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Not sure if this is the right place for this, but anyway...

Our company ADSL bandwidth usage has steadily increased over the last few years. Not so long ago, we used to get away with 3 gigs in the month, but recently we've started using up to 12 gigs.

Nothing significant has changed in terms of our usage, email, browsing, the occasional download.

Taking into account the mandatory YouTubes and Facebooks of the world, has the Internet in general become a more high-bandwidth thing to use? How much more? Could we really have jumped from 3 gigs to 9 gigs [on average], or has someone got hold of our wireless login details or ADSL account details? :confused::eek:

I've had to switch to an Uncapped account now to get more value out. I'm not complaining, but the boss-man is looking for some reason why we seem to need so much bandwidth. And I'd really like to be able to justify the uncapped account...
 
Facebook profile pages take between 800k and 1mb an impression

Welcome to wannabeweb2.0
 
First and most simple step: change passwords for router admin access, wireless network and account.
 
Don't forget automatic updates... Developers from other countries assume that bandwidth is very cheap in all other countries as well.
 
So as a general rule, I should accept the fact that a medium sized business, in this day and age, can easily consume 9 gigs in a month? There's a server (always updating) and 11 machines on the network. I know several of the sales guys are into facebook and youtube. They also pass huge emails between them, and without an exchange server these go out and come in all the time.

@psivius - I changed passwords a while back to see if that would kerb the consumption, but it didn't.
 
We did about 15gigs average a month between 10 people with facebook and youtube ;)
 
I guess. I'm rather lazy though.

Also, the way that the server was set up before scared the crap out of me. There was a separate ISA server in the mix, and I can't remember where Exchange was running. All I know is that it was in there somewhere. The whole thing was a nightmare to keep running.

When I rebuilt the server I didn't worry about things like Exchange. Won't it bog down the old boy? Its an old P4 server from around who knows when.
 
gsw™ said:
You wanna come setup exchange for me? There's beer. :D
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Beer .. yum .. but MS Exchange .. yuck.
Just thinking of doing an email repository restore after a disk crash without buggering up the AnitVirus and Spam stuff makes me want to cry.
And .. don't dare rename anything in Active Directory ... EVER!

Pass.
 
With 10 people on exchange? Bah just set default delivery to psts to keep the store small...
 
You've lost me.

This is why it's better if someone can come and set it up for me.

There will be beer.

Edit: Will this really be necessary once my uncapped account kicks in on the 1st Feb?
 
gsw™ said:
You've lost me.

This is why it's better if someone can come and set it up for me.

There will be beer.
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Think the last time I worked for beer I was at varsity,the CAT5 cables didn't ever work after that
 
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