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Offline Frances144

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« on: February 01, 2007, 02:06:07 AM »
My ISP offers me 5gb limit on my downloading/uploading usage per month.

This month I seem to be over my limit and will have to pay extra (£2 per 2gb).  Not too bad, I know, but I am curious to know how this all works.

I have 3 macs attached to my router and the following going on:-

iBook G4 - Mail is kept on all the time with one of them and occasional Safari
iBook G4 - Mail and Safari dipped into occasionally
iMac G5 - Safari on all the time and Windows Media Player - getting a radio station off the internet or iTunes getting a radio station

I keep my updates up-to-date and have had rather a flurry this and last month with the new-to-me iBooks, new G5 and updating another iBook.

My question, does keeping WMP on all the time use alot of download/upload usage?

Should I not keep my router on 24/7 getting the internet?  Was designed for this? or is it better to turn it off at night?

I seem to be uploading at least 0.01gb per day on what?  THe only stuff that leaves my computer is when I update my website  which is not very often.  THough I do use my router to move stuff via my home network - would that count?

Any thoughts?

Thanks
Francesx
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« Reply #1 on: February 01, 2007, 02:40:04 AM »
I'm open to correction on this, but I believe radio and video streaming is also technically downloading, so would count in your allowance. "Ah hae ma doots" that radio would add much, but video is another matter!
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« Reply #2 on: February 01, 2007, 03:41:28 AM »
I don't video stream much - the odd You Tube - oh, yes and all of Kath & Kim (9)episodes of the Da Kath & Kim Code!!!

What about Skype?  I have just got that.  Does that use up alot?

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« Reply #3 on: February 01, 2007, 07:09:06 AM »
QUOTE(Frances144 @ Feb 1 2007, 03:06 AM) [snapback]117578[/snapback]
My ISP offers me 5gb limit on my downloading/uploading usage per month.

This month I seem to be over my limit and will have to pay extra (£2 per 2gb).  Not too bad, I know, but I am curious to know how this all works.

I have 3 macs attached to my router and the following going on:-

iBook G4 - Mail is kept on all the time with one of them and occasional Safari
iBook G4 - Mail and Safari dipped into occasionally
iMac G5 - Safari on all the time and Windows Media Player - getting a radio station off the internet or iTunes getting a radio station

I keep my updates up-to-date and have had rather a flurry this and last month with the new-to-me iBooks, new G5 and updating another iBook.

My question, does keeping WMP on all the time use alot of download/upload usage?

Should I not keep my router on 24/7 getting the internet?  Was designed for this? or is it better to turn it off at night?

I seem to be uploading at least 0.01gb per day on what?  THe only stuff that leaves my computer is when I update my website  which is not very often.  THough I do use my router to move stuff via my home network - would that count?

Any thoughts?

Thanks
Francesx


Frances,

Any data that flows through your account, uploading or downloading, is considered to be part of what is measured for your bandwidth. E-mail, anything. Video files are fairly big... I don't know what the average size for streaming audio files is, but I suspect if you leave WMP on and forget to turn off a station you've been streaming, you're going to rack up the bytes pretty quickly.

Personally, I close any app like iTunes or WMP when I'm done with it so that I don't exceed my bandwidth!

If you think about it, considering the size of some of the e-mails my friends send out, it's not to difficult to get up to the 5 GB limit pretty quickly!

The data that flows through your router on your home network computer-to-computer shouldn't have any effect on yuour bandwidth.

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« Reply #4 on: February 01, 2007, 07:49:23 AM »
One more thing to monitor...

I'm gonna be rich again! All we need is a timer for the internet. It'll close apps that are streaming, and turn off the lights if nothing's moving, and turn down the furnace if it doesn't sense body heat in the house, and.... :ca-ching:
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« Reply #5 on: February 01, 2007, 08:32:40 AM »
eusa_dance.gif Beatcha Gregg... already got one of those... harhar.gif and SHE follows me around to be sure everything is turned off/down.....even when I'm still using it   doh.gif     But don't tell HER I said that.... taped.gif


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« Reply #6 on: February 01, 2007, 10:51:16 AM »
QUOTE(Frances144 @ Feb 1 2007, 09:41 AM) [snapback]117583[/snapback]
I don't video stream much - the odd You Tube - oh, yes and all of Kath & Kim (9)episodes of the Da Kath & Kim Code!!!

