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Monday, March 15th, 2010, 7:57 PM AEST
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Support - Choosing a Plan |
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How Big is a Gigabyte? |
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A gigabyte (GB) is a measurement of the size of digital data. It's equivalent to 1,000 megabytes (MB). 'One gigabyte' is difficult to quantify, because how far a gigabyte takes you depends on what you download from the Internet. One gigabyte (1GB) is roughly:
- 5,000 emails
- 1,000 webpages
- 5,000 photos
- 200 songs
- One-and-a-half medium-quality movies
You should choose your plan according to how much data you expect to use.
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What is Downloading and Uploading? |
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Downloading is the act of receiving data from the Internet. This includes when you view websites or receive emails.
The data you download counts towards your monthly allowance - the "included data" on your Internet plan. DCSI customers can check their usage meter on the MyDCSI website.
Uploading is the reverse of downloading - it refers to when you send data out to the Internet. A good example of this is when you send an email.
Uploaded data is not counted towards your monthly data allowance for ADSL and Wireless broadband services. On a Mobile Broadband service, your uploaded data does count toward your monthly allowance.
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What is Shaping? |
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Some providers will charge you excess fees if you go over your monthly data limit. This can result in a nasty surprise at bill time!
At DCSI, we don't charge you any excess fees for our broadband services. Instead, if you exceed your data limit during a given month, your connection will be slowed down - this process is what we call shaping.
The only exception to this is the Mobile Broadband service. If you exceed your data limit on a Mobile Broadband service, your access will be suspended until your monthly usage resets.
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