download usage for cs

[bokkie]

Not quite sure if this belongs in this forum. Apologies if it doesn't.
How much of my broadband allowance would i use watching telly a couple hours a night?
i'm changing provider from sly, dont want to take the chance, if you get my drift.
all the providers priced similarly to sly have download limits, just want to make sure i don't exceed it with cs.
Thx

[dessertrat]

Re: download usage for cs

U use about 40 Mb per 24 h period on a DM500. Might differ on other boxes.

[bokkie]

Re: download usage for cs

So about 280 meg a week, 1.2 gb a month.
Is that with regular use?

[mirny]

Re: download usage for cs

in general bandwidth usage depends, if you're just a client or you are a server aswell. Depends how many cards you're sharing, which providers, because some of them, for example N*S is sending ecm instructions every two second, but C*nax is sending ECM instruction every 15 seconds.
Otherwise, this is good to know, to set up client timeouts.

[jezs]

Re: download usage for cs

At the end of the day.. it is going to be a small about of data... windows and various apps are constantly sending data which will be far more than your cardsharing. For example I was watching VMWare fusion the other day and it was sending loads of data for no apparant reason! Even so I think you would be lower than most caps even with tv on 24hrs a day!

[mirny]

Re: download usage for cs

you can use du meter, for check you bandwith usage, you can see day, week, month report DL/UL
check here: __http://www.hageltech.com/dumeter/about

[bokkie]

Re: download usage for cs

I decided to go with virgin media, which has unlimited data usage.

[thecrazybandit]

Re: download usage for cs

i am on a capped internet and have never thought about internet usage on cs i use the spiderbox hd9000 about 2- 3 hours a day and tend to do a lot of channel flicking does that use more internet rather than just watching one channel

[pan1300]

Re: download usage for cs

hi

I don't know exactly about the spiderbox, but other servers I know of, take some kb/sec, or some hundred Mb a month (counted 24/24 and 7/7), so really not that much.

[bokkie]

Re: download usage for cs

I have been using 3g broadband for about a month and have not even used half of the 1 gb Cap. Don't know the exact amount though.

[microchick]

Re: download usage for cs

@Bokkie, Lets say the code is a 2 byte or 16 bit. You are allowed upto 600 ECM per hour which means that you can order the code from the server 600 times per hour. 600 X 16= 9600 bit. Its equal to about 9.6 kb or lets say 10kb per hour to make it easy.
So 1 hour of telly via cs is only 10kb.
Its just my calculation.

[thecrazybandit]

Re: download usage for cs

so buy the sound of it not a lot off my data allowance thats good news

[Mobley3]

Re: download usage for cs

Interesting thread this, as I have only recently started enjoying the benefits of lines. I am on UPC Broadband and I am not sure if it is capped as I never worried about it before, so good to know that it is not really an issue.
Regards Mobley3

[microchick]

Re: download usage for cs

My calculation might be wrong. May be senior members can guide us more. But If you are not doing lots of downloads then you dont need an unlimited download dats from the broadband provider. I am on a 60GB cap per month and never worried about the data usage.
PS I watch lots of cricket online streams.

[pan1300]

Re: download usage for cs

hi

In another forum we once had this discussion/calculation ; after some testing and theoretical approach, the result was a max. of 240 MB/month (calculated 24/24 - 7/7) - must say this wasn't about clines but about another server - testing was with sly ger if I remember right.

I have 10 or 15GB and think I never used more than +/- 5 GB/month.