Does watching online streams use up....

kop77

your monthly data allowance (10GB), eg football matches etc thanks.

bonzodog2

Yes. Streaming uses just as much data as downloading e.g. a movie. If you spend all day on Youtube it will eat all your data allowance if you're on a phone. And then get you a big bill if you do 3G roaming !

Rabidlamb

Yep, I sometimes watch Golf on HD streams that can be 800kB/s.
Coverage could be 5 hours long so .8x60x60x5 = 14.4GB.:eek:

Hal Emmerich

kop77 wrote: »

your monthly data allowance (10GB), eg football matches etc thanks.

1000MB in 1GB

Typical Music Vid of 3-4 mins on Youtube at 360/480p uses 20/25MB.

Episode of Castle on RTE Player uses 150MB.

You can check your usage on the Website of whoever your with.

Hair's Pam

Litle cousin using 3 modem (10G) watching pre season soccer online got a nice €75 bill for his pleasure ha. IPhone on 3 network is great I use my mobile as a modem n watch soccer every weekend. Unlimited usage. ( fair use crap applys) but didn't exceed it yet.

mike65

Depends of the definition, better picture = more data = more download cap eaten up. Your standard okay football stream uses up about 350 mb over 90 mins

bonzodog2

Some streaming content allows you to seek to say halfway through the duration of the item. In this case the PC doesn't download all the content. I do realise this probably is not of interest to most football fans !

ScumLord

Of course, everything you do online uses up your limit, even text. It's just the text uses up so little it doesn't even register but going to a website or even pressing a button on a website will mean downloading something. A soccer match due to it's length would use up quite a bit probably between 100mb and 400mb depending on the quality of the stream.

JonathanAnon

Unfortunately with most bband packages, you have to watch your bandwidth like a hawk.. i.e. they dont inform you automatically when you are approaching your limit, cos they can fleece you for every MB outside of your package...

I watched McIlroy win last year, only the last couple of hours and it used up about 2Gbs... Seriously depends on the quality of the stream..

Voodu Child

Just be careful not to mix up your bits and bytes.

Bandwidth is usually quoted in bits (b). So your stream might be 800kb/s, your internet speed might be 3Mb/s, etc

However your cap is likely quoted in bytes (B)- ie 10GB in this case.

If you're looking at a stream and trying to work out how much it is using, don't get the two mixed up.

U_Fig

i've never had this problem i'm with imagine with their 7Mb wimax and i know alot of people have had problems with them over the years but i find it brilliant..as far as i'm streaming the Man Utd vs Man City as i write this at 2.9Mb/s off sky go and i download about 3-6 HD movies a week.. the beauty of having unlimited download cap..well 250GB fair usage

Krusader

Get UPC, 25Mb bb with 500GB download allowance

ScumLord

You can usually get a bigger limit if you pay for it. I have 150gb with vodafone, it cost me an extra fiver though.

prettygurrly

anyone know how much data download allowance is used up playing FIFA online with your friends on PS3?

Krusader

prettygurrly wrote: »

anyone know how much data download allowance is used up playing FIFA online with your friends on PS3?

bout 50 MB or so

Adyx

Crosáidí wrote: »

Get UPC, 25Mb bb with 500GB download allowance

Out of interest, are download allowances generally per month?

Cabaal

Adyx wrote: »

Out of interest, are download allowances generally per month?

Depends on ISP
Some reset at the start of each month, some are 30 day rolling periods

Stevolende

I was wondering what the comparison was like between downloading a video unit say a film/tv show versus watching it online. Was assuming that watching it online would be higher because image would be being refreshed/buffered whatever which would add to what was counted as downloaded. Whereas if the same film/show was downloaded first then watched through a computer refreshing/buffering would be being done by a program on the computer so wouldn't have duplication of the same data counted into the download.
Is that missing the point?

I've just been wanting to watch what usage I have unaccounted for on top of p2p filesharing which has its own counter.

Stevolende

Also been wondering if UPC count from 1st of the month to 1st of the month or from bill to bill which is about a week different.

jay-me

Stevolende wrote: »

I was wondering what the comparison was like between downloading a video unit say a film/tv show versus watching it online. Was assuming that watching it online would be higher because image would be being refreshed/buffered whatever which would add to what was counted as downloaded. Whereas if the same film/show was downloaded first then watched through a computer refreshing/buffering would be being done by a program on the computer so wouldn't have duplication of the same data counted into the download.
Is that missing the point?

I've just been wanting to watch what usage I have unaccounted for on top of p2p filesharing which has its own counter.

I'd say the video player is an entity unto itself.. The only refreshing would be what you have already downloaded.. Unless there are ads on the site constantly changing your ok because the player resides on your machine and outputs what has been downloaded..

Not 100% on this but sound right to me :P

yoyo

Streaming essentially downloads the video "while you watch" so if there is an option to stream or download, likely both will be similar in data usage. Obviously HD streaming will use up considerably more bandwidth, with some movies possibly being a few GB in size. I'm not sure if Netflix or whatever tells you the size in advance but expect a few GB to be used.
I think UPC reset it at the start of each month, but not 100% sure.

Nick

Stevolende

Right I had the image of the viewer (or their computer) was at a stage remote from the material being streamed so buffering etc would have to be counted as supplied twice.
So right, had the picture wrong.

Guess the bonus of actually downloading the thing would be that you could watch it more than once for the same data transfer size. but presumably that's either more expensive or less legal than watching a streamed video?

yoyo

Stevolende wrote: »

Right I had the image of the viewer (or their computer) was at a stage remote from the material being streamed so buffering etc would have to be counted as supplied twice.
So right, had the picture wrong.

Guess the bonus of actually downloading the thing would be that you could watch it more than once for the same data transfer size. but presumably that's either more expensive or less legal than watching a streamed video?

What do you mean less legal? If you are streaming from a legal source and they give you the option to stream or download both will be legal. The download may have a form of DRM on it preventing it from playing beyond a certain number of plays/time frame.
If you are not using a legal site then we obviously can't help you here.

Nick

Stevolende

Was just thinking that if you paid for a d/load of a film it would be more expensive cos it was sold to you permanently.

Hadn't heard about the limited amount of plays thing but haven't really used services where that applies.

Or you were getting it from a P2P site, which fits your last sentence.

yoyo

Stevolende wrote: »

Was just thinking that if you paid for a d/load of a film it would be more expensive cos it was sold to you permanently.

Hadn't heard about the limited amount of plays thing but haven't really used services where that applies.

Or you were getting it from a P2P site, which fits your last sentence.

No worries, have to check . Yeah if you download the file it will likely have restrictions. I'd reccomend downloading and watching after though, no chance of "buffering" as the action is starting :P

Nick