How much do you download?

How much do you download per month on average?

Personally I reckon I'd download approximately 20-30GB per month. Also, does anyone know of any way to find out exactly how much you have up/downloaded in the last month/week/etc.?


(Note: I don't care what you download, or where from, just curious of the amount itself).

Mark200

I actually don't have a clue

kensutz

50-60GB+

TPD

About 40gb I think. Used to be quite a bit more.

Rapidshare's 2.6gb a day limit annoys the hell out of me, because when I'm in the mood to download I want about 30gb.

AlmightyCushion

Your ISP should have a webpage that will tell you your usage. Give them a ring or drop them an email.
Don't download as much as I used to, I'd say it'd be about 20GBs a month or so.

thebigcheese22

With my crappy 3 broadband, the minute I go over 10 gigs a month then they charge me 5c every megabyte :mad:
Its not entirely unknown for me to overspend by like 60 euro a month!

Kinetic^

A lot....

artielange

From anywhere between 25 and 35 including browsing

Senna

I have the O2 mobile at the moment so limited to 10gb but i use more. usually take the laptop into work and leave it there for a day or two every few weeks and just download everything i need. Could use 70gb+ of works broadband each month.

Terry

I'd say between 30-40GB monthly.
Don;t know about ISPs, but if you log into your eircom account they show you your up and down stats, not the the up will be much at their speeds.

we got a letter saying we downloaded 230gig one month.. back then, we were on a 30 gig cap. some quick maths at the time worked out it was over 15k in penalties if they had tried to charge us per megabyte over our limit.

Holsten

One or two movies a day.

kittensoft1984

Mark200 wrote: »

I actually don't have a clue

+1

GhostInTheRuins

All thouse people saying 30-40GB+, how would you download that much? I usually download between 10-15 a month.

Hackysack

I wouldn't really download much to be honest. I'd say 1GB a month at the most.

Senna

GhostInTheRuins wrote: »

All thouse people saying 30-40GB+, how would you download that much? I usually download between 10-15 a month.

High definition Porn

Tom65

People download a lot! I would say I download 40GB a month, and that's only because I don't have a telly here, so I'll download a movie (completely legally) instead. How do you people download that much?

Professey Chin

GhostInTheRuins wrote: »

All thouse people saying 30-40GB+, how would you download that much? I usually download between 10-15 a month.

Ive been known to hit 10-15gb in a day

Professey Chin

Tom65 wrote: »

People download a lot! I would say I download 40GB a month, and that's only because I don't have a telly here, so I'll download a movie (completely legally) instead. How do you people download that much?

Suuuuuuuurrrreeeeeee:pac:

Tom65

Ultimate Chin wrote: »

Suuuuuuuurrrreeeeeee:pac:

Stealing is legal, right?

Snowie

10 gigs a month

Acoustic

if i had a good dirt site , the amount is endless

eVeNtInE

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Mmmm_Lemony

You can get all the info from your routers homepage.


About 50-100 a month

watna

We have a data limit of 10GB (that's uploads and downloads) and we watch it like a hawk. We get charged a good bit for going over. We usually are almost exactly on 10GB every month.

Broadband here is expensive

JC 2K3

I download a lot, but I really don't think it could be as high as the average of 20-30 GB you people are claiming...

In a month, I might download 4 or 5 movies @ ~700MB each, 4 or 5 albums at ~100MB, and hell even a TV series which might be like 6 GB, and still that's only 10 GB....

What is it you people download that's so big?

Ponster

JC 2K3 wrote: »

What is it you people download that's so big?

People who are new to broadband will download whatever the hell they can without always finding the time to listen to all those mp3s or watch all those movies, just because they can.
I suppose some do find the time to watch a movie per day though?

A DVD or Bluray movie can be up to 8Gb in size so it doesn't take long to got to 20Gb per month.

Black Swan

Sings Pirates song to go with this thread.

Ponster

Ponster wrote: »

People who are new to broadband will download whatever the hell they can without always finding the time to listen to all those mp3s or watch all those movies, just because they can.
I suppose some do find the time to watch a movie per day though?

Pretty much my case. I'm sure the novelty of downloading will wear off soon though.

Ponster

Deleted User wrote: »

Pretty much my case. I'm sure the novelty of downloading will wear off soon though.

