1 bit = 8 bytes 1 Kilobyte = 1024 Bytes 1 Megabyte = 1048576 Bytes 1 Gigabyte = 1073741824 Bytes 2 Gigabyte = 2147483648 Bytes An average web page (including graphics) is about 50 kilobytes in size - so you could download around 40,000 web pages for 2 gigabyte. Or to put it another way an hour of surfing the web would be around 10 megabytes (200 pages) - so you could surf non-stop for about 200 hours for 2 gigabyte. An hour of streamed radio would use about 15-20 megabytes. An hour of streamed video uses around 100-150 megabytes. Playing an online game typically uses about 10-15 megabytes per hour. Emails (excluding any files attachments) are very small - so 100 emails would be just 1 megabyte - or 200,000 emails for 2 gigabyte! A super-high resolution (5-6 megapixel) digital camera JPEG picture or typical MP3 / WMA music file (legally sourced of course!) is about 2-3 megabytes so you could download 700-1000 of these images / music files for 2 gigabyte. |