Bandwidth limitations

okcbaker: "I have reservations about trusting the bandwidth monitor. With very similar daily habits, the Cox Monitor is all over the place.  On Christmas Day we watched a couple of movies and with our normal Youtube streaming peaked at over 30GBs...  Other days we've watched 3 or 4 movies off Netflix and didn't use near that much."

Consider that movies can vary greatly in "bandwidth" used. HD movies, for example, can eat up as much as 15 GB for a 2-hour HD movie, while a 1 1/2 hour SD movie can be less than 2 GB.

All the more reason that 300GB is not all that great for a household of 4 people who are stuck at home.  I suppose our only option is to drop Cable TV, pay for the largest Bandwidth package and also take on another carrier and use both so that we have the freedom to watch what we want.

I don't see how dropping Cable TV will decrease your bandwidth consumption. Have you tried monitoring your bandwidth use to see what your spending it on? You shouldn't take the person charging word for how much bandwidth your using. :-)

Dropping cable would save enough money to afford an additional Internet Provider. With Expanded Basic there isn't much on to watch anyway except Network TV, which can be received in HD via Rabbit Ears. Internet Service, Netflix etc is more of what we obviously need, if a HD Movie takes up to 15GB per unit. It's already almost $2000 per year for what was supposed to be a $99 per month plan (apparently not including necessary tools to use it)

Another option would be to drop cable and get two data accounts, which would double your allowed bandwidth. Could even set it up on it's own dedicated cable drop and modem and balance load on a dual WAN router. 

Where does the 2000$ a year come from?

Current bill for Expanded Basic with Advanced Premier Internet runs about $166 per month. Had to increase our data allowance from 250 GB (Or whatever it was) to the 100Mbps and 300GB Bandwidth option because of repeated warnings from Cox. I don't follow you about the double data package, you mean two Cox Internet Accounts? Would be about $150 per mo.

okcbaker said:

... if a HD Movie takes up to 15GB per unit. It's already almost $2000 per year for what was supposed to be a $99 per month plan (apparently not including necessary tools to use it)

I said "up to 15GB..." If MPEG4 is used, or a more compressed MPEG2, then it will be much less. Point was...it varies.