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tiny1950

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I'm new here and I'd like to find a thread with tips on how to save on bandwidth?
I just cannot make the month without running out!
 
Reduce the following :
1) Video Streaming
2) Audio Streaming
3) Downloading
4) Online gaming (some games don't abuse bandwidth though)

I feel tour pain I'm on a 6gig account and I cant make it to the end either, got capped today but luckily I have a prepaid 1 gig account with webafrica
 
Bondizzo said:
Reduce the following :
1) Video Streaming
2) Audio Streaming
3) Downloading
4) Online gaming (some games don't abuse bandwidth though)

I feel tour pain I'm on a 6gig account and I cant make it to the end either, got capped today but luckily I have a prepaid 1 gig account with webafrica
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I would like to add one more to your list: Using the Internet! :(
 
Thanks for the tips but I don't do ANY of the above. By the way, I only have 1Gig per month as that's all I can afford!
I don't receive or send emails with huge attachments, I hardly ever chat on MSN, and I don't download a lot of stuff.
I'm a member of ONE forum only (now two) so I really don't use the net a lot. Is this possible!
 
tiny1950 said:
Thanks for the tips but I don't do ANY of the above. By the way, I only have 1Gig per month as that's all I can afford!
I don't receive or send emails with huge attachments, I hardly ever chat on MSN, and I don't download a lot of stuff.
I'm a member of ONE forum only (now two) so I really don't use the net a lot. Is this possible!
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Get Web Africa 10gig local for R70.
 
Just realised this won't be of any help as most of my sites aren't local - only banking.
 
Thanks for your help but looks like I'm stuck. Like I said, I don't play games or download programs etc. I use it only for emails and to read the posts on the forum I belong to and occasionaly to look at other sites. I've even stopped chatting on MSN altogether!
I give up - may as well just go back to dail-up.....lol!
I thought about getting 3G but there's no coverage in my area.
 
1 GB prepaid together with route sentry might help a little, not much.

Probably not necessary to say, but also make sure its not a virus gobbling up bandwidth.
 
tiny1950 said:
Thanks for your help but looks like I'm stuck. Like I said, I don't play games or download programs etc. I use it only for emails and to read the posts on the forum I belong to and occasionaly to look at other sites. I've even stopped chatting on MSN altogether!
I give up - may as well just go back to dail-up.....lol!
I thought about getting 3G but there's no coverage in my area.
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http://www.mybroadband.co.za/nephp/?m=show&id=5932 (Bandwidth theft)
 
Definately no virus - I have checked it out. I use about 20Mb per day. Is it possible that reading my forum once a day can use that much? I receive very little emails so it can't be that either.
 
56kMan said:
Use the IS news server to download programs, games, movies, shows.
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1GB really isn't a lot - I burn up over 2GB per month on browsing and e-mail alone.
Two hours of browsing and there goes 50-100MB.

Flash websites really eat up bandwidth and are becoming more and more common now days so it's time the minimum cap be revised to at least 5GB.
 
tiny1950 said:
Definately no virus - I have checked it out. I use about 20Mb per day. Is it possible that reading my forum once a day can use that much? I receive very little emails so it can't be that either.
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You're defanatly going to use at least 20MB per. I do 60 browsing!
 
Thanks so much for help - at least now I know it is possible! Oh well, guess I'll have to skip surfing everyday!
 
Thanks for all your help - at least now I know it's possible by just checking out one forum.
Guess I'll have to just skip some days surfing!
 
Surely u can try disable the displays of pictures and flashfiles in your browser...that would save lots of bandwidth...becoz i noteced on those forums with avatar(however u spell it), ppl tend to use 500kb+ gif files or something. And when u do wanna view a pic, just right click and click display pic...I do that when i'm on prepaid GPRS on vodacom...though doesnt always work :P
 
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