In 2012, the average American household consumed 52GB of data per month, based on a survey conducted by Sandvine, a network provider. Eight megabytes of Internet usage, or 0.008GB, is a very small amount of data. At 52GB per month in a 30-day month, 8MB would be six to seven minutes of Internet usage for a typical house at 2012 usage levels. However, depending on what you do with it, 8MB can actually be a lot of data. Writer Bio
