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What Does 1 Gigabyte Get Me?

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Saturday, 01 August 2009

What does 1GB (1000 megabytes) get me?

When potential users hear about a 1GB allowance, everyone wants to know what exactly that means. What can you do with 1GB? Is it a lot of usage or a little? Are you in danger of exceeding your limit?

To help answer the question, here are some examples of what typical 'downloads' eat up in bandwidth:

Activity/Download
File Size
X*
1 email
10 KB
100,000
1 webpage visit to EVDOinfo.com
150 KB
6,666
1 Hr of Online Poker
2 MB
512 Hrs
1 downloaded song from iTunes
4 MB
250
1 digital photo (point & shoot digital camera)
3 MB
333
1 digital photo (pro / prosumer digital camera)
10 MB
100
1 typical 3 minute video on YouTube/Google
5 MB
200
1 hour of 56k audio stream
25 MB
40 hrs
1 typical 5 minute video on iTunes
30 MB
33
1 typical 45-minute TV show from iTunes
200 MB
5
1 hour of video stream or 2-way video chat
52 MB
19 hrs
1 hour of World of Warcraft online gaming
32 MB
31 hrs
1 hour of Netflix Standard Definition stream
660 MB
1.5 hrs
1 hour of Netflix High Definition stream
1.67 GB
.333 hrs**
1 Full-length (2 hours) movie MPEG4 download
1.5 GB
.6**
1 entire DVD (MPEG-2) disk image
4.5 GB
.2**
1 hour of Hulu Standard Definition stream
350 MB
2.9 hrs
1 hour of Slingbox Standard Definition stream
444 MB
2.3 hrs
1 hour of Ustream Viewing
192 MB
5.3 hrs
1 hour of Ustream Broadcasting
102 MB
10 hrs
1 hour of Xbox/PS3/Wii Online Gaming [Average]
50 MB
20 hrs
1 hour of Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection
60 MB
17 hrs
1 iBook download for iPad [Average]
0.5 MB
2,000
1 episode on ABC Player for iPad [1hr episode]
183 MB
5.5
1 hour of Pandora Radio streaming
27 MB
37 hrs
1 hour of AOL Radio streaming
50 MB
20 hrs
1 hour of Facetime 2-way video calling on iPhone 4
90 MB
11 hrs
* number of times/hours you can perform this activity before hitting 1GB
** not recommended with the 1GB plan; even ONE of these activities would exceed 1GB

One thing that is not on the chart that we would be remiss to forget about is major software updates for your computer. They don't happen daily, but could easily be over 100 MB and have been known to happen a couple times a month. It may be a good idea to set your computer to NOT automatically download updates so that you don't "use up" all your bandwidth unknowingly.

From these charts, its obvious that the activities that consume the most bandwidth involves video streaming or downloads use up the most bandwidth. If your web habits include mainly emailing, web surfing, and the occassional YouTube video, 1GB may be plenty of data for you.

Note: if our chart does not include data you'd like to see included, send an email with specifics to sales@3gstore.com and if we can find authoritative answers to you question, we'll update this article.


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