30gig usage, up to 24Mbits per second, 5 email addresses.
You can do pretty much anything you like without worrying about going over your limit. And so can your partner and kids!. 30gig is an enormous amount and it's designed to ensure you can keep up with the modern demands of household internet without worrying about excess fees or slowdowns. Perfect for multi-computer households, homeworkers and light use with AppleTV (5 movies a months maybe).
Here's an example of what 30gig is:
| 30gig is: (individually) |
Typical: (total 30gig) |
|
|---|---|---|
Webpages (80kb) |
375,000 |
50,000 |
Emails (10kb) |
3 million |
10,000 |
iTunes songs (4mb) |
7,500 |
1000 |
BBC iPlayer 30min (120mb) |
250 |
50 |
DVD Film download(4.2gig) |
7 |
2 |
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 30gig download limit, you'll be charge £5 up to the next package automatically for that month (you'll then get a whopping 60gig 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!