BroadBand Question

[Interesting Ian]

Just found out I'm being upgraded "within the next 7 days" to 2Mb, which is good news, but then they are introducing a 15Gb limit - which is bad news (no more all day internet radio playing in the background )

The creafty logic always makes me smile.

Surely radio won't take up that much? I agree its damned annoying though. I'm being upgraded to 2M too sometime from March 14th from my current 750k. A 30Gb a month limit is being imposed though I have absolutely no idea how much I use up now, but can't imagine it's near that amount for most months. But still, it's the principle of the thing. It's nice not to have to worry about it.

 

[Darat]

Surely radio won't take up that much? I agree its damned annoying though. I'm being upgraded to 2M too sometime from March 14th from my current 750k. A 30Gb a month limit is being imposed though I have absolutely no idea how much I use up now, but can't imagine it's near that amount for most months. But still, it's the principle of the thing. It's nice not to have to worry about it.

I was surprised, I used the BT "calculator" here: http://www.bt.com/broadbandusage/ and with my radio use added in it appears I use about 20Gb a month.

 

[DickK]

Surely radio won't take up that much? I agree its damned annoying though. I'm being upgraded to 2M too sometime from March 14th from my current 750k. A 30Gb a month limit is being imposed though I have absolutely no idea how much I use up now, but can't imagine it's near that amount for most months. But still, it's the principle of the thing. It's nice not to have to worry about it.

You're right Ian, it doesn't use that much. A while ago I worked out a couple of numbers for a friend who was looking at broadband with a cap: Listening to JazzFM uses ~210MBytes/24 hrs, and playing a 52 player Battefield1942 game, ~1 GByte/24hrs. Your mileage may vary.

edited to correct shaky memory