1GB data

Legacy_user

My lovely hubby has bought me a tablet for christmas and for the most part i will just connect to the household Wifi but if we go away i plan on getting a Giffgaff data sim but would 1GB be enough ?

Niv

How much data do you use? How long is a piece of string? Is it a tablet that can have a sim card inserted?

paddyrg

Emails, updating apps, casual browsing, probably.
Watching or downloading films/TV/video it'll run out in a couple of hours depending on the quality (bitrate).

It's impossible to answer as it's all about how you use the device!

esuhl

1GB is roughly 1.5hrs of BBC iPlayer streaming...

Or a eighth of an uncompressed dual-layer DVD...

Or a third of the Windows 10 ISO image...

Or 25 MP3 albums...

Or about 1,099,511,600,000 characters of plain-text emails. That's 157,073,089,682 words (based on an average word length of 7 characters including spaces).

debitcardmayhem

esuhl wrote: »

1GB is roughly 1.5hrs of BBC iPlayer streaming...

Or a eighth of an uncompressed dual-layer DVD...

Or a third of the Windows 10 ISO image...

Or 25 MP3 albums...

Or about 1,099,511,600,000 characters of plain-text emails. That's 157,073,089,682 words (based on an average word length of 7 characters including spaces).

Maths lesson needed :rotfl:

Sharon87

Don't forget you can get free Wifi when you're out in certain places, especially if you have Sky/BT at home you can usually use their cloud services when out.

I would say 1GB should be ok as long as you're not streaming all the time when you're not on Wifi. It should be fine for general Facebook browsing/emails/maps.etc

esuhl

debitcardmayhem wrote: »

Maths lesson needed :rotfl:

Ohh.... did I get that wrong? D'oh! Let's try again:

1GB = 1024 x 1024 x 1024 bytes = 1,073,741,824 bytes

So that's 153,391,689 words.

(Did I get it right that time?!)

debitcardmayhem

esuhl wrote: »

Ohh.... did I get that wrong? D'oh! Let's try again:

1GB = 1024 x 1024 x 1024 bytes = 1,073,741,824 bytes

So that's 153,391,689 words.

(Did I get it right that time?!)

Closer , but you forgot the headers for each packet , you could be about 1-2% out :cool:

pappa_golf

I had a giffgaff sim in my tablet last year , the download speed on gigggaff was rather slow compared to other networks

F1F93

If you don't plan on going away lots (and don't expect to do much video streaming when away - just browsing, emails etc) then just tether it to your phone. Will be far cheaper than a rolling contract - and if you run out of data then you can usually buy an add on for the month.

If you plan on streaming lots then 1gb won't be enough.

RumRat

pappa_golf wrote: »

I had a giffgaff sim in my tablet last year , the download speed on gigggaff was rather slow compared to other networks

4G is now standard on all plans.