NTL warning letters

I haven't recieved one yet, my monthly average is between 30-45gb if even
that. But a friend from work,recieved a warning letter for downloading 171gb
in one month. What is the highest and lowest totals for people on here who
have recieved them.

John

"JF" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>I haven't recieved one yet, my monthly average is between 30-45gb if even
>that. But a friend from work,recieved a warning letter for downloading
>171gb in one month. What is the highest and lowest totals for people on
>here who have recieved them.
>
> John
>
>

He must have left say a TV channel spooling 24/7 at 512kb[its]/s as that is
almost exactly what this figure works out at*. OTOH NTL could be talking
BS.


*512k/8*60*60*24*31 = 171,717,600kb

"R. Mark Clayton" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> "JF" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>>I haven't recieved one yet, my monthly average is between 30-45gb if even
>>that. But a friend from work,recieved a warning letter for downloading
>>171gb in one month. What is the highest and lowest totals for people on
>>here who have recieved them.
>>
>> John
>>
>>
>
> He must have left say a TV channel spooling 24/7 at 512kb[its]/s as that
> is almost exactly what this figure works out at*. OTOH NTL could be
> talking BS.
>
>
> *512k/8*60*60*24*31 = 171,717,600kb
>
He's on a 2mb connection and was always talking about downloading this and
that, how his computer was on for a week straight downloading from usenet
which is usually max connection speed. So 171gb could be about right. All he
got was a warning telling him if he breached it again, he could get his
account suspended.

BTW how does your sum work??

I get the 512k divided by what 8? i take it the 24 is hours and 31 is days
what are the two 60's for??

Excuse my ignorance

JF wrote:
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>>"JF" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>>>I haven't recieved one yet, my monthly average is between 30-45gb if even
>>>that. But a friend from work,recieved a warning letter for downloading
>>>171gb in one month. What is the highest and lowest totals for people on
>>>here who have recieved them.
>>>
>>>John
>>>
>>>
>>
>>He must have left say a TV channel spooling 24/7 at 512kb[its]/s as that
>>is almost exactly what this figure works out at*. OTOH NTL could be
>>talking BS.
>>
>>
>>*512k/8*60*60*24*31 = 171,717,600kb
>>
>
> He's on a 2mb connection and was always talking about downloading this and
> that, how his computer was on for a week straight downloading from usenet
> which is usually max connection speed. So 171gb could be about right. All he
> got was a warning telling him if he breached it again, he could get his
> account suspended.
>
> BTW how does your sum work??
>
> I get the 512k divided by what 8? i take it the 24 is hours and 31 is days
> what are the two 60's for??
>
> Excuse my ignorance
>
>
well from what I can see:

the 512k is kiloBITS per second, so divide by 8 to get kiloBYTES
then *60 for KB per min, then again for KB by hour... *24 for the day
*31 for the days in the month.

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> "R. Mark Clayton" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>> "JF" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>>>I haven't recieved one yet, my monthly average is between 30-45gb if even
>>>that. But a friend from work,recieved a warning letter for downloading
>>>171gb in one month. What is the highest and lowest totals for people on
>>>here who have recieved them.
>>>
>>> John
>>>
>>>
>>
>> He must have left say a TV channel spooling 24/7 at 512kb[its]/s as that
>> is almost exactly what this figure works out at*. OTOH NTL could be
>> talking BS.
>>
>>
>> *512k/8*60*60*24*31 = 171,717,600kb
>>
> He's on a 2mb connection and was always talking about downloading this and
> that, how his computer was on for a week straight downloading from usenet
> which is usually max connection speed. So 171gb could be about right. All
> he got was a warning telling him if he breached it again, he could get his
> account suspended.
>
> BTW how does your sum work??
>
> I get the 512k divided by what 8? i take it the 24 is hours and 31 is days
> what are the two 60's for??
>
> Excuse my ignorance
>
>

At a rough guess, to change from hours to minutes (x60) and to seconds
(x60).

Ian