When I moved to France in 1998 and got myself a sweet 512kb connection it was the first time I saw broadband outside of college and I downloaded EVERYTHING as though my life depended on it.

Now I've got a 100Mb fibre link but since I get unlimited cinema access for €19 per month and sites like deezer.com and spotify.com offer my free streaming music I don't bother downloading stuff that I'll never get around to enjoying.

Blazer

About 100GB a month.
My housemate (he own's the house) was bitching about it saying the isp were going to charge hom for it. I told him not to worry as they only monitor exchanges but he continued bitching over it.
Then he found out I had a rapidshare account and I also had a site for HD movies.
Now he's fcuking raping my rapidshare account and downloading at least 200GB a month..not so fcuking preachy now :pac:

BaRcOe

I went through my crazy 'Downloading everything phase' when I would download 2-3 movies a day at 700mb each,
a few hundred songs at around 1gb maybe

It was about 5gb a day, its now only the Odd good Album that I hear of I download at around 150mbs.

People who download 30 40gb a day, you are Nuts, get a job!

watty

There are 5 or 6 of us: 11.55G last 30 days, about 1.5G of that is uploads . Includes downloads for setting up 3x PCs.

I download CDs & DVDs from online Retailers and local shops such as Tesco, HMV & Hietons.

i'm doubting whether i should pay for a new rapidshare.. 80gig cap a month used to be 50gig every 5 days..

Blazer

Deleted User wrote: »

i'm doubting whether i should pay for a new rapidshare.. 80gig cap a month used to be 50gig every 5 days..

For rapidshare?
Damn...might switch to megaupload.

Gumble01

100 gigs + a month giganews is pure win.

what's a giganews?

Kinetic^

Deleted User wrote: »

what's a giganews?

It's news about gigs.

400gb this month with news about gigs.

byte

About 40-60GB a month

kaiser sauze

About 100Gb up & 100Gb down torrenting, although there have been spikes to 200.

Another 50 Gb or so p2p/megaupload/rapidshare

No idea what my surfing is, but I surf quite a lot, too. Skype gets daily use, along with WLM and regular Pandos within a trading circle.

EDIT - I forgot about gaming [xBox & PC], so you can chalk another ton on that I reckon.

Richard Dower

I used to download very little, and could never understand why folks were downloading Gigabytes of data per month, i just painted everyone as doing illegal things. However in the last year i have been racking up huge amounts of data, as such you have all corrupted me.

Richard Dower

Mr.S wrote: »

For anyone on eircom, you can check your download/upload stats at

http://dslstats.eircom.net/.

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I average about 10-20GB a month, i could never understand how people download more then 100gb a month, for one when in gods name do you get the time to watch the stuff you download?

Illegal activity, people will spout legal HD streaming and what not....it's all BS in case someone is reading, but hey....we're all in the same boat, right?

PowerHouseDan

Depends i get in download moods i can download up to 300gig a month. Maybe More.With Usenet of Course and 20mb Connection

Richard Dower

300 gigs, downloaindg Blu-Ray porn are we?

:-)

PowerHouseDan

Put it this way i've about 450 X264 720/1080p movies :P and none porn actually :P

Richard Dower

PowerHouseDan wrote: »

Put it this way i've about 450 X264 720/1080p movies :P and none porn actually :P

Yeah....sure, i bet Jenna Haze looks good in high def :P

collie1312

GhostInTheRuins wrote: »

All thouse people saying 30-40GB+, how would you download that much? I usually download between 10-15 a month.

Hi Definition...3 to 5gb are 720p....5 to 20 are up to 1080p

Richard Dower

I used to think it was impossible to download 40GB, but it's really not!...even if you leave out hi-def, standard rips of movies or tv shows are 350-700MB, lets take a Monday, loads of shows get broadcast tonight, if you download them all you could easily cain 5GB in just one session......

Pangea

Deleted User wrote: »

we got a letter saying we downloaded 230gig one month.. back then, we were on a 30 gig cap. some quick maths at the time worked out it was over 15k in penalties if they had tried to charge us per megabyte over our limit.

what isp are u , eircom?
wow at 230 lol

I added a poll. I think it's pretty interesting.



Have any of your ISPs ever gave out about downloading too much?

branners69

I'd download 100gb a month, would download 200gb if I was allowed!