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Title: MotoGP Bandwidth
Post by: Andy Clap on 01 December 2014, 06:41:28 pm
Just taken a new broadband contract with BT, so now have access to MotoGP, Hooray!


I've got a 10GB monthly download limit.  Anybody know how much a MotoGP uses on a "device"?


Cheers.
Title: Re: MotoGP Bandwidth
Post by: Grayo on 01 December 2014, 06:47:44 pm
BT Broadband customers get BT Sport free so if you've got Sky then you can view MotoGP free.
Title: Re: MotoGP Bandwidth
Post by: Andy Clap on 01 December 2014, 08:36:45 pm
BT Broadband customers get BT Sport free so if you've got Sky then you can view MotoGP free.
Yeah, don't have Sky though, cheapskate FreeSat guy.  So I'll have to watch on laptop/tablet/phone etc.

Title: Re: MotoGP Bandwidth
Post by: Skippernick on 01 December 2014, 09:09:22 pm
1gb is about an hour in standard definition of tv viewing based on downloading from iplayer.
Title: Re: MotoGP Bandwidth
Post by: Andy Clap on 01 December 2014, 09:11:01 pm
1gb is about an hour in standard definition of tv viewing based on downloading from iplayer.
Ta  :)   Couple of races a month shouldn't be a problem then!
Title: Re: MotoGP Bandwidth
Post by: NorthWestern on 01 December 2014, 09:14:09 pm
Check the details, they might not include bt sport streaming in your bandwidth.
Title: Re: MotoGP Bandwidth
Post by: BBROWN1664 on 02 December 2014, 11:33:32 am
10GB a month? That's not much really. Virgin slow down my connection for the rest of the day if I go over 5GB in a day but they only slow it down from 60Mb to 10Mb so I tend not to notice when it happens :rollin

And yes, it is easy to hit 5GB in a day of you download a software DVD or two from Microshaft.
Title: Re: MotoGP Bandwidth
Post by: Wade90 on 02 December 2014, 01:23:12 pm
I pretty sure if you're a BT broadband customer you have to login to the BT Sport website, once you've done this on a laptop it doesn't use any of your bandwidth.

I've got BT Infinity Broadband with 20Gb limit and that's how mine works. I watched ALL of the last season's racing without any problems.  :D
Title: Re: MotoGP Bandwidth
Post by: Buzz on 02 December 2014, 04:27:25 pm
10GB a month? That's not much really. Virgin slow down my connection for the rest of the day if I go over 5GB in a day but they only slow it down from 60Mb to 10Mb so I tend not to notice when it happens :rollin

And yes, it is easy to hit 5GB in a day of you download a software DVD or two from Microshaft.


Virgin stopped throttling on downloads a while ago, it's unlimited now.  The only thing they throttle on is uploads, the threshhold for a 60Mbit connection is 1.3 Gigs in 2 hours ...you'd be going some to exceed that (unless your upload speed on Bit torrent is set to max)