British Warns Bandwidth Hogs

BT, or British Telecommunications, has warned 3200 customers that they have exceeded their bandwidth allowed for the month. BT allows up to 40Gb of downlading per month. Anything over 40GB can result in penalties. Some people have downloaded as much as 200GB in a month.

(Wired Blogs)Such high levels of downloading are certainly far from typical for the average person and are likely to indicate a heavy diet of large media files such as music or movies.

If these customers were downloading music, for example, at a rate of 200GB per month, they could nearly be filling an iPod Nano twice over every single day--or 50 times over in just one month. That's approximately 50,000 songs.