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  • XDRoX
    Veteran Member
    • Mar 2009
    • 4420

    How much cell phone data do you use?

    How much data do you go through on an average per month?
    Usually I use about 1.5Gb -2Gb. I just do the normal web browsing, pandora, and email/texting.
    My wife uses less than 1Gb on her phone.
    Normally I'm at work or at home so I'm using wifi.

    My cousin who doesn't pay for home Internet and only uses his iPhone as a hotspot goes through about 50Gb a month on average.

    Here's a screen shot of my usage so far this month. The only reason it's so high is because we spent a couple nights at our beach condo and my son and daughter were using my iPhone to tether to their iPads. They only watched about an hour of movies for two nights before bed and it must have used like 5Gb. I had no idea streaming high def movies uses so much data.

    111
    < 1GB
    0%
    31
    1GB - 2GB
    0%
    21
    2GB - 5GB
    0%
    25
    > 5GB
    0%
    34
    Chris
    <----Rimfire Addict


    Originally posted by Oceanbob
    Get a DILLON...
  • #2
    tmncali
    In Memoriam
    CGN Contributor
    • Mar 2009
    • 657

    15 Gb Average

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    • #3
      4DMASTR
      Senior Member
      • Apr 2012
      • 1077

      Roughly 8gb

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      • #4
        XDRoX
        Veteran Member
        • Mar 2009
        • 4420

        Originally posted by tmncali
        15 Gb Average
        Damn, how do you use so much?
        Chris
        <----Rimfire Addict


        Originally posted by Oceanbob
        Get a DILLON...

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        • #5
          XDRoX
          Veteran Member
          • Mar 2009
          • 4420

          Originally posted by 4DMASTR
          Roughly 8gb
          Man, do you guys not have wifi at home or something?
          Chris
          <----Rimfire Addict


          Originally posted by Oceanbob
          Get a DILLON...

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          • #6
            Baconator
            Bacon makes it better
            CGN Contributor - Lifetime
            • Jan 2009
            • 9543

            6-8gb on average

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            • #7
              thy95
              Member
              • May 2008
              • 188

              I go on average of 5-7 gb per month
              "You don't go duck shooting if one out of every twenty ducks shoots back" -- Chuck Michel, Atty, 2008.

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              • #8
                DaveInOroValley
                CGN/CGSSA Contributor
                CGN Contributor
                • Jan 2010
                • 8964

                AT&T which is the worst strength carrier in our location and so to be cancelled, laughed at me out loud on the phone when I had they check my usage on my cell.

                It was 8 minutes in a one month period, at the moment we have over 6,000 accrued minutes that can be used.
                NRA Life Member

                Vet since 1978

                "Don't bother me with facts, Son. I've already made up my mind." -Foghorn Leghorn

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                • #9
                  e90bmw
                  Senior Member
                  CGN Contributor
                  • May 2013
                  • 1268

                  I'm at 3.6GB about 50% through my current billing cycle.
                  I use 6-8GB in any month.

                  Unlimited and grandfathered Verizon.

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                  • #10
                    ChopperX
                    Member
                    • Oct 2009
                    • 381

                    I use on average 2 - 2.5GB of data a month. Web browsing, music streaming on the way to work and back, downloading updates for apps, watching youtube in my spare time away from home, and a few MB's for Calguns's

                    On AT&T and still holding on to my grandfathered unlimited data plan

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                    • #11
                      Futurecollector
                      I need a LIFE!!
                      • Oct 2008
                      • 11541

                      I'm at 18.6gbs and have about 4 days left
                      ...
                      None of my posts are serious or real, nothing I post is legal advice.

                      Originally posted by SanDiego619
                      I am a complete idiot

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                      • #12
                        sealocan
                        Calguns Addict
                        • Mar 2012
                        • 9935

                        I'm not sure how much exactly I use.
                        but I'm with Boost Mobile and a strange thing happened between phones.
                        I have always gone over their data limit and continually have to deal with them slowing me down towards the end of my billing cycle.not a big deal but I hate that they do it.

                        I've had several different brand phones with them.
                        the strange thing is when I had a ZTE warp version two I think(the more advanced 4G version.) I never went over the limit, not once, even though I used the same or probably more data in the months that I had that phone.

                        if that phone had not broke/froze up, I would have kept using that model.
                        now what does that mean I don't know. but Now I do believe there are some phones out there that allow you to find a loophole to the data limit hassle.

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                        • #13
                          cwilliams
                          Senior Member
                          • Jun 2012
                          • 1244

                          On my iPhone it says 12.3Gb for the current period. I'm not sure if that's the current months bill or what. I have a grandfathered unlimited plan and I'm on WiFi frequently.

                          I checked my past billing statement and I've never gone over 2.5Gb in a single month with 1.5 - 2Gb being average.
                          Last edited by cwilliams; 04-04-2014, 9:48 AM.

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                          • #14
                            Jason95357
                            Senior Member
                            • Feb 2013
                            • 1130

                            I use about 300mb/month on cell wireless. The majority of the time I am at home, work, family or friends' homes and connected to the wifi there. I mostly have my 2gb 4G service (and unlimited 2G after that) for when I travel, "just in case." I used it just last week when the hotel wifi was glitching and I tethered my work laptop to VPN in and get a few files. I don't think I have ever gone about 1gb though.

                            I belive I use 2-3gb a month on wifi, but I removed the tracking app as T-Mobile has a new "built-in" app which I cannot uninstall and it tracks cell minutes, texts, and data usage, so I use it instead.

                            I rarely stream on my phone. I sync my music only when on wifi. The rest is light surfing and email/calendar/app sync data.

                            Mostly it is just nice to have fast Google Maps service and basic quick Internet research ability.
                            Last edited by Jason95357; 03-24-2014, 9:27 AM.
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                            • #15
                              ambiguous216
                              Senior Member
                              • Jan 2006
                              • 1214

                              Not that hard to use 10 plus GB a month. Stream some netflix, pandora and YouTube. Bam!

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