Data cap issues?

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Vuliev

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Unlimited, but I'm honestly not sure if I was supposed to have unlimited bandwidth this year. Back home, I'm capped at 3GB per 24h, so roughly 90 a month. I use nowhere near that much per month, but the 3GB/day thing is simply obnoxious. College internet whee.
 

CrystalShadow

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Don't have a data cap, but I'd guess I'm routinely hitting 1 GB or more in a day, since my bandwidth gets throttled at some point most days, and the limit for that is about 750 MB.

It's easy to do when I'm downloading something. (Steam updates for a 10 gig game? Yeah... That'll do it.)

Actually, when I got some new games and music recently I probably went through 25 Gb in less than a day.

But what brings my average way up is HD youtube videos and things like the BBC Iplayer.

Also, having (a relatively slow, I might add) 10 megabit connection makes it surprisingly easy to eat up data at a huge rate.

If I were to find enough to download, and leave my computer on 24/7 That would be 105 GB a day.

The fact that I'm probably closer to 2-3 Gb a day shows how low my usage actually is by comparison, but also how quickly HD video can use up bandwidth.

(Meanwhile they intend to upgrade me to 30 megabits/sec soon... I'm so thankful I don't have a data cap. XD)