What's meant by download in internet? How do the ISPs calculate
downloads? Is it on the basis of pages visited or the information
downloaded manually to the computer? My internet account shows :
Received : xxx kb
sent : xxx kb
total : xxx kb
What does it mean? Please clarify

"skrishsam" <skrishsam@gmail.com> wrote in message
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provider (ISP) by both computers sending packets of data, these electronic
packets are measures in bytes, kilobytes (kb) or megabytes (Mb) depending on
how much how the app displays etc. Each time you log onto a site, download a
file recieve an email you will have received some data xxx kb, sometimes
your PC will send a little data to the website to say hi I'm here, and a
sent email will send data therefore thats your sent xxxkb and the total is
the total transferred.

thanks. but it doesn't answer my first part of the question?

"skrishsam" <skrishsam@gmail.com> wrote in message
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reading a post, logging onto a website or saving a file). The term upload
means transferring data from your pc to another pc/server website.

I don't know exactly how the ISPs calculate it, there is a real chance they
each do it their own way, but the obvious way would be simply to 'count'
each byte of data which is transferred via your modem (dial up or broadband)
to your pc. E.G. your last post was 2kb so in reading it I've downloaded
another 2kb, logging onto a webpage whcih is say 878 kb would add another
878kb and then downloading a mpeg file at 2.2Mb would add that.

Hope that answers your query.

"skrishsam" <skrishsam@gmail.com> wrote in message
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Download or downstream traffic = All packets you receive.
Upload or upstream traffic = All packets you send.

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snip!
Very succinctly put, wish I'd said that!

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Netmeter is a nice little free utility which tells you how much you're
uploading and downloading.
http://readerror.gmxhome.de/

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I don't remember a DSL or cable broadband service having [monthly] bandwidth
limits so the OP might be asking about using dial-up or they are asking
about quota usage for some service, like for newsgroups. In that case, a
bandwidth meter running locally won't match the bandwidth quota being
measured for the service. For example, my newsgroups account gives me a 2GB
monthly bandwidth quota; however, header downloads are NOT included in the
quota. So Netmeter would show more download bandwidth (if it could be
configured to show it ONLY for packets received from a particular sending IP
address) than my newsgroups service would show for bandwidth usage.
Downloading headers across lots of newsgroups can amount to way more traffic
than for the text posts that I select to [download and] read. We really
don't know to what the OP is referring for his "Internet account".

Most of the broadband ISP's here have different packages on offer with
differing monthly usage limits. I use Wanadoo £17.99 package which has a
nominal 2GB monthly limit.
I regularly go well over that with no penalty but other UK ISP's are much
stricter, adding extra charges to phone bill or even disconnecting service!
That 2GB figure includes ALL upward and downward traffic.

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Ouch! I checked at Wanadoo and used their "calculator" to determine the
best offer and they don't have a best offer that provides an unlimited
bandwidth quota even if you would pay for it.

Added to that the fact that I should be getting 8MB connection speed but I
am only getting 2MB. Not Wanadoo's fault but BT, (British Telecom)'s, who
own the lines and exchanges. My local exchange needs upgraded for the 8MB
speed.
You wonder why they call it Rip Off Britain!

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"skrishsam" <skrishsam@gmail.com> wrote in message
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Internet traffic is based on the 'bit', so 1000 bits = 1 kb, 1000 kb = 1 mb
etc (roughly)
This is because the 'cost' of the Internet is basically tied to the size of
pipes required to transfer the 'bits' around.

Some 'Pages' have more 'bits' in them that others, to charge on the basis of
'pages' visited for example would be to penalise people who visit low data
count pages, and conversely go easy on people visiting 'rich' multi media
pages.


Cheers
Paul.