10gig usage, up to 24Mbits per second, 5 email addresses.
This is our standard package and is suitable for most users. With 10gig usage you can browse websites and send emails to your hearts content. Watch plenty of online video from iPlayer or YouTube, download several CD's worth of music per week and perhaps download or watch a full length movie. It's also suitable for several light internet users at the same property
Here's an example of what 10gig is:
| 10gig is: (individually) |
Typical: (total 10gig) |
|
|---|---|---|
Webpages (80kb) |
125,000 |
25,000 |
Emails (10kb) |
100,000 |
1000 |
iTunes songs (4mb) |
2500 |
200 |
BBC iPlayer 30min (120mb) |
83 |
20 |
DVD Film download(4.2gig) |
2.4 |
0 |
Off-peak usage (0000hrs to 0700hrs) is free and does not count towards your bandwidth limit.
Why bandwidth limits, why not unlimited?
In order to protect our network and keep it fast we have to ensure everyone is paying their fair share for their usage. It's technically possible for a just small number of customers using P2P continously to dramitically affect the performance of everyone else. Our actual bandwidth costs are several hundred of pounds per Mbps per month, so sharing it out evenly is essential.
If you go over your 10gig download limit, you'll be charge £5 up to the next package automatically for that month (you'll then get a whopping 30gig limit). However, we won't charge you if you go slightly over, we give you a 1/2 gig overdraft!
And don't forget, we only count your usage during peak hours, anything you download or do after midnight and before 7am is not counted!