2GB - is equivalent to how many minutes?

danielle21_2

Hi

Ive just been on Sky's website & it says activation fee £40 & free for broadband for 2MB usage. As I wont be using it all that often it sounds good but what is 2MB equivalent to in minutes?

Thanks!

Rex_Mundi

I presume you mean 2GB.......as in your total monthly download allowance.

2GB doesn't equate to time. It completely depends on what you use your broadband for.

Have a look at this bandwidth usage guide. Fill in the boxes as approximate as you can for different services (surfing, email, music, radio, movies etc) you will possibly use. Click submit, and look in the white box just above where you put your details in. It will give you a guide as to how much you will download approx per month.

Rex_Mundi

The sky offer is for 2Mb broadband with a 2GB limit. Baffling you with numbers would not help you.

Running at full download speed, 2Mb BB would give you approx 2.5 hours use per month for a 2GB limit. Normal surfing the net does not work this way. You download a webpage, then spend time viewing the page. If you take as an approximate, general surfing the net to be about 5MB per hour (+/-), then a 2GB limit would give you approx 90 hours (+/-) general surfing per week.

If you download music/movies at full speed, then you only have about 2.5 hours till you reach your limit.