500Mb broadband usage................

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  1. Brianpotter

    Brianpotter Active Member

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    4.89 a month on Orange for current customers. How much internet time would that break down into roughly?? Anybody know - im clueless at that type of stuff!! Wont be used for downloading, just browing net and checking emails ect.

    Tar! :)
     
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    I'm on PlusNet and according to their stats I use about 50Mb per day (mainly evenings) with just normal web browsing such as pratting about on here.

    On Tuesday I listened to the match commentary, and the stats for that day are 240Mb, so your 500Mb would soon be gone.

    PlusNet costs £5.99 and I get 10Gb usage per month, 20 times the 500MB you mention, but obviously not mobile.
     
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    Farnham_Red Administrator Staff Member Admin

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    Its not a lot

    If all you do is a bit of web browsing and a few emails it will be OK - but you will soon burn it if you start dowloading any music or video

    For example if you want to download or even stream last nights questiontime you will blow the entire 500Meg and then some
     
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    I have 60Gb per month

    And they got quite shirty about it when I exceeded it. So I got quite shirty back. So they throttled my connection to dial-up speed. Barstewards.
     
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    Is that from PlusNet?

    I get nowhere near my limit, and it's free from midnight to 8am, so I try to do large downloads then as far as possible.

    When I signed up I didn't realise that PlusNet sponsor Wednesday! What a balls up. 18 month contract as well. Hope they don't get shirty with me!
     
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    Thats going some

    I sometimes do 2G in a day but not very often - to keep that up for a whole month after month is definitey quite impressive.
     
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    RE: Its not a lot

    Thanks guys. Not sure wot to do. Ive got unlimited usage on my mobile already. It just isnt ideal at times avin to mess on mobile - like i am now!! And this offer comes with a dongle to be used on your laptop. Thought it may come in handy now and again for sake off a fiver a month. But then again i manage fine on mobile a spose...........!!
     
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    3 words

    The X-Files.

    Well, 2 words and a letter. You see it's just that kind of profligacy that lands me in trouble - "Oh what the hell, let's call it 3 words".

    If anyone's interested then if you were to, hypothetically, download the entire 9 series of the X-Files then you'd find it runs to 69Gb.
     
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    Demon

    It's supposed to be unlimited but in practice they all have fair usage policies. Which they considered me to be in breach of. Although actually they were the only ones who broke the contract as they didn't give me any warning of throttling my connection, which their terms and conditions said they would.

    "The large print giveth and the small print taketh away."
     
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    3 words

    mild, nudity, JWBigLil

    If you only read all posts by JWBigLil here, you'll use at least 100Mb bandwidth a week. :D
     
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    3 more

    East Stand Lower. Videos in the signature? Nurse, the screens!
     
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    they don't sponsor wendy any more. nt
     
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    RE: 3 more

    Haha I was going to mention that too!

    I could tolerate it if they were Barnsley videos, but Man City.... pfff :D
     
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    RE: 3 words

    Wouldn't it have been better all round to have simply bought The X-Files DVDs? That way you own a lovely product in a fancy box and that, your internet still works great, you don't have all the stress of having to deal with your ISP and you haven't broken the law. Or am I missing something?
     
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    RE: Demon

    I'll stick with the dee dar ISP then!

    Personally I think all this so-called fair usage policy is almost inevitably going to lead to arguments. How can something described as "unlimited" have a "limit"?????

    Why can't they just say 60GB, 100GB, 150GB etc so people can pay for what they want with no arguments.
     
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    I'm in Korea on 100mb/sec broadband and I do about 5GB a day...

    Not that any of that is helpful, I just want to show off.
     
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    In retrospect

    You are absolutely correct.
     
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    Ooops!

    Saw a Wendy fan with a shirt on, must have been an old one. Thank God for that :D
     
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    There must be nerds everywhere in Korea

    with such an excellent service.
     
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    I use on average 2GB a day

    I'd be fecked with 500MB
     
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