If you limit yourself to what the Internet could do in the days of 56k modems, 3GB works just fine. However, I wouldn't exclusively call that "entertainment".

It seems fairly unreasonable for heavyweight web applications as well, with piles of JavaScript and various rich content that includes more than just text and markup. It also won't nearly suffice for the purposes of pushing and pulling code via version control, which I do regularly for work.

More to the point, it just seems unreasonable by the standards of non-cell Internet connections, and unreasonable even by the standards of cell Internet connections back when every provider offered "unlimited" plans.

> If you just need to send emails and be able to restart your server then 3GB will basically last forever, not so if you want to torrent 1080p copies of Game of Thrones.

There exists some middle ground there. If you want to view pages with heavyweight content, including the occasional video or large image, 3GB might last a couple of weeks at most.

If you regularly do OS upgrades, download software packages, clone version control repositories, perform backups, and otherwise use it like any other computer professional would even without including entertainment, 3GB might last a few days. (This does not represent an off-the-cuff guess; I've measured this.)

In any case, I intended my original comment simply to express astonishment that we've gone from "how dare 'unlimited' not mean 'unlimited'" to "3GB/£15 (3GB/~$25) seems pretty reasonable" so quickly. Apparently that sentiment did not go over well.

Honestly, only the editing of binaries hurt at all. I didn't push as often, but it was still fine when I did.