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Technical News & Discussion => IDNet Help => Topic started by: Tina on May 27, 2010, 10:51:22

Title: Bandwith
Post by: Tina on May 27, 2010, 10:51:22
Now I am keeping an eye on my usage as I've been using spotify and Iplayer, but I don't really understand what it means. i don't think this is much but could peeps check for me please

QuoteDuring the time period 2010-05-17 to 2010-05-26 your bandwidth use was:
2.81 GB Download - (Peak: 1.6 GB | Off-Peak: 1.21 GB)
0.57 GB Upload - (Peak: 0.42 GB | Off-Peak: 0.15 GB

These figures cover 9 days. If your previous 7 days rate of usage continues for 31 days then the total for the month will be:
3.88 GB Download - (Peak: 2.16 GB | Off-Peak: 1.72 GB)
0.81 GB Upload - (Peak: 0.63 GB | Off-Peak: 0.18 GB)


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Title: Re: Bandwith
Post by: Rik on May 27, 2010, 10:53:32
What package are you on, Tina?
Title: Re: Bandwith
Post by: Tina on May 27, 2010, 10:55:02
Home plus
Title: Re: Bandwith
Post by: Rik on May 27, 2010, 11:01:00
You have 15GB of peak download allowance and 65GB of off-peak per calendar month. Currently, IDNet are predicting you'll use less than 4GB, so you can let your hair down a bit. :)
Title: Re: Bandwith
Post by: Tina on May 27, 2010, 11:02:19
whooo spotify on all day ;) Thanks Rik I'm not too good with numbers
Title: Re: Bandwith
Post by: Rik on May 27, 2010, 11:02:31
NP. :)
Title: Re: Bandwith
Post by: esh on May 27, 2010, 15:58:32
I believe Spotify is some kind of music streaming service, the typical of which these days for high-quality is 128Kbit, perhaps less. At this rate, 18 hours will equate to 1GB, if that's any use to you.

Obviously iplayer will be much more variable and use far more bandwidth, but you are probably looking at a couple hours per GB for that, perhaps less.
Title: Re: Bandwith
Post by: pctech on May 27, 2010, 16:01:34
Iplayer will stream at the highest bit rate it can detect your connection can support so be careful if you use it a lot Tina.
Title: Re: Bandwith
Post by: Tina on May 27, 2010, 16:04:00
I don't use I player too much, but do spotify :)
Title: Re: Bandwith
Post by: Rik on May 27, 2010, 16:06:08
I used to do that when I was a teenager. ;D
Title: Re: Bandwith
Post by: pctech on May 27, 2010, 16:14:13
 :grn:
Title: Re: Bandwith
Post by: Rik on May 27, 2010, 16:18:59
:ithank: