Capped or Uncapped ADSL, need some advise.

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Hennie Oelofse

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Hi everyone,

First up, let me just say that we do not have Fibre in my area yet, otherwise I would have gone for that.

I want to get a decent ADSL line for our home, we will use it for general day to day stuff like Facebook, Youtube Videos and Showmax.

Do I need to get like a 10Mbps line or should I look at getting like a 300Gb capped line, not sure if the data will be enough. Also don't know what speeds you get on Capped packages, they don't say...

ANY help will be appreciated.

Hennie
 
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bwana

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I have an uncapped 10MB Telkom home unlimited package that serves our four person household well. We stream a lot. Our monthly peak time average sits between 300 and 400gb.
 
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dr_carr

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In my experience between myself and my partner we watch HD 720p content me watching every day and both of us extensively watching over the weekend; we consume about 100gb per month I would recommend a 10Mbps line given that HD or Full HD (here comes the math) can require anywhere between 337Kbps and 759Kbps depending on the content meaning between 2 people watching simultaneously 10Mbps would be a minimum. As far as data Capped or Uncapped look at the AUP of the ISP; you'd need between 100-200gb data at 10Mbps to watch 5 episodes per day every day each simultaneously for 30days and if they throttle you after 100gb which most Uncapped ISP accounts do then you'd be better off opting for a Capped account in the 100-200gb range or a Premium Uncapped account which could cost more, but anything to keep off the couch :)
 
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