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Thread ID: 112041 2010-08-21 07:01:00 Average Broadband Use - Browsing Only? Winston001 (3612) Press F1
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1130272 2010-08-23 08:57:00 Winston, my description is virtually the same as yours but I never exceed 3Gb.
However I leave Skye turned off by default and mainly its myself using it.
I just can't imagine you exceeding 3Gb based on your description so look into it further, like other users or Skype or something else.
Ofthesea (14129)
1130273 2010-08-23 09:17:00 earlier today i streamed some videos and saw my usage meter clocked up over 800MB :groan: Nomad (952)
1130274 2010-08-23 09:26:00 I have a 100MB limit on my phone, I have used 60MB in one browsing session with my laptop through my phone in just half an hour, so yeah it can go pretty fast. Deimos (5715)
1130275 2010-08-23 09:32:00 no vids, no downloads, no win updates, no chat software. just read the news and just download email and reply them (text). don't attach vids or photographs. 3GB in my view is workable.

so don't watch shortland st or NCIS online that you may of missed :p

your most interactive webpage generally might be pressf1 or similar.

don't hog on it whole day, you may use it for an hour a few times a day.
Nomad (952)
1130276 2010-08-23 09:59:00 Well my lad is on TF2 unless he's asleep. Bandwidth Monitor indicates he uses around 60->70MB per hour. He reckons he's set thing "low" PeeCeeWorldly (15890)
1130277 2010-08-23 10:27:00 We have a ps3 & a laptop that game almost daily & they use at least a gig a day between them. The days they don't connect we usually use around 2 -300 mb. So where does the games use no or very low data come from? I know that when the wife's at work & watches youtube videos we'll regularly go through 5gig a month. When she's not there it's much cheaper lol Phil B (648)
1130278 2010-08-23 11:07:00 From my experience, my general habits run 1-2gb a day. I wasted my mates broadband. I forgot I wasn't at home.

PS3 may have downloaded updates or you may have downloaded trial games (do the PS3's do that? i'm a 360 person myself) other thing is do you have any P2P stuff on your computer. I have a lot of mates who run lime wire (I could kill them) It can take out a lot of RAM as well as bandwidth if you're not monitoring it
The Error Guy (14052)
1130279 2010-08-24 00:31:00 Yeah I would blame the PS3, it's probably downloaded updates etc Agent_24 (57)
1130280 2010-08-24 00:57:00 I think Java apps like Farm-ville use quite a bit as well! SolMiester (139)
1130281 2010-08-24 07:22:00 They use a *little* the first time they load up, but realistically it's not that much. They're Flash too. I'll do a test later on and find out exactly how much the likes of those apps do really use. Chilling_Silence (9)
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