
If you exceed your allotted data usage, you might be required to pay extra to your internet service provider. Typical limits start at 1024 GB (one terabyte) but can be as low as 150 GB. The data limits sound quite high but can be quickly be burned through if you’re not careful. These data caps are a measure of the total bandwidth of your connection over a given period, such as a month. You might have heard some hubbub about data caps, most often impacting residential broadband connections.

This is known as bandwidth. All data that travels over your internet connection counts toward your bandwidth. Unlike the speed of your connection, there’s a measurement of how much data you’ve transferred. The more devices that are connected, generally, the slower things go.

You’re likely familiar with the concept of the speed of your internet connection.
