Internet traffic management..good or bad thing?

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Feb 16, 2014 18:59:46 GMT jcol said:

"Internet traffic management..good or bad thing"

If you are a heavy downloader eg. torrents, seedboxes etc... then its bad
If you are a light user then you wont see the difference

I am a very heavy user, so i went with Sky

How many gb a month do you d/l?

[jcol]

Feb 26, 2014 11:57:13 GMT @zero said:

Feb 16, 2014 18:59:46 GMT jcol said:

"Internet traffic management..good or bad thing"

If you are a heavy downloader eg. torrents, seedboxes etc... then its bad
If you are a light user then you wont see the difference

I am a very heavy user, so i went with Sky

How many gb a month do you d/l?

I couldnt put an exact figure on it, but between, movies, games, music etc... and 3 of us here play online games every night, a conservative estimate would be around 20-30gb.

[kibbster]

Sky's traffic shaping was a dreadful nightmare!
Moved to BT now where they don't limit speeds, all good so far.

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Feb 26, 2014 17:42:53 GMT jcol said:

Feb 26, 2014 11:57:13 GMT @zero said:

How many gb a month do you d/l?

I couldnt put an exact figure on it, but between, movies, games, music etc... and 3 of us here play online games every night, a conservative estimate would be around 20-30gb.

Is that low usage?

As my average monthly download is around 100 - 110 gb? mainly due to films/ streaming and 4 of us with lappy pc,2x ipads, 1 iphone, 2 Samsung smart phones lol and a smart tv.All that without fibre!!

[jcol]

Feb 26, 2014 19:51:07 GMT @zero said:

Feb 26, 2014 17:42:53 GMT jcol said:

I couldnt put an exact figure on it, but between, movies, games, music etc... and 3 of us here play online games every night, a conservative estimate would be around 20-30gb.

Is that low usage?

As my average monthly download is around 100 - 110 gb? mainly due to films/ streaming and 4 of us with lappy pc,2x ipads, 1 iphone, 2 Samsung smart phones lol and a smart tv.All that without fibre!!

lol it probably is compared to your usage, but its just a guess, it could well be more or even less.
All i know is that like you, we have 3 gaming pc's, tablets, phones, sky on demand, netflix etc.....

You have given me an idea, i might just monitor (if i can) our monthly usage, to to see out of curiosity what it really is.

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I believe there is software you can get to monitor usage. Something like a d/l manager. My ISP provides access to totals and daily usage, both peak and off peak.
cheers

[GunJack]

100+GB per month is a stupidly large amount of data, 20-30GB is normally still considered a bit high, most people are under 10-12GB per month.

[GunJack]

Feb 27, 2014 10:42:34 GMT @zero said:

I believe there is software you can get to monitor usage. Something like a d/l manager. My ISP provides access to totals and daily usage, both peak and off peak.
cheers

most useage monitor softwares are device specific. Your ISP's total useage figure should be reasonably accurate, as it should be calculating at source.