How Much Bandwidth Do I Need?

Below we've produced a handy reference guide, detailing in realistic terms what usage limits may mean to the typical Indian Broadband consumers on a monthly basis.

If you want to tailor the usage to your requirements you can use our internet usage calculator.

Please note that this is a rough guide intended for quick reference and is by no means an exact guide. Limits on music downloads for example will depend on things such as track length and audio quality/bit rate.

Internet Activity Assumption 200MB 600MB 1GB 2GB 4GB 10GB 20GB
Website visits 5 pages
0.2MB each 		500 sites 1000 sites 1000 sites 2000 sites 3000 sites 4000 sites 5000 sites
Emails
(text)		 0.005MB each 500 emails 600 emails 1000 emails 2000 emails 3000 emails 4000 emails 5000 emails
Emails
(large attachments) 		5MB each 12 emails 50 emails 50 emails 100 emails 160 emails 200 emails 300 emails
Digital photo downloads 0.75MB each 50 photos 75 photos 100 photos 175 photos 250 photos 350 photos 400 photos
VoIP usage
(eg Skype) 		100MB p/hour - - 2 hours 2 hours 5 hours 10 hours 20 hours
Audio streaming 60MB p/hour - - 1 hours 5 hours 7 hours 12 hours 20 hours
Online gaming 30MB p/hour - 4 hours 5 hours 10 hours 16 hours 20 hours 25 hours
Mp3 file downloads 4MB p/file - - 15 files 40 files 60 files 275 files 500 files
Movie downloads 750MB p/hour - - - - 1 hour 4 hour 12 hours
Web cam usage 1000 MB p/hour - - - - - 1 hour 3 hours
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