Streaming bandwidth calculator
Concurrent streams add up. The peak matters for the link and the total matters for the data cap.
Mbit/s
%
Connection speed needed
56.25Mbit/s
- Data per hour
- 20.250 GB
- Data per day
- 81.00 GB
- Data per month
- 2465.4 GB
- Data per month
- 2.465 TB
- Monthly data per stream
- 821.8 GB
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- Concurrent streams = 3
- Bitrate per stream = 15
- Hours per day = 4
- Overhead and headroom = 25
- Connection speed needed = 3 * 15 * (1 + 25/100) = 56.25
- Data per hour = 3 * 15 * 3600 / 8 / 1000 = 20.25
- Data per day = 20.25 * 4 = 81
- Data per month = 81 * 30.4375 = 2465.44
- Data per month = 2465.44 / 1000 = 2.465 44
- Monthly data per stream = 3 > 0 ? 2465.44 / 3 : 0 = 821.813
Values are shown to six significant figures here; the arithmetic itself runs on exact fractions and is only rounded where a number is printed.
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The formula
- peak = streams x bitrate x (1 + overhead)
- GB per hour = Mbit/s x 3600 / 8 / 1000