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Posted By: Tom Brownsword In Response To: dumb request re: high-speed internet bandwidth (Diana)
Sunday, 22 January 2006, at 8:51 a.m.
> Okay, FINALLY got a high-speed Internet connection. We live outside the
> city limits and so the satellite company offered us a satellite broadband
> servivce called Wildblue.
> There are packages for this service at different prices, and one of the
> criteria is their upload and download thresholds; for my package, it's
> 10,000MB month download.
> I can NOT figure out why I go over mine! So I'm asking what is probably a
> simple request for you techie-folks; what uses bandwidth?
> The obvious, I get. Like downloading music files, or PDF reports, or
> whatever. But we downloaded 2003MB in Nov. and more than 12000 the last 30
> days. Am trying to figure out what reason is for such a big difference.
> Does just leaving your computer connected to the Internet (like having my
> Google webmail up) use BW?
Here's a SWAG (silly wild-donkey guess): Since you weren't hooked up for high speed before, did Windows download a bunch of updates? If you had never before downloaded an update and your computer suddenly decided to "phone home" and update itself, that could explain it.
Yes, Gmail does phone home a lot (as do other programs), but the amount of data downloaded should be miniscule. Your anti-virus, anti-spyware, and other security software will also download updates on a regular basis. If your usage drops a lot next month, that would almost surely explain the spike.
And hopefully you didn't install a file sharing application a long time ago that you forgot about...
But this has added something to my "to-do" list: find (or create) an application that tells you what your computer has downloaded, where it got it, and how much bandwidth it ate. That would be a useful tool (any suggestions, fellow Gearheads?).
I'm sure that others will have more suggestions.
Best regards,
Tom
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