Possible to use up to 7-8TB a month of internet on a hotspot?

[Ironarmygeneral]

So I am having a debate with a friend and he's trying to tell me he uses up to 7-8TB of wireless data from his mobile hotspot from AT&T. Which, if let's, hypothetically say that for every hour he streams video, he pulls 3GB an hour. (Which is the hypothetical equivalent of nearly 2,333 hours of video in order to reach just 7TB, at a rate of 3GB/hour, and there is only 744 hours in a month with 31 days in it, and 2,333 hours is around 3 months, ish... so...) He says he typically uses 1-17 devices on it at once and most of them just like to update apps and backup their phones (around 15-20GB per backup), and then he'll stream videos and music a lot.

He showed me a screenshot of his data usage and it says his current data pull from the last 57 minutes (since his last period) is around 7.4GB. Which would, yes, if going at that rate CONSTANTLY would end up being around 5,505.6GB or ~5.4-5.6TB. What do you guys think? Do you think it's possible for him to be pulling that much data?

I personally stream YouTube, Netflix, music, I upload (YouTube and download videos and pictures a lot, I live-stream my videos sometimes, which can be an upward of 2-4 hours long, and that's just MY device, running at a speed of around 300mbps on wifi. Let alone my phone, everyone else's devices in the house, on 5G on a quad channel router. And total a month, we average about 200-300GB per month. Altogether. He's telling me that his hotspot alone pulls nearly 7-8TB... and his aunt or whatever has gigabit internet, and they pull even more data from that.

What do you guys think?

 

[scout_03]

then is hotspot is open and all the surending get free internet from it does it have a router and made him check witch mac wireless device is on the permit and block all the other he does not know or have .

 

[Ironarmygeneral]

then is hotspot is open and all the surending get free internet from it does it have a router and made him check witch mac wireless device is on the permit and block all the other he does not know or have .

It's password protected and only him an his friends use it. He says at work he'll have up to 17 people connected to it. Is it possible though to pull that much data in a month?

 

[scout_03]

17 people at work +2 that means 19 use it made him reset is hot spot and check in router who acces it even getting a new password for it .

 

[Ironarmygeneral]

17 people at work +2 that means 19 use it made him reset is hot spot and check in router who acces it even getting a new password for it .

??? I don't understand what you're saying... also, where did you get the two from? Only 17 not 19. He can only have a max of 17 people on it. And he does usually max it out. It's password protected and only people he purposely gives the password to and lets them connect are pulling data. My question is not if there is something wrong, I'm just asking if it's possible for him to pull that much data in a month.

 

[scout_03]

if they all download video all day or use torrent so the upload is also part of the bandwidth it use as a total amount for the isp since all these are on is account . this how it work . https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4027762/windows-use-your-pc-as-a-mobile-hotspot

 

[Ironarmygeneral]

if they all download video all day or use torrent so the upload is also part of the bandwidth it use as a total amount for the isp since all these are on is account .

I don't think you're understanding what I wrote.

HE uses video streaming and music streaming... not his friends. His friends (so 16 out of the 17 total connected) only use it to browse social media, update apps, or ONCE IN A WHILE, backup their phone storage data.

 

[scout_03]

see this app in win 10 also use data https://www.cnet.com/how-to/monitor-your-data-usage-in-windows-10/ so he have to monitor witch one use the most and why .

 

[Ironarmygeneral]

see this app in win 10 also use data https://www.cnet.com/how-to/monitor-your-data-usage-in-windows-10/ so he have to monitor witch one use the most and why .

Okay you really don't understand my question or what I am saying at all so I'm gonna stop responding and make a new post.

 

[USAFRet]

16 people could easily use 7-8TB per month.

But I wouldn't rely on his last 57 minutes.
If he wants to show you...have him show you the last 30 days.

 

[Ironarmygeneral]

16 people could easily use 7-8TB per month.

But I wouldn't rely on his last 57 minutes.
If he wants to show you...have him show you the last 30 days.

Could they use that much though if he was the only one doing intense streaming and whatnot? While the others casually scrolled through social media and stuffs? I did the math and even if he had a high GB/hour video streaming rate, it'd take 2,333+ hours of just THAT to reach 7TB let alone 8 TB. That's around 3 months of video being watched in a single month and if he's the only one doing streaming like that, it doesn't really make sense

 

[USAFRet]

Could they use that much though if he was the only one doing intense streaming and whatnot? While the others casually scrolled through social media and stuffs? I did the math and even if he had a high GB/hour video streaming rate, it'd take 2,333+ hours of just THAT to reach 7TB let alone 8 TB. That's around 3 months of video being watched in a single month and if he's the only one doing streaming like that, it doesn't really make sense

"social media" - facebook...has a TON of video content.
16 people @6 hours/day is 2880 hours per month.

