On 10 Oct 2004 in uk.telecom.broadband, "Martin²" wrote:
>We have two computers using one 512 BB for total ~6hrs a day, mostly
>browsing and email, not many file downloads, still under the usual
>1Gb p/month limit.
Now try that listening to some music radio station while you browse/check
e-mail and see it jump by perhaps 200 MB a day (or more). I just went on
some DJ's website and I'm listening to a mix he made... 65 minutes which
is almost 34 MB of data (just finished downloading into my PC at 90 KBps)
I looked at the AAISP lowest cost account but with its requirement for an
office hours average of only 20 MB/hour I felt I'd exceed that too often,
so looked elsewhere when I was after a fixed IP service. A station I'm
regularly listening to puts out 90 MB/hour (
www.wnua.com), another, in
the UK, puts out about 50 MB/hour (
www.solarradio.com), as does another
on the west coast -
www.kksf.com or try either of
www.waer.org (US East)
or
www.kexp.org (US West) for higher than avg. streaming sources...
Having an "always on" connection means I tend to use some services which
were impractical with ISDN or 56k dial-up, as well as things which update
frequently (every few minutes for example - news sources, and webmail on
the server for one of my domains). Horses for courses, but I'd say that
facilities one uses might change when going onto a completely different
type of service... things which weren't practical (watching a film via
the web, for example) are now possible. I have no DVD player (no plans
either, for now!) which some 'take for granted' and I have a Sky box but
don't use anything over the free TV and radio channels, so I make use of
the internet in different ways, probably! Anyway, another perspective.
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