How much data are you using?
by DWHS Web Hosting Admin on 09/12/09 at 4:30 pm
How much data are you using for common tasks? We have done some averages and estimates and this is what we came up with for the average internet usage session.
ACTIVITY *
ESTIMATED SIZE – EACH ACTIVITY **
*Email (1 page without attachments)
**30 KB
*Web Page Look-up
**200 KB
*Web Browsing/Viewing Video Clips
**3 MB
*Download music
**5 MB
*1 Full-length (2 hours) movie download
**1.5 GB
Leeanne Lana
Feb 21st, 2010
Hi Very first time jumped right here on your site, founde on ASK.
Katelyn Henderson
Jun 21st, 2010
How much bandwidth if I want to download lots of movies?
DWHS
Jul 19th, 2010
Katelyn, it depends of course but generally you would would our business plan if you are going to have movies for download. http://www.dwhs.net/web-hosting-plans.htm
For a home connection even DSL can stream movies well with the current flash compression. It will also there is even better internet video compression coming from HTM5 shortly.
Joe Mason
Jul 26th, 2010
Good to know, I have been looking for this for almost 20 minutes before I saw your site.
Joel
Oct 4th, 2010
I videos are eating my bandwidth, wish I could find a way to slow it down sometimes. maybe a limiter or I don’t know.
Mike
Oct 19th, 2010
Wondering is email and ftp counts for this as well?
bobby new
Oct 24th, 2010
Interesting, I like the highway reference.
Rachel
Dec 20th, 2010
Interesting, are there any other factors?
Wendy
Jan 25th, 2011
This explained so much for me, thanks!