I rarely use over 2GB of data per month. Usually most of my data traffic happens over wifi. Curious.
If you want to know why I’m asking:
My phone provider just decided to upgrade my subscription plan some ridiculous amount. I was on a cheap prepaid 18GB every 28 days plan, with data rollover. (I got nearly 900 GB of rollover data just sitting there, accumulated over the years).
Now they increased both their price and data cap about +60%. For me this is absolutely unnecessary. I was already paying for more than what I used.
Then I tried to switch providers, and realized this is the new baseline in the country, at least for monthly prepaid. Eventually I found a few providers that offer something more affordable, but it’s only long expiry plans with a lot less data. Works for me though, not complaining.
I’m just surprised with the sheer amounts in most monthly plans, am I some kind of low usage freak?
543MiB last month. I mostly use the cell data for maps and messaging
My phone plan is $5 a month, for 100gib, after I hit the cap the speed gets limited to 384kbps… I’m no where near hitting my monthly cap.
About 120 GB a month. Luckily, data is unlimited.
I love how you get a warning at 2GB
According to my phone I use around 4/6GB per month (I have an unlimited plan). But I’m guessing you’re in the US or Canada, I’m always boggled when I remember that data is expensive to you guys.
I’m in Australia. Bad Internet
It’s not. Unlimited plans are ubiquitous and can be had for pretty cheap.
What is pretty cheap for you? Last time I was in Canada a 15GB plan costed something like $45, whereas in Europe that would be enough to get at least 2 unlimited plans and still have money for a coffee.
I’m also exceptionally low usage. But I was able to find a very small plan for a very low price
If you can’t get away from big data plans, can you tether other devices to your phone? Like supply your home Internet from the cellular data connection?
I change my location frequently so I’m not responsible for any of the wifi networks I regularly use. If I was bound to a same address the whole time and managed that, then it would be an option since I’m a low data user in general.
It varies, but so far this month (day 11) I’m at 80GB and 300GB a month isn’t unusual. At home and work I typically get 500+ Mbps download so I don’t tend to bother with WiFi. I’m currently paying £12/mo for a SIM-only service.
You don’t use WiFi at all and all traffic is by phone? Wow that sounds intense
Less than 2GB for me. I only get 2GB cuz prepaid. I don’t have anybody to text or videochat and I can’t stand browsing the web on small screens. My phone is low end and even then, I don’t like spending my time using it for gaming. I personally don’t like putting important stuff on it since somebody can steal it from me. I basically just use it for calling.
About 20 GB a month because I don’t have Wi-Fi, so I have to do everything on mobile data. I used to use less than 2 GB half a year ago (in the same situation) and it has gone up over the months as I do more things on my mobile data.
Roughly 15-20gbs per month. I drive a truck and part of my day job is literally sitting around at farms and waiting. So I do a lot of scrolling to kill time.
It’s hard to burn through half a terrabyte in a monthI have a 20GB subscription for just under €30, but I normally use just over 10, so I have around 30GB at the start of every month.
Even if ran by many of the same companies, prices have always been higher in Norway than in most of the rest of the continent, both because of the more complicated infrastructure, but also because we sadly are willing to pay more. Cheaper brands appear all the time by renting the bigger companies infrastructure, but they never last long, so I’ve opted for a little more expensive to not have to switch out operator once a year. So yeah, I’m part of the problem.
Yes that’s a similar situation to Australia. But here I’ve seen some of these cheaper brands succeed, in fact my current (soon to be previous) carrier started this way a few years ago. And just like you, I could have saved some buck had I moved to a different plan earlier, but I didn’t mind the old price so I didn’t bother searching.
As a Canadian trapped under the Big Three, scrolling through this thread is killing me :(
I have 130GB at 70CAD/mo. It was the cheapest plan I could get with data. I don’t need nearly that much. I use between 20-40GB/mo and that’s only because I don’t bother to turn on my WiFi since I know I’ll never reach my limit.
You just might be. I use about 10GB per month but mostly when I commute. At home and other places there is usually wifi to use.
Same as op, one or two gigs, at most. Usually under a gig. Very rarely, I have to create a hot-spot for my laptop which might increase the numbers a bit.
I don’t even know how much data my operator allows for, 150 gigs maybe, or maybe it’s unlimited nowadays, I’d have to look it up.
My operator gives me 150gb for 7.99€. It actually started with 30gb for the same price but they’ve been upgrading my gb almost yearly without price increase.
As I stream music from my jellyfin server for around 6-8 hours a day (most of my office time) and watch some shows on my lunch time, my monthly consumption is around 60-70gb a month.
But simply because I know I have more than enough to not worry about the streaming quality of my files, otherwise I’d be at maybe 10 or so.
does the work not allow you to use their WiFi?
I work for a somewhat big company with one of the dumbest IT depts ever. On top of not wanting to risk being spied on what I do or not do with my private phone and life, there’s also the fact that their rules for a “safe browsing” are really, REALLY stupid (like blocking access to Siemens website because they use “weird” protocols to transfer files for their devices firmware or their webinars: p2p).
I find more often than not having to do a hotspot with my phone so I can connect with my computer to simply access work related websites because IT is just too dumb to understand that in a company there should be different network profiles depending on the worker and, instead, they apply a general rule in which they consider the same “threats” for a marketing employee than for an OT (operational technologies) employee.
Similar here yeah. FLAC file streaming is the majority of my usage.
Yeah… I actually sat down and listened to a more recent album on FLAC and 128kbps MP3 and realized I had no idea which was which, so I figured that either my speakers, or my ears weren’t HD enough to be worth the storage space xD Switched my entire library to MP3 after that
Looks like 47 GiB across two lines last month.
We only use WiFi at home, not when out
