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At the moment I am living at home with a 25GB per month allowance (that's for 3 of us at home). I am moving out and have a few options when it comes to internet:
I don't know how much I usually use, I don't know anything about GBs etc, but I know that between the 3 of us we use our 25GB just before the month ends, we watch movies and play games online and download stuff- none of which I will be doing in my new flat.
I'm just wondering, if I wanted to stalk facebook for 10 minutes, check my emails, and stalk fun advice for 10 minutes everyday, how many GBs would I need per month?
Could somebody also explain GBs and how they are used and what uses the most of them? Thanks
Hi, The gb (giga bit) number is the amount of data that you can download for free. So if you download a movie (or watch a movie on-line, it's the same because it has to come in through your Internet line either way) the size of the movie file is counted.
Written stuff is not usually large in terms of data usage. Pictures, music and movies will use most of your data amount. High resolution pictures are more data than bad quality pictures. HD Movies use more than bad quality youtube videos.
If you click any file that you have saved on your PC with the right mouse button and then see "properties" it will tell you the data size, in bytes. One byte is 8 bit. One kilo byte (KB) is 1024 bytes. One mega byte (MB) is 1024 kilo bytes. And one giga byte is 1024 mega bytes.
So there you can see what size the files are. If you really only do mails, funadvice and facebook and you don't watch a lot of uploaded photos... and if people don't usually send you mails with large attachments (funny power point files with tons of pictures of cute kittens or other cräp like that) then the smallest amount will probably be sufficient for your usage.
Thanks so much for your answer, so if I was just browsing facebook funadvice and email just for like 10-15 mins a night with no huge attachments or anything, do you think roughly 5gb a month would be alright?
Yes, probably.
