Approximately 1% of customers use more than 50% of the available bandwidth during peak hours. We don't believe this is fair to the vast majority of our customers. So in Sept 2005 we developed our Data Transfer Limits
30720 Megabytes (30GB) is the data transfer we allow for our standard residential High-Speed customers. The average customer would not exceed this limit in over 5 months.
Here is what could be done with the service on a monthly basis prior to going beyond the limit:
Surfing Web pages
(An average Web page weighs in at about: 40KB)
Visit 768,000 Web Pages in a month
Visit 25,599 Web Pages each day
Visit 18 Web Pages each minute, 24 hours a day for a month
Online Movie Trailers
(An average super-high-quality movie trailer is about 50 Megabytes)
Download approximately 615 super-high-quality movie trailers in a month
Download approximately 21 super-high-quality movie trailers each day
Online Gaming
(An average hour of online multi-player gaming uses about 30 Megabytes)
Play an online game 24 hours per day, every day ( this would amount to less than one half the limit)
Streaming Music
(An average hour of streaming music at a bit rate 128 Kilobits per second uses about 56.25 Megabytes)
Listen to CD quality streaming music for 18 hours per day for an entire month and not reach 30GB
Email Messages
(An average HTML Email message weighs in at about: 10KB approximately, or 0.009765625 Megabytes)
Receive 3,145,732 Email messages in a month
Receive 104,857 Email messages each day
Receive 73.5 Email messages per minute, 24 hours a day for a month
MP3 Music Files
(An average high-quality, 128Kilobit version MP3 file is about 5 Megabytes)
Download approximately 6,144 MP3s in a month
Download approximately 204 MP3s each day
Download enough MP3s in a month to create 361 Audio CDs (assuming 17 songs per CD @5MB each) before you approached the usage limit
If an entire month was spent downloading 30GB of Mp3s, it would take twenty two and a half days to listen to all of them.
Movie Downloads
(An average movie is approx 750 MB)
Download approximately 40 full length movies in a month
Download approximately 1.5 movies each day
Download over 90 hours of movies in 1 month
Game Download
(The downloadable demo for Doom 3 is 473 Megabytes)
Download 2 copies of the Doom 3 demo each day for a month
Digital Photos
(An average digital photo is approximately 0.25 MB)
Send approximately 122,880 digital photos via Email in a month
Send approximately 4,095 digital photos each day via Email
