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Re: Data Usage Questions
My last post referredto the Youtube app on Roku TV. Unfortunately, setting the quality on one video on their site doesn't change the default quality on all the other videos. However, I found a chrome extension,Auto Quality for YouTube, that allows the viewer to set the default video quality. This extension works great. I think that the video quality can be changed on Tubi as well, definitely on their site. I'm not sure about their Roku TV channel, however. After making some of these data saving techniques, I am now averaging 5 gigs of data per day, well below the cap.0Views0likes0CommentsRe: Data Usage Questions
I just learned how to lower the Youtube video quality per video. Apparently, setting one video to a lower quality automatically sets all the videos to a lower quality which is perfect for me. I also don't see much if any video downgrade so I think that my problem is now solved. Thank you for your assistance.0Views0likes2CommentsRe: Data Usage Questions
It would be nice if I were able to change the screen resolution on the Roku TV. Unfortunately, I cannot locate the Display function to do this. I just viewed several Youtube videos on how to do this. But the Display function is not listed under my settings.1View0likes0CommentsRe: Data Usage Questions
Thank you, Bruce. Even though COX doesn't offer data usage in real time, I found that MyWifi seems to come close, by the hour, to monitor data usage. I think that from now, I will frequently refer to this tool to determine data usage when watching movies versus learning of the data usage the next day which completely took me by surprise on Friday..0Views0likes0CommentsRe: Data Usage Questions
I think that I found the answer. According to an article I just found on the Internet: 'According to Netflix, you use 1 GB of data per hour when you stream a standard definition (SD) video. High definition (HD) videos, on the other hand, use 3 GB per hour. And 4K Ultra HD streams use up to 7 GB per hour of video. This means you’ll use around 2 GB to stream a two-hour SD movie, 6 GB to stream the HD version or 14 GB for the 4K stream. A half-hour TV show would be 500 MB for the SD version, 1.5 GB for the HD version or 3.5 GB for 4K' So, if this paragraph of the article is correct and we watched these type of videos for 4 hours, I would have used 28 gigs of data just on the videos itself. Thank you for your assistance.2Views0likes6CommentsRe: Data Usage Questions
I know that on Thursday, the day in question, we watched a couple of 4x Ultra HD Youtube videos from Pro Walk Tours, https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNzul4dnciIlDg8BAcn5-cQfor around 2 to 4 hours. MyWifi showed soom peaking around that time frame. We watch the Youtube videos from the Youtube App on the Roku TV. These videos were not casted. Do you think that these videos are responsible for using a good cunch of 40 gigs?3Views0likes0CommentsRe: Data Usage Questions
My android in on the wireless network. All my devices (Laptop, Smartphone, and Roku TV) are on the same wireless network using COX Panoramic Wifi. When I go on the MyWifi page, the Smartphone doesn't show much wifi data usage, even on the Thursday in question. It seems to me almost impossible to have consumed 42 gigs in one day just by browsing the Internet and watching a couple of Youtube videos including the 1-hour video that I casted on Thursday regardless of the video format.6Views0likes9CommentsRe: Data Usage Questions
What I am concerned about is that over the past several days for the exception of Thursday, I've been using only 11 gigs of Internet data per day. On Thursday however, I learned that I used 42 gigs. My usage has been the same outside of casting a live streaming video from my Android phone to my Roku TV for approximately 1 hour. On Friday, my data usage returned back to 11 gigs. I did not cast any videos on Friday. Now, according to a specific website, 40 gigs of Internet data should give me the following: With your 40GB of data, you'll be able to browse the internet for approximately 480 hours per month, to stream 8,000 songs online or to watch 80 hours of online video in standard definition. There is absolutely no way that I could have used 42 gigs in a day after watching a couple of movies as I have done on the other days. So, how could I have used all this data? Could casting videos account for all this data usage? Obviously, since I have a data cap, I need to prevent this from occurringin the future. Thanks.2Views0likes0CommentsData Usage Questions
I have a few questions regarding data usage: 1. Does casting videos from an Android phone to a Roku TV use a lot of data? 2. Does casting a live streaming video versus a recorded video use more data? 3. Does mirroring videos from a computer to a tv use less data or is this the same as casting? 4. Does any one know of way to view data usage in real time versus learning of the data used the next day? Thank you so much!2.5KViews0likes14Comments