ChasingAmy

Ha.

So I get a phone call from my Cable company last month to review my account activity. Apparently I was using it too much that month. Even I think it was excessive... 85 Gigs! =D

Hahaha...

After talking with them I was thinking... really on average I download 25~30 gigs a month. 85, musta been lotsa good movies and Porno that month!

Whats your average?

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Asuka{eve}

Well once upon a time I discovered bittorrent. I dowlnoaded a lot. Letter from comcast comes to dad. Dad was angry at me for downloading 100times the national average. They didnt say how much I downloaded though.

KMA-628

How do you find this info out if you don't get a letter?

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Lotronex

bah, Im limitted to 1.5 gigs a week up here at school, which totally sucks when there's something new out you want to get but only have 200 megs that have to last you 3 days until the reset.
Luckily, they do the last check of the week around 8 o'clock saturday, and then reset at midnight, giving you about 4 hours to download all you can. When i actually remember, i can usually sqeeze out about 2 gigs an hour if i plan what i want ahead of time.

Asuka{eve}

I dont think your allowed to find out. I think some people tried to sue because they got those letters and didn't say how much they downloaded and how much they could.

bob32

There's been a couple months where I downloaded and uploaded a combined 200gigs in a month. I think that's when I just learned about newsgroups. Luckily I still haven't gotten a letter from Road Runner, I think the limit is 40gigs per month.

And in case anyone wants to know a way to find out how much bandwidth you use every day/week/month without getting a letter from your isp, DU Meter is a good program.

viper11885

For my ISP, they suggest 1gb upload and 5gb download. It's not strictly enforced though but going overboard will result in a email sent to you. You have to respond back and then they do a review again.

Got one of these emails a couple of months ago. I was downloading the Lois & Clark series using torrents and probably did about 12gb in 5 days. It wasn't that much as I probably averaged at a speed of about 30kb/sec with that computer on for that entire time period. Kind of stupid if you ask me as I probably wasn't interferring with anybody else's speed at any given point of that period.

ChasingAmy

Glad to see that I am not the only one. Shaw up here in Canada has a member services where you can check your usage!

And yes... Newgroups are my weakness also :P

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Destrox

I use a program called NetLimiter to keep tract for me.

Currently I have used:
Down: 12.7Gig
Up: 1.5Gig

Nothing like my old days where it would be 40-60 Gig down, and 20-30 Gig up. Ahh yes.. a majority of that was not legal... But I dont even use P2p crap anymore let alone the other things i use to do.

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Dilbert1234567

my 3 meg pipe is filled 16 hours a day.


hmmm

thats 3000 kps or 375kps or .36 meg a second

*60*60*16*30= about 64 gigs a month. and i cant disagree with that one bit.

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Flesh

Bamrak

Flesh,
What program is that? Looks interesting.

Flesh

DU Meter

LNCPapa

Wish I could use something to keep track - but I have 13 machines in here ranging from a SUN box to Macs to x86 machines running flavors of windows and linux. Considering I have a dedicated download/upload machine who does so 24/7 I'd say my usage is pretty high. That machine has all my peer-2-peer stuff on it and I then have scripts running daily that move files to the appropriate machine based on file extension.

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Stompy

I dunno, I download anywhere from 4-8 gigs a day (DVDs et al) from various sources like usenet, irc, p2p, etc..

My ISP has never complained.

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EK69

lol i have the older shaw modem, and i cant even check my stats at secure.shaw.ca (i am thinking cuz i have the older white cable modem)

recently ive done A LOT and havnt had any calls from shaw either....im beginning to wonder if THEY can track my bandwidth usage lol

slimshaydee

i use like umm 5 gb a month
i never download movies/games/porn anymore

Flesh

how do you live, sir?

hrdwrjnkie

My cable company provides me with 6MB downstream and doesn't complain about it running 24/7 full force down and up.

My best month I topped 100 GB and noone batted an eyelash.

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ChasingAmy

EK69

If you cant get a report of your usage is sounds like they cant monitor yours if you have an old modem! Try it out!! lol

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Embic

June 2004 - 54.78GB down 105.92GB up
July 2004 - 42.25GB down 120.34GB up

EK69

@ChasingAmy

lol yeah i am tryin it out (have been for the past week lol)
hopefully this doesnt end badly lol

Sty

I'm nowdays averagely using about 6Mb up and 10Mb down 24/7. That would make about 1.9TB up and 3.2TB down monthly.

Of course the pipe is 100MB FD and I'm hosting quite a few high-traffic sites from there. But nevertheless, my ISP doesn't complain since I pay 150€/month for the pleasure.

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The Phenomenon

They dont track your usage with your modem. They just check in their server logs how much data you requested.

The Phenomenon

Oh and to answer the question I do about 20-25 GB per month.

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Kadath

Well, just through eMule I've put up about 20 and pulled down 23. That's over 16 days, but I leave it on a week, off a week to throw off my ISP, not that they've ever said anything.

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Glava

Wow, a lot more uploading than downloading. You have good karma.

EK69

or he is using bittorent on a site that rewards/requires a good download to upload ratio lol

Glava

Good thing Bellsouth doesn't track bandwidth usage. (Or I don't think it does, anyway.)

kutulu

I've never even considered the amount of bandwidth I've used. I have cox.net for my home connection. I think I use a lot, but I've never heard anything from them. There was a span of about a month - month and a half where my wife and I downloaded all 7 seasons of stargate sg-1 so that we could watch them in order. 7 seasons, 22 eps/season @about 300MB/ep = 46.2GB. Throw in all the porn I d/l plus any music and we probably downloaded about 70GB over two months.

Bamrak

Hmm.. as of my other post, I've only downloaded 270 mb.. Apparently I'm slacking.. I think I've just gotten all the music and stuff I want off of bittorrent..

Flesh

well I hope TWC never has the balls to tell me something about my BW usage.. although I don't think they will since it's not that much. but if they do I will tell them to fuck off in a second and switch to verizon

slimpi66y

du meter is good indeed, I don't use it anymore because I installed Satellite TV at home, now I get my porn through the Sat TV recording program, my bandwidth is now at 5G a month, was around 45g

bigbad

Shaw does check, I did 27gb in May, then 54gb in June and got a call from them telling me I'd be shut off for a week if I went that high again. So went back down to 25gb in July. Bittorrent has stolen my soul.