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Lowering Upload/Download

In New Zealand, they do broadband a bit differently than back home in the states. With our plan, they really focus on your upload/download usage. I am limited to 5GB upload/download a month. Originally, I didn't think this would be a problem -- I was wrong. I'm amazing at the amount of data that is passed through when I surf.

Anyone have any tips to keep this low? Other than surfing less of course.. Skype definitely has something to do with it... What about RSS readers? -- is that doing some damage?

Thanks,

Jonathan Cisco
http://www.dreamingnz.com

TOPICS: Life Hacks
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This could be pretty helpful...

This could be pretty helpful if you have a huge RSS subscription list. Essentially, you are offloading the RSS updates to Google's bandwidth and then just refreshing your Google Reader page. This could be a pretty smart move to reduce bandwidth and stay up to date with sites that have RSS feeds without running up a huge bandwidth usage.

 
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