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?
About 120 GB a month. Luckily, data is unlimited.
I love how you get a warning at 2GB
I’m sitting on around 4.5gb with a third of the cycle to go. That’s high for me, would be under 1gb if I wasn’t watching the cricket for a bit on Boxing Day.
I’m mostly on the network at home or playing music from the memory card so don’t need much at all, but 20gb is the lowest available with my provider.
Similar case as mine, and yes I’m also disappointed there isn’t a lower option available
I snatched a no-monthly-payment plan sometime around 2010, and am holding to it for dear life — even though it hasn’t been offered to new clients for a long time. Thankfully, where I am, the provider can’t change the defining conditions of my plan.
I rarely call anyone, and don’t use the internet on the phone outside of WiFi networks (I listen to downloaded podcasts and read downloaded articles instead, and use OsmAnd for maps). Which means that the fifteen bucks that I paid over three years ago still haven’t been used.
How do you download articles in advance? I used to use pocket but it’s been discontinued.
I still have some unread in Pocket, and also use self-hosted Wallabag. The downside of the latter is that you can’t limit the number or size of the synced articles, it pulls all that’s on the server (at least with the self-hosted approach). It’s also a bit poorer in features comparatively and isn’t developed much, if at all.
TBH I practically stopped reading outside, because I’m mostly in motion there — and on the bus it’s increasingly uncomfortable to have the page shake in front of me, with my myopia. So I just put on podcasts or audiobooks from the time I’m getting dressed and all the way to the destination.
Thanks for the reply, I will checkout Wallabag.
At home I use my home internet so I don’t use the phone’s data there and I don’t track it at all.
Outside my house. I noticed that I doubled my data usage since joining Lemmy, from 3-4GB per month to 6-7GB. I suspect that this is mosly because the app I’m using doesn’t seem to hold much on cache, every time I’m scrolling back up it’s all loading icons.
I’m reliably 7-8GB. It’s kind of impressive, honestly, since I