50gb monthly allowance enough?

[Petem95]

A lot of ISP's download 'limits' dont seem to be that strictly enforced. We've got weedy a 10gig limit on BT broadband, which probably gets exceeded significantly every month but never had anything from BT about it.

[toml245]

Your only really going to go over 50gb usage if you download alot of large files like films and tv shows.

[SammEl]

Can easily download 5GB a day of legel stuff everyday for a month, HD trailers, HD reviews, game demos etc.

[Butcher]

Use mine for gaming, a fair bit of downloading, youtube streaming and the like - used 2.1GB in the past week. 50GB is a lot of transfer.

[direxion]

50gb a month is by far enough for pretty much any average user

i doubt he'll even push past 2gb per month from your description... and for £15 p/m... i'd say thats a fair deal!

[Jezza101]

To echo the above, it is hard to believe 95% of users will ever come close to that usage right now. There might be a time when watching TV or downloading movies is the norm but I don't think that is the case right now.

At the risk of upsetting some I also believe that very few legitimate users could sustain that level of downloading. I consider myself a heavy consumer of legite stuff and tend not to go higher than 10-15gb or so. That will include maybe one or two game demos, internet radio, and a few iPlayer telly progs over the week.

Of course if your uncle is a hermit who sits infront of the PC all day then he may need a higher limit! He might also want to get out the house more - take him for a pint ! I guess there really are some people who have the time to watch a couple of movies a day, check out every game demo, etc but I think they must know that they are a "specialist" portion of society. To be polite !

[Zadock]

I'm on O2 and I get through about 3-4Gb per month (at a glance from the mcaffee stats thingy), thats from downloading the odd demo, linux distribution, game mod or patch. I use skype... a lot! and I play games over the net frequently (particularly Diablo 2 just lately).

The most I have ever managed in one month was 8Gb, and that was when the witcher enhanced edition patch came out.

So I think 50Gb is more than enough for most people... excessive bit torrent use or hosting (gaming or web) are probably the only things that are likely to push usage.