How many Gigs do you download a day?

**broadwayrock** · June 21st, 2003, 05:10 AM

To celebrate me passing my 100th post im going to start my first poll.

How many gigs do you download a day on average?

Could you include your download speed aswell.

I download about 1.2 - 1.6gb a day @ 600k downstream

**rainbowdemon** · June 21st, 2003, 05:44 AM

I download about 10 files a day, more or less. I have dial-up, so my downstream speeds are ridiculously slow. But still I have managed to build a collection of about 4500 files over the past year and a half. It's time consuming, but well worth it!!! :finger the over-priced cd's that are not very good anyway.

**gd_nimrod** · June 21st, 2003, 06:38 AM

Well, see, i have 4mbit cable, and i WISH i could download over 9gigs a day (believe me i could :P ) but i have capped bandwith at 10gigs download/5gigs upload....so i basically fill in my montly cap in about a week. The other 3 weeks of the month i dont download:(

**Evil_Dweller_01** · June 21st, 2003, 07:42 AM

I actually dont download that much...

An mp3 here and there, maybe an album (rarity)

The only time I get on a downloading roll is when new movies on BT come out or a good game :P

**MoonMan** · June 21st, 2003, 07:44 AM

Originally posted by rainbowdemon
I download about 10 files a day, more or less. I have dial-up, so my downstream speeds are ridiculously slow. But still I have managed to build a collection of about 4500 files over the past year and a half. It's time consuming, but well worth it!!! :finger the over-priced cd's that are not very good anyway.

Same here. I'm lucky if I get a gig in a month. Still though, quite worth it in the end... that is, if I'm patient enough.

**nasrules** · June 21st, 2003, 08:36 AM

It depends really. Sometimes it'll be 2 or 3 gigs, sometimes none.

Oh, and broadwayrock - your ISP doesn't happen to be NTL does it?

**broadwayrock** · June 21st, 2003, 09:33 AM

Yes it does.

NTL had an proposed plan for a 1 gig a day cap.

But recently a NTL boss said:

"We used it to contact customers who were doing a lot of filesharing and peer to peer in the busy periods and
we politely asked them to not do that and we have seen a shift in usage and that's done two things. It has improved the overall level of service and it's actually reduced the capital spending going forward"

Now they see the sense in not imposing the cap at all

**googlestein** · June 21st, 2003, 10:33 AM

rainbow, where do you get music from?

**cpugeniusmv** · June 21st, 2003, 01:29 PM

i don't really download that much...unless there's a new movie out...and in that case, i'm one of the first 1000 to get it.

i upload tons though.

**Dman212** · June 21st, 2003, 01:56 PM

I don't download alot because I'm on a shitty dial-up connection. I know I don't download any amount in gigs in one day so it's more a question of how many megs I download a day which is probably around 8 or 9 total. I usually download music and when I'm feelin' the urge, porn.

**rainbowdemon** · June 21st, 2003, 02:11 PM

Originally posted by googlestein
rainbow, where do you get music from?

Kazaa Lite, clean iMesh, Ares, Piolet, and Filetopia. These are the best ones for my needs. I do well with them.

**maartendc** · June 22nd, 2003, 03:37 AM

Sometimes up to 3 gigs... sometimes nothing...

**Wolfie** · June 22nd, 2003, 03:42 AM

It really varies. Sometimes less than 1/2 a gig and other times (like this weekend) about 3.5 gigs and still going.

**method** · June 22nd, 2003, 06:19 AM

The 600kbps always gave it away didn't it?

I'm on the same.. and NTL are trying to limit us to a GB a day... in other words, we might as well only have 128kbps downstream! :;)

**isus** · June 22nd, 2003, 11:31 AM

hmm, if i download anything, it's a few 5mb mp3's...

so, 20mb every week i would guess.

and i'm on a 3kB/s modem connection to my isp :-P

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