<p>Ya, I usually stream hour long Lost episodes every week, along with a few different sitcoms. Not good. Is there like a 50 GB value plan lol?</p>
<p>After graduation, one of the things i dearly miss about Cornell is DC++!</p>
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Ya, I usually stream hour long Lost episodes every week, along with a few different sitcoms. Not good. Is there like a 50 GB value plan lol?
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<p>well, you have the option of waiting a few hours to a day and getting the episode off of cornells dc++ instead, funny how in this case the limit, probably partly intended to stop illegal sharing encourages it(mostly intended to save bandwidth/money, which is understandable as much as I'm not looking forward to the limit, wish they could say offer a plan with 50 gb for like 10 bucks more a month which would probably cover the cost, but Cornell is not exactly an isp)</p>
<p>however one episode a week won't put you over if that is the only thing, its more if you watch a variety of shows online or do other bandwith heavy stuff</p>
<p>I'm kind of saddened at the 10GB limit too because it looks like I'll have to cut back on some activities. The overusage charge isn't too bad if you look at other plans. Just don't do any large file downloads, streaming and you should be good. </p>
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Will streaming high def shows and playing online video games put me over the limit almost every month?
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<p>Probably...a half an hour show is probably around (this is a really rough estimate) 200-300 MB...</p>
<p>Divx files at good quality run at about 350MB (to fit on a cd) for roughly 45mins of video.</p>
<p>Since streaming video is usually compressed much, much more, I'd say 150MB per hour of streaming video sounds about right.</p>
<p>I was thinking along the lines of shows that might be pulled of DC++...which probably will be in DivX. It's good to hear that streaming is less.</p>
<p>Shows off of DC++ don't count towards your limit, since it's intranetwork usage.</p>
<p>streaming shouldnt be a problem with a 10gb limit...</p>
<p>who else is excited to see heroes, weeds, entourage back on the air?! z0mg dramaz lies!!! :D</p>
<p>^the big networks are starting to offer pretty high quality streams</p>
<p>and I'm excited for heroes and entourage, haven't watched weeds, whats it about?</p>
<p>I want to watch heroes! Can't wait until September..</p>
<p>I check weekly with Fox on Demand for American Dad, The Simpsons, and sometimes Family Guy.</p>
<p>weeds has been terrible this season. I am more excited about dexter, along with a lot of other shows (entourage and the office included).</p>
<p>Weeds is awesome...</p>
<p>it's about marijuana ^_^</p>
<p>I've only heard of Heroes. Are the other two shows cable-only?</p>
<p>Yes, entourage is on HBO and weeds is Showtime. The best shows seem to come on these 2 networks. The Sopranos, The Wire, etc.</p>
<p>Another show I forgot about is Big Love, I wonder when it will come back, and I hope curb your enthusiasm has another season. Brotherhood is another good show.</p>
<p>ResurgamBell, it doesn't matter what it is about, the quality of the scriptwriting has gone down the tubes. It is absolutely ridiculous now.</p>
<p>I've never had cable before, so I'm pretty much lost when it comes to these kinds of things. Hopefully I won't get addicted to Cornell TV.</p>
<p>That is not something I here everyday, although I didn't have it until like the 8th grade. Not sure what all comes on Cornell TV though (but I doubt it has HBO and showtime, which kinda sucks).</p>
<p>I have had directv's sunday ticket package for like the last 4 years though and could not live without it. I guess I will have to catch games at the sports bar when I leave home.</p>
<p>Terrabytes? Lol...do you know how much disk space that means? Even if you download movies continuously for a month you wouldn't be able to generate traffic of 1 Terrabyte...</p>
<p>Sure you can. Downloading continuously at 800kbps you can download 1 TB in 15.5 days.</p>
<p>I think Cataxx underestimates the connection speed at Cornell... And Kyt gives a conservative estimate.</p>
<p>I've heard that 800kbps is considered in the low range of things on a good day. If you were seeding over bittorrent for a popular file on a connection like this it is feasible you could surpass the 1TB mark (I presume the limit is upoad + download).</p>