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Cox didn't increase their data cap. Cox uses "TB" (terabyte) to express data cap but technically it's a TiB (tebibyte). Data Cap assumes storage. A byte measures storage. 1 byte equals 8 bits. If you do the math, it's 1.1 TB…or 1 TiB. It's kinda in the weeds but I doubt Cox will charge you for less than 1.1 TB.
I've always understood watching regular TV programming with the Wireless 4K Stream Player does not count towards your data cap. Here's a post of a moderator (Becky) distinguishing between data caps for regular TV content and streaming through the Contour streamer.
- Tariq_K5 years agoNew Contributor II
Wow! Thank you Bruce for your reply and the post link.
@DustinP - Thoughts?
- Bruce5 years agoHonored Contributor III
Cox also insists the Wireless 4K Stream Player must use Panoramic. I assumed (again) Panoramic could therefore distinguish...and perhaps encapsulate...regular TV programs as "uncounted" Internet packets.
Another poster, however, claims the Stream Player works on a non-Panoramic modem/router. He said he'd monitor his data cap but nothing yet.
- Tariq_K5 years agoNew Contributor II
Interesting. This may be getting a bit over my head but I think I know what's going on with my setup. After miserabe failure of Cox pods to strengthen my wifi signal, I bought Google Nest wifi. After initial setup, I had two separate wifi networks; one from Pano and the other from Google router. I then enabled the bridge mode for the Pano Admin console to avoid having two different wifi networks. Now my only wifif network was controlled by Google Home. It think this may be my issue as Cox is now considering all data as streaming/data usage as oppose to excluding Contour 2 data from the cap. This may explain why my usage has gone up in the last 2 weeks (which is when I installed Google wifi) .
- ChrisL5 years agoFormer ModeratorPrior to the pandemic all Internet plans included 1TB/mo. of data allowance. After the temporary moratorium on data usage billing ended the allowance was increased to 1.25TB/mo. to try and make things a little easier for everybody.
-Chris
- bearone25 years agoContributor III
i do almost everything with wifi, except this pc, which is hardwired.
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