It is important to remember the amount of data you use is largely impacted by your online activities, not just the amount of time you spend online. Video streaming (Netflix, Hulu, YouTube), file sharing, online gaming, etc. are all activities that count toward bandwidth consumption.
Here are some examples:
- Web Surfing for one hour = 18 MB
- Average Email size (without attachments) = .02 MB
- Online Gaming for one hour = 20 MB
- Social Networking for one hour = 51 MB
- Streaming Video for an hour (SD) = .75 GB
- Streaming Video for an hour (HD) = 2 GB
- Video Chatting for an hour = .34 GB
Please note: 1 GB (gigabyte) = 1024 MB (megabytes)
To exceed a 250 GB limit, you would have to do any of the following:
- Send 50 million e-mails (at 0.05 kb/email)
- Download 50,000 songs (at 5 MB/song)
- Download 63 high definition movies (at 2 GB/hour streaming) ex. Based upon 2 hour movie
Upload 25,000 high resolution digital photos (at 10 MB/photo)