On Mon, March 19, 2007 3:40 pm, Ryan Simpkins wrote: > On Mon, March 19, 2007 15:19, Matthew Walker wrote: >> >> On Mon, March 19, 2007 3:15 pm, Walter Holladay wrote: >>> UTOPIA will be coming to my neighborhood very soon and I was hoping to get >>> some good advise about which provider to go with. There are four choices of >>> service providers for UTOPIA: >>> 1) AT&T >>> 2) Mstar >>> 3) Veracity >>> 4) Xmission >>> >>> Mstar and Xmission have a bandwidth cap of 100 GB per month. I really have >>> no idea how much bandwidth I use a month, but my phone is through Vonage, I >>> have teenagers that like to play online games and chat with their friends, >>> and I like to upload my digital photos to my web server. Is 100 GB per month >>> reasonable, or should I shy away from anyone with a limit? > > 100GB a month is equivilant to roughly 146 full .iso images (if my math is > somewhat > right). I think the 100GB cap is really there to deter heavy file sharers, > ubergeeks > running a server farm in the basement, and business that need HUGE bandwidth. > > Incidently I think you'd have to push 40kB/sec (320kbps) 24 hours a day, 30 > days a > month, to reach the limit. I could be wrong, but if you used the phone and > played > world of warcraft 24/7 for 30 days solid you likley wouldn't reach the limit. >
Actually, because they don't meter well over half the time, you have to get a continuous 80 KBytes per second to hit the cap in a four week period. During that time, you could download 186 Gigs at that rate, or a lot more if you go faster during unmetered time. -- Matthew Walker Kydance Hosting & Consulting LAMP Specialist /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
