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by benp84 1734 days ago
For comparison, the entire internet averages on the order of 50 Tbps*, so this is about 0.5% of that. Residential internet might have a max rate of 1Gbps in the best conditions but if you use even 1% of that consistently you'll get overage fees. Steady bandwidth numbers are typically much lower than max bandwidth numbers.

* Based on 122,000 PB/month in 2017 from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_traffic, if my calcs are right