| 5gb cap is crap i just got a bandwidth monitor after reading this thread. my rebuilt computer has only been up a month (a month this sunday) same as when i was able to get fios. my hd had 120gb free now it only has 70.6gb free. so i probably had easily 50gb bandwidth in the past month. that was alot of game downloading and picture downloads. i just got up to 150mb in 2 hours just surfing the web and watching a 22min video. my typical use is around 5 hours a day. 150mbx2.5 (to get to 5 hours rough estimate) 375mb a day if watched around 1 hour of videos a day. 375mb x 30days = 11250mb or about 10gb i would be over and thats even without any gaming at all. i understand i have 10/2 package but 5gb is really easy to hit. as mentioned before couple games off of steam like counterstrike source or even getting america's army is 1gb+ for one game. roughly any current "broadband" connection can get 1gb file (if max speed was allowed) in a day. that only would leave 4gb with 29 days left. digital pictures last i checked were from 1mb to 2mb per picture. if you go through 1000 hi-quality pictures thats another 2gb.
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