Originally posted by
[email protected] 1 2005, 06:05 AM
One GB is 1024 Megabyte or 1073741824 bytes. You can do the following with 1 GB download limit :
1. An average web page is about 50 kilobytes in size - so you could download around 20,000 web pages for 1 gigabyte.
2. An hour of surfing the web would be around 10 megabytes (200 pages) so you could surf non-stop for about 100 hours for 1 gigabyte.
3. An hour of streamed radio would use about 15-20 megabytes.
4. An hour of streamed video uses around 100-150 megabytes.
5. Playing an online game typically uses about 10-15 megabytes per hour.
6. Emails are very small - so 100 emails would be just 1 megabyte - or 100,000 emails for 1 gigabyte! (of course the attachments count extra)
7. A super-high resolution (5-6 megapixel) digital camera JPEG picture or typical MP3
music file is about 2-3 megabytes so you could download 350-500 of these images/music files for 1 gigabyte.
Very few users would actually exceed the download limits set.
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Bravo. You have fully convinced me about the adequacy of the darn 1 GB limit, and now I understand that how silly I had been over this issue.
But, my friend, the follwing things suddenly came to my mind, perhaps I am doing the right thing:
1. Perhaps I don't need to update my antivirus definition periodically. BTW, I use NAV, and my subscription is over and Liveupdate doesn't work anymore. So, every now and then I have to download the 7 MB self extracting updater. I used to do this with Dial-up. But as I have B'Band now, I guess I should stop downloading it!!!
2. Perhaps the widondows update service should be stopped.
3. May be I can do away with the update of my trojan remover database, which btw 1 MB signature, and it updates automatically.
4. I have
nVidia AGP card installed. About once in a month, they release a new driver , which is about 40MB or so.
5. May be I should stop updating my other numerous softwares, like Adobe Acrobat Reader which does it all by itself.
6. I am the member of a number of forums, where people posts pictures and flash media on the page itself and the average size of those pages is more than 1 MB. Oh, sorry, I am on broadband now, have to stop visiting those evil pages, gotta visit only those who are 100k or less!!!!
7. May be I don't need to attach those digital photos I took with my SLR for my
brother in Florida, which is btw, about 2 Mb each. May be I should burn those on a CD and use snail mail, as I have broadband now. And I am also thinking about leaving mu GMail a/c, why do I need that much space for, my emails are only 10k in size !!!!
8. I am an avid fan of net radio, and they (thank god) webcast those on 56k or less. I used to listen to those when I was on dialup, now I am on broadband, so I guess I don't need 256kbps/512kbps/1MBps speed. May be I should reduce my speed with NetLimiter to say, 80kbps. After all, why do I need that much bandwidth for.
9. Oh, yes, I have also stopped using DC++, eMule, Kazaa and BitTorrent. Those evil things makes me download too much (pirated/immoral) shits. Thank you BSNL for showing me the right way!!!
Pupudada!
