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How much data do you use?
- Thread starter razortaz18
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goosedeath
Member
Haha. Nicely done. I hit about 19 gb, no Netflix. Hulu and south park mostly. That's my highest, which was this last billing cycle.
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Seriously? How is this possible? On 4g, the average user will go through this much in 1-2 days. Hell, the first day I brought my Nexus home I ran it up to nearly 5 gigs. Even on my OG Droid I was still in the 1-3gb/month range and I was by no means a heavy user. I couldn't imagine how little one must use their phone to be under a 1gb cap, even with wifi usage...
Man, that's exactly what I was thinking with all of these posts saying they're in the MB's (and not GB's). Maybe if you never left the house and just stayed connected wo WiFi 24/7, though not sure why you'd even need a smartphone in that case. I'm sure if I really, really tried by connecting to every possible WiFi connection, I could stay under a 4 gb cap, but there's no way I'd ever be able to stay under a gig.
budlight4me
Member
Hell, idk I guess because I don't tether or stream movies and I use wifi at home. I don't think this og could handle a movie on 3g
Detonation
Member
Now that I have 4g I'm streaming a lot more and using Wifi less. Last month I believe I used around 4GB, about half of that being from streaming music via Slacker. If I start streaming Netflix I can imagine that number is going to grow significantly.
I use Wifi Tether with my Touchpad every so often, but strangely enough, the GNex only says the Wifi Tether app has use 1KB, where the app itself says its used about 25MB. I wonder where/if that data is being tracked, since nothing in my app data usage list with that much data is anything related.
I use Wifi Tether with my Touchpad every so often, but strangely enough, the GNex only says the Wifi Tether app has use 1KB, where the app itself says its used about 25MB. I wonder where/if that data is being tracked, since nothing in my app data usage list with that much data is anything related.
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that was about a year ago, mostly over a weekend time. i've gone down quite a bit since then.
(waits for flaming to start, not that i haven't heard it all already over the last year lol)
that was about a year ago, mostly over a weekend time. i've gone down quite a bit since then.
(waits for flaming to start, not that i haven't heard it all already over the last year lol)
razortaz18
Member
I think we have a winner!
4G + HotSpot
Here's where I'm at...
I started paying an extra 30$ per month for the hotspot feature to try it out. I liked the speeds compared to my home DSL line, so I was using it more and more, plus, I stay over at my girlfriends house 5 nights a week. She actually has a fast cable connection though and I usually just use that when I'm there.
I finally decided I didn't need the home DSL nor the land line so I cut 'em both to save and justify (easily) the extra money for the hotspot. I simply decided a fast mobile IP, for the price, was ideal for my situation. I wouldn't dream of using anywhere near what I do now without legitimately paying for the feature and I made sure when I signed up for it that there would be no limitations on data, or exactly what I could do with it, whatsoever.
I'd already been using lots of data for quite some time before I went this route (wireless). I won't be discussing what all I'm getting from the internet, but I will say that I generally upload even more than I download, even more so now because the up speeds are much faster this way.
Some observations: The phone gets hot when it's sending or receiving lots of data, the faster the speeds, the hotter it gets, also, when the phone got hot, it would not even charge enough to keep up. It also seemed to slow down (data) when it got real hot so I've come up with a simple cooling system to keep things very cool. I still have to keep the phone plugged in the whole time just to keep the current battery level. Every once in a while the phone will spontaneously reboot itself requiring me to turn the hotspot back on. Some times the speeds are great and will stay that way, some times kinda slow by comparison and other times the speeds rise and fall. Of course I can also talk on the phone at the same time (bluetooth) but this also seems to reduce the speeds a lot, not sure if it happens all the time though, I just recently noticed it.
Okay, I've tried to answer some of the questions my screenshot might generate with my story above.
Please keep this thread on topic and discuss what the OP asked about ie, how much data we use, I do not want to see this thread get locked.
Here's where I'm at...
I started paying an extra 30$ per month for the hotspot feature to try it out. I liked the speeds compared to my home DSL line, so I was using it more and more, plus, I stay over at my girlfriends house 5 nights a week. She actually has a fast cable connection though and I usually just use that when I'm there.
I finally decided I didn't need the home DSL nor the land line so I cut 'em both to save and justify (easily) the extra money for the hotspot. I simply decided a fast mobile IP, for the price, was ideal for my situation. I wouldn't dream of using anywhere near what I do now without legitimately paying for the feature and I made sure when I signed up for it that there would be no limitations on data, or exactly what I could do with it, whatsoever.
I'd already been using lots of data for quite some time before I went this route (wireless). I won't be discussing what all I'm getting from the internet, but I will say that I generally upload even more than I download, even more so now because the up speeds are much faster this way.
Some observations: The phone gets hot when it's sending or receiving lots of data, the faster the speeds, the hotter it gets, also, when the phone got hot, it would not even charge enough to keep up. It also seemed to slow down (data) when it got real hot so I've come up with a simple cooling system to keep things very cool. I still have to keep the phone plugged in the whole time just to keep the current battery level. Every once in a while the phone will spontaneously reboot itself requiring me to turn the hotspot back on. Some times the speeds are great and will stay that way, some times kinda slow by comparison and other times the speeds rise and fall. Of course I can also talk on the phone at the same time (bluetooth) but this also seems to reduce the speeds a lot, not sure if it happens all the time though, I just recently noticed it.
Okay, I've tried to answer some of the questions my screenshot might generate with my story above.
Please keep this thread on topic and discuss what the OP asked about ie, how much data we use, I do not want to see this thread get locked.
kptphalkon
Active Member
Here's where I'm at...
Uh, holy crap, all I can say in my state of awe is keep on truckin.
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untoothedyouth
Member
Only around 1-2 GB 
I'd use more if the service weren't so crappy in my house and if the phone weren't such a battery hog when I'm out and about.
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I'd use more if the service weren't so crappy in my house and if the phone weren't such a battery hog when I'm out and about. Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using DroidForums
Google music? I looked and did not see it at Google.com.
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