Mobile Data: If you are mindful of your mobile data usage, consider the quality settings when streaming or downloading. Lower quality settings can significantly reduce data consumption.

In this article, we’ll show how much data streaming services consume, along with the comparison of streaming and downloading.

Let’s take a closer look at how much data some of today’s biggest streaming platforms actually use for live TV and your favorite shows.

How much data your Netflix account uses while streaming varies on your connection and the account settings you can access to change your data usage.

Although downloading will use a lot of data, it can be calculated and managed. Streaming games from the cloud will use a significant amount over time and can easily go way above data limits.

Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 offers stunning visuals, especially when using the streaming mode to download images as part of photogrammetry feature. But this obvious results in a lot of data usage.

Now that mobile data speeds routinely hit 800Kbps-1Mbps, a good connection means that streaming video on sites like Hulu works well enough not to make users want to gouge their eyes out.

Screenshot by Matt Elliott/CNET 5. Download music, don't stream Streaming music or podcasts for long stretches when you are away from Wi-Fi can quickly add to your data usage.

However, this also means Apple TV+ uses a lot of data. Here’s how to change the playback quality settings to save on data usage, especially useful if you are streaming on cellular with data caps.

T-Mobile US Inc said on Tuesday it will give customers a new option to stream video from services including Netflix Inc on their mobile devices without having it count against their data plans.

Even with a 1TB data plan (which is what I have from Comcast), that's 65 hours of streaming per month at 4K. And that's assuming I don't do anything else on the internet.

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