Bandwidth

[bednobs]

Hi, i have the computer on for about 6 hrs a day, open to internet pages. Dpes anyone one how much downloading approx i'd be doing? does it use more if you have more than 1 tab open?

[rojash]

"Hi, i have the computer on for about 6 hrs a day, open to internet pages."

That doesn't tell us anything, it's how many pages you open and what they consist of that counts. So (for example) if you just opened it on Google and left it sitting there for 6 hours, it would use no more than if you opened it on Google and immediately closed it.

It doesn't make any difference whether you open a page in the same tab or a different one, it needs to download the page's content.

[VHG]

Impossible to say.

Everything you look at on the internet is downloaded to your PC, so it depends on what web sites you are looking at, and what you are looking at.

Text is small (size wise), images and graphics a bit bigger, and video is the largest of all.

So if you spent 6 hours looking at text based web sites you would download hardly any data, if you spent 6 hours watching videos on YouTube you would download quite a bit of data, probably gigabytes.

In fact if you watched a couple of minutes of HD video, that would probably download more data than spending 6 hours looking at text based sites.

The more tabs you have open the more data that will be downloaded, but the data from a web page is downloaded only once, so it would make no difference looking at two web sets from a single tab, or a web site each from 2 tabs.

It is not the number of tabs you have open but the number of web sites you visit. (and what you look at one those sites).

[bednobs]

those answers are really helpful, thank you both very much

[bednobs]

ps it's mainly text based, here, email (yahoo and plusnet) facebook, internet forums, bbc website and so on. The only time i ever watch videos is if someone posts a link to an interesting one here