Data usage disparities in streaming services
I posted here a while back indicating the disparity in the now discontinued VUE and my switch to YouTube TV. For the past number of months using YouTube TV, my bandwidth usage has been significantly less, and by that I mean less than half....using about 350 GB/month with YouTube. Nothing in our viewing habits changed.
Prior to that, we would push the monthly 1TB data cap with VUE...but never breached it.
This month I decided to give HULU another try. ..previously they seemed to have buffering issues a while back. It's better now. However.. Bam! Back to pushing 50 GB/day...and that may be a notch above VUE.
At current pace, we would break the NEW 1250 GB limit. Again, I've never breached the 1TB limit.
I've been looking for an answer, but there seems little to explain it other than the stream will consume the highest allowable amount for picture quality. Even if I change setting on Friestick/Roku, etc.
Yet, YouTube TV apparently did not. What am I missing?