Please tell me !!!!

[outop49]

Please excuse me for being so "agter-die-klip" but for what are you people using 30 Gb per month? I am not trying to be funny but I am concerned that I am missing out on something real good. I struggle to use my 2 GB per month. In actual fact I have never done it.

 

[arf9999]

nobody will admit it, but suspect that much of it is this

 

[pip]

Linux distros!

<kidding!>

 

[yazzo]

if you're into just web browsing, 2gb is fine. but if you're into file-sharing, you end up downloading pretty big files, 700mb, 4.7gigs (guilty as charged) at a time ... 30gb flies too quickly, depending on your connection speed.

online gamers use roughly 50mb / h, so just 20h of gaming a week uses 4g.

 

[jabulani]

nobody will admit it, but suspect that much of it is this

Here you can get lots of this, that can consume many Gb.

 

[Mux]

Easy. Use braodband for what it was designed. Video clips (check out for example: YouTube), Skype, Online gaming, Linux distro's, Picture sharing and the list goes on.
....and a fair amount of my bandwidth goes to reading MyBroadband

 

[Dovi]

Skype, YouTube, browsing, email, updates, Mp3s etc. You can use a fair share of your cap pretty easily on YouTube

 

[Dazzla]

Using torrents can consume large amounts of bandwidth. People download movies(around 700mb) also tv shows (350mb) and if its mp3s probably downloading full albums(60-90mb)

 

[daveza]

Downloading of educational images, documents on how to be a good citizen, sending e-mails to the lonely, researching copyright legislation, messaging the mother-in-law...

You'd be amazed at how fast 30 gigs can go !

 

[Darth Garth]

Piracy of ****ty Hollywood movies and TV shows and the latest Adobe Photoshop software which they install but can't use.

 

[Ekhaatvensters]

if you're into just web browsing, 2gb is fine. but if you're into file-sharing, you end up downloading pretty big files, 700mb, 4.7gigs (guilty as charged) at a time ... 30gb flies too quickly, depending on your connection speed.

online gamers use roughly 50mb / h, so just 20h of gaming a week uses 4g.

wow dude, 50mb an hour. Wll not if you play WoW or battle.net, or and rpg, that onyl uses about 2-5mb/h.

Do FPS's really use that much, thank god i cant play CSS or BF2.

 

[Ekhaatvensters]

Easy. Use braodband for what it was designed. Video clips (check out for example: YouTube), Skype, Online gaming, Linux distro's, Picture sharing and the list goes on.
....and a fair amount of my bandwidth goes to reading MyBroadband

I dont think you could get 30gigs down as a normal user from just this. How much can you really skype and how little does that use? YouTube whould get a bit boring by about 5gigs in a month, realy.

Gaming for FPS okay, but thats also a very small majority of the people who use ADSL in SA. Linux distros too of course and picture sharing will get you a gig if you are lucky.

I know i sound like Telkom themselves, but they have a point, the avergae BB user in SA that just doesnt need 30 gigs. Infact he only needs about 3, even though Id say 5 could be better.
It is very few of us who would use more than that, and almost all people using more than 10 gigs or so would be downloading alot of ilegal stuff.

 

[dabouncer]

Iv already downloaded more than 30gb this month. Thanks Telkom for my 4mb line.

 

[Geek_wannabe]

I beg to differ ekhaatventrers. I LIVE on Skype and googleTalk. Besides that, I regularly browse DIGG, I download the latest audiobooks from podiobooks.com, I download all my favorite podcasts (mugglecast!), I watch A LOT of YouTube, I download many linux distro's and updating linux software (belive me, that takes many many many a MB), and don't let me start with my torrent obsession.

That is what I do, and for that I need a large cap. it just so happens that if want a larger cap, I have to pay more for it than Adam paid for a woman (I mean, a rib isn't too much to offer).

 

[Ekhaatvensters]

I know but you are a geek, or atleast a wannabe, right?

Your just in the minority, very much so, and Telkom doesnt have to cater for you, it's just that then there should be an alternative.
Linux distros are a fringe thing that cant really be counted as a normal usage that Telkom should have to worry about, and they are about the biggest legal thing you get.

Well, just out of interest, if you took away your torrent, Linux and some audiobook (thats a bit arb) usage, then how much do you use a month?

 

[general_koffi]

sending e-mails to the lonely

HA! YOU are the one spamming my inbox!

 

[Geek_wannabe]

Well, just out of interest, if you took away your torrent, Linux and some audiobook (thats a bit arb) usage, then how much do you use a month?

Apart from the 3 websites that I manage and run, I use about 5 GB. The rest I devote to my podcasts, audiobooks and linux distro's. But if it is holiday, then I surf the net MUCH MORE.

 

[MrG]

I use my connection for the following.

What telkom wants me to use it for:
Browsing, E-Mail, MSN/AOL (Instant Messenger), IRC

What Telkom doesnt want me to use it for, but I do:

Gaming (World of Warcraft + CounterStrike Source)
LimeWire (mostly music)
Streaming (MMO-Radio South Africa, WoW Radio)
Streaming Video (Click Online/GameSpot Videos)
Legal games (purchase games from steam type thing)

 

[rasputyn]

Downloading of educational images, documents on how to be a good citizen, sending e-mails to the lonely, researching copyright legislation, messaging the mother-in-law...

You'd be amazed at how fast 30 gigs can go !

Similar activities to mine.

 

[Ekhaatvensters]

Similar activities to mine.

So basically pr0n and l33t warez all day for you then?

Actually, I dont know why im preaching, I download tons of music, all my software is warez, oh and no pr0n of course.