On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 22:28:17 GMT, Harvey Van Sickle
wrote:


(It's pointless to try and talk about "average use": that's the whole
point of having broadband -- you do with it what suits you. But for
context, my usage is that I work from home and am in front of the
computer for between 4 and 10 hours a day; I do a lot of web-based
research (archival maps and stuff), and I maintain my own ocmputer. So
I download what I want, when I want; I listen to streaming radio
(between 1 and 5 hours a day); I update programs; I download software
to try it out and/or discard it; I upload files to the office a couple
of times a week (around 10-15 MB per file); and very occasionally --
every couple of months or so -- I might do a big download of something
like a Linux ISO image (a CD-worth of data). I don't do games, and I
don't do file-sharing.)

Measuring that sort of usage over the past year, I have used over 3 GB
-- *per month* -- just once (a Linux month). All the other months have
been between 1.8 and 2.3 GB. That's per *month*.

In my experience, it takes a hell of a lot of file transferring to hit
1 GB per day; if people are actually hitting that sort of figure on a
regular basis, they should be paying more for the amount of 1s and 0s
they're shifting through the cables.

I would suggest your useage isn't untypical for a PC interested
(rather than someone 'who just want's it for word and emails') person.

I installed Netmeter on 2 of the 3 PC's here last night but this
morning it thinks the total traffic to date is 9M? I downloaded 3 x
10M files last night?

Anyone know if NM is accurate or if there are conditions that can
confuse it?

All the best ..

T i m