Does Youtube use a lot of internet data?
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We have the BT deal with 40gb a month which we've never come close to using, yet this month we're already nearly at our 40gb limit!
The only thing i can think it is is my son and his friends were on Youtube for ages last weekend, would it be this?
The only thing i can think it is is my son and his friends were on Youtube for ages last weekend, would it be this?
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I think I would use that up in just a few days using and uploading my HD videos to youtube LOL.
are you uploading files. games . films and the like?
It seems to be changing. You used to have pretty standard sized items but you can now see things taken by phones that are a third the size of what they woudl have been a few years ago (say 12 rather than 36 mb for 4 minutes) Then there was nothing that was much over 10 minutes. Now there are two hour shows that need 600Mb to download. If you have a quick connection and down load big items you could use up a lot. They also have HD now which also takes more.
If you use YouTube a lot, I don't think 40GBs will be enough for your monthly usage limit.
Depends how fast your system is. If its modern fibre you can download multiple big downloads at once. If its rural primitive and slow its almost physically impossible to get past 20gb a month without losing the will to live as things download slowly one at a time.
Its going to be better if you are near the exchange and at the higher end of the speed range available , but when you are further out on BT ADSL and it takes 35 minutes to download a 45 minute show on youtube , and you can only do one at once, you just physically can't download that much without spending inordinate time doing it. On rough reckoning I would take 5 days downloading non stop to get over the BT limit.
If the OP is on fibre or something more modern, it is entirely possible to download multiple 170 - 400 MB episodes of shows on youtube at once and pile up the totals quickly. As the OP didn't say what speeds they were getting, it could be a real factor in deciding if youtubes could indeed be the culprit.
Of course there are isolated dwellings, a long way from the local exchange but they in the minority and far from the norm.
I thought that was a thing of the past, I have enough trouble trying to stick to my phone's data limit, keeping track of my home broadband would just get ridiculous!! I need 40gb a day!!