 then I'd expect most ISPs to kick you off the service. A few TB a month wouldn't cause any issues.
 
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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.
 
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.
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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.
 
Caged said:
No fixed line provider is going to be enforcing a 300GB data cap in 2022, that would be mad
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Andrews and Arnold (A&A) do. Even on gig FTTP they have 1TB and 10TB quotas (with price differences between them, obviously), and overage is £5 per 100GB.
Edit: It's also £5 per 50GB on their SOHO and business lines. Ouch.
 
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An ISP wouldn't even sniff at 300Gb usage, that's pretty normal nothing crazy at all.

Just done a quick Google, yep in 2020 Openreach said (for 2019) the average usage per home was 300 GB.

www.ispreview.co.uk

Openreach See UK Broadband Usage Double in 2020 to 50,000PB

Openreach (BT) has revealed that broadband usage across their network of UK ISPs "more than doubled" in 2020 to reach an annual total of 50,000 PetaBytes (PB),
www.ispreview.co.uk www.ispreview.co.uk
 
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wizard said:
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.
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More than reasonable, you download COD twice and your over 300GB
 
Rainmaker said:
Andrews and Arnold (A&A) do. Even on gig FTTP they have 1TB and 10TB quotas (with price differences between them, obviously), and overage is £5 per 100GB.
Edit: It's also £5 per 50GB on their SOHO and business lines. Ouch.
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Yes, but 1TB isn't 300GB.
 
Caged said:
Yes, but 1TB isn't 300GB.
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Quite. TBH at first I thought you must have ninja'd your post, as I swear it said 'No fixed line provider is going to be enforcing a data cap in 2022, that would be mad'. My bad (or your stealth). :D Either way, not many have a real cap any more, but A&A are one of them.
 
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Part of me suspects A&A are simply putting into writing the data caps that other providers would enforce if they had the same user base that A&A do and weren't large enough for high users to average out. 1TB does seem low though today, I wouldn't expect to pay £65 for a service that everybody else sells for <£40 and still have to count my usage.

Edit: No ninja edits either, promise
 
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