YouTube TV: how much monthly data to prepare for?

I have the same Cox plan. It's just me an the wife and we use about 800-900GB per month. We both work so no one is home during the day. During the week days our usage is about 15-20GB per day. On the weekend it goes up to 35-45GB per day and that all depends on how much we are home on the weekend. Also most of the time it's just one TV playing but I watch a lot of videos on my iPad.

You shouldn't need anything more than the 250mb package. My package was the old 125mb and they bumped everybody up to the 250mb when they did away with the 125mb a few months ago. I never had buffering problems except for the Apple TV on one of our old TV's all the rest are newer Android TV's. The Apple TV still glitches with the 250mb and I'm actually getting around 290mb over wifi and I have all the TV's hardwired.

you definitely dont need any more speed. I have a family of 5 and I work from home on a 50/10Mbps connection and it is fast enough to stream 3 4k HDR streams at the same time.

We only use streaming TV (YTTV, Philo, Starz, HBO Max, Paramount+, Prime, Netflix & Hulu) and we generally use about 800GB/mo.

If you torrent, yes you will likely hit the data cap.

If you have a choice, avoid cox like the plague. When I had them I would get data warning notifications every month only 2 weeks into the cycle. I don't even use that much internet.

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This. Most people don't need 100Mbps+ and tend to overbuy on internet speed.

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Exactly. For home use a perceived lack of speed is almost always due to the router's inability to utilize the raw speed available. Even if a speed test shows you getting the speed you want and pay for, real world work loads with more than a few devices can tax most consumer routers and make things sluggish.

Overbuying internet speed can improve things a bit, because once the router gets around to handling your request then delivering the data happens a little faster, but then you're paying monthly forever when you'd be better off fixing the real bottleneck, the router.

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We have our our security system, a/c thermostats, generator and garage doors all on ours and I always wondered how much data they use in a day.

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Usage is minimal. At the most I'd say each of these probably use a couple mb a day unless you have video as part of your security system.

CAD703X should be here any min to give you the Total amount needed and how you not going to be able to make it with 1.28 terabytes

I agree with him if you have a family of 4 or more and they like to stream then you may not make it.

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Do you have anything else that stays connected to your wifi 24/7?

We have our our security system, a/c thermostats, generator and garage doors all on ours and I always wondered how much data they use in a day.

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Yes. 3 game consoles, PC, Alexa, A/C Thermostat, Ring Doorbell, Blink Camera other odds and ends, but Video and downloads will ALWAYS eat up the majority of the bandwidth

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I have a family of 4 and would hit that Cox cap every 2-3 months and was on the edge every month

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This is us. Basically we are fine, but if I download a single game on steam or one of has a few too many vacation days where we are home streaming we go over.

Family of 5 here, but young kids. (Never more than two TV's on, and usually just one, but it's on basically all day) Pre pandemic, we used between 600-800 gigs a month with a 1TB cap from AT&T. That's with streaming services and YTTV.

At the beginning of the pandemic, internet usage obviously went up and I was over 800 gig, so I swapped over to an unlimited plan.