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What's using my data?

  • 28-01-2011 5:51pm
    #1
    BrianJD
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    Considering I've only been using my laptop and phone browsing through web pages (Facebook, Boards and a few Youtube Videos) is it normal to use 2g of data over two days?


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  • #2
    jor el
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    BrianJD wrote: »
    Youtube Videos

    All depends on the videos. 2GB is not that much in current terms.


  • #3
    bealtine
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    BrianJD wrote: »
    Youtube Videos

    There's your 2Gb right there(depending on the size of the videos)


  • #4
    BrianJD
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    bealtine wrote: »
    There's your 2Gb right there(depending on the size of the videos)

    Didn't realise they'd use that much.....thanks for the replies


  • #5
    vibe666
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    BrianJD wrote: »
    Didn't realise they'd use that much.....thanks for the replies
    if you want a bit of a visual representation of what is using your bandwidth, give this a go: http://lifehacker.com/244649/download-of-the-day-freemeter-bandwidth-monitor--windows


  • #6
    Zillah
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    Youtube videos are highly compressed...you'd need to be watching a couple hours of high def to be getting into 1GB+ territory.


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  • #7
    vibe666
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    i actually got a surprise just before xmas when 10gb of bandwidth disappeared without me realising it.

    in the end, i tracked it to a chrome session on a pc that was left on. nothing untoward going on either. i think it was just google reader, gmail, amazon & a couple of other totally legit sites open and that was it, but something there was eating bandwidth like nobody's business. averaging 400-500kbps from what i could see before i killed it.


  • #8
    BrianJD
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    vibe666 wrote: »
    if you want a bit of a visual representation of what is using your bandwidth, give this a go: http://lifehacker.com/244649/download-of-the-day-freemeter-bandwidth-monitor--windows

    Interestingly, whilst streaming a You tube video this showed me a download rate of average 110kb per second. So I would take that as 9 seconds for a mb or 150 mins for 1gb. I would assume that streaming football would be similar in usage.

    Am I completely off with my maths here?


  • #9
    Skid
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    vibe666 wrote: »
    if you want a bit of a visual representation of what is using your bandwidth, give this a go: http://lifehacker.com/244649/download-of-the-day-freemeter-bandwidth-monitor--windows

    Would that monitor tell you exactly what was using your bandwidth, or just the totals being consumed?


  • #10
    BrianJD
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    SkidMark wrote: »
    Would that monitor tell you exactly what was using your bandwidth, or just the totals being consumed?

    It just seems to show you what's being consumed in a graph open on my desktop.


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