Facebook bandwidth

Dave_C_2

We've got visiting grandsons and the older one was using Facebook at every opportunity until I discovered that it was using about a 1 GB per day!
As my broadband is limited to 10 GB per month under BT Option 1.

Please can anyone tell us how to reduce this excessive bandwidth usage.

Not much difference between his XP/IE netbook and my Windows 7/ Firefox laptop

Dave

LincolnshireYokel

well the obvious answer is to switch to an ISP or tariff that hasnt got a cap...............

paddyrg

Actually the more obvious route is to stop them using the darn interweb so much!

1GB/day is almost certainly some video too - actual facebook/text/email is quite light useage, photos and music ramp it up a bit, and video absolutely ramps up the MB's pronto

Jamie_Cortez

Here do this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b19s_BD7ewU

Follow the video make sure to open notepad as admin or it wont work, and change the yahoo aspects to facebook, with and without www.

( he will thank you in the future)

-TangleFoot-

If you got a Home Hub from BT and your visitors have the same ISP you could 'ave 'em use FON instead of using up your monthly allowance.

MoneySavingUser

he is probably watching videos as mentioned or playing games etc. on it - the simple answer is to get him to use it less

Dave_C_2

Just to clarify, I don't want to stop my visiting grandson from using Facebook, just looking for a way that isn't consuming so much bandwidth.

Yes we both know what eats bandwidth and are well aware of not downloading videos or playing games. The bandwidth is all facebook. We have agreed a four hour time limit as a workaround.

I don't use Facebook and was hoping for some sneaky Facebook option to limit download size.

Dave

-TangleFoot-

Ad- and Flash-blocking browser extensions could help reduce the amount of incoming data too...

Dave_C_2

-TangleFoot- wrote: »

If you got a Home Hub from BT and your visitors have the same ISP you could 'ave 'em use FON instead of using up your monthly allowance.

Sadly they use Virgin media at home so FON is not an option. Believe me if we had unlimited fast VM in our village I would be using it!
Dave

-TangleFoot-

Hmm... any Wi-Fi hotspots in the vicinity?

Lifeforms

It doesn't matter how much you blame "facebook" it is not eating up your bandwidth. Quite probably it's watching film, video, youtube etc probably linked in facebook if you are so insistent that is all that is being browsed. Frankly 1gb on facebook must be vids and such refreshed constantly over all the day, and we're talking about either lots of short vids, or they're sitting there watching a couple of hour long videos.

Turn off flash, turn off Java, so those plug ins don't work. problem solved.
BT are not exactly great in estimations, and has been mentioned in threads before about sudden internet usage too.

If it really is facebook that is the root cause of it, you can't stop it other than saying no surfing. It's a platform for other content linked, so photos, videos etc. If you stop those, you stop a lot of facebook showing per say.