listening to radio online

doelani

I know watching iplayer and catchup tv etc uses a lot of your broadband allowance what about listening to radio online?

I have started listening to a different radio which I cannot get on normal fm radio, do not get freeview where I live and not available on sky , we also do not get DAB yet. The only way I can lsiten is onliine. If I was to listen online maybe 8 hours a day would this be a big usage on my allowance? I have 20gb a month

thanks

bat999

Hi
To work out the amount downloaded you need to know the bitrate of the radio stream.
It might be 64Kb/s or 128Kb/s for example.
Can you find out?

doelani

bat999 wrote: »

Hi
To work out the amount downloaded you need to know the bitrate of the radio stream.
It might be 64Kb/s or 128Kb/s for example.
Can you find out?

64kb/s just logged out and in again and it said along bottom of the player ,

bat999

OK
Do some very rough arithmetic.

64Kb/second
x 60 x 60
gives
230400000 bits per hour

divide by 8
gives
28800000 Bytes per hour
That's nearly
30 MegaBytes per hour

So if you listen for 8 hours each day for 30 days,
that's 7200 MegaBytes.

It's nearly 8 GigaBytes for a month.

That's my first attempt at a rough estimate.:D

doelani

bat999 wrote: »

OK
Do some very rough arithmetic.

64Kb/second
x 60 x 60
gives
230400000 bits per hour

divide by 8
gives
28800000 Bytes per hour
That's nearly
30 MegaBytes per hour

So if you listen for 8 hours each day for 30 days,
that's 7200 MegaBytes.

It's nearly 8 GigaBytes for a month.

That's my first attempt at a rough estimate.:D

just checked and acually on 40gb a month , used to be on 20gb and never came anywhere near it so should be ok

thanks a lot

John_Gray

Might be worth you running NetWorx on your PC, and restricting it to the data on the WAN (your ISP connection) not ny other PCs or devices on your LAN. That can give you a daily/weekly/monthly total of all your data transfers, not just that due to internet radio. Better to measure than to estimate!