Peer to Peer

getcarter

Please could someone explain what 'peer to peer' is in relation to broadband usage, we keep going over our allowance and paying extra so I need to work out what's going wrong.

Thanks

CharlieBilly

It always depends on what you download and share plus your monthly limit. Sometimes it best to go fora tarrif that is unlimited especially if you download, upload data or watch iplayer a lot

googler

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer-to-peer_file_sharing

Do you frequent any torrenting sites such as those mentioned?

getcarter

Personally I don't, I do have 2 teenagers who swear they don't go on anything like these. I have blocked Youtube on occasion as one of them has definate tendancies to over do it!
I do tend to reply on the eldest one to block things though which is a bit like getting the fox to guard the henhouse!

macman

They're telling porkies then. Time to switch to a unlimited tariff. Data used over your capped allowance is charged at a very high rate.
Nothing to do with YouTube if they're torrenting.

getcarter

Has anyone got any unlimited broadband suggestions? currently with plusnet.

RichardD1970

getcarter wrote: »

Has anyone got any unlimited broadband suggestions? currently with plusnet.

Plusnet do unlimited. I think most do now.

kwikbreaks

Teenagers can consume frightening amounts of bandwidth with perfectly legitimate activities - skype video calls left running all night together with YouTube etc. etc.

My 12 year old grandaughter ate 2GB of my then 3GB for the month 3G sim on a weekend visit to my holiday caravan and that was just using an iPad in the evenings.

custardy

getcarter wrote: »

Personally I don't, I do have 2 teenagers who swear they don't go on anything like these. I have blocked Youtube on occasion as one of them has definate tendancies to over do it!
I do tend to reply on the eldest one to block things though which is a bit like getting the fox to guard the henhouse!

You need to look at exactly whats going on
Do they have their own computers or share yours?

Ectophile

getcarter wrote: »

Please could someone explain what 'peer to peer' is in relation to broadband usage, we keep going over our allowance and paying extra so I need to work out what's going wrong.

Thanks

Normal web surfing is "client-server". You want to see something on a web site. Your computer asks for the stuff, and the web server sends the stuff back to your computer. That's it. Your internet usage is the size of the stuff you've viewed, plus a trivial amount extra for the requests.

Peer-to-peer is different. You want to download stuff. The P2P software finds another person's computer that has it. You download the stuff from their computer onto yours.

However, the stuff is now on your computer. If somebody else does a search, they may find it on yours. So they download it from your computer. But this is eating into your data usage. Over time, you can find your data allowance is rapidly disappearing as other people are downloading stuff from your PC, without you even realising it.

P2P and limited-data broadband packages don't really go together.

Terry98

TalkTalk do unlimited and are most probably the cheapest. The negative is bad customer service.

How much are you using every month?