network hog myth. uncapped proper usage != piracy.

[Necuno]

So you don't use nzb's, RS and torrents at all? you use 120gb a month without those?

why do i need to use nzb/torrent when there is things like steam or decent HD legit streams?

For steam you can get a lot of titles via their midweek and weekend specials, enough to not have any need to go piratation. however as i said i never stated that i have never ever downloaded something illegally, that's like saying o gee i've never seen a nude. years back i used to use giganews, then i progressed to using torreting services like furk when they were still in their prime, but now not really a point to it.

OP is an example, nowhere in it it's stated as how-to-do X amount of gig per month. mostly want i do anyways and what makes me use a lot of ****.

 

[CataclysmZA]

Once off yes, but every month!! nah!!!!!!!!!! You do not buy games every single month. I would say anything upto 100GB can be explained but anything more each and every month, I'm sorry, do not buy it!!!

I'd like to pipe in here...

I'm running a bandwidth monitor here to see what things are taking up the most of our cap.

1) TeamViewer - We remotely connect to clients and try to solve problems without us having to drive all over town (Ibayi PC Sales and Repairs, not NAG, obviously). We set up private sessions, presentations, VPNs and file transfers using TeamViewer, and this adds up to 40GB a month. We do all sorts of stuff for these clients, so our usage goes really high.

2) E-mails - 500 e-mails a day (about 40 on weekends) on average, with each averaging about 512kb. No, I'm not bull****ting you = 5.6GB a month (give or take 300MB)

3) Driver downloads - usually 512MB a day, and there are normally 22 working days for us in a month, so... 11GB a month

4) Anti-virus updates for clients with new or existing AV's whenevr their PCs are in here - we just like to return a PC fully updated and secured so we won't have to deal with crap later. That's about 50MB give or take, 4 clients a day = 200MB * 22 = 4.4GB a month

5) Browsing the internet for fixes, updates, funny stuff, price lists, and a whole lot of other things = about 1GB a day * 20 = 20GB

Our average total is 81GB a month, doing legal, work-related stuff. Plus, my boss accesses his account on his 4MB/s line at home, so he could easily push this up to 150GB through steam, HD video streaming, and watching the IPL in HD.

Months like March, December, and January are markedly lower, at about half our average total.

 

[diabolus]

Oh just a side mention here, everyone likes to say how much they're downloading off Steam/D2D and game clients and game demos , yet they say in the future more people will do this?

Wrong.

This is the future : http://tigerwoodsonline.ea.com/play

Your usage per hour might go up , since you will be streaming the entire time . However downloading that 15GB client vs. using the 15GB spread out over a month is totally different scenarios

 

[killadoob]

Firstly from OP i got the feeling that necuno is not doing what other people have suggested in terms of business. Obviously business's can push out high gb. I got the feeling necuno was talking from a personal perspective and not a company who deals with internet related stuff all day.

So obviously if you are using uncapped for business you can rack up loads of bandwidth but i highly doubt a single user like necuno could rack up 100gb every single month

So if he does he is in the minority of single home users who have uncapped that actually use 100gb for legal related stuff. So i think a few of us are confusing business uncapped with home uncapped.

 

[warchylde]

Firstly from OP i got the feeling that necuno is not doing what other people have suggested in terms of business. Obviously business's can push out high gb. I got the feeling necuno was talking from a personal perspective and not a company who deals with internet related stuff all day.

So obviously if you are using uncapped for business you can rack up loads of bandwidth but i highly doubt a single user like necuno could rack up 100gb every single month

So if he does he is in the minority of single home users who have uncapped that actually use 100gb for legal related stuff. So i think a few of us are confusing business uncapped with home uncapped.

No not confusing the two - I just don't need/can't afford - the unshaped uncapped accounts. I don't mind sensible shaping. As long as I can do my work.