I'm a complete noob at this but I assume when the ISPs provide us with a certain usage allowance i.e. 75 GB a month, the 'bandwidth' is a measurement of this usage?
Anyhoo I was just wondering if watching an online video used up less bandwidth than actually downloading a video or if it was the same. I watch a lot of my tv online but I prefer to download it off of a torrent or a direct download site like megaupload.
Lately though, the internet bill has been showing up saying I've exceeded my allowance and I was just wondering if it would be better if I chose to watch these shows online on a site like ninjavideo or if it doesn't make any difference because the usage would amount to the same.
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I'm a complete noob at this but I assume when the ISPs provide us with a certain usage allowance i.e. 75 GB a month, the 'bandwidth' is a measurement of this usage?
Anyhoo I was just wondering if watching an online video used up less bandwidth than actually downloading a video or if it was the same. I watch a lot of my tv online but I prefer to download it off of a torrent or a direct download site like megaupload.
Lately though, the internet bill has been showing up saying I've exceeded my allowance and I was just wondering if it would be better if I chose to watch these shows online on a site like ninjavideo or if it doesn't make any difference because the usage would amount to the same.
Rented Water Tank = web-server that hosts your website,
Water company = hosting company where your web-server resides,
Water = files, data, images, etc. that comprise your website,
Pipe = the internet,
Quantity of water delivered = bandwidth consumption,
You = patron / visitor of your website which is hosted on aforementioned web-server.
There's a pipe that delivers water from your rented water tank to your home. As you request water, the water company delivers it to you. All the while, they are keeping track of how much water was delivered to you, during a billing cycle. You have a contract with the water company in which they agree to charge you a fixed dollar amount per billing cycle, provided you do not request more water than the allowable quantity, as defined in your contract. If you do request more water, they will not deny you ... but you will incur additional charges for the extra water requested / delivered.
With that example in mind, web-pages typically equate to a small quantity of water ... while images, videos, PDFs and other similar media can potentially equate to large quantities of water being delivered by your water company. The accumulated total can grow rather quickly, especially when your website is popular / visited by many people.
So it is what I thought it was. Keeping your strange but accurate example in mind... does it cost less to take a bath (download) or take a shower (stream a video)?
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I'm a complete noob at this but I assume when the ISPs provide us with a certain usage allowance i.e. 75 GB a month, the 'bandwidth' is a measurement of this usage?
Anyhoo I was just wondering if watching an online video used up less bandwidth than actually downloading a video or if it was the same. I watch a lot of my tv online but I prefer to download it off of a torrent or a direct download site like megaupload.
Lately though, the internet bill has been showing up saying I've exceeded my allowance and I was just wondering if it would be better if I chose to watch these shows online on a site like ninjavideo or if it doesn't make any difference because the usage would amount to the same.
Makes no real difference whether you download or stream a file. If the file is 700Mb to download, or is a 700Mb file hosted by a streaming site, you'll use 700Mb of your allowance.
Differences will obviously be made if you were to download compressed files, zip/rar, as I'm not aware of any such similar compression through streaming.
Are you using a wireless router which has no password? if so someone else could be using your allowance.
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Can you not monitor your usage in a user portal or anything. Since last Autumn governments have introduced stricter bandwith policies obviously to try and stop the ever increasing downloading and file sharing.
A lot in the uk with completely cut off the internet or limit it to a very slow speed.
Is your 75gb limit (which is a fucking lot by the way - must be all that porn your downloading) peak hours or just total?
From what you've said it just sounds like your just downloading a lot more than you used too and/or your ISP are being stricter on over useage.
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Also worth checking how many of your applications are running auto update processes, they can be sneaky bastards and download quite large files without you knowing.
You should be able to change the settings for any of these sneaky applications, so that you are notified of any new updates and agree to allow the update to proceed.
Anti Virus applications, though very helpful, are very bandwidth hungry, especially when MS issue virus threat warnings to vendors, as they'll churn out update after update to keep you protected.
A quick question, do you use Windows Live Messenger, Skype, or any other messenger service? These too will be hammering your bandwidth usage without you really thinking about it.
