Will I get ban from comcast if I use 24/7 recording?

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shin777
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Will I get ban from comcast if I use 24/7 recording?

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I am using 2 amcrest 1080p wifi camera IP2M-841B with pc dvr. I set my quality at 1080p@30fps, 2048 bitrate. When I turn on task manager on my window, I am receiving average 10+mbps. Is this eating too much bandwidth that I should worry about getting warning from comcast?
rgarjr
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Re: Will I get ban from comcast if I use 24/7 recording?

Post by rgarjr »

Are u streaming it to your PC NVR in a different location? If you're recording from your 2 cameras to your pc in your network, your isp never sees that.
shin777
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Re: Will I get ban from comcast if I use 24/7 recording?

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I am streaming my cams from my store pc. They are in same network and practically in same room. I use live view access via android phone time to time when I am not in store.
ksp02
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Re: Will I get ban from comcast if I use 24/7 recording?

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I don't know if this will help because I don't use a DVR, but I also have 2 cameras and the same settings. I don't often check in via my android app, but I typically have both views up on my desktop computer (wifi) and recording is 24/7 to an SD card. I often monitor the second location via amcrestview.com on my computer, so I almost always have 2 views, and sometimes as many as 4 views, visible on my desktop. I have an identical setup (2 cameras) at another location as well. Both locations are on Comcast and I've never had any warnings from Comcast at either location regarding bandwidth.
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Techie007
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Re: Will I get ban from comcast if I use 24/7 recording?

Post by Techie007 »

Comcast (and other ISPs) only measure WAN (Internet) bandwidth. Bandwidth between devices on your own network, through your own Ethernet switches or even across multiple ports (including WiFi) on your modem aren't counted towards your 1 TB soft-cap. Watching on your phone or monitoring across the Internet at another location does count, however.

A steady 10 Mb/s comes out to a whopping 108 GB of data a day, so you'd probably hear from Comcast right away if it was running that rate on the Internet continuously.
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