How much time is 5gb of internet

[nephy]

Hello,
does anyone know?

 

[buwish]

This topic has been moved from the section Opinions and Experiences to section Networking by Buwish

 

[Pyroflea]

Well it depends on what you're doing. If you're just browsing websites, it should last quite awhile. If you do a lot of downloading, it won't go very far at all. For example, a CD tends to be ~60-80MB, while an SD movie tends to be around 700MB. You can see how this could eat up data very quickly.

Again, if you're just browsing, I doubt you'd reach the limit within a month.

 

[Brian_tii]

How long does it take to empty a 5 gallon bucket of water? The answer is similar for both questions.

 

[Pyroflea]

A bucket of water takes a few seconds

You're pouring it too fast :lol:

 

[JDFan]

Depends on the speed of the connection -- on my 12Mbs service it would take about 1 hour to download 5 gb. worth of data !!

 

[Pyroflea]

Depends on the speed of the connection -- on my 12Mbs service it would take about 1 hour to download 5 gb. worth of data !!

That's assuming that you're downloading at 12Mbps (1.5MB/s) for a full hour though, which is pretty unlikely

 

[JDFan]

I pay $45 a month for 12Mb\s downstream and 2Mb\s upstream (used to pay $55 for 18Mb\s down 2Mb\s up but never really needed that fast since most downloads never reached full speed due to the server it was coming from so cut back)

That's assuming that you're downloading at 12Mbps (1.5MB/s) for a full hour though, which is pretty unlikely

Actually I get really close to that a lot of times when downloading movies 700MB takes about 10 minutes usually. (though I guess that is about 4 - 4.5GB. per hour not 5 but still close)