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320MB is still high going by third world internet standards
by kunguru 8y ago
320MB is still high going by third world internet standards
- thisacctforreal 8y agoAKA Canadian standards. https://www.macleans.ca/society/technology/canadas-almost-third-world-internet-access/ https://www.macleans.ca/society/technology/canadas-almost-th... My grandfathered $140/month mobile plan has 14GB of data; 320MB is 70% of a day's bandwidth, or 2% of the month's. If I wanted to add another GB I could accrue $100 in overages ($0.10/MB), or pay another $25/month. But Bell will charge for another month in advance if you change the current month's plan. Strangely enough it was only $5/month to up it from 13GB to 14GB :< All this despite being able to download at 7MB/s; I could blow my cap in half an hour, and another half hour would cost $1,400 if I didn't up the plan. Edit: I use my cellphone's data heavily, but 20, 40, 50GB cable internet caps are common with a lot of people not understanding what that means for streaming video / downloading pictures.
- bscphil 8y agoIt's high by any standards. A 60 MB webpage would take 5 seconds to load on a 100 Mbps home broadband connection, which is well above the median in the United States. On most mobile connections a 60 MB webpage is going to be borderline unusable.