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How much PERSONAL bandwidth do you use? (Comcast Related)

Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2008 5:41 am
by JAB Creations
I'm curious as to what people could possibly be downloading besides HD-videos that could encourage Comcast to cap bandwidth at 250GB a month. I knew there was a point that would irk them though frankly that's much higher then I expected.

In example I've had this copy of XP installed since March, about half a year. µTorrent lists my total bandwidth as 66GB downloaded and 102GB uploaded total. I have also used 2.86GB of bandwidth working on my website thus far this year. I would expect that makes up the bulk of the bandwidth used for our account with Comcast so I'm not worried.

I am however curious as to what is being downloaded that is causing this cap? Seriously, are there people out there who buy a new terabyte hard drive once a month? 8O HD video can't be the only thing sucking up that much bandwidth!

Re: How much PERSONAL bandwidth do you use? (Comcast Related)

Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2008 5:57 am
by onion2k
Hosting games on Xbox Live can suck up bandwidth pretty quickly, especially if everyone is talking.

Re: How much PERSONAL bandwidth do you use? (Comcast Related)

Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2008 6:17 am
by JayBird
Ive downloaded about 200gig in the last 2 months. 23gig of that was last night. Downloaded Gladiator in HD (after being in Rome last week) and the entire Red Dwarf series 8 series x 6 episodes

Mainly TV shows.

Some TV shows i download, watch, then delete. Some I download and save becuase they are the kind of thing you can watch over again, Friends etc

Ive downloaded a fair few HD movies, but i would say thy only account for about 10 - 15% of my total bandwidth.

I only download soenthing in HD if it is something i have been waiting to see, otherwise i just downoad a normal XVID or whatever.

Re: How much PERSONAL bandwidth do you use? (Comcast Related)

Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2008 6:38 am
by JAB Creations
Tenshi na Konamaiki (Cheeky Angel) is 50 episodes 1~22 180MB each, 23~50 230MB each, 50 episodes at 10.2GB total. That's nothing and the quality is more then acceptable at 1920x1200 regardless of ratio. I'm maybe watching around two to four episodes a day tops of anime (and no television whatsoever save for The Venture Bros) almost only while I eat.

So I take it download, watch, and immediately delete is a pretty common practice?

Onion, can you give us a general idea, figure, or even an example at the expense of it not being typical? :P