Comments on: How much broadband is too much?

By: cristina aquinta

cristina aquinta — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 19:40:59 +0000

hi, cool web site and good articles.
The The first step is to learn how to find out what your Internet speed is.The Internet speed is determined by 2 components: the download rate and the upload rate of data which are usually measured in Kilobits per second.
Then after you know the upload and download rate, you can use tools or tweaks to improve your internet speed, or take the decision to change your ISP.

By: Erik J. Barzeski

Erik J. Barzeski — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 22:07:58 +0000

Heck, I probably I download tens of gigabytes of software updates and podcasts alone each month. Hmmm.

But we’re far from typical users. 2-3 GB? Sounds about right, actually.

By: Curtis Carmack

Curtis Carmack — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 18:25:10 +0000

Judi,

What about those of us who back up regularly to the cloud? Or how about having to recover from the cloud? If you also use Hulu and Netflix streaming, any bad month could send you way over the 250GB limit. I’m glad I’m on FiOS, but who knows when that will end up capped.

Of course once we start streaming HD video instead of subscribing to an HD package, 250GB will seem very low indeed.

Curt

By: James Sullivan

James Sullivan — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 17:53:07 +0000

I stay under the 250GB cap without a doubt and I’m on-line more than a healthy amount, plus my wife does email and watches hulu, abc.com, and nbc.com shows (we don’t have a tv). Whenever I travel outside of the USA I notice how there are so many secured wireless networks. In my current neighborhood I can walk around with my iPhone and always be on wifi – in Europe (bandwidth caps) all the wifi networks are secured.

On the plus-side, I imagine it will probably improve network performance if people are concerned about using too many resources.