sky have said we exceeded our band with this month. what use it? does a ps3 being used on line use it up? its only this month its happened.

 

hi there same happened to me if u have limwire on for a while it will take alot of bandwith off you and if you watch movies ect online same will happen i also think if there is any adverts online on a web page or summin it takes it off you duno will the ps3 take it off you depends what you do with it online.
im not with sky but i can buy an extra 4 gig for a fiver if it runs out.sky will probably be the same you should be able to moniter the usage hope tht helps

 

Bandwidth in this situation is literally the amount of data you have downloaded.
Anything connected to the internet will download data, it just depends on what you are doing that determines how much.
For example if you are actively downloading (mp3s, films) then you will quickly rack up a lot of bandwidth, as you are pulling data as fast as possible continuously.
If you are browsing, then very little will be used (just enough to load some text and graphics every few mins).

Playing online games (ps3) will be a fair amount, but not massive - unless of course you are downloading games/patches/updates etc.

What is your allowance?

 

we have 2gb. can get upto 10gb for 5 quid more. it only seems to have been since ive been playing online,the mw2 updates are a download thing.one took 3 and hours to do!!!

and i have been on a few sites with adverts at the side?car sites,forums etc.

 

hate to think what our bill is, i've downloaded nearly 60gb in films this month......

 

i dont do films at all. so aint that

 

2gig isnt much imo, i do 15gig a month easy, though i do watch a few hours of programes a week online, i'd say upgrade

 

Im with sky to neil and we got a letter saying bandwith exceeded due to me being on ps3 all the time

 

im with sky,have 4 or 5 hours on car sites everynight,never gone over the bandwidth,cant remeber how much the allowance is though.

 

2gb is pretty crap mate - I should think you did almost that in your 3 hour download!

 

2GB is pretty shite these days. Something that took 3 hours to d/l is almost sure to have gone over that on its own.

Time to upgrade to the next package i reckon Neil

 

It was only November that Sky introduced the monitor so this is why you've just been upgraded. You will be on the Everyday service now which gives you 10 GIG. Maybe your speeds will rise to as it allows upto 10MB and it's only a fiver a month if you have the calls package. See here -www.sky.com/moreaboutusage


The best thing to do is upgrade to the Unlimited service if you have Sky Talk. It's free for 6 months then downgrade to Everyday if you wish to afterwards

http://www.sky.com/portal/site/skyco...ucts/broadband

 

Make sure if you're using a wireless connection that you have encrypted it, neighbours may be having a nibble at your bandwidth if not. Try not to use WEP as it is very easy to crack.

Mark

 

Sack sky off and go with virgin.

My mate had the same letter a few weeks ago. He doesnt play online games as he is an old boy, but he was watching iplayer. Dont know if that counts towards your limit...if it does then thats shite.

 

2gig??? Jesus thats nothing

I used vidzone on my PS3 for music quite regularly and download demos all the time and music for my iPhone.... and not hit it once yet. o2 unlimited downloads £10pm 20meg

 

2 gigs is 2048mb's so if u download an mp3 album at say 300mb's you have 1748mb's left

iplayer will kill bandwidth, i watched top gear in HD it was 1.3 gigs so if u watched that u would have around 700mb's left.

if u download something off ps3 then thats bandwidth, 3 hours will have killed most of your monthly allowance.

Opening this page to read the replies is using bandwidth. 130kb's maybe.

so 1024kb + 1mb - 1024mb's = 1 gig

So if your ps3 downloads 1mb everytime u play the game/load a game then thats where your bandwidth is going, plus it has to be constantly streaming info as to where other players are and wht they are doing thats all bandwidth usage.

 

It certainly will. ANY up and down traffic - opening an email, browsing a forum, looking at a picture on Google Images, playing an online game, looking at vids on YouTube, iPlayer, porn, etc.

 

If you play MW2 online you will soon clock up 2 GB mate, I'm with BT and they cap our speed over 100 GB and I frequently exceed that

The Top sky package is about a tenner a month I think it's upto 20 MBS and has NO LIMIT whatsoever, I'm going onto that when BT finally upgrade our local exchange as I'm currently on a month to month contract with BT.

Big-Dan.

 

wouldnt know if it was or not.i'll ask the missus as she sorted it all.

its only happened this month.never been a problem before but i have been hammering mw2 online this month