Usage Information

Usage Information

How plan sizes are counted?

Your IPSTAR plan counts the amount of data transferred between your computer or other connected devices and the internet over a certain amount of time. The billing period is one month. So if you have a 10GB plan this is the total amount of data that can be transferred between your computer or other devices and the internet within the billing period. Data is measured in bytes, kilobytes, megabytes and gigabytes. We sells our plans in megabytes and gigabytes.

 

What is a gigabyte (GB) of data?

 

A gigabyte (GB) is measurement unit for computer data that is technically about 1,048,576 Kilobytes (KB) and around 1000MB…but in the real world, this equates to approximately:

  • 8 – 16 hours of Facebook viewing
  • 1.5 hours of video conferencing (SD)
  • Around 200 music tracks (5MB each)
  • Approximately 1000 images or photos (1MB each)
  • 1.4 standard definition movies (700MB per movie)

 

Activity type
Measurement of estimated/approximate data used
Internet browsing/surfing
1MB – 4MB per minute (hugely variable depending on the site)
Email received
500KB per email (estimate includes attachments & spam)
Film as a download
2GB per film (avi, mpeg, divx)
Games/movie trailers
100MB each
Music tracks as a download
5MB per song (4-5min duration)
Online gaming
15MB per hour
Music streaming
1MB – 2MB per minute
Photos/documents
850KB per image
Facebook
1MB – 2MB per minute
YouTube and video streaming
2.5MB – 6MB per minute (SD 2.5MB/min – HD 6MB/min)

This estimation table is not intended to track usage, rather help to provide a guide to help you pick the right plan. To check your actual usage for this month, please log in to your account.



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