JUst how many GB are needed?

wa8yxm wrote:
My PHone just told me I"d hit 80 gigs since the 12th of the month.

curious... do you stream much?

Dave

My PHone just told me I"d hit 80 gigs since the 12th of the month.

agesilaus wrote:
Am I miss reading the info from the cell company, just what, for example is 6/GB. 6/GB Day....6/GB month? The month figure seems to be worthless. Even the 'unlimited' package I'm looking at is 22/GB per/?

6 gig per billing period which is generally a month. 22 gig ‘unlimited’ means either throttling or dropping your priority if the tower is congested.

When I’m not working we run through 6 gig/month. When I’m working we use our unlimited Mobley account and average 25 gig/month. We don’t watch videos, the killer is Win10 updates when they annoy me enough to do them.

Dave

Hi,

Those are all 'per month' figures. The 22 gig may just throttle. On Sasktel throttle is to 2meg per second after 30 gigs--good enough for netflix. Most others are 512. (.512 meg). That makes video a bit harder to do.

agesilaus wrote:
Am I miss reading the info from the cell company, just what, for example is 6/GB. 6/GB Day....6/GB month? The month figure seems to be worthless. Even the 'unlimited' package I'm looking at is 22/GB per/?

Am I miss reading the info from the cell company, just what, for example is 6/GB. 6/GB Day....6/GB month? The month figure seems to be worthless. Even the 'unlimited' package I'm looking at is 22/GB per/?

parkmanaa wrote:
I own an RV park with free WIFI (a very fast, dependable system, I might add

After reading this thread just being curious I looked at our tracking system
for usage of the top 25 users for last 30 days.
Highest user: 96.13 GB in 30 days.
Lowest user : 21.08 GB in 30 days.
Avg. for these 25: 46.83 GB

Just for info.

Great info and congrats on having good WIFI! Not many parks have good WIFI throughout and I certainly understand how difficult and costly it can be to do this.

I own an RV park with free WIFI (a very fast, dependable system, I might add

After reading this thread just being curious I looked at our tracking system
for usage of the top 25 users for last 30 days.
Highest user: 96.13 GB in 30 days.
Lowest user : 21.08 GB in 30 days.
Avg. for these 25: 46.83 GB

Just for info.

I'm on T mobile and I had them add hotspot for $15 a month. Sooooo much better than campground wifi. Just as fast as a cable connection.

We have an unlimited data plan on our hotspot, now. However, prior to getting the unlimited plan, our usage was just what you are describing (two laptops on the hotspot, two phones, lots of email, forums, Facebook and news sites with a few videos, plus some photos and videos of the grandkids). We had a 22GB plan at the time and typically used between 1/2 and 2/3 of our data allowance.

Rob

Updates to phones, computers, tablets, and antivirus will need data too. It can be considerable.

Also if you leave devices connected to your hotspot while you’re not using them, they’ll sit there and update newsfeeds, and every app in the world is written to report on you back to the mothership.

Apps like Facebook need to be completely killed if you don’t want it consuming data in the background 24/7. Or set all such apps to have internet access only when in use.