Download limit?

Question

Now im not very knowledgeable when it comes to computers but i understand when you look at pages it downloads the information to your computer. Now i only get 2 gig limit. My question is how much is a average web page to look at?

Answer 1

I may be wrong, but I think you've got your info crossed.

You can download any amount to your own computer. There is no limit to that, unless a particular site only allows you to download so much in a specific timeframe. e.g. in a day, or a week.

The only other "limits" I'm familiar with is if you are using "online storage" and then whichever site you are using will limit how much you can store on it.

I hope this helps.

Answer 2

The average webpage size varies a lot, so it's really hard to average it. I've listed the approximate sizes of some various websites so you can get a feel for it.

This page with your question is 397 KB.
http://www.yahoo.com is 205 KB.
http://www.msn.com is 167 KB.
a typical Google search is 13 KB.
watching Charlie the Unicorn on YouTube is 8.82 MB.

If you don't know the conversions between KB, MB, and GB (GB = gigs), there is about 1000 MB in a GB, and about 1000 KB in a MB. If you download a lot of files or watch a lot of videos, you will reach your limit a lot faster. If you just spend your time on plainer sites with fewer images, no videos, no music, you won't have an issue with your limit.

Also, your browser will store images, scripts, and a few other files so that when you visit the website again, it doesn't have to download those files again, and it can just open them from the hard drive. That feature is called cache.

Answer 3

Unless your computer has been administered in a very strange way, you don't have a 2G limit.
You keep browsed web pages in "cache" (a special folder), even though there is a limit on how much information this folder will store, if it goes over that limit, it simply trashes the older stuff. It won't say "hey I'm full, you can't surf any more".
You can clear this manually, in Internet Explorer, by going to Tools >Options. You'll see "Temporary internet files" and a couple of buttons (Delete cookie, delete files) that will let you dump your files and cookies (special files with session and other information in them).The "settings" button will let you tweek the settings for this folder, but seriously, you should really never need to touch it. These files automatically purge themselves as you sure.
About the average size of a web page, that's hard to call...some are very small, like 10-20K for a simple page with no graphics, but some can be very heavy, 200K-500K or more...Google.com is very light, CNN.com is very heavy.
But, for the average surfer, cache is just a convenient way to keep a local copy of recently visited pages, all for speeds sake.

Answer 4

If you only surf the net you will have no problem with a two gig limit. 500 meg would probley last you a month if only surfing. There is a program cal DU meter www.dumeter.com/download.php I am not sure how big the file is which tells you how much you have downloaded so you can keep track of your downloads and never get your speed cut or charged heaps for going overlimit. I used to use it and when I got close to my limit I would just cut down my net usage. It is when you download songs and stuff that u will have problems with only haveing 2 gig I will use that in a day easy. I hope this helps. I hope you get du meter because it is great.

Answer 5

You don't even have to worry about that. 2 gigs is more than enough to look at web pages. The average web page takes 0.1 percent of 2 gigs.

Answer 6

Well the viewing of a web page is not really a download it is a transfer. An actual download of a file is requested during an installation. But if your provider is a putz than a web page could be almost any size.

Answer 7

Well to give you some sort of bench for comparison a Yahoo Answers page uses 10KB. There are 1024KB per MB and 1024 MB per GB.

(1024/10) [per MB] * (2*1024) [2 GB]
102.4 * 2048 = 209715.2

So essentially (ignoring caching) you could view a Yahoo answers page over 200 thousand times before using up your limit. Assuming that was the only thing you ever did. :-)

Hope that helps!

Answer 8

You have metered service?

Depends on complexity, depends on the number of images. Text only is very, very small download. A moderately complex picture on the web might have 50K..

So, a couple of pictures, a little text, you might have 100K invested.

I think it is Firefox that reports the download size for each page - it appears on the bottom of the page in the status area. I suggest you try it to see how YOUR browsing habits require bandwidth.

Answer 9

The average webpage is about 61kb so that menas that you could load about 33574 web pages

Answer 10

This webpage when I read it, was 52kb plus graphics.

This website says the average website is 60kb:

http://www.pantos.org/atw/35654.html


If you are just doing website surfing and not downloading music and files, that is a substantial amount of surfing.

To the post above mine, he is probably being limited by his ISP, and that is a possibility.