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Bluesky · by **Andrew** on Thu Oct 30, 2008 10:24 pm

How much you do you usually download in a month? What's the most you've ever downloaded?

My usage has fluctuated the last few months but is usually between 8-18 GB per month. Around 20 GB is probably my max and those have usually been months where I've found myself with a lot of downloads to burn so I'll grab some demos off XBL. I'm sitting just under 13 GB so far this month.

by **Eich** on Fri Oct 31, 2008 1:53 am

20-50GB a month probobly biggest in one month was around 100Gb, when i got my pc..

by **Joe'** on Fri Oct 31, 2008 2:38 am

I download four to five TV show episodes per day (except Sundays.) Tuesday's the busiest day of the week. I download eight episodes on Tuesdays (more if I forget to download Monday's episodes.) Three comedies and five dramas, or 2.3 GB. I usually don't go over 1.5 GB on the rest of the week, so that'd make it about 9.8 GB per week, or about 39.2 GB/month.

Plus, I sometimes have the urge to download full seasons of older TV shows. For example, I downloaded the whole ten seasons of Friends the past month, which was just under 34 GB. And of course I download other stuff too, but I don't think I have the liberty to discuss that here.

Overall, I think I'm around 45 GB/month, which is pretty crazy if you consider I almost completely filled a 1 TB external hard drive since I got my Mac in November last year.

by **Jackal** on Fri Oct 31, 2008 5:05 am

Where do you get the time to watch all of that? Wait, better yet, what is that watchable?

I download three shows every week, The Shield (soon coming to an end), Dexter and My Own Worst Enemy. For the rest I just "get" movies.

I wouldn't know how much I download per month, that fluctuates and I don't think I've ever bothered to actually check.

by **Joe'** on Fri Oct 31, 2008 6:52 am

Jackal wrote:Where do you get the time to watch all of that? Wait, better yet, what is that watchable?

I download three shows every week, The Shield (soon coming to an end), Dexter and My Own Worst Enemy. For the rest I just "get" movies.

I wouldn't know how much I download per month, that fluctuates and I don't think I've ever bothered to actually check.

I always find the time... I almost never watch actual TV so pretty much every time I find myself at home I'm watching something on the computer. Plus I'm in high school so it's not like I don't have free time or anything.

+1 respect for My Own Worst Enemy. Awesome new show. I get that plus another seven shows (Two and a Half Men, How I Met Your Mother, The Big Bang Theory, Chuck, Heroes, Prison Break, Dexter) on Tuesdays.

Mondays and Wednesdays it's four shows, Thursdays and Fridays three, Saturdays and Sundays none, since they changed Life's slot to Wednesdays.

It's definitely a lot but I'm gonna stop watching some of them, or at least just Heroes... I got sick of it.

by **[Q]** on Fri Oct 31, 2008 7:50 am

jackal, can't you save youreslf some time and watch my own worst enemy on nbc.com? saves you the time it takes to download

@LAST.FM · by **iG®** on Fri Oct 31, 2008 7:50 am

Maximum downloaded in a month was 92.5 GB, it was something about this time last year.

On average, I have 75-80 GB downloaded per month, including surf.

by **Jackal** on Fri Oct 31, 2008 8:16 am

Qballer wrote:jackal, can't you save youreslf some time and watch my own worst enemy on nbc.com? saves you the time it takes to download

I've got an RSS feed set up for MOWE, I'm asleep at the time it's downloading so I don't really feel the effects of it.

I wake up and catch my shows or in class. Good suggestion though, but you have to love RSS feeds.

I got sick of Heroes after about 5 episodes, they just drag it on and on and on and on like Lost, it's too daytime soap opera-ish for me.

I don't really catch comedy shows for some reason and like Joe, I don't watch tv. Dutch television is too in love with Dutch reality shows which are just American knockoffs. You name it and they knock it off. America's Next Top Model? Holland's Next Top Model. Extreme Home Makeover? De Grote Verbouwing. Deal or no Deal? Uhm, same name. So you think you can dance? Popstars? Dancing Queen?

