Let me start with a quote from Mahatma Gandhi which triggered this question of mine
I had this question from a long time, and there are many members who are not satisfied with either their speed or their bandwidth allotted or the price they are willing to pay to the ISP for accessing internet.
How much speed or bandwidth is required for a consumer?
One of the important point to consider is that internet has become a integral part of everyday life and to get proper service you should consider a good ISP/Plan to suite your requirement.
I see people dreaming 2Mbps Unlimited data without FUP for cheap rates!!!! why unlimited? you want to download the whole internet?
Main and true reason would be to download tons of Movies and music and other content. Any one disagrees?
I used to be on a BSNL data plan (500?) which gave me 2GB data with night unlimited. this was good as I could schedule all my heavy downloads at night, but due to connectivity and other quality issues I moved to Airtel.
My current plan is gives me 4Mbps up to 75GB and post that limit its suppose to switch to 256Kbps. surprisingly I have never reached 75GB limit!! atleast one person in my family will be using the connection at any given moment of the day. Dad - youtube and other music related sites, bro - official work, youtube and other sites including downloading, me - youtube/videos , browsing(heavy), online gaming.
on a average only my PC uses between 1 to 2 GB on a single day,more on weekends. Laptop is used by others as well as there is another youtube streaming device which is used to watch movies on youtube.
when it comes to torrents I download about 2-3 GB of data per week.In total my data consumption will still be below 75GB. I pay about Rs. 1700 per month for the above service which I think is very reasonable.
So till TRAI redefines the definition of "Broadband" in India, the following should be considered
One needs to know the limit on how much bandwidth is required for a person low, medium, large, heavy. and based on the bandwidth and application requirement he should be able to chose a speed and a budget.
I really don't understand people wanting 2Mbps True unlimited for Rs. 500, this wont happen till TRAI raises the minimum speed limit for a service to be called as Broadband. if you require larger bandwidth then you need to pay more..
On other note, there are people with true bandwidth/speed requirements like youtubers, content producers and upcoming/independent film makers and artists,who may not be able to afford a faster internet connection but still require a larger bandwidth. For them internet is the only available channel to showcase their talent.
on a ending note.. let me quote again
lets have a healthy discussion.
PS:do recommend if title change is required.
Here is a list of how much data can be downloaded on different connections.
*i.imgur.com/4jZMiVU.png
Source
I had this question from a long time, and there are many members who are not satisfied with either their speed or their bandwidth allotted or the price they are willing to pay to the ISP for accessing internet.
How much speed or bandwidth is required for a consumer?
One of the important point to consider is that internet has become a integral part of everyday life and to get proper service you should consider a good ISP/Plan to suite your requirement.
I see people dreaming 2Mbps Unlimited data without FUP for cheap rates!!!! why unlimited? you want to download the whole internet?
Main and true reason would be to download tons of Movies and music and other content. Any one disagrees?
I used to be on a BSNL data plan (500?) which gave me 2GB data with night unlimited. this was good as I could schedule all my heavy downloads at night, but due to connectivity and other quality issues I moved to Airtel.
My current plan is gives me 4Mbps up to 75GB and post that limit its suppose to switch to 256Kbps. surprisingly I have never reached 75GB limit!! atleast one person in my family will be using the connection at any given moment of the day. Dad - youtube and other music related sites, bro - official work, youtube and other sites including downloading, me - youtube/videos , browsing(heavy), online gaming.
on a average only my PC uses between 1 to 2 GB on a single day,more on weekends. Laptop is used by others as well as there is another youtube streaming device which is used to watch movies on youtube.
when it comes to torrents I download about 2-3 GB of data per week.In total my data consumption will still be below 75GB. I pay about Rs. 1700 per month for the above service which I think is very reasonable.
So till TRAI redefines the definition of "Broadband" in India, the following should be considered
One needs to know the limit on how much bandwidth is required for a person low, medium, large, heavy. and based on the bandwidth and application requirement he should be able to chose a speed and a budget.
I really don't understand people wanting 2Mbps True unlimited for Rs. 500, this wont happen till TRAI raises the minimum speed limit for a service to be called as Broadband. if you require larger bandwidth then you need to pay more..
On other note, there are people with true bandwidth/speed requirements like youtubers, content producers and upcoming/independent film makers and artists,who may not be able to afford a faster internet connection but still require a larger bandwidth. For them internet is the only available channel to showcase their talent.
on a ending note.. let me quote again
lets have a healthy discussion.
PS:do recommend if title change is required.
Here is a list of how much data can be downloaded on different connections.
*i.imgur.com/4jZMiVU.png
Source
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