Capacity needed?

cabledude

Hi all.

Just a quick question for someone here who I'm hoping will be able to help me out.

My current broadband provider is Vodafone prepay 10Gb per month allowance.

I am starting an online college course in mid september and was wondering how much download capacity I would need. Course is delivered 2 hours 2 night per week. So I would need 4 hours per week or 16 hours per month. Would 10Gb be enough for me? If not I can move over to O2 who give 15Gb per month. Would this be enough?

I cannot get landline based Broadband as the local exchange is not BB enabled. I cannot get Wimax as the transmission towers are on a hill I do not have LOS to. So my only options are

1 : Stay with mobile with my 10/15Gb if its sufficent
2 : Go to Satellite broadband and spend €80 per month with a €250 installation fee and a 24 month contract.

Any thoughts?

I'm in Wexford BTW......

bealtine

cabledude wrote: »

1 : Stay with mobile with my 10/15Gb if its sufficent
2 : Go to Satellite broadband and spend €80 per month with a €250 installation fee and a 24 month contract.

Any thoughts?

I'm in Wexford BTW......

Neither of those two options could possibly be considered as broadband by any stretch of the imagination...

There's always Carnsore Brodband http://www.carnsorebroadband.com/
or
Permanet http://www.permanet.ie
or
Wicklow Broadband http://www.wicklowbroadband.com

Try one of those and see if they offer service in your area

cabledude

bealtine wrote: »

Neither of those two options could possibly be considered as broadband by any stretch of the imagination...

There's always Carnsore Brodband http://www.carnsorebroadband.com/
or
Permanet http://www.permanet.ie
or
Wicklow Broadband http://www.wicklowbroadband.com

Try one of those and see if they offer service in your area

I do not have Line Of Sight to Forth Mountain.

They all have their cell sites on Forth.

Have you any thoughts on what DL limits I would need for the amount of video that I need to avail of per month? Would 10 or 15Gb be enough.

cabledude

As a post script :

The video tutorials will NOT need to be fully downloaded. It streaming. That should make it less data intensive?

PogMoThoin

cabledude wrote: »

As a post script :

The video tutorials will NOT need to be fully downloaded. It streaming. That should make it less data intensive?

Streaming is downloading without keeping a copy

wexie

Depending on whereabouts you are in Wexford you could give these guys a ring :

http://www.alphabroadband.ie/services.php

Saganist

cabledude wrote: »

As a post script :

The video tutorials will NOT need to be fully downloaded. It streaming. That should make it less data intensive?

IMO it would be better to get download links to the videos ( if possible ) rather than rely on a stream. What if you lose your connection and have to restart the stream ? You'd end up using more bandwidth than intended.

With download links, and files, plus a download manager you will be able to see how much your downloading and not go over limit.

Is this a live online stream ?

bealtine

cabledude wrote: »

Have you any thoughts on what DL limits I would need for the amount of video that I need to avail of per month? Would 10 or 15Gb be enough.

Could be but that's a hard question to answer...it's like asking how long is a bit of string, it depends on the content of the course.

Mobile caps a fairly paltry but at least they are better than satellite caps

ED E

cabledude wrote: »

I do not have Line Of Sight to Forth Mountain.

They all have their cell sites on Forth.

Possible to mount the antenna on a frame to elevate it a few meters(probably need PP for this though...)

cabledude

Saganist wrote: »

IMO it would be better to get download links to the videos ( if possible ) rather than rely on a stream. What if you lose your connection and have to restart the stream ? You'd end up using more bandwidth than intended.

With download links, and files, plus a download manager you will be able to see how much your downloading and not go over limit.

Is this a live online stream ?

Yea its a live online stream. Some of the content will be video and some of it will be graphics like a power point presentation. More power point than video I expect.

cabledude

ED E wrote: »

Possible to mount the antenna on a frame to elevate it a few meters(probably need PP for this though...)

Would need to be around 20 metres. Would cost a fortune.

cabledude

Issue sorted. Contacted the college with whom I will complete my course. They tell me that in total per month the 4 hours of video per week will consume around 3.5 - 5 Gb. Job done. Happy days. Thanks for all the comments and replies.