Just a whole bunch of shit. When they do start with good shows (Shield, Sopranos and Oz have all run for a brief period)...they don't play it in chronological order. So one day they show episode 3 of season 7 and then episode 3 of season 2. Not only confusing but annoying as shit.

Not to mention they just abruptly stop and start the shows. I used to actually watch a show called "The Guardian" but quit because of all the stupid timeslot changes/season overlaps.

by **Joe'** on Fri Oct 31, 2008 11:12 am

Qballer wrote:jackal, can't you save youreslf some time and watch my own worst enemy on nbc.com? saves you the time it takes to download

The service isn't available outside the US. Fucking invisible internet borders.

Jackie boy, you're gonna have to tell me how exactly you set up that RSS feed. I hate coming home from school and waiting for my shows to download. Do you get yours from EZTV?

Didn't know Dutch TV was as awful as it is here. I've always thought Northern Europeans>>>Southern Europeans but I guess it's not true. I've got satellite but it's the same crap nonetheless. The FOX channels and the original English audio are worth it, though. Still, all I watch on TV is Life on Mars on BBC Prime.

by **Jackal** on Fri Oct 31, 2008 11:37 am

I do indeed get most of my stuff from the RSS feed of EZTV.

Let me try explaining it with pretty pictures, hope I get everything right.

In uTorrent:

File -> Add RSS Feed ->

In the Feed URL: http://tvrss.net/feed/eztv/

Following part is skippable:

I also use the Mininova RSS just in case the show somehow doesn't show up on EZTV's website. (It rarely happens, but hey, better safe than no TV.)

Well what you do is the same as above but enter the following feed:

http://www.mininova.org/rss.xml?user=EZTV

Anyways, now you've got two RSS feeds set up. Now you have to filter out what you want from those two feeds, so here we go.

uTorrent: CTRL + R or Options -> RSS Downloader
In the pretty box hit the "add" button. Name it Dexter or whichever show you want for that particuliar downloader.
In the Filter category I usually just put the shows name:
shield, the shield
dexter
my own worst enemy

If you have a show that is close to the same title like Da Shields, you enter those words in the "not" area. This way it'll only pick "The Shield" as a show and not "Da Shields". Usually it's an area I leave open though.

Save in: pretty self explanatory.
Feed: All (it'll use both then, or you can just specify.)
Quality is clickable so take your pick. (Mine is set to all.)
You can specify episode numbers (seasonxepisodes - 5x01-12) but I'm up to date so I don't need to specify.

That's pretty much it I think. It automatically updates itself and as soon as the uploader puts up the show matching your filtered words...the download starts. I have the option of "give download highest priority" set too, so then I'm sure it's done by the time I get home/wake up.

Hope that helps, if anything else or if I wasn't clear just tell me, I'll do it clearer with screenshots and stuff. For now I'm gonna sleep.

Bluesky · by **Andrew** on Fri Oct 31, 2008 2:42 pm

It just goes to show how far Australia is behind other developed countries when it comes to Internet access, not just in speed but in plan capacity as well. Usage caps are the norm here in Australia (currently mine is 20 GB before it's shaped) and the really heavy download plans (40 GB or more) are quite expensive.

by **Fitzy** on Fri Oct 31, 2008 4:05 pm

Andrew wrote:It just goes to show how far Australia is behind other developed countries when it comes to Internet access, not just in speed but in plan capacity as well. Usage caps are the norm here in Australia (currently mine is 20 GB before it's shaped) and the really heavy download plans (40 GB or more) are quite expensive.

i agree

my plans limited to 24GB a month, and i normally use that up well before the months over

by **diddy** on Fri Oct 31, 2008 6:25 pm

WOW! may be when i'll get an unlimited internet at new house i'll be downloading smth sbout 20-40 gb, but for now it's 4-5 gb (i've got unlim at work)

music, videos!

by **Jackal** on Fri Oct 31, 2008 8:39 pm

Andrew wrote:It just goes to show how far Australia is behind other developed countries when it comes to Internet access, not just in speed but in plan capacity as well. Usage caps are the norm here in Australia (currently mine is 20 GB before it's shaped) and the really heavy download plans (40 GB or more) are quite expensive.

