[sethdj]

Your cable options have an 80gb limit?! WTF!! Comcast has data caps (which is stupid) but it's 1TB and I think my 7 person household has only passed the halfway mark once, so it's meh. But 80GB?! That's insane! Destiny 2 is an 80GB download itself.

[X-Istence]

I live alone, and generally I do about ~400GB of data transfer on Comcast a month. I work from home, and spend a lot of time downloading Docker containers and other such things to do my work.

Last month apparently I hit a new high for me: 890GB. Lots of devices needing updates/games downloaded...

I am really surprised that with a 7 person household you don't go through your data even faster.

I even run a local caching server for all my Apple devices, which over the last 30 days has saved me about ~50GB from having to be served from origin, with about ~100GB being served to clients.

Although I tend to also be a heavy user of Apple's iTunes and particularly their movies service, so I have a feeling a lot of that cached data is me putting movies on in the background and them being streamed from the cache rather than from Apple directly.

[ams6110]

Any option to host your docker stuff on a VPS or other system that isn't using your home internet connection?

[rebyn]

I think he/she uses Docker as a development tool on his machine, with volumes and everything.

[X-Istence]

Yep, this isn't about hosting docker containers or the end result, but doing development work/tearing down/setting up test environments and things of that nature.

It is surprising how big docker containers get after a while.

[noir_lord]

Seems strange how bad ISP's are in the US compared to the UK.

I can get 400/35 Fiber to the Home with no datacap (no throttling either) for £54 a month (~$70).

[JumpCrisscross]

> Seems strange how bad ISP's are in the US compared to the UK

UK average fixed-line download speeds in Q4 2017 were about 26 Mbps [1]. The same Q2/Q3 2018 statistic for the United States was over 96 [2].

American broadband is crappy. But in mean technological leadership, it’s ahead of the UK. (At the leading edge, I get 400/35 for $80 in Manhattan.)

[1] http://www.speedtest.net/reports/united-kingdom/#fixed

[2] http://www.speedtest.net/reports/united-states/

[bjt]

I wish they'd do the median rather than the mean. Having a small percentage of people with super high speeds will drag the mean up, but it doesn't change the experience for the typical consumer.

[jdhzzz]

Bill Gates walks into a bar. The mean net worth of bar patrons is > $1,000,000,000.

[CydeWeys]

I'm in Manhattan too, and with FIOS my options are 100/100 for $40, 300/300 for $60, or 940/880 for $80. Admittedly those prices might be first year discounted prices.

[jonathankoren]

What's really strange is how the crappy broadband is continuously justified in the US.

[toufiqbarhamov]

Replace “broadband” with everything from education and healthcare, through infrastructure and a dozen other words, and you’re still right. I don’t understand it either.

[xyzzyz]

Education and healthcare are of high quality in the US, generally speaking. They are just super expensive.

[blattimwind]

The Radio Eriwan joke writes itself.

[toufiqbarhamov]

Oh man, those still hold up too. “In principle yes, but unfortunately nobody here has the education to be sure.”

[sangnoir]

The belief in American exceptionalism isn't limited to just positives.

[blacksmith_tb]

Broadband in the US varies wildly - I'm paying $85 (~ £67) for an 800/800 fiber connection, but I am in a market where Comcast and Centurylink are slugging it out, so we have much better offerings than many parts of the country.

[mikeash]

Depends on where you are. I’m paying $80/month for 940/940 fiber with no cap or throttling. A few miles down the road the only option is slow and unreliable cable through Comcast.

[Jach]

I don't know if it's widespread but at least here in WA you can pay Comcast an extra $50/month and they'll remove the data cap.

[joecool1029]

Comcast Business class accounts don't have the cap as well. It's slightly more expensive and comes with slower speed tiers but the support has been better. It's not required to be a business to go through that channel.

[kbrisso]

Comcast business doesn't have caps, I pay about $90 a month.

[AckSyn]

This is why amazes me. At my home we blow through on average 25 GB a day in gaming, streaming video, other downloads etc. limits like these are terrible. 80 a month? Wtf?!

[wlesieutre]

25 GB a day? Are you streaming 4K?

[jsjohnst]

I live alone and use 50-100 gb/day on days I’m home all day, so 25gb/day isn’t that much.

I cut cable TV years ago and exclusively stream. I like having the TV on for background noise when home, even though I’m usually not actively watching it the whole time, and you’d be surprised how fast one can chew through data usage. I usually use around 1.5TB a month when you factor in offsite backups.