How quickly can you hit your cap?

[rpm]

How quickly can you hit your cap?

Which services provide the shortest full-speed download time? We take a look.

 

[Garth Massey]

a 1 gig account in about 1 hours and 20 min and a 3 gig cap 2 days .....

it all depends on if i want a new copy of suse ......

 

[chubster]

mirror.ac.za

 

[Guest 20221009]

Whoa! Crazy stuff

* Picks jaw from coffee mug..

 

[Fsh]

What an utterly useless comparison... comparing our 4Mbps/3GB accounts to 30Mbps/200GB accounts

 

[Shadow Dragon]

i smacked down 5 gigs in two weeks on a iburst acc this month. not that fast really

 

[hsdpasa]

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[4cer]

did 27Gigs two days ago on an IS account, in one day ?

 

[squirrel]

What's the point of the example exactly? I was hoping it would also include some real life examples (like browsing YouTube videos, forums, etc) and calculate how much it uses.

 

[sunsoffun]

What's the point of the example exactly? I was hoping it would also include some real life examples (like browsing YouTube videos, forums, etc) and calculate how much it uses.

Just do the maths on it. It would be such a variant due to different sizes of web pages, "youtube" movies and connection speed fluctuations to different websites.

The example was for an ideal world, which South Africa is very very very far from!!!

 

[Chevron]

What's the point of the example exactly? I was hoping it would also include some real life examples (like browsing YouTube videos, forums, etc) and calculate how much it uses.

The point is that "broadband" isn't broadband if you can't use it over the full month.

 

[.Froot.]

I finished my 3GB cap within 24h.... and not saying how much I used after that

 

[martmeister]

I asually get through about 30GBs in 15 days. Downloading and surfing each evening/early morning only.

 

[rwenzori]

In South Africa most broadband services carry bandwidth caps of between 500MB and 3GB per month, allowing for a fair amount of email and web browsing.

They're kidding, right????

 

[lilGr]

They're kidding, right????

Thats what I thought , And why only compare against Australia?? Pffft Do China Japan America and Throughout Europe..

Gosh so stewpid , Bottom line is we got f0k all bandwidth!

 

[The_Unbeliever]

They're kidding, right????

Yeah, they're pulling our legs.

For the occasional email and quick browse, 500Mb is enough (on vacation etc) - but it is not enough for daily use.

 

[martmeister]

Yeah, they're pulling our legs.

For the occasional email and quick browse, 500Mb is enough (on vacation etc) - but it is not enough for daily use.

on a 3GB cap you are looking at 100MB a day. 100MB A DAY!!!??? that's nothing. have a look at youtube, load up engadget a couple of times, check your email, hey, a 3MB email with video/music/powerpoints/whatever, and then load up google earth to check where a place is you want to go to later, and then you stream some cool radio station on iTunes. That will be chewed in no time.

 

[<moLe>]

I cry for u..uncapped..but I get my days where I quickly slap through a gig or two..3 gig cap wont last me more than a day I'm afraid

 

[thesurfer]

Get rid of the Communication Minister and allow competition

Hanging on to the past (this business model was tried and dumped in the mid 1990s elsewhere in the world) is the only way to get a modern network with prices based on speed and services, not usage.

 

[Rouxenator]

I had a "site" that needed to be "backed up". It was about 30gb of stuff so I bought an additional 30gb on my 2mbps/2gb amobia account (Cost me R2670 @ R89 per GB). After one day I had downlowded 26gb of the site and a few hours later it was done. The rest of the month I used the internet as little as possbile