Internet speeds : 1 gig limit at 256kps... How slow is this?

zasterguava · #1 09-03-2007, 09:02 AM

Moving into apartment that has the following speed:
1 gig limit at 256kps

How bad is this and what does the 1 gig limit mean?

kerowo · #2 09-03-2007, 09:13 AM

It means you are on the low end of DSL and have an absurd limit to how much you can download in a month.

zasterguava · #3 09-03-2007, 09:19 AM

Well clearly Im going to have to quit downloading torrents etc. But what else is considered a "download"- playing games? opening up pokerstars?

funkyworms · #4 09-03-2007, 11:06 AM

anything you do online uses bandwidth and is therefore considered a "download" as you put it. 1 gig is a very low limit per month. You can use that up in a month doing nothing more than playing at poker sites and surfing 2p2.

zasterguava · #5 09-10-2007, 02:47 AM

I have changed it to a 5gb limit with the speed 512k/128k. Is this adequate for around 4 hours of internet usage including pokerstars daily?

Josem · #6 09-10-2007, 07:26 AM

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I have changed it to a 5gb limit with the speed 512k/128k. Is this adequate for around 4 hours of internet usage including pokerstars daily?

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depends on what you're intending on doing.

if you don't intend on downloading video or music on a significant level, you should be fine (ie, streaming video reguarly, streaming music reguarly, etc.).

hukilai · #7 09-10-2007, 09:07 AM

5Gb with 512k/128k? Let's see...

5Gb in 30 days is about 160Mb per day. If you say you will be using it no more than 4 hours a day it will be about 40Mb per hour, or translating it to Kbytes per second (40000/3600) is over 10Kbyte/s.
Even multitabling will not occupy more than 2-4 Kb/s of your bandwith, so playing poker will be just fine. AIM, occasional downloads (mp3 and stuff like that), Windows/antivirus updates should be no problem too.

Minimal DVD movie file size is no less than 4-5Gb, so don't even think about it, unless it is a DVIRip (with a filesize of around 700Mb) - in this case you can get one or two a month and still not exceed your limit.

Just in case you did not know that, your 512k download speed can get you up to about 64Kbyte/sec - so using it for just an hour daily at full speed will eat all your traffic. (It is not too bad, I once had a subscription where I could exhaust all my monthly traffic in just 30 minutes - literally.).