Data Usage.
A guide to usage on the internet.
Data Usage Information
The following table provides an estimate of how much data each online activity or service will consume. It is intended as a guide for you to estimate your personal internet usage requirements. It’s great that all Sonic Internet plans are packed with unlimited data.
| Online Activity | Estimated data usage |
| General internet browsing | 200 MB per hour |
| Social media (eg. Facebook, Twitter etc) | 130 MB per hour |
| 50 KB each (excluding attachments) | |
| Documents & photographs | 2-5 MB per hour |
| Music downloads | 5 MB per track |
| Video downloads (quality dependant) | 1-4 GB per movie |
| VoIP (Voice over IP) | 20 MB per hour |
| Video over IP (eg. Skype, Zoom etc) | 60 MB per hour |
| Online radio stations | 60 MB per hour |
| Streaming video (Netflix, Youtube etc) | 1-3 GB per hour |
| Online gaming | 300 MB per hour |