Thread: What According to BSNL is 1GB???

Guys i have taken new connection. I want to know what according to Bsnl is 1 GB....1024 MB or 1000MB>???????

1024MB.similarly 1MB=1024KB.

Obviously it 1024 MB as 1 GB.
Come on......... though BSNL is not upto the mark in technology but they are not so dumb buddy..... they got their basics right.
Did u get any bad experience ....?

I mean why did the question trouble ur mind?

i'm certain that its 1024mb as in my telephone bill the excess usage is calculated by using 1gb=1024mb its clearly given in the bill

hello see the bill it shows free mb 1044 i think bsnl not know how much mb = 1 gb

Originally Posted by tanveer433

Guys i have taken new connection. I want to know what according to Bsnl is 1 GB....1024 MB or 1000MB>???????

Is your doubt clear??.....or still you need some more explanation.......i giving some more

1GB(Giga Byte)=1024 MB(Mega Byte)

1MB(Mega Byte)=1024 KB(Kilo byte)

1KB(Kilo Byte)= 8 Kb(Kilo bit)

Originally Posted by ishan77jha

hello see the bill it shows free mb 1044 i think bsnl not know how much mb = 1 gb

I would be very surprised if thats the case... be it any isp it doesnt matter 1gb=1024mb and that is it.. 2X2=4 does that change in Mumbai? or is 2X2=5 in Chennai?

These values are all universal and its not like a yard in North India would be different as compared to a South Indian yard... in IT its all written in stone unlike traditional metrics.

Originally Posted by Admin

I would be very surprised if thats the case... be it any isp it doesnt matter 1gb=1024mb and that is it.. 2X2=4 does that change in Mumbai? or is 2X2=5 in Chennai?

These values are all universal and its not like a yard in North India would be different as compared to a South Indian yard... in IT its all written in stone unlike traditional metrics.

yes i aggree with you to unit is universal but if you are using plan h250 please
see the bill it shows free mb
1044

Does it say anywhere that this plan has 1GB data transfer limit? if not then I guess they are giving you an extra 20mb but in other case it might be a typo by one of their babus at bsnl head office.

from BSNL FAQ---

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd.
33 What all can I do with 1 GB(Giga Byte) download?
One GB is 1024 Megabyte or 1073741824 bytes. You can do the following with 1 GB download limit : 1. An average web page is about 50 kilobytes in size - so you could download around 20,000 web pages for 1 gigabyte. 2. An hour of surfing the web would be around 10 megabytes (200 pages) so you could surf non-stop for about 100 hours for 1 gigabyte. 3. An hour of streamed radio would use about 15-20 megabytes. 4. An hour of streamed video uses around 100-150 megabytes. 5. Playing an online game typically uses about 10-15 megabytes per hour. 6. Emails are very small - so 100 emails would be just 1 megabyte - or 100,000 emails for 1 gigabyte! (of course the attachments count extra) 7. A super-high resolution (5-6 megapixel) digital camera JPEG picture or typical MP3 music file is about 2-3 megabytes so you could download 350-500 of these images/music files for 1 gigabyte. Very few users would actually exceed the download limits set.

Hello everyone,

I think the question is very valid one.

Do you know that hard disks, memory cards, etc. are sold where 1 KB is counted as 1000 bytes? Did you know that the 250 GB hard disk that you own is 250,000,000,000 bytes so that what you actually get is 232.83 GB?

I wouldn't put past the supposition that ISPs (incl. BSNL) count all those KBs/MBs/GBs in the decimal system (1 KB = 1000 bytes).

@just4kix,exactly my opinion that's why i posted the FAQ taken from BSNL site which clearly says 1GB=1024MB & 1MB=1024KB(see my above post).

@ whitestar_999. I know that do say 1KB = 1024 bytes, etc. But I would not be surprised if some ISPs (and BSNL in future - I forgot to mention this) using the decimal method. I suspect that Reliance is using the decimal method.

you are right & in fact many ISP's in foreign use decimal system but luckily BSNL don't.even rapidshare says---

You may download 25 GB within five days. This means in other words that you can download 5 GB every day. You can also "burst" and download 15 GB today and 10 GB tomorrow, but this means that you will not be able to download anything the following three days because we check how much you have downloaded in the last five days. 25 GB = 25.000.000.000 Bytes.

Kibibyte - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
i believe that there is some confusion as some agencies regulating SI units have proposed that 1 kilo byte=1000 byte to remove confusion between SI standard metric system & binary system
1 kibibyte=1024bytes established by the International Electrotechnical Commission in 2000

still these recommendations are not as widely used so there is still confusion.

Exactly.

When I was young I was told that a 20GB HDD does not give 20GB because some space is lost in formating and the FAT structure. I believed it but the real reason is 20 GB is 20 GB in decimal units.

This practice continues till date. The only exception is memory banks that are used in the computer where 1 GB really means 1 GB in binary terms.