Simviation Forum - Monthly limit on Broadband downloads...?

Reply #15 - Oct 27^th, 2006 at 11:53am

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i know that freeserve/wanadoo/orange dont enforce the download limit. i phoned up one time and asked about the limit and they said that they will only send you an e-mail/letter if you start taking the mickey and downloading tens of gigabytes of data. i have i 2gb monthly limit and i know for a fact i go over it, but nothing is ever said.

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Reply #16 - Oct 27^th, 2006 at 12:54pm

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I'm on BT's cheapo package, with a supposed 2GB monthly limit.

Thus far, I have downloaded around 7 GB since September when I signed up with BT.

Not had a peep from them about my excessive useage!

Wink

As Paul has said ....... one day you'll just find that you've been cut off ..... no letter, no warning, just a dead line. For a communications company BT.... "they never talk"

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Reply #17 - Oct 29^th, 2006 at 7:07am

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...still talking about Monthly download limits....

..does that include "downloading?" streaming audio and video...?

I often leave my computer streaming audio music while I am Hoovering, cooking, or doing the washing, etc...

Is this adding to my download limit...?

Or is it more concerned with downloading complete music/audio files to disk...?

What is the difference between receiving streaming data and downloading data to disk...?

Cheers all...!

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Reply #18 - Oct 29^th, 2006 at 3:57pm

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Hi Paul. Most companies in the USA don't count streaming as downloads since it's only a data transfer. I would think the UK would be similar. Streaming usually at most only stores files in your temp folder. There are some that can be saved for later use. I would think would be counted as downloads.

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Reply #19 - Oct 29^th, 2006 at 4:15pm

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Hi Paul. Most companies in the USA don't count streaming as downloads since it's only a data transfer. I would think the UK would be similar. Streaming usually at most only stores files in your temp folder. There are some that can be saved for later use. I would think would be counted as downloads.

cheers

Ta Mush.... Grin

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As a Hammond organ player, I often have this music streaming in the background while I am washing my underpants...>>>

http://www.live365.com/stations/leslieoverdrive

...and I was a bit worried in case it was adding to my Monthly download quota....

It was this worry which was causing the initial problems in with my underpants... Embarrassed

...!

LOL... Grin

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Cheers Mate...!

Paul....Hey-ho... Wink

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Reply #20 - Oct 31^st, 2006 at 4:42am

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Sounds nice, Paul! Cheesy

Very relaxing 8)

A way to check your bandwith? How about checking your hard disk space at the beginning of the month and never delete anything? Grin

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