Or from a different direction:
8TB and 16 people is only 500GB each permonth.

 

[Ironarmygeneral]

Could they use that much though if he was the only one doing intense streaming and whatnot? While the others casually scrolled through social media and stuffs? I did the math and even if he had a high GB/hour video streaming rate, it'd take 2,333+ hours of just THAT to reach 7TB let alone 8 TB. That's around 3 months of video being watched in a single month and if he's the only one doing streaming like that, it doesn't really make sense

"social media" - facebook...has a TON of video content.
16 people @6 hours/day is 2880 hours per month.

Right, but it's also not ALL videos, plus I watch a lot of videos on my phone's Facebook personally, and have a 2GB data cap, and I can go all month and not reach that. IDK, it seems unlikely to me.

 

[derekullo]

MERGED QUESTION
Question from Ironarmygeneral : "*Repost* Is it possible to use 7-8TB of data a month on a wireless AT&T hotspot?"

*Disclaimer: The last post I made had a guy who didn't really seem like he spoke English very well and wasn't understanding my question very well, and so I made a repost so new people can jump on here and read it and hopefully give me a good answer.*

So I am having a debate with a friend and he's trying to tell me he uses up to 7-8TB of wireless data from his mobile hotspot from AT&T. Which, if let's, hypothetically say that for every hour he streams video, he pulls 3GB an hour. (Which is the hypothetical equivalent of nearly 2,333 hours of video in order to reach just 7TB, at a rate of 3GB/hour, and there is only 744 hours in a month with 31 days in it, and 2,333 hours is around 3 months, ish... so...) He says he typically uses 1-17 devices on it at once and most of them just like to update apps and backup their phones (around 15-20GB per backup), and then he'll stream videos and music a lot.

He showed me a screenshot of his data usage and it says his current data pull from the last 57 minutes (since his last period) is around 7.4GB. Which would, yes, if going at that rate CONSTANTLY would end up being around 5,505.6GB or ~5.4-5.6TB. What do you guys think? Do you think it's possible for him to be pulling that much data?

I personally stream YouTube, Netflix, music, I upload (YouTube and download videos and pictures a lot, I live-stream my videos sometimes, which can be an upward of 2-4 hours long, and that's just MY device, running at a speed of around 300mbps on wifi. Let alone my phone, everyone else's devices in the house, on 5G on a quad channel router. And total a month, we average about 200-300GB per month. Altogether. He's telling me that his hotspot alone pulls nearly 7-8TB... and his aunt or whatever has gigabit internet, and they pull even more data from that.

What do you guys think?

7TB/month = 238.9GB/day = 9.95GB/h = 169.9MB/min = 2.83MB/s

Not sure about technology AT&T uses, but 4G+ networks can provide bandwidth up to 300mbit (37.5Megabytes/s). 4G - up to 150 mbit (18.75Megabytes/s).
So - yes. Theoretically possible.

Reposting this?
Really?

What do you guys think?

He made the claim.
Have him show you the actual numbers.

Anything else is mere speculation.

Most carriers will downgrade you to 3g speeds once you have used about 22-50 gigabytes of data in a billing cycle in order to stop people from monopolizing the data.

From:
https://www.cnet.com/news/verizon-att-t-mobile-sprint-unlimited-data-plan-comparison/


Verizon: "We may prioritize your data behind other Verizon customers during network congestion."

T-Mobile: "On all T-Mobile plans, during congestion, the small fraction of customers using more than 50GB per month may notice reduced speeds until next bill cycle due to prioritization."

AT&T: "On AT&T Unlimited &More Premium, after 22GB of data usage on a line in a bill cycle, for the remainder of the cycle a customer may temporarily experience reduced speeds on that line during times of network congestion. On AT&T Unlimited &More, for all data usage, customer may temporarily experience reduced speeds on these line(s) during times of network congestion."

Sprint: "Customers who use more than 23GB of data during a billing cycle will be 'deprioritized' during times & places where the Sprint network is constrained."

 

[bignastyid]

Please stick to 1 thread for the discussion.

 

[Ironarmygeneral]

Please stick to 1 thread for the discussion.

Sorry. I was gonna delete the old one but I couldn't figure out how to delete it. There was a guy on there "answering" it but he obviously didn't speak English and didn't understand my question at all and people weren't commenting on it because they saw that there were already replies on the thread.