Time used on Broadband

[bobbie22]

Hi everyone. In March I took out a contract with BT for Broadband and telephone calls. The first three months was free broadband. Because of this I did not worry about anything. I realised when Ihad an e mail from BT telling me that I was close to my download limit of 10GB- is it GB?
I have downloaded a meter to keep track of this. My question is. I dont download anything as such, I mostly play games, so how can I be downloading? Or is every page I look at a download. ?
If I go over my limit, I will have to pay more.
What is ABers advice on this?

[boxtops]

I'm no expert, but surely you download a game every time you play it online?

[SlackAlice]

Anything you view over the internet is downloaded.

[gingejbee]

Anything you see and hear via the internet has been downloaded.

[bobbie22]

Thanks for your replies. I suppose I have not got enough availability. I did not know this.

[Buenchico]

Every piece of data which comes through your telephone line, to your router, contributes to your download total. That includes emails, web pages, images, Youtube videos, video streaming (such as from the BBC iPlayer), audio streaming, program files, MP3s, game data, etc.

Some of those things (such as text-only emails) require very little data to be transferred. Other things (particularly video streaming) use massive amounts of data.

BT charge £5 for every 5GB by which you exceed your monthly 10Gb allowance. It's not clear from their website, however, whether you only pay an extra £5 when you've used a full extra 5Gb or whether (as is probably more likely) they really mean "5Gb or part thereof".

Chris

[ABerrant]

"If you exceed your usage allowance, you'll be charged for additional usage in units of five gigabytes (GB), at £5 per 5GB."

That reads to me as "5GB or part thereof".

http://bt.custhelp.co...roadband-usage-policy

[maclarencat]

It is part GB I know they charged me twice but I have now negotiated a new deal. If you are not gaming and simply use it for surfing the net not watching movies or downloading music the 10gb will normally be enough.