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Not a technician pro, help please?
So I have Rogers for my internet and I keep getting this message:
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and me being not a genius in...the financing part of technology, does not understand it. 25 GB of what? I'm checking my used space on the Local Disk (C:) and it says 50.0 GB.
Please use...language that you would describe for your parents,grandma, high school student.
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Hi there,
It is talking about how much you have downloaded from the internet.
Let us say that you watch a full length movie on-line. If you watch it in high quality mode, it can use up 1GB (GigaByte or 1 billion bytes.)
So if you were to watch 25 movies just like that, your internet company would begin charging you extra for everything else you downloaded. Why? Because you went over the limit that they set for your account.
Right now, you are being charged $2.50 extra on your bill for each 1GB of information you download from the internet.
You should call them and see if they have an un-limited plan you can switch to if you always download a bunch from the internet.
You don't have to worry about text based things like advicenators. Consider this: 1GB = 1 BILLION letters on your screen. (Simplified example.)
abcdefghij=10Bytes.
The limit you hit = 25 BILLION letters worth. That is a bunch of letters! :-)
So how did it happen?
Well, the things that eat through that limit quickly are:
Videos (If you spend 4 hours on youtube you can use up 2-4GB in just those 4 hours.)
Music (Streaming music sites like pandora)
Filesharing (The worst one. Example limewire)
Some on-line games are pretty bad but far less than the others I have listed.
In summary: Your internet connection only allows you to download so much information off the internet (25GB worth) after which they charge you more ($2.50 for each extra GB until it hits $50 worth) until next month's bill begins.
I hope this made sense to you. If not, ask me another question containing just exactly what doesn't make sense so I can further clarify it.
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