How to Reduce Your Bandwidth Consumption (Part 1)

Hey, friends! In the last blog, we talked about the major bandwidth bandits that steal much of your online computing capacity. In this new blog post, we’re taking it a step further by helping you try a few ways to minimize your bandwidth consumption and spend it on more important and valuable stuff such as your online work and education.

Here’s how to proactively reduce your bandwidth consumption.

1. Adjust streaming quality

So you really love streaming movies in Netflix and Hulu. You can’t survive a day without streaming music through Spotify and Pandora. Or you feel your day is incomplete if you don’t see some crazy YouTube video. Great news. Just simply tweak your streaming quality in your settings page and you’ll be okay. You don’t have to watch everything in extreme high-quality, and high definition if you’ve watched something a million times before. Or do you?

2. Block access to streaming sites

If it’s not you who is consuming your bandwidth with all these streaming sites—or it’s you, but you are just totally radical—you can block off the sites mentioned above and any other streaming sites that eat up your bandwidth. Chances are you will be more productive in your online tasks as you eliminate a big chunk of the temptation that eats up not only your bandwidth but your time as well.

3. Monitor cloud applications

Check if your cloud-based applications are consuming much of your bandwidth without your knowledge. Backing up to the cloud is no big deal if you only backing up small files. However, this can consume your bandwidth if your settings aren’t properly optimized. Try throttling your cloud backup solution. If let it free, it can consume as much bandwidth as it can. So keep this in check.

So these are just the first three places that we recommend you look into if you want to save precious bandwidth. In future blog posts, we’ll explore more ways that you can enjoy a much better online experience without the hassle of running out of computing capacity.

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