30-05-2015, 20:44
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How much is too much?
I know Virgin no longer have download limits nor slow downloads from http.
What im wondering is from everyone what download limits would people consider a heavy user per month.
We have 3 people living here and usually per month we can use between 120-170GB per month. This month so far we have hit 181.7GB.
So as i said my question is what would people consider as heavy use?
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30-05-2015, 21:03
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re: How much is too much?
10TB.
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30-05-2015, 21:19
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re: How much is too much?
Anyone have a serious suggestion?
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30-05-2015, 22:21
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re: How much is too much?
1TB.
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30-05-2015, 23:53
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re: How much is too much?
ive not done 1TB with all traffic combined for each month since January lol.
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31-05-2015, 06:57
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re: How much is too much?
Quote:
Originally Posted by alanbjames
ive not done 1TB with all traffic combined for each month since January lol.
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I did just over 1TB last month and will be doing much the same this month.
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31-05-2015, 08:06
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re: How much is too much?
I would say 5TB/month. I have done 3TB in one month before but that wasn't going full speed 24/7. Although you might think your 100Gb is a lot for you, users have different needs and uses for their connection and I would definitely think of 1TB/month as being average.
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31-05-2015, 09:27
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re: How much is too much?
Quote:
Originally Posted by alanbjames
I know Virgin no longer have download limits nor slow downloads from http.
What im wondering is from everyone what download limits would people consider a heavy user per month.
We have 3 people living here and usually per month we can use between 120-170GB per month. This month so far we have hit 181.7GB.
So as i said my question is what would people consider as heavy use?
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You got the answers (even if you didn't consider them serious, which they were). But I suspect that people reading your post were bemused by the question. Indeed I am.
You phrased one question in a curious way; with the phrase "download limits".
Exactly what are you getting at? What will the answers enable you to decide?
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31-05-2015, 11:27
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Re: How much is too much?
I would guesstimate this question has been triggered by the man seeing visible contention on his cable at peak times.
The answer I would probably give, beyond a simple figure, is that it's as much as the ISP says it is, and they should accordingly scale their network to accommodate it while supplying a reasonable level of performance.
I tend to consider reasonable as being that a customer should either never or almost never experience speeds equal to those of the tier below.
Here's mine for the past 3 months. The heavy month was due to the ISP counting uploads and downloads, and our downloading and uploading for someone who was about to travel around the world for a year and wanted to get her content together and then all in one place on the cloud 
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31-05-2015, 14:05
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Re: How much is too much?
So maybe there is no absolute figure, just one that is relevant to your segment and what it can sustain. On ours, we regularly get <50M on a 152M tier in the evenings and have done for the last 3 yrs or so .. Have said that, there is no way VM are going to zone download/upload limits so it is a moot point any way.
I don't consider us as "heavy users" plus we have the download constraint in the evenings and weekends. Here's our usage for the last few months:
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Date Reception Transmission Total
2015-05 263.85 GB 60.17 GB 324.03 GB
2015-04 288.42 GB 59.16 GB 347.58 GB
2015-03 213.74 GB 75.43 GB 289.17 GB
2015-02 114.55 GB 21.56 GB 136.11 GB
2015-01 299.35 GB 50.50 GB 349.86 GB
2014-12 107.74 GB 5.95 GB 113.70 GB
2014-09 142.33 GB 40.44 GB 182.77 GB
2014-08 169.28 GB 79.25 GB 248.53 GB
2014-07 160.43 GB 64.83 GB 225.26 GB
2014-06 316.59 GB 70.06 GB 386.65 GB
2014-05 254.00 GB 71.63 GB 325.63 GB
2014-04 290.26 GB 84.36 GB 374.62 GB
2014-03 191.59 GB 119.44 GB 311.04 GB
2014-02 208.62 GB 88.27 GB 296.89 GB
2014-01 186.88 GB 86.68 GB 273.56 GB
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31-05-2015, 15:06
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Re: How much is too much?
Some interesting figures, i thought i was a heavy user using what we do.
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31-05-2015, 17:35
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FORMER Virgin Media Staff
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Re: How much is too much?
200GB a month for a full household really isn't a lot. Between 4 or 5 people, that's about 1-2GB a day each which isn't a lot if you stream music or video.
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31-05-2015, 17:42
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Re: How much is too much?
I would say 1TB would be a heavy user 1-200GB is nothing in a family house.
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31-05-2015, 20:16
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FORMER Virgin Media Staff
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Re: How much is too much?
I would say that any amount is almost entirely arbitrary. We all use the internet for different things.
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