What about Skype?  I have just got that.  Does that use up alot?

Fx


Skype will use up some of your bandwidth especially when you're using it with a Webcam.  I guess that that means I'm to blame for some of the extra usage.  Sorry smile.gif

Streaming K & K will probably account for the rest.

BTW, where are you streaming it from?
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« Reply #7 on: February 01, 2007, 12:04:09 PM »
Skype, with video, is eating us out of bandwidth here at work.  This "high dollar" educator named Alan November came in and told a bunch of them they should be streaming video through SKYPE so the kiddies can collaborate with other kiddies and the the teachers with other teachers.  I can hardly download a system upgrade when school's in session!   sad.gif
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« Reply #8 on: February 01, 2007, 04:00:07 PM »
Safari on all the time and Windows Media Player - getting a radio station off the internet or iTunes getting a radio station

Ding. There's all your bandwidth.

Mail and Web surfing and so on barely puts a dent in your allocation--perhaps a megabyte or two each month. Software updates, maybe one-fifth of one gigabyte per month. But streaming video and streaming audio--constant, never-ending traffic!
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« Reply #9 on: February 01, 2007, 04:13:19 PM »
Frances

I know you don't have an "unlimited " package but this might explain a bit more The Guardian

For another take on bandwidth issues John Naughton

John is a journalist worth reading.  He does a weekly article in the Observer as well as running a few other projects. Among them Living Without Microsoft and Ndiyo.  

Just in case no one guessed, he's a Mac (and Linux) user  wink.gif
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« Reply #10 on: February 01, 2007, 04:45:23 PM »
Thanks for all your replies.  i guess i am going to have to cut down and not just leave the computer on forever just for the sake of it.

(Kath & Kim came off You Tube!!).

TTFN
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« Reply #11 on: February 01, 2007, 05:08:14 PM »
This is interesting, yes, I do like iTunes, but dont tie up much bandwidth I hope.
We do listen to the streaming radio stations sometimes.
I dont think that anybody around here has ever exceeded their bandwidth, or how would you know, things would just slow down I guess.  Like a rainy Sunday morning?

But what really eludes me, is why do people *want* to watch Television on their computers?  When you can buy a bigscreen TV for cheapo.
Computers are not meant to be entertainment machines, well, yes people do play games.
But Television has its own place in the living room, at least around here.
Nahhh, no TV on my Mac.
What will probably happen, is everybody will have a bandwidth limit of some kind, and if they want to watch TV over the net, then they should pay extra for it.
I know I dont understand too much of this, but that seems logical to me, isnt computer for education, and TV for entertainment? Right, or am I wrong.
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« Reply #12 on: February 01, 2007, 05:42:52 PM »
I only watched Kath & Kim on You Tube because I have not seen the video in the shops to buy.

I think I used up my allowance on uploading my new website (77 pages), Kath & Kim, and up-to-dating 3 Mac's from scratch, Skype, Classic FM (where I live, we only have 6 radio stations!!!!) and leaving my puter on 12 hours a day.

BTW, our cheapo bigscreen TVs cost about £2,000 - not that cheapo!

My computer is for helping me reach the outside world.  I do not have Sky and we do not have access to the big bad world.  We are on an island nearer Norway than mainland UK.
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« Reply #13 on: February 01, 2007, 05:44:14 PM »
dntknw.gif I guess this could be listed under "dumb questions" .... huh.gif

BUT I don't understand a 'limit' on bandwith....
To me, what Frances is saying is that her provider only allows he to up/download so much content within a certain time frame... Am I understanding that part correctly??

And, PLEASE, correct me and or my understanding... but is that a 'foreign' concept... not 'distance' foreign' but 'strange' foreign... In that (to my understanding) it is usually only applied to a particular "site's usage" of bandwidth?? huh.gif

There is a lot here I'm not understanding....


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« Reply #14 on: February 01, 2007, 05:49:53 PM »
If you are using too much bandwidth, we just see a slowdown,, but its not here, as our town is sparse.
All you see is things slow downnnnnnnnn.
I dont have SatNet, so I cant tell you about that.
But for heavens sake, leave the doggone Television off the internet!
Or at least make them pay dearly for it.
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