data Usage for full timers using wireless internet service.

As we finish our first year of full-timing, we are finding you cannot depend on any bandwidth at most RV parks, even though you may get great signal strength. We have a 25 GB plan and use our hot spot where we cannot get enough throughput. We've been in Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota the past 4 weeks and have almost exclusively used our hotspot. When we were in the southern and eastern US earlier this year that was not the case and we didn't use as much. We went 1G over our plan this past month. BTW, we haven't downloaded any movies, so if you do that you may be in trouble....

We used 5 GB while full-timing. We don't do any streaming of movies, etc.

16 GB for $100? Bargain!!

We do the pay-as-you-go JetPack (Verizon) plan and for $90 you get 10 GB. (The upside is that when we're not traveling we don't use it and pay nothing.)

It's for mail, billpay, web surfing, trip planning and the like. Huge computer updates wait 'til we get to a library wi-fi. We've never gone over 10GB in a month. Usually at the end of the cycle we have a couple GB left to stream until it runs out.

Hi,

I use at least 20 gigs per month.

carl2591 wrote:
i know it not possible to stream movies but I wanted to see how much is used for like email, checking or making RV sites to stay etc.

Not possible? You mean on YOUR phone?

We used to use about 3-5 gig per month but now find that we are more comfortable with a 10 gig plan. We were always watching our data usage every day, now we just receive texts when we are at 50%, 75% and 90% used. Normally using between 6 - 7 gigs now. We disable the automatic Windows updates and only load those either on wifi or if we are near the end of the month with low usage.

With two laptops, two tablets, two smart phones, one smart TV, and one satellite receiver connected our Verizon hotspot, we usually come within a gig or two, over or under, of our 20GB $100/mo data plan. Overages are only $8/GB though, so it's not very painful when we do run over a bit.

Dutch_12078 wrote:
With two laptops, two tablets, two smart phones, one smart TV, and one satellite receiver connected our Verizon hotspot, we usually come within a gig or two, over or under, of our 20GB $100/mo data plan. Overages are only $8/GB though, so it's not very painful when we do run over a bit.

An even better bargain!

We had 10 GB for years.

Last year I bumped up to 15 GB. We now use right at 15 GB.


I think you use what you have.

I have a 40GB Verizon plan. I bought it for the price of a 20GB plan last year when Verizon was offering a promotion.