{"id":618,"date":"2010-08-20T14:55:59","date_gmt":"2010-08-20T14:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/more-coffee.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=618"},"modified":"2010-08-20T14:55:59","modified_gmt":"2010-08-20T14:55:59","slug":"your-real-net-bandwidth-usage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/more-coffee.co.uk\/?p=618","title":{"rendered":"Your real net bandwidth usage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every hosting company now seems to offer massive bandwidth\u00a0allowances\u00a0or even unlimited (well unlimited until you read they terms and conditions) but did you know for just normal surfing you don&#8217;t really need that much. \u00a0I ran a couple of little tests and the results are quite interesting<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Listening to the BBC iPlayer for 30 minutes is around 33 mb<\/li>\n<li>Watching a 30 minute tv show on the BBC iPlayer in normal definition around 120mb<\/li>\n<li>Listening to online radio (40kps) for 30 minutes 10mb<\/li>\n<li>Doing a google search 0.11mb<\/li>\n<li>Light surfing, I chose to read the news on the BBC site, check the sports results and the weather for the weekend during my lunch break for 10 minutes rounded up a little came to a grand total of 3mb (for for 30 minutes that&#8217;s around 9mb).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now for all you youtubers out there,<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A 2.18 minute video in standard definition is 16.17mb, lets call that 8mb a minute (excluding searching for the funny clip of the panda sneezing or a cat doing something funny.<\/li>\n<li>A 2.18 minute video in HD or 1080p was 63.01mb or around 31.5mb a minute.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Both tests done using the clip of Lady Java from <a href=\"http:\/\/more-coffee.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=615\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">previous post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So what&#8217;s the point of this post, well basically I wanted to share, but mainly when choosing your Internet package don&#8217;t just look at the big flashy numbers. \u00a0Unless you live next door to the telephone exchange you will not get more than about 15Mbit\/s, and unless you stream a lot of media or download a lot of movies then you don&#8217;t need massive bandwidth.<\/p>\n<p>Happy and safe\u00a0surfing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every hosting company now seems to offer massive bandwidth\u00a0allowances\u00a0or even unlimited (well unlimited until you read they terms and conditions) but did you know for just normal surfing you don&#8217;t really need that much. \u00a0I ran a couple of little tests and the results are quite interesting Listening to the BBC iPlayer for 30 minutes&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,21],"tags":[70,104,116,142,289,547,550,574,648,825,872],"class_list":["post-618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-technical","tag-adsl","tag-bandwidth","tag-bbmax","tag-broadband","tag-dsl","tag-namesco","tag-ndo","tag-o2","tag-pipex","tag-talk-talk","tag-virgin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/more-coffee.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/more-coffee.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/more-coffee.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/more-coffee.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/more-coffee.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/more-coffee.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/more-coffee.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/more-coffee.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/more-coffee.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}