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How much is 1 GB of data

  • 12-08-2011 11:40am
    #1
    Vanhalla
    Closed Accounts Posts: 412 ✭✭


    Im thinking of switching to 3 mobiles 1GB plan a month as i wont be using the internet as much as i was.
    So just for checking email daily and the odd site, is 1gig enough? i hear its expensive if you go over the limit.
    thanks


Comments

  • #2
    MiCr0
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,265 ✭✭✭MiCr0


    are you planning on using this for a laptop or for a phone?


  • #3
    Willbbz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 894 ✭✭✭Willbbz


    I use about 1GB a day :P It's not a lot, 1GB is 1024mb. Downloading 1 song is about 5MB- 8MB
    If it's just e-mail you'll have more than plenty I'd say :)

    If it's 3 mobile broadband and you'll be using it on a laptop/pc you'll really have to ration your data usage. Things like automatic updates and what not will use bandwidth


  • #4
    Overheal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,729 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    1GB/Month is fine if thats all you are doing, but you'd really want to eyeball your consumption for the first few weeks.

    Normally unless the company is a monolithic douche, willing to lose it's subscribers, if you go over your limit to disastrous consequences they can retroactively change your subscription to the higher monthly plan to stop you from paying overages.

    I assume they charge overage by the MB not the GB? The MB (or even KB) works out to be far more expensive.


  • #5
    MapForJ
    Closed Accounts Posts: 354 ✭✭MapForJ


    A frien of mine had one of those on a pc and he was using his allowance rapidly. He reckons it was programs updating in the background, like AV, winupdates etc.

    So maybe watch that.

    It occurred to me though that if one stopped the updates one could be left vulnerable. Am i right?


  • #6
    marco_polo
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 10,088 Mod ✭✭✭✭marco_polo


    MapForJ wrote: »
    A frien of mine had one of those on a pc and he was using his allowance rapidly. He reckons it was programs updating in the background, like AV, winupdates etc.

    So maybe watch that.

    It occurred to me though that if one stopped the updates one could be left vulnerable. Am i right?

    The AV updates should be fairly small and very important so I wouldn't worry about leaving them on.

    Although OS updates are also important, you can turn off automatic updates on Windows as they can be quite large, you will still get notified when they are available, but can chose when download and install them (when you are connnected to a different network with a bigger allocation for example).

    @OP 1GB should be plenty for web browsing and email once you go don't do much Video streaming.


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