how do computers accumulate megabyte usage specified by the ISP?
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ISP's count two kinds of megabyte usage:\n\n-Storage: the files that make up your web site or email take up space on the ISP's server. The usage is almost always just the total size of the files, or how much space they take up on the hard drive.\n\n-Bandwidth:  how much traffic you produce, or how much data is transferred between your web site and someone looking at it.  This is harder to calculate because a lot of things come together to make up the bandwidth usage (the ISP has tools to track it though).  For example, you have download page which has 20 small picture "thumbnails" on it. Someone visits your site. The entire page with the thumbnails gets transfered to their computer. That size goes towards your bandwidth usage. They then download two of the pictures, in their normal size, not the thumbnails. So the size of each of the pictures is added to the bandwidth usage. There is also "overhead" where files take more space when being transferred between computers than they do when they are just sitting on the hard drive; it's kind of like shipping something by UPS. You have to wrap your item in a package to ship it, and you base the shipping charge on the size of the total package with its wrappings, not just what's inside of it.
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Considering that most computers connected online have hard drives with 20,000 or more megabytes (20 gigabytes, accounting even for somewhat older systems), the number is pretty huge.\n\nDue to the sheer number of people online and such, it's pretty hard to say.  However, I've seen simple networks with over 100 terabytes, or 100,000,000 megabytes of information.  With how many of these there are in the world, As of 1997, over 3,000 terabytes (3 billion megabytes) of information was simply transferred over the internet per month.\n\nNeedless to say, the Internet is much, much larger now.  So, to answer your question, it's a lot.  I'd guess that by now, the Internet has trillions of megabytes flowing through it each month.
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You don't want network utilization to be high, that would slow down data transfer speeds on the network.\n\nThe Networking tab provides a scale showing the relative level of Local Area Connection traffic that the workstation you're working with is generating. By default, only 1% is shown. If you are downloading many files and are working with many remote resources, the percentage of Local Area Connection will go up quickly.
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In My Computer.  Select: Local Disk (C).  View DETAILS, lower left. \nClick on View System Information at the top for the other info.  \n\nClick this link for the kilobyte/megabyte values you requested:\nhttp://familyinternet.about.com/cs/computinghelp/l/aa052401a.htm\n\nHope that helps.
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Mega bytes are bigger - kilo bytes make up mega bytes
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Go to internet explorer. If you only have a C: drive, click right mouse on C:, select "properties". This will tell you teh total and used disk space.\n\nInternet connection: Goto start->settings->network connections.\nOpen the active connection, there you have an entry for speed.
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This article in Technology Research News(TRN) says "the Internet is big by any measure:The Internet Systems Consortium pegged the number of Internet hosts as of January, 2004 at 233 million.Global Reach counted 729 million users online as of March, 2004.And a University of California at Berkeley study showed that,in 2002,532,897 terabytes of new data flowed across the Internet,440,606 terabytes of email was sent, and the Web contained 167 terabytes of data that was accessible to all users,plus another 91,850 terabytes in the deep Web where access is controlled.A terabyte is 1,000 gigabytes, or 1,000,000 megabytes,or the amount of information that can be stored on 213 DVDs,or one tenth the amount of information stored in the entire Library of Congress print collection".
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I have the same problem. It's a result of use and the memory taken up by the programs installed.
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It really depends on the speed of your internet connection. Such that your internet speed connection is 64K (64 kilobyte per second), and the files that you have downloaded is 6.25 megabyte, you just divide the amount of data downloaded and the amount of data per second.\n\n6.25 Mb / 64 Kb\n= 6400 Kb / 64 Kb\n= 100 seconds
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118mbs for home usage.
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That is the harddrive in the computer case. It is probably working hard due to the bandwidth being limited w/so many folks feeding off of the same ISP/location.
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It depends on your system's memory and the capacity of your hard disk/storage\n\nVirtually unlimited
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you cant really do that...\n\neach program you use uses your DSL to the maximum of your connection, or to the maximum that your program will let it, or to the maxiumum incoming connection.\n\nYour DSL is already maximized. The only way it can be limited that you can control is if in a program settings there is a "cap maximum download/upload rate" and it will create a ceiling limit.\n\nBut most of the time you are downloading something from somewhere, and you can only go as fast as they can send it. If you are uploading, you can only upload as fast as your DSL lets you. In either case, you are at the maximum you can possibly go.\n\nIf you are only using a little bit of your total connection at a time, you can open more downloads or uploads at once to use more and more of your connection, but it will not speed up any downloads you have.
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Well on our ISA server there is a directory called C:&#92;Program Files&#92;Microsoft ISA Server&#92;ISALogs that holds all the traffic it has seen passing through and details IP, Destination url/IP, date/time, type of browser etc etc.\n\nCheers
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set the NIC speed to a lower number on the computer you wish to b/w limit ... understand that the bandwidth you get from your internet provider is (under ideal conditions) 5Mb up and 5 Mb down (reality is more like >400Kb up and 5Mb down) ...  unless you are downloading huge files, you wont really impact each other... its unlikely that you will see much difference in performance unless you are using some really antiquated junk
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It is the amount of data that they will allow to be transmitted from your account each month.\n\nHow much you will need depends on how large the files are that you are hosting and how often they will be accessed by users.\n\nIt is normally more economic to have too much rather than too little, because if you exceed your bandwidth allowance many hosts will either just suspend your account for the remainder of the month or will charge you for each extra Mb used - sometimes at quite high rates!
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actually, you are only connected to the ten. there are 50 members in the swarm with the file. your computer can only accept an amount of data prescribed by your internet connection speed/bandwidth.