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Poll: How much do you use?

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Is this for download only?
Or download and upload together?
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Bob Carrick> Thanks that was quick.

ya i use a good 15G when i go crazy (in the summer) during school i do around 1-4G cuz i got school.

reply to OLDb34tBoX
Download.

reply to Bob Carrick
OK. I have a 3 meg DSL connection. I am online 16 hours a day, as I work online, from home, for myself. I also enjoy Jedi Knight 2 online and watch streaming trailers from Apple.com and download the odd MP3. I am well above average for internet use. Studies easily support that.

Even when I was doing all the bandwidth testing I didn't go over 3.85 gig that month. I average 2 or 3 gig a month.

I have to really truly wonder what you do for more then 20 gig per month. I'd really like proof it's all copyright free and legal also.
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reply to Bob Carrick
I stay under my 20/20GB limit every month.
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reply to Bob Carrick
I trade live-music (bands that allow taping) in SHN format via FTP and Direct Connect. Each show is approximately 1-1.4gigs (expands to 3 audio cds). I easily transfer 10-25 gigs per week. Totally legal, no porn, movies or warez. Just legally traded music...I also like to share a lot of what I have which is why I need upload bandwidth! Most of the places I download from are T1 or T3's, so I can get a 1.2gig show in an hour or so...explains my usage.

reply to Bob Carrick

said by Bob Carrick:

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Even when I was doing all the bandwidth testing I didn't go over 3.85 gig that month. I average 2 or 3 gig a month.

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reply to Bob Carrick
I'm personally over 20gig (sadly) due to my contract work (graphic design and document digitization takes a -lot- of space, and it's much easier to just send something electronically then to write a CD and deliver it). I also listen to a lot of online radio (high quality = high bandwith :-/ ), and trade and work on various DAP (digital archive project) episodes like Mystery Science Theatre 3000 (which has been okayed by the company, Best Brains). I don't pirate yet still go way over the limit - luckily, I moved to an unlimited service for now :-] If limits are imposed, I'll just have to write more CDs and mail them I guess... eek.

reply to headygouda9
heady - See that makes perfect sense. I appreciate the response.

hadean - Your career was normally one of the ones I would talk about when fighting against low caps. I know many designers etc, who have this concern.
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reply to Bob Carrick
I take the 5th...if I were to tell you how much I use....well I would be in trouble. So take that to mean what you will

Steve
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If we are what we eat, then i am fast, cheap and easy!!!

Hey at least it's an honest answer, because we know exactly what it means.

reply to Bob Carrick
Glad someone fights As an example, I had a subcontractor digitize a century-old ledger for me (as a project for a local heritage society) - for some reason, her burner died a few days before finishing the work - yet I needed to have the files as soon as possible - 50 pages at around 40 megs each (bloody TIFFs ;-p ), which came to 2 gigs. She sent them to my FTP just fine in a couple of days, yet took almost half of my Sympatico bandwith! Sadly, a similar thing happened with a client and my bandwith limit was blown away (at the end of my last month with Sympatico, I had around 10 gigs over my 5 gig limit).

Thankfully, Sympatico only charged me $30 and not the $80 I would have been charged (who knew they capped their overcharge?)... But still, I'd rather not have to go through that again. A 20 gig limit, for example, is a good amount and I shouldn't -have- to go over it if I'm careful (more CD writing, less MST3k downloading ;-p ) but 5 gigs is ridiculous for people who use it for work (and play, since I can sympathize with those who play modern MMORPGs, 1942, etc.).

Anyway, limits are fine within reason. Companies like Bell must understand that although 5 gigs seems like a lot, things are getting bigger and with more speed, people should be allowed to use the network for things never before possible (sending a client a 2 gig project). With game demos climbing past a gig, trailers (like LoTR) getting larger and larger and high quality internet radio stations we shouldn't be punished for doing completely legal things that a company shows people doing on their commercials.

Anyway, my $0.02.

what i would use and what i do use are 2 diff things...

before shaw harassed me i was quite happy doing 45/40 , now im probably about 10/1.5

reply to Bob Carrick
- game demo (for children)
- music stream (radio)
- Stuffs with digital camera, digital camcord
- FTP for work and school
yes i download some mp3 for listening before buying but it's not 5 Gb/month
i think 20 gb is good enough

reply to Bob Carrick
i used up 26.73 gigs since october 1st =P

Question was, doing what?

Most of my downloads are Linux distros. I have maybe 30 to 40 different ones, and some of them are in the different versions. If you take only RedHat 8.0, it's on 5 full cds. I test all of these versions for my work and for my personal satisfaction.

reply to Bob Carrick
I don't think that 20-30GB/month is not something that users should be able to fight for. Its 200-300GB/month that people worry about. Even ppl like Bell may agree to such caps.

reply to Bob Carrick
For me, sharing music music music w/ eDonkey (cds i've bought, ripped, APE'd). It has a forced upload so it creates a situation of an upload that is higher than the download. (September: 16 down/ 30 up) But I'm with IGS, so obviously not for much longer.

oh yeah, plus internet radio for hours on end.
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