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join:2002-01-07
Olympia, WA Reviews:
 ·Comcast Formerl..
| Checking it out So today I started metering our household bandwidth. However, I don't seem to be able to set a limit higher than about 99000 megabytes on the router, a netgear fvs338. I tried 250000 megabytes, but it wouldn't take, and then I tried some lower amounts above 100,000 but that wouldn't take either, but the 99000 worked. Since I'm not sure how much we are using at this point I don't know if 99 gigabytes will be enough. Which brings me to a question. How are they measuring a gigabyte? Are they counting the full 1024 megabytes to a gig or are they doing what hard drive manufactures do and figure 1000 megabytes to a gig. The difference is only about 6000 megabytes. I suppose if someone is using that much it probably won't make much difference but it could in some cases be the difference between going over and not. In any case since I can set limits on my router, I won't have to worry about this family going over! I tested it and it works great! I think the biggest worry for some families would be not knowing how much they are using, especially if they have teenagers or young adults and several computers.
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