Bandwith

[Tina]

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

During 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)

[Rik]

What package are you on, Tina?

[Tina]

Home plus

[Rik]

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.

[Tina]

whooo spotify on all day Thanks Rik I'm not too good with numbers

[Rik]

NP.

[esh]

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.

[pctech]

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.

[Tina]

I don't use I player too much, but do spotify

[Rik]

I used to do that when I was a teenager.

[pctech]

 

[Rik]