I plan on moving to India, have a few questions.

[Sadaiyappan]

I plan on moving to India (Tamil Nadu). I'm going to get BSNL broadband at 2 Mbps, it has a 10 GB cap after which the speed is reduced to 256 Kbps. If I bring my PS3, how many hours of online gaming will 10 GB give me?

 

[Jimmah]

Gaming? Lets say your PS3 uses 10kB/sec average. Assuming you don't need to download anything/very little you're looking at 11.85 days of constant non-stop gaming. If you play even 8 hours a day (which would be a lot of gaming IMO) you would get about 35 days worth.

Even if you pass the 10GB cap 256kb/sec should be enough to play on.

 

[vshah]

yup, gaming doesn't use much bandwidth at all. just pray you don't have a lot of noise on your copper wire or the dsl will drop constantly.

 

[jlazzaro]

just pray you don't have a lot of noise on your copper wire or the dsl will drop constantly.

and hope someone doesn't steal your copper right from under the ground. no joke, happened to one of our India locations...

 

[AstroGuardian]

Speed reduction to 256kb is just on paper. They often lower it to 64kbps or even less with terribly high ping

 

[Kushina]

Make certain your speeds are with B, bytes, and not b,bits. Bits are 1/8 of bytes.

 

[Nuwave]

Make certain your speeds are with B, bytes, and not b,bits. Bits are 1/8 of bytes.

Huh? I think all companies sell their internet connection speed by bits per second. I personally would go nuts with only 2 Mbps