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Setanta Sports

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  • 17-02-2011 7:16pm
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    fawlty towers
    Registered Users Posts: 89 ✭✭


    Does watching setanta sports count towards your download allowance?

    I was hoping to watch the GAA matches on saturday How much of my allowance would i expect to use from watching one of the live games?


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    jay93
    Registered Users Posts: 3,323 ✭✭✭jay93


    Watching this will chew into your download allowance alright not sure how much tough id say for a full GAA game 600-800mb maybe if the stream is very high quality it could use this ammount.maybe someone else can confirm tough?


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    eircom: Mark
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,441 ✭✭✭eircom: Mark


    fawlty towers wrote: »
    Does watching setanta sports count towards your download allowance?

    I was hoping to watch the GAA matches on saturday How much of my allowance would i expect to use from watching one of the live games?

    Hi fawlty towers,

    I sent on your query and although it is not possible to give the exact usage stats, we can give you an estimate.


    Firstly, yes Setanta usage does contribute to usage allowance.



    With regards usage per match, see below calculations. Note these are based on 90min game and would not include pre and post match analysis etc as this could be any duration.



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    Assuming standard streaming of 300kbps then downstream usage consumed in a match of 90mins duration is approx as follows:



    Streaming at 300kbps = 197.75 MB = 0.193 GB



    At higher streaming bit rates (subject to customer connection / availability)



    Streaming at 800kbps = 527.34 MB = 0.51GB



    Streaming at 1500kbps = 988.67 MB = 0.96GB



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    Again, this ignores any advertisement/break period during game and any minor upstream traffic for stream control.

    I hope this helps,

    Mark


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