Q&A: How much can I use the internet with Broadband Light 2GB a day?
Question by anna i: How much can I use the internet with Broadband Light 2GB a day?
My son got a Great deal with SKY for internet, phone, sky + box, etc etc. Anyway, when he got his contract through it said he only gets Broadband light with 2 GB .. how many hours a day on average can he go online with that?
Best answer:
Answer by Jamie
68 MB per day (30 days), theres no limit to the amount of time you can spend on the internet, but 2GB is low for a month
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It’s not enough – to do anything at all!
My Kaspersky Internet Security has a network monitor, which records the volume of network traffic by application.
The two biggest culprits are “system” – that will be exclusively windows updates, I think
and “Kaspersky” itself – AV updates…
So whether browsing, social networking, downloading or whatever – the system and KIS downloads would be fairly consistent, I think. That’s XP (but let’s hazard a guess that Vista or W7 would be unlikely to require less) and KIS 2010 – for the record.
Last month, 10.7Gb of download included 5.3Gb system and 2.7Gb KIS – that’s a minimum of 8Gb required to do nothing at all.
3 weeks ago, 1.3Gb usage included 0.5Gb system and 0.4Gb KIS.
2 weeks ago, 3.0Gb usage included 1.8Gb system and 0.6Gb KIS
Last week, 2.5Gb usage included 1.4Gb system and 0.6Gb KIS
Mon-Fri of this week, 1.8Gb usage included 0.7Gb system and 0.6Gb KIS
So, 2Gb would not even cover the KIS upgrades each month – I wouldn’t expect other security packages to be significantly different, add in the system upgrades/patches and 10Gb looks like a true minimum for just e-mails!
How to quantify the overhead for whatever else you would want to do?
It would be a guess, and sticking to round numbers – I’d arrive at the same conclusion as sewrobb, 20Gb…
That said, when my son rebuilt a PC at Christmas, and logged into his Steam account, the download of all the games software he had accumulated took us past the 100Gb limit BT applied to our “unlimited” service, triggering a cap to our (alleged) 8Gb service – down to 1Gb for a month!
For subsequent rebuilds he transferred the games from PC to PC (backup & restore).
So, the short answer to the question “How many hours…” is none at all.
O2 is present at my local switch, so they now provide my household’s better and cheaper service – I haven’t yet tested their unlimited policy though…
That is not 2 GB a day but 2 GB a month.
Enough to do your emails for a month and very little else. Any downloading as in the true sense of the word and any video streaming is out.
As an example I would use 2 GB in less than a day and I do very little downloading or streaming.
Depending on what you want to do revolves around what package you need. For the average user you need a minimum of at least 20 GB a month now or an unlimited account.