ghotib said:
We're on a relatively low volume broadband plan, and I avoid YouTube because I haven't a clue how to estimate how much I'm downloading. Can anyone give me an idea how big those files are likely to be?
Doesn't have to precise; just enough that I don't find my connection running at dialup speeds towards the end of the month. TIA Ghoti
Ghoti - this is the first month that I've used youtube, but the kids spend flamin hours watching it. (snakes rejurgitating pigs etc - really classy stuff lol, somethimes I worry
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But I can estimate that this month between us we've watched about 50hours of continuous youtube download, (deliberately round number - probably 30-70).
plus all the other net activities (both kids and I) googling, and emails, and checking share prices, and reading ASF posts, and stuff like that)
and my usage is 4GB so far - I recently took my limit up from 1GigaB to 5GigaB. so no probs. I reckon Ive watched 3GB of youtube for 50 hours.
PS soon we'll get tetrabyte usage - and we can say we watched 2 tets of youtube this month !!
It gets hard to estimate, because once you've downloaded something, then as long as you don't turn the computer off , it stays there ready to be played again - not sure how that works. Maybe someone out there can confirm , but I suspect it doesn't need to download anything again ( for example second time you play it, you can start at the second verse etc).
Anyway for what it's worth I estimate somewhere around 1GB per XXX 16 hours of first-time-down-load (i.e. 16 hours of the little red marker growing across the time line)
PS safe and happy motoring friend
oops got the maths wrong there lol. As someone posted once before - there are 3 kinds of people, those that can add up and those that cant.
Or 10 kinds of people, those that use binary and those that dont.
warning - I could be way way out here
- just that when you're using youtube - only a small percentage of the time are you actually downloading - and you usually decide early in the download if you want to complete it etc.
PS Flash says 100MB and /or 10 mins. If we assume that they are equivalent - then we get 1 Gig per 100mins - sheesh - only 1.6hours lol - out by a factor of 10 !! lol
(unfortunately that's not binary either ) -
In summary, ALL I know is that I have been hitting it REALLY hard for about 10 days , and the kids for the entire month, and I'm pleasantly surprised that still less than 5GB.