Another streaming question

[quik1]

Hi all. I was just wondering how much of your bandwidth does streaming audio actually use. If I listen to online radio the whole day, how much b/w does it use up? I know streaming video uses alot of b/w.

Can someone please please satisfy my curiosity!
Thx

 

[PsyWulf]

Calculate it

Take the stream quality like 64kilobits per sec
Divide by 8 to convert to kilobytes per sec
Times 60 to get kilobytes per minute
Times 60 to get kilobytes per hour
Times 24 to get kilobytes per day

Divide these numbers by 1024 to get the from kilobytes > megabytes > gigabytes

 

[quik1]

Thx very much
So if i stream radio @ 33kbps it will use about 348mb a day?
Is my calculations correct?

 

[PsyWulf]

Take the stream quality like 64kilobits per sec
Divide by 8 to convert to kilobytes per sec
Times 60 to get kilobytes per minute
Times 60 to get kilobytes per hour
Times 24 to get kilobytes per day

33/8 = 4.125 Kb/s
4.125 x 60 = 247.5 Kb/m
247.5 x 60 = 14850 Kb/h
14850 x 24 = 356400 Kb/d

356400 / 1024 = 348 Mb/d

This is excluding overheads like builtin ads and browsing to pages,loading the stream files etc which some services have but ya thats a general estimate there

 

[ajax]

Thx very much
So if i stream radio @ 33kbps it will use about 348mb a day?
Is my calculations correct?

If it is p2p type streaming you will use a lot more in that you may be uploading to several "clients" too!