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steveh
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Help please. According to the W.U. news on 3rd November, in the new year NTL will be giving me the option to upgrade to a 1mbps connection speed, but interlinked with this is a download limit of 5GB. Now, i have no idea what that means to me. How do i judge what i am downloading and what its size is. I'm quite often connected to 3- 4 web pages all day and will go back to them at different intervals between doing other things (not on the p.c.). E.G. I sometimes have the W.U. forums sat open all day and browse a lot of the threads, sometimes posting, and occasionally spend some time in chat rooms. Are all these activities included within the download limits and how much does browsing a web page use. Also, have you any idea how i can meter such activities. Your thanks for help in advance.
SteveH
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gusmac
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Answer in 2 parts -
1) Broadband is different to dial up in that it measures download volume rather than time connected, such as dial up.
So, if you connect all day to the same page, you only use part of your allowance once, rather than say 8 hours worth under dialup. However, each time you refresh the page you will use up a bit more of your monthly bandwidth allowance.
But based on your usage, that should never be a problem.
A guide to sizes/allowance is posted here -
http://www.homechoice.co.uk/yourquestions_internet.html#13
If you look at the 512k column (ignore the speed) it will give you a good idea as it has a 5Gb monthly limit!
2) I use the following bandwidth monitor, and think it is great!
http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/link/tbm/
Best of luck!
Edited by gusmac on 15/12/2004 15:19 (server time).
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steveh
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Thank you. Explained in a language i can understand. And i have downloaded the monitor in preparation for the new year.
SteveH
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greysts
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Just as a matter of interest I'm with NTL and would consider myself a fairly heavy user although I don't download films or music. I'm using NetMeter for the very reason you mention and it is projecting that I will have a combined monthly upload and download of about 2gb. I'm looking forward to my 3mb connection even if it does cost me £25 to get it.
Do you know that we're all in line for succession to the throne? Really?
Well, if forty-eight million, two hundred thousand, seven hundred and one people died I'd be Queen.
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