Any tips for cutting down on my data usage?

[lord_emperor]

Get all the blocking addons you can.

Setup a caching server and configure it to cache EVERYTHING.

 

[Joseph F]

Get all the blocking addons you can.

Setup a caching server and configure it to cache EVERYTHING.

What is a cache server and how do I set it up?

 

[Jeff7]

Get all the blocking addons you can.

Setup a caching server and configure it to cache EVERYTHING.

And then go back do dialup.
53000bps = 6625 bytes/second.
2,592,000 seconds per month
17,172,000,000 bytes per month


Also, some lulz.
(Let it run for awhile. 🙂)

 

[SparkyJJO]

Few things you'll just have to accept:

You can't watch internet videos
You have to block ads
You have to limit your internet usage to 2-3 hours a day
Your internet is basically only for forum browsing and news reading

True
Not 100% true but sure helps save bandwidth for the good stuff (and who likes sucky ads anyway?)
False
Mostly True

As I said, I would spend hours on the internet when I was still living at home between school and jobs, and we didn't have too hard a time staying under 5GB/month.

 

[0roo0roo]

but does operas turbo feature work when you have too much bandwidth? I haven't used it in a while but I do remember it complaining ithat it wasn't necessary for my connection.

 

[lxskllr]

but does operas turbo feature work when you have too much bandwidth? I haven't used it in a while but I do remember it complaining ithat it wasn't necessary for my connection.

I think it does, but I've only used it on marginal connections. Crashes the browser sometimes, but that's on Ubuntu. Windows might be better.