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459 posts

Ultimate Geek

#332731 21-May-2010 02:33

Aaroona: .. you can't be serious?

600GB?

That's a lot of.... backing up.... :P

That sounds like it's less then 1080p who did 1TB last billing period.

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TechnoGuy001

807 posts

Ultimate Geek

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#332760 21-May-2010 08:09

Nil Einne:
Aaroona: .. you can't be serious?

600GB?

That's a lot of.... backing up.... :P

That sounds like it's less then 1080p who did 1TB last billing period.

Maybe he downloaded a few raw Bluray disks (each can be around 50GB, so thats only 12 films, that doesn't sound so bad, if you want super-duper quality that is :P)
Though it would be hard pressed to download them legally...

He also could of been streaming 1080p videos from youtube... though there isn't much on youtube that is worth watching and in 1080p :(

But yeah it is possible to consume that much legally though unlikely :( (unless you live in the US or somewhere in Europe where you can acutely stream allot of high quality films/tv series legally)

If NZ offered the same services (eg Hulu/Pandora) then just that would cut down on 90% of the "P2P" downloading. It's NZ's/industries own fault that their is so much P2P downloading.

Oh and back on topic, I do around 100GB each month.

kyhwana2

2553 posts

Uber Geek

#332806 21-May-2010 10:38

allstarnz:
kyhwana2:

I don't have a cap, I just per $1.02/GB (charged per MB)

likewise, who is that with?

Xnet, im on their naked DSL (Fusion) plan.

Timdotz

57 posts

Master Geek

#332892 21-May-2010 12:36

Does this forum support polls? Because it'll be nicer than reading through pages of posts...

For my 5c, our average household usage (5 people) averages around 120GB per month.

Swaney

35 posts

Geek

#332902 21-May-2010 12:54

Instead of dropping it why not limit it too 100gig cap - surely that would be enough for most.   Id prolly be happy with even a 75gig cap before I got limited bandwidth.

09 Apr 2010 - 08 May 2010     79905.35
09 Mar 2010 - 08 Apr 2010     61880.89
09 Feb 2010 - 08 Mar 2010     35563.78
09 Jan 2010 - 08 Feb 2010     60155.34
09 Dec 2009 - 08 Jan 2010     23215.08
09 Nov 2009 - 08 Dec 2009     306.09
09 Oct 2009 - 08 Nov 2009     77920.32
09 Sep 2009 - 08 Oct 2009     62983.99
09 Aug 2009 - 08 Sep 2009     84781.68

rygrass

134 posts

Master Geek

#333069 21-May-2010 17:17

On Telecom Big time plan

21 Apr 2010 - 20 May 2010 182756.83 127156.15 309912.98 = 300GB
21 Mar 2010 - 20 Apr 2010 463728.49 129064.82 592793.31 = 592GB
21 Feb 2010 - 20 Mar 2010 66019.76 105945.44 171965.20 = 171GB
21 Jan 2010 - 20 Feb 2010 160536.82 96710.91 257247.73 = 257GB
02 Jan 2010 - 20 Jan 2010 56070.52 0.00 56070.52 = 56GB

OR

pasho

72 posts

Master Geek

#333085 21-May-2010 17:47

my 80-90g per month look like nothing compared to the numbers shown above ^_^

Aaroona

3130 posts

Uber Geek

#333102 21-May-2010 18:18

pasho: my 80-90g per month look like nothing compared to the numbers shown above ^_^

im actually kinda shocked...

I can see why it was bad for business, haha.

I can't believe some of these people doing 600GB-1TB a month.. I mean seriously.

Even our school with over 300-400 (sometimes more) users per day, we don't even hit that much. and the teachers (>100) use youtube, TV on demand, flash games, popcap, TradeMe, as well as all the websites the students use..

jtbthatsme

935 posts

Ultimate Geek

Trusted

#333113 21-May-2010 19:24

Our house has two BB connections in one is the Telstra 80 gig plan and the other is through Xnet. Both of these get maxed out regularly in fact i normally have to change the Telstra plan about 2.5 to 3 weeks in as reaching the data cap. I would most months we use 100 - 160 gig per month. Obviously some months are a lot less than that but on average i would say about 100gig.
:-)

1080p

1332 posts

Uber Geek
Inactive user

#333125 21-May-2010 19:57

He also could of been streaming 1080p videos from youtube... though there isn't much on youtube that is worth watching and in 1080p :(

But yeah it is possible to consume that much legally though unlikely :( (unless you live in the US or somewhere in Europe where you can acutely stream allot of high quality films/tv series legally)

If NZ offered the same services (eg Hulu/Pandora) then just that would cut down on 90% of the "P2P" downloading. It's NZ's/industries own fault that their is so much P2P downloading.

Oh and back on topic, I do around 100GB each month.

If you have a VPN from someone like http://strongvpn.com/ then there is plenty you are able to stream as you can have up to three IPs (a mixture of .us and .eu ones) and suddenly all the US and Europen only services work ;)

1TiB is a lot too use in a month but I admit we were pushing it to see our limits. I think that 500-700GB is not a lot for our apartment which is currently seven people all of whom are fairly IT literate.

Screeb

688 posts

Ultimate Geek

#333133 21-May-2010 20:35

About 48GB average and median (50GB plan, was 38GB average when it was capped at 40GB). Would use 50GB if it wasn't so difficult to do on TelstraClear without it being so risky. 3 adults.