What does 1 Gigabyte Get Me? |
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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:
** even ONE of these activities may not be possible with 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. Related Articles
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