Is 3gb enough?

[nuyork]

What Telkom is offering is something closer to always-on dialup.

EXACTLY!!!!

 

[bwana]

Podcasts, especially the video variety, are killers.

EDIT - Just the four audio ones I get weekly from twit.com account for well over 100mb per week

 

[Ekhaatvensters]

Define browsing? Does watching YouTube videos include browsing? What about flash sites etc. Aside from that it'd be quite easy for a few people combined to clock up 3 gigs in a month on normal browsing, broadband connections are supposed to be shared anyway. Point is broadband by definition, and everywhere else in the world, allows you to download and view whatever you want. What Telkom is offering is something closer to always-on dialup.

Ja, I think besides the downloading argument the main problem is sharing the connection, and obviously businesses sharing the connection for the workplace. Even if you watch quite a lot of You-Tube videos and visit some flash sites or download the flash content, one user will still just reach about 3 GB a month from browsing and normal emails etc.

You have 100mb a day, and about 60mb from browsing is quite a lot, and remember some days you would not even go on the internet at all, or only use a few megs. So about 40mb left for some email which could go from nothing to about 20mb, and then you can watch 30mb or so movies from you-tube if you really want too. And you can download applications etc (legal stuff) and update anti-virus with "left over" bandwidth basically.

But anyway, I want the bandwidth to download so I dont know why I'm thinking of how you can stay in 3 gigs I guess its because I have to do it too

 

[SkypeUser]

3GB is not enough if you using broadband for what broadband was ment for.

My point exactly, especially if u download linux distros (like me)

 

[TesterMan]

Sid Meyers Railroads demo, 1.8 GB (I did not want to wait for the demo on the magazines DVD)

 

[Syndyre]

Podcasts, especially the video variety, are killers.

EDIT - Just the four audio ones I get weekly from twit.com account for well over 100mb per week

Don't you know that downloading 4 audio podcasts a week is abuse.

 

[Paul_S]

You have 100mb a day, and about 60mb from browsing is quite a lot, and remember some days you would not even go on the internet at all, or only use a few megs.

Some of us use the Internet EVERY day without exception.
Ok I admit - I missed one day out of the last month because the ADSL authentication was broken for 12 hours.

Back to my argument - who was the idiot who decided that I'm not supposed to use the Internet every day and hence the 3GB cap?