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Originally Posted by Soundy
^All good points by FiveDime.
Keep in mind, it's not quite as terrible as it sounds: according to Netflix, streaming uses about 1GB/hr for SD, 1.5GB/hr in HD. You'd have to be wasting a LOT of time in front of the tube for it to become a problem.
Skype, streaming radio and Facetime bandwidth are negligible by comparison. As an example: a friend of mine decided to see if he could rack up to his 6GB iPhone data plan a while back, so he played streaming videos (YouTube mostly) constantly for two weeks... and barely scratched 500MB. He ended up dropping his plan to a 2GB limit and still comes nowhere close to it.
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are you kidding me? I don't have a data plan on my phone so I'm not sure if its the same but I was tracking my own usage(PC) by watching music videos and etc to see how much bandwidth it would use and on average a 4-5 min MV @ 480P quality was using 40-50MB per video. I mean for the casual user of course the 60GB limit is not going to mean anything to them but you have to realize files are getting bigger and bigger as quality goes up. I mean just taking me for example I'm a big tv shows guy and I am always busy when they are on so I download/stream them later on instead and a regular 40 minute episode is 350MB for standard quality and 1GB for 720p. You can see how that all adds up quite quickly. I mean we will basically be working with 2GB a day and if you have another person in the household that uses the internet too then you are basically shit out of luck.