The JR Communications Premium Internet Fair Use policy improves the general user experience of all internet users and is in accordance with national data carrier capabilities.
During periods of peak use, the Fair Use Policy restricts the available connection speed of users identified as having made excessive use of international bandwidth capacity, in favor of other users who have not yet used their fair share. The national carriers will reset to zero, all monitored bandwidth usage on a monthly cycle. This ensures an equal usage profile and equal access to the network and the world wide web.
The average household of (4) uses 200-300GB (gigabytes) of data per month for surfing, video/movie streaming, email, cloud storage for documents, pictures, and more. Heavy data usage for those that are extensive First Person Online Gamers, Bitcoin Miners, or Downloading Media locally can use multiple TB (terabytes – 1024GB) of data in a fraction of a month reducing the bandwidth available to the average household user. This type of data usage is not permitted by the national carrier networks and is deemed abusive. Users in this category may be warned and deprioritized until their next monthly data usage recycle date.
Note: When utilizing the internet for streaming your favorite movies, weekly TV series, etc., remember to set your streaming devices and apps to 720/1080dpi versus HD/4K. This greatly reduces the bandwidth required and put simply, it does not reduce your experience in any way.
JR Communications Data Management Tips
(1) two-hour movie streamed in HD/4K could be 14-20GB of data usage. That’s 7-10GB/hour.
(1) two-hour movie streamed in 720/1080dpi could be 2-4GB of data usage. That’s 1-2GB/hour.
For your mobile devices, HD resolution vs 480p resolution is negligible in viewing experience but can make significant impacts on data used. When YouTubing/Surfing and looking at videos on the web have your device stream those in even lower resolutions like 480p as this resolution only uses an average of 40-60MB (megabytes) per clip depending on the length of the clip.
Thank you for using JR Communications Premium Internet and following these guidelines to provide the best user experience possible.