Re: what popular websites are bandwidth hogs?

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From: Don McKenzie
Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2010 23:56

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Dr Sir John Howard, AC, WSCMoF > wrote:
> Nomen Nescio wrote:
>> My internet usage jumped from 1 GB per month to 5 GB.
>> My girlfriend moved in and she uses Facebook + Myspace a lot.
>> Neither of us has downloaded videos, music, software ISOs
>> and such big items. I heard that many contemporary websites
>> eat up 1 or 2 MB per hour with rotating ads and refresh
>> and such crap. Also that they are unusable on a dialup
>> connection. Is there anybody who monitors the popular
>> websites and issues bandwidth hog ratings?
> 
> Use FireFox with AdBlock+ or NoScript.

Just beat me to it, I couldn't agree more.

Cheers Don...




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