Amazon Fire TV Stick allows you to watch movies and videos in three different qualities: Good, Better, and Best (default). If you own a Fire TV Stick 4K, you will also get the 4K option in addition to Good, Better and Best options.
Depending on the video quality that you use, the data usage will vary. When you are watching a movie with video quality set to Good, Fire TV Stick consumes about 900MB of data/hour. It will consume about 3.5GB data while watching videos in Best quality. 4K videos will consume about 6GB of data/hour.
If your internet service provider has data caps, you might want to closely monitor the data consumed by the Fire TV Stick. Amazon Fire TV Stick allows you to monitor the data usage so that you can keep track of your data consumption.
Fire TV Stick shows data used by apps over the past 30 days (you need to set the billing cycle first). You can even set an alert to stop crossing a specific data limit. However, it cannot control the data usage by apps.
View data usage on Amazon Fire TV Stick
Step 1: Navigate to Settings > Preferences with the help of Fire TV Stick remote.
Step 2: Select the Data Monitoring option and then press the select key to check if the data monitoring is turned on or off. The feature is turned off by default. To turn it on, press the select button again (when Data Monitoring is selected).
Step 3: Scroll down to see the Monthly Top Data Usage option. Select that option and then press the select button on the remote to see the data usage by apps.
The sum of data usage by all installed apps is the total data consumed by your Amazon Fire TV Stick.
To set a billing cycle, please navigate to Settings > Preferences > Data monitoring > Set data alert, and then select the billing cycle start date.
June Brickzin says
Where do I go to acctually see what I am being billed for on My Amazon Acct.?
Navin says
Mine used 133 GB in around 8 hours ..
Jerry says
I put my fire stick in sleep mode when not watching anything and all night. I’m waiting to see if it makes a difference. Does anyone know?
Wes says
Why can’t I get rid of some of the Amazon apps that I don’t use
dave says
If you plug the firestick into the USB for power… make sure your USB has sufficient capacity. my firestick takes 1 amp, my TV usb only will provide 0.5 amp. if I exceed the rating of the usb it may work for awhile but will generate problems later on so be careful.
Chris Leeds says
Interesting. My Firestick TV consumed 44 GB in 2 1/2 hours of viewing. This is according to the SmartHome app that monitors home Internet usage from AT&T.
I’m going to verify that by looking at the settings for consumption on the TV. That seems like an absurd amount of bandwidth. Y’all’s thoughts?
Dottie says
I plug my fire stick into the USB on the back of my tv instead of the wall and when the tv is off, so is the fire stick.
Tyler Contratto says
What you could do instead of unplugging it is set internet time limit in your wireless router for that specific device. That way the firestick would only have internet during the times you would be awake and not while you are asleep.
STEVEN CLAY says
I bought the 4k thinking I could enjoy my amazon video and others, but its sucking up all my data even when not in use, this is bad. I now have to unplug the unit and re-start when i wish to watch a movie or TV show. Can’t those computer geeks fix this, its not making fire-stick any money, or amazon, and as far as i know its only making my internet provider more money. Oh wait, could this be planned and they are all in cahoots here?