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Old Oct 9, 2004 | 08:58 PM
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Default Broadband - whats average bandwidth usage

Sorry Stu - I know this is wrong forum, but kinda need an answer tonight..

Am moving house this week, and getting a new broadband package. Have signed up to 5GB a month, as it is now limited- wasn't when I joined up last time

Thought I'd be OK with this, as am not often downloading, but have just viewed my stats on plus, and found this



This is 3 people sharing, but my new one will be for 2 sharing, so I'm thinking I've massively underestimated...

Whats your average?? Anyone know?? This seems ridiculous?

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Old Oct 10, 2004 | 09:35 AM
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dirty porn downloading mo fo you are shedwards
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Old Oct 10, 2004 | 09:38 AM
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I'm not tho! Thats why I am confused. Wondering if the 2gb a day comes from normal internet browsing for 3 epople... unless CLaires downloading on the sly
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Old Oct 10, 2004 | 09:49 AM
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well ive been connected 30 mins, dont nowt but read email and browse passionford and its sent 1,500,000 and rec'd 4,780,000 bytes, hope that helps
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Old Oct 10, 2004 | 10:08 AM
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sorry but 50gig in a month between three people!...someones downloading sumit..(PORN) .or you have a major trojan/virus problem and people are downloading and uploading to your pc's!.....get some good virus protection and find out what the other people are doin!...go with aol too they got unlimited 1meg line for £29.99 a month! or 512k for £25 and 256k for £20 but value for dosh goes to the 1meg line!...hope this helps!
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Old Oct 10, 2004 | 11:45 AM
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Someone's downloading about 2 films a day there

It's always the one with the funny wrist
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Old Oct 10, 2004 | 11:59 AM
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go for telewest, 1.5mb line for £35 or 3 meg for 55 - uncapped

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Old Oct 10, 2004 | 12:13 PM
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Dave - Not being sly here but looking at your stats some1's downloading something...Do they ever turn the PC's off? don't look like it!

for 3 Pc's to download over 2000 megabytes A DAY then some1 is pulling your pisser and is not being honest!
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Old Oct 10, 2004 | 12:15 PM
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go for telewest, 1.5mb line for £35 or 3 meg for 55 - uncapped

cant get telewest here! have t go aol! or bt and fook bt!
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Old Oct 10, 2004 | 12:18 PM
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i once setup my dowload meter to monitor my useage for one day...

i downloaded 5.3gb in one day, and uploaded 800mb

and yes, i use bittorrent
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Old Oct 10, 2004 | 12:21 PM
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im with aol and never had any problems , i got their 1meg line as well and download as much as i want
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Old Oct 10, 2004 | 12:21 PM
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something wierd going on though with the stats... look at week 3
0MB every day then 44MB on Friday..
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Old Oct 10, 2004 | 12:23 PM
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It does sound like someone is downloading films... as even mp3's at an average of 5meg per mp3 and 15 tracks per album... is around 26 albums per day (2gig)!

My bandwidth is stupid... but that's because I've got a network of over 30 pc's/servers at home sharing my connection.. but just for surfing/emails.. 5gb per month should be more than adequate.
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Old Oct 10, 2004 | 01:15 PM
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Where you moving Dave?

Get with Telewest Blueyonder. Me and my Dad are on a 1.5 meg connection unlimited....
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Old Oct 10, 2004 | 01:24 PM
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I'm on 750k blueyonder unlimited downloading! £28 a month and I get about 95k/sec downloads!!

Those stats are just plain dodgy if you ask me! Nothing for a whole week? Were you on holiday?
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