hello vijay911,I am using the home 250/0.4GB plan from BSNL. The first month i had a huge download of abt 115 mb for the then newly installed winxp SP2. This my second month and things look cool. I had been through this phase of indecision myself, as my earlier posts would show. Thanks to the discussions and support from members here, i went for the 250/0.4gb to try it on for size. It seems to fit my needs well. A friend of mine, on the other hand, ran into trouble on the very second day with the same package! videos and stuff... I think it has a lot to do with the needs of the user. I have enjoyed the breakneck speed of a 2Mbps line in my workplace. Last year it was upgraded to 8Mbps. Now I must confess that the novelty has worn off. So when it was time to get the broadband at home, i settled for a sober 0.4gb! Again there are people here who get a lot of stuff over the net.. and find the 1gb limit insufficient. The rule, as i see it is, there is no "One size fits all" solution here. I switched from dialup to broadband for two reasons1. B/B was much faster,2. The "money timer" in broadband does not tick away, as you rightly said, while reading or typing online.There is another keyword, which i am sure everybody here is already using. It is "discipline". Keep a watch on yourself. Set realistic targets for yourself by arriving at a compromise between time, content type , cost and volume of usage. This is highly subjective and differs from person to person. Once you get the hang of this, you should be fine.an example: I have been on this forum now for 1hr and 15 minutes.. reading and typing...The total traffic on my meter is under 1mb!
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How much is really enough?
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The person who said that 1 GB download limit should be hanged, for casual surfers its more than enough, but the people who take broadband mostly download, rather than surf casually :angry: The good thing is that they have atleast put up that unlimited download time, is it still there or no. 
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Are you sure its under 1MB. This is highly impossible unless you use opera in cached mode and trun off the images.
I am a regular visitor of this site an i use IE with images truned off and total data transfer is atleast 5 Mb/hr and if i switch on the images it can easily jump tp 8-10 Mb
A sincere advise to VIJAY. If you plan to use google talk then be aware thats the most b/w utilising software. Google talk can extract 25-30MB/hr. of your preciuos band width. So if you plan to use it on a every day basis go for the higher plan.
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Hey raptor i suppose u play cs online coz thats the only game that is IN for so long.
Even i play CS1.6(non-steam) and the best ping i get to a server is 200ms and no less than that. IF possible cud be pls gimme address of servers. Please leave it there or send me a mail on my address below.
The Mods have turned of the PM option again. Its kind of getting over my head now.
[/quote]Originally posted by runeet@Oct 25 2005, 09:46 PM
The person who said that 1 GB download limit should be hanged, for casual surfers its more than enough, but the people who take broadband mostly download, rather than surf casually :angry:
The good thing is that they have atleast put up that unlimited download time, is it still there or no.
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home 250 is peanut the quota get's over much faster than the fuel in my bike, there must be a handful of surfers who can do this within the limit, I am off my surfing habits nowadays still I need 2-3 GB per month,
as some one said it depends on user also, you can try for some pans initially but i am bang sure home -250 will be sufficient for you as per your net usage is described.
Originally posted by oldtimer@Oct 25 2005, 06:57 PM
There is another keyword, which i am sure everybody here is already using. It is "discipline". Keep a watch on yourself. Set realistic targets for yourself by arriving at a compromise between time, content type , cost and volume of usage. This is highly subjective and differs from person to person. Once you get the hang of this, you should be fine.
You have a lot of self control and discipline. But we dont have that kinda discipline. I like to listen to shoutcasts, watch hilarious videos (available all over the internet), watch flash movies, VoIP, downloads lots of softwares and stuff, i like to do video conferences with my pals abroad. Most of these things are possible on my current connection albeit slow. But some of them are just plain IMPOSSIBLE. With download limits you will have another money timer. You wont be paying by the minute but by the bits and bytes!
Sorry, I don't fit into that category! I feel the Need for Speed without restrictions! B)
There is another keyword, which i am sure everybody here is already using. It is "discipline". Keep a watch on yourself. Set realistic targets for yourself by arriving at a compromise between time, content type , cost and volume of usage. This is highly subjective and differs from person to person. Once you get the hang of this, you should be fine.
You have a lot of self control and discipline. But we dont have that kinda discipline. I like to listen to shoutcasts, watch hilarious videos (available all over the internet), watch flash movies, VoIP, downloads lots of softwares and stuff, i like to do video conferences with my pals abroad. Most of these things are possible on my current connection albeit slow. But some of them are just plain IMPOSSIBLE. With download limits you will have another money timer. You wont be paying by the minute but by the bits and bytes!
Sorry, I don't fit into that category! I feel the Need for Speed without restrictions! B)
wateva u said, i agree to it 100% 
and btw, who all here thinks Broadband=Maximum/Insane Speed and unlimited download with no holds barred ?
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heh. i am over that phase. so much that i have stopped checking the forum posts manually. and just read the feeds. i am not going to edit posts which puts in junk content just becoz they are not used to posting on forums.