Comcast Internet Usage Meter

[ChkitOut]

Quote from DisciplinedHedg:

Where can I find the Comcast Internet Usage Meter?

I just looked into my account under Account & Bill and don't see the option.

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[DisciplinedHedg]

Quote from ChkitOut:

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Thanks. This option doesn't seem to be available for my area yet.

 

[ChkitOut]

Quote from DisciplinedHedg:

Thanks. This option doesn't seem to be available for my area yet.

Comcast is headquartered a few miles away from where i live.

We go first i guess..


btw, their new big ugly building looks like a USB port.

 

[Scataphagos]

Quote from ChkitOut:

So Comcast just rolled out their meter to see if you're anywhere close to the allowable 250GB per month.

Apparently trading everyday doesn't use much at all.

December i was not on much at all so ignore that number.


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Is that 11-12GB... data for trading only, or does it include other downloads, video streaming, etc?

 

[ChkitOut]

Quote from Scataphagos:

Is that 11-12GB... data for trading only, or does it include other downloads, video streaming, etc?

Its everything, i don't do much downloading or gaming or anything crazy other then web browsing..

 

[dandxg]

I believe streaming is less bandwidth intensive. I haven't used streamed chart in several years. Video is the worst by far. A trading friend told me his wife was watching movies over the net from her home country. One day his DOM was acting funny. Called ISP and they throttled him due to her "abuse" of their service. He starts screaming at her while we are on skype, I was crying laughing.

 

[SomeYoungGuy]

Quote from tomahawk:

That's what I originally was thinking. I'm streaming about 17 charts across 4 monitors, and would think it would be more intensive than just 3 or 4 symbols.

Back of the envelope calculations:

One tick level data packet can't be more than 50 bytes (10 bytes for unique instrument ID, 10 bytes for price, 10 for quantity, 10 for timestamp, 5 for venue, and 5 for checksum).

So if you were getting 10 updates per second on a very active insrument, every second for an hour, that's 50 x 10 x 3600 = 1,800,000 bytes or 1.8 MB / hr / instrument.

Let's say that you are a really hardcore trader, watching the 100 most heavily traded instruments wordwide, simultaneously, for 15 hours a day, 25 days a month. That's 1.8 x 100 x 15 x 25 = 67,500 MB. Or 67 GB per month.

It's streaming the HD pr0n movies that's going to bump you over 250GB / month.

 

[tomahawk]

Quote from SomeYoungGuy:

Back of the envelope calculations:

One tick level data packet can't be more than 50 bytes (10 bytes for unique instrument ID, 10 bytes for price, 10 for quantity, 10 for timestamp, 5 for venue, and 5 for checksum).

So if you were getting 10 updates per second on a very active insrument, every second for an hour, that's 50 x 10 x 3600 = 1,800,000 bytes or 1.8 MB / hr / instrument.

Let's say that you are a really hardcore trader, watching the 100 most heavily traded instruments wordwide, simultaneously, for 15 hours a day, 25 days a month. That's 1.8 x 100 x 15 x 25 = 67,500 MB. Or 67 GB per month.

It's streaming the HD pr0n movies that's going to bump you over 250GB / month.

lol .. thanks for the calculations SYG. .. Duly noted.