Bandwith Usage

timestar

How much of your bandwith does watching the odd video on YouTube use up? Thanks.

John_Gray

Run Networx and you can see for yourself... :j

bat999

Hi
I reckon that watching YouTube videos uses around 6 Mega Bytes a minute.
(I used arithmetic instead of software).;)

DCFC79

I cant answer your question but you could install something like this to monitor your usage

tripled

Are you asking how quickly the data is being transferred (throughput) or how much data is being downloaded, for example for a 1 minute video?

John_Gray

bat999 wrote: »

I reckon that watching YouTube videos uses around 6 Mega Bytes a minute.
(I used arithmetic instead of software)

The OP said odd video, so your calculation may be inaccurate... :rotfl:

bat999

Hmmm..
There are lots of odd videos on YouTube.;)
Maybe someone else will come up with a more accurate answer than my 'old skool' attempt.
:cool:

JasX

Some are higher than resolution than others, download some kind of freeware bandwidth counter if you want to know for certain but a budget of 1GB per hour of playback seems reasonable

fiddiwebb

bat999 wrote: »

Hi
I reckon that watching YouTube videos uses around 6 Mega Bytes a minute.
(I used arithmetic instead of software).;)

How many fingers & toes does a bat have then?

bat999

JasX wrote: »

but a budget of 1GB per hour of playback seems reasonable

Hmm..
That's over 16 Mega Bytes a minute.

Edit
This might be the case for those HD 720p videos that are on YouTube now.
My result was based on the flash video format.

Basil1234

just download a meter like http://www.thinkbroadband.com/tbbmeter.html tbb or dumeter will show all network traffic up and down which is where it will all count so many isps out there with there magic limits alot of people dont count there up as well into the figures.
hope this helps