One for the tekkies.
I have a download limit of 10 gig a month on my broadband. I usually use about half of that in a month. I have just checked my broadband use age, and I seem to have used more than I normally do.
I have been on flicker for years, but recently I have started to use it more. Up loading my own photos and following a few other photographers. Do you think my extra broadband useage could be due to this. If so may have to go to unlimited use.
"Try to live a good life. Don't be afraid to be what you are'. some bloke in the pub.
Using Flickr is definitely part of your problem.
A good quality photo taken with a compact camera can be anything from 2 to 5 or 6 mb: just 200 photos at 5 mb each is 1 Gb, and so would dent your total limit.
The new look Flickr could also be partly to blame. It is far more visual than it used to be, so browsing around looking at other members photos is going to use up a lot more bandwidth than before.
And presumably this would apply to my own photo stream, if bring it up for editing etc.
"Try to live a good life. Don't be afraid to be what you are'. some bloke in the pub.
I seem to recall that when new look Flickr went live there was a lot of complaint from people in the American mid-west where the internet connection is slow, so any problems with excessive Megabyte usage on new Flickr are totally justified.
JOhn
Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
George Bernard Shaw, Maxims for Revolutionaries
The thing is though, are you not uploading to Flickr? It's your download limit set to 10 Gb not your upload. Have you used any streaming services like iPlayer as this will eat into your download allowance much quicker than the odd photograph download on twitter.
Sean
No, very rarely use iPlayer. I look on YouTube occasionally.
"Try to live a good life. Don't be afraid to be what you are'. some bloke in the pub.
Some broadband providers have usage meters that you can use to monitor your download limit and to see where it's being used.
There are a couple of good free program's you can use to monitor things too. Take a look at this article it might help you get to the bottom of it.
http://www.choose.net/media/guide/features/monitor-broadband-usage-data.html
Sean.
Some broadband providers have usage meters that you can use to monitor your download limit and to see where it's being used.
There are a couple of good free program's you can use to monitor things too. Take a look at this article it might help you get to the bottom of it.
http://www.choose.net/media/guide/features/monitor-broadband-usage-data.html
Sean.
Thanks Sean.
We have a useage metre with our supplyer BT. However we have now changed today to TalkTalk. Cheaper and unlimited broadband. The down side is that they don't seem to do well on reviews, so I will have to wait and see if I have made a bad choice.
"Try to live a good life. Don't be afraid to be what you are'. some bloke in the pub.
Slightly off topic but related to the previous post. I'm with Talk Talk and have been for a few years now. I've had no problems with either the service or the speed and would thoroughly recommend them.
Steve
Slightly off topic but related to the previous post. I'm with Talk Talk and have been for a few years now. I've had no problems with either the service or the speed and would thoroughly recommend them.
Steve
Still off topic...
I was with TalkTalk for years and never had a problem apart from a network issue that took ages to fix cue to the way that BT Openreach and TalkTalk work together (or, more precisely, don't) until I wanted to move house.
We moved less than 400 yards and that was closer to the exchange, however, TalkTalk could not allow us to take our number with us, which was important as my wife uses it for her business. By leaving TalkTalk we could keep the new number and then move it with us to the new address. Silly, I know, but at least knowing this in advance meant we had sufficient time that we could arrange to keep the number.
Have fun,
Ian.
It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
10 GB in this day and age is nothing! I burn through half that on my phone alone. Nw look flickr is more download intensive than it used to be but it's unlikely you'd be looking a pics in their native resolution as anything over about 3.5mb in size wont show on a laptop screen without the need to scroll. Normally flickr presents images in a size range relative to your display and zoom in your browser. As such to burn through 5gig on flickr would mean a lot of flickr time!
If you use Windows, Microsoft are adding updates regularly but hasn't exceeded 500mb in a month. General browsing often uses data if sites you visit have video ads too.
The key to usage is VIDEO, VIDEO, VIDEO! Yotube vids can reach 20GB on their own.
Bottom line...... impossible to guess where your usage goes. The cost of going unlimited these days is pretty low so if you limit your use or worry about your limit, the extra cost is worth it. If cost is a major issue just look for the cheapest unlimited deal because speeds are going to be similar unless you go fibre-optic.
I have BT infinity unlimited and get a 60mb/s download speed. If that sounds excessive you need to realise we are a family of 5 with 14 connected devices (but usually only 8 or 9 at once).
Tony(2)
Play nice...... Play Naked!