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How do megabytes work with having an allowance on a broadband internet access card?

My boss wants me to explain to him how having like 50 MB or 5 GB would work with having a broadband access internet card. He's not computer literate at all. Any insight? Thanks! I understand its how much you are allowed to use before you go over, but I just need to know how to explain how bytes work to to my boss in a way that he could understand. He is very computer illiterate and doesnt grasp anything on this concept. Thanks!

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1. How much data do you want to be able to exchange before being charged for overages...? that's the Answer. What you are limiting is the amount of data you will be able to send and recieve. examples: a song file may be between .2 and 5MB same as a picture. When dealing with text, each character take up .000032MB of data. An online video may be up to 2G. Your usage limit includes sending data such as a request for a web page or uploading files as well. If all you're going to do is check your text based e-mail on a regular basis a 50MB plan might be sufficient. If you do a lot of web brousing you're going to want the 5G plan. If you upload or download a lot of files or watch a lot of video you are going to want an unlimited plan. Hope this helps.