Dinesh A. Joshi wrote: > Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > >> wow DJ saying a cap is fair!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! >> >> > > Yes and please look at the numbers? Its virtually unlimited unless > you're doing some heavyweight downloading. I forgot to mention, the cap > that I'm thinking of is only *downstream*. Not upstream. On a 1-2Mbps > connection 500GB is very difficult to reach. > > > Assuming a utopia average speed of 1 Mbps, if one continuously downloads data for one month, it will be:-
125 KBytes per second * 3600 * 24 * 30 = 324 GB. We will need bigger hard disks just to store the download. What about electricity bills? :-) If this download is a streaming DVD quality video for television with stereo audio, what are the total hours of videos that will pass through in one month? -- Regards, Rony. GNU/Linux ! No Viruses No Spyware Only Freedom. -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
