Videos HELP

[Aqib13]

Guys if i watch videos on youtube anytime in the day will it affect my connetion

[Mick Fisher]

Only if your bandwidth use exceeds your allowance and your connection get throttled.

Cable and ADSL services differ so which are you enquiring about.

[Aqib13]

Am with cable

[Kymmy]

Which cable package are you on, they all have different speeds and different throttle levels/allowances

Unless you;re on S or M I doubt if youtube would put you over the limits and even then you;d have to be watching HQ youtube constantly on the M package

Here's the relevant limits

http://allyours.virginmedia.com/html/internet/traffic.html

Use something like DUmeter (link at the bottom of that page) to see how much you're uploading/downloading

[Aqib13]

Kymmy am using cable 10mb vm

---------- Post added at 19:47 ---------- Previous post was at 19:43 ----------

Okay i've downloaded and installed DUmeter what now

[Kymmy]

Read the help file that comes with DUMeter.. :rolleyes:

Quite simply DUMETER will tell you how much you've uploaded and downloaded. If you start it at the times when traffic management kicks in you'll be able to see if you;re approaching your limits

[Aqib13]

Okay

todays:
incoming traffic:21.9mb
outgoing trffic:728.2KB
both directions: 22.6mb

[Kymmy]

Well try it whilst downloading your usual youtube vids, run it solidly for a few days for a few hours and then you can work out based on time spent and megabytes downloaded you'll get a rough average of how much youtube is downloading per hour, you can then use that figure to tell you the answer to your first post in this thread.

[Aqib13]

Okay cool

[Kymmy]

If though you want a simple way of doing it then just download youtube to your hearts content, if your download drops suddenly to 2.5Mbps then you've gone over the limit ;)

[Aqib13]

i dunno get it when it drops to 2.5mbps why have i got over the limit it starts from 250mb tho