I completely forgot you had a usage cap in Australia, I recall you mentioning it before. I was already finding it quite odd that you monitored how many GB's you downloaded. :lol:

The cheapest plan (to my knowledge) over here is a download speed of max 400 KB, upload speed of I think 200 KB and no limit. Costs 15 euro's I think.

Bluesky · by **Andrew** on Fri Oct 31, 2008 8:42 pm

Sure, rub it in.

by **Jackal** on Fri Oct 31, 2008 8:45 pm

I'm just doing my best James impersonation. Instead of calling you, I'm trying my level best to get you to just move here.

by **The X** on Fri Oct 31, 2008 8:49 pm

last time I checked, I was using about 2GB per month....although considering I'm downloading a little more on PS3 & watching more videos, wouldn't surprise me if it doubles....

by **Joe'** on Sat Nov 01, 2008 1:06 am

Thanks for the walk-through Jack. uTorrent's not available (yet) for OS X and Transmission doesn't have an RSS feature, but I found a nice little app that does the trick.

On a different note, ADSL sucks over here. Upload speed is like 1.2 MBps max and that really slows things down... But yeah, unlimited capacity, and some even offer unlimited dynamic IPs. The cheapest plan is €19 I think, for 2 MB/640 KBps.

Thank God we have FTTB (optic fiber) here in Milan (20/20 MBps.) Pretty expensive (€42,50 per month) but worth it.

by **mAgoTT50** on Sat Nov 01, 2008 1:40 am

6.8 gig every day on utorrent

http://www.last.fm/user/SometimeWorld · by **sucram** on Sat Nov 01, 2008 9:47 am

Going with what andrew said, i probably have one of the bigger caps available in Aus. 50g limit, i usually download 40 or so. Download 1 or 2 tv shows and i'd say about 5g of music a week. Not sure where the rest goes, although come nba season i do end up streaming 1 or 2 games a day.

by **Valor** on Sat Nov 01, 2008 10:13 am

Andrew wrote:It just goes to show how far Australia is behind other developed countries when it comes to Internet access, not just in speed but in plan capacity as well. Usage caps are the norm here in Australia (currently mine is 20 GB before it's shaped) and the really heavy download plans (40 GB or more) are quite expensive.

damn, that reminds me of how bad the internet connection is back in New Zealand....

over here in Hong Kong its something like 100mb/s (just internet speed, not shared btw, i dont know the download/upload speed is) no limit, and very cheap...

i dont download much but when i need to its very fast...

by **Angelo** on Sat Nov 01, 2008 12:34 pm

Your connections are so fast btw im just curios can you also post your connections? im just having a 1mbps connection

by **Valor** on Sat Nov 01, 2008 1:58 pm

i'm not sure what you mean by posting my connections..sorry ><

edit: if it helps, my isp provider is HKBN, Hong Kong Broadband Network. one of the major internet providers here in HK.
supposedly they are using something called Fibre-to-the-home so the user gets a direct 100mbps/10mbps/1mbps connection depending on the plan

Bluesky · by **Andrew** on Sat Nov 01, 2008 3:12 pm

sucram wrote:Going with what andrew said, i probably have one of the bigger caps available in Aus. 50g limit, i usually download 40 or so. Download 1 or 2 tv shows and i'd say about 5g of music a week. Not sure where the rest goes, although come nba season i do end up streaming 1 or 2 games a day.

Who are you with, if you don't mind me asking? Those plans are usually too rich for my blood.

http://www.last.fm/user/SometimeWorld · by **sucram** on Sat Nov 01, 2008 3:44 pm

with TPG atm, i think it's like $70 or $80 a month

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