What Does 2 Gigabytes Get Me? |
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Monday, 11 October 2010 |
What does 2GB (2000 megabytes) get me? When potential users hear about a 2GB allowance, everyone wants to know what exactly that means. What can you do with 2GB? 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 | 200,000 | | 1 webpage visit to EVDOinfo.com | 150 KB | 13,332 | | 1 Hr of Online Poker | 2 MB | 1,024 Hrs | | 1 downloaded song from iTunes | 4 MB | 500 | | 1 digital photo (point & shoot digital camera) | 3 MB | 666 | | 1 digital photo (pro / prosumer digital camera) | 10 MB | 200 | | 1 typical 3 minute video on YouTube/Google | 5 MB | 400 | | 1 hour of 56k audio stream | 25 MB | 80 hrs | | 1 typical 5 minute video on iTunes | 30 MB | 66
| | 1 typical 45-minute TV show from iTunes | 200 MB | 10
| | 1 hour of video stream or 2-way video chat | 52 MB | 38 hrs | | 1 hour of World of Warcraft online gaming | 32 MB | 62 hrs | | 1 hour of Netflix Standard Definition stream | 660 MB | 3.0 hrs | | 1 hour of Netflix High Definition stream | 1.67 GB | .666 hrs** | | 1 Full-length (2 hours) movie MPEG4 download | 1.5 GB | 1.2 | | 1 entire DVD (MPEG-2) disk image | 4.5 GB | .4** | | 1 hour of Hulu Standard Definition stream | 350 MB | 5.8 hrs | | 1 hour of Slingbox Standard Definition stream | 444 MB | 4.6 hrs | | 1 hour of Ustream Viewing | 192 MB | 10.6 hrs | | 1 hour of Ustream Broadcasting | 102 MB | 20 hrs | | 1 hour of Xbox/PS3/Wii Online Gaming [Average] | 50 MB | 40 hrs | | 1 hour of Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection | 60 MB | 34 hrs | | 1 iBook download for iPad [Average] | 0.5 MB | 4,000 | | 1 episode on ABC Player for iPad [1hr episode] | 183 MB | 11
| | 1 hour of Pandora Radio streaming | 27 MB | 74 hrs | | 1 hour of AOL Radio streaming | 50 MB | 40 hrs | | 1 hour of Facetime 2-way video calling on iPhone 4 | 90 MB | 22 hrs | | 1 Minute iPhone 4S to 4S Cellular Video Facetime Call | 2.5 MB | 13.5 hrs | | 1 Minute iPhone 4S Skype Cellular Video Call | 1.5 MB | 23 hrs | * number of times/hours you can perform this activity before hitting 2GB
** not recommended with the 2GB plan; even ONE of these activities would exceed 2GB 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, 2GB 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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