- Newbie questions.
- Posted by Paul on February 11th, 2006
Two questions.
Apart from bandwidth, what are the limits on downloading email, and
news? Could be the respective server's capacity?
Connected via a router, are you 'using' bandwidth if your link is idle?
I assume not.
'No question is a dumb question' but sometimes it feels like it.
TIA
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- Posted by Andrew Sayers on February 12th, 2006
Paul <Fintor@invalid.invalid> wrote:
It will depend on what limits your ISP has set, and which account you are on.
Generally for email you'll never have a limit problem, unless you get a lot of large
attachments, but for Usenet some ISPs (Plusnet for example) give you a monthly
"limit" before they start to restrict the speed of your link.
OTOH if you are on a 1Gig a month capped account, for example, then you may find you
just pay more for going over this limit. You'll need to check with Demon to fond out
how you are effected.
Yes, you will use a little. If my router is on and all computers are off, my ISP's
usage shows a tiny amount of traffic, being things like probes etc etc.
It's so small though it shouldn't effect your overall usage total to any extent.
hth
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- Posted by Paul on February 12th, 2006
In message <at7uu197cbfo8210chik4n1essob4067i2@4ax.com>, Andrew Sayers
<none@all.invalid.com> writes
Hmm, my question wasn't clear. ;(
What I meant to ask was about the download <speed.> I ask this because
although email is significantly faster, news seems about the same speed.
the link that you mention.
Demon fortunately has no limits.
Paul.
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- Posted by Peter M on February 12th, 2006
Paul wrote:
Same speed as *what* ? Also, are you using Demon's news service, or
that of NIN ? It seems like the latter, from which I assume you are
on the Demon 19.99/month account, and unable to use theirs.
On the basis you are using news.individual.net, it may be worth using
http://groups.google.com/ as I felt recent comments were that there
had been some speed or reliability issues.
I don't use NIN, and never have, so cannot comment. Peter M.
- Posted by Paul on February 12th, 2006
In message <43ef3d73$0$6982$ed2619ec@ptn-nntp-reader02.plus.net>, Peter
M <us-mail@rocketmail.com> writes
Yes, Demon's 19.99 and yes using NIN
from myself appear almost instantly on NIN, whereas on Demon it took
five minutes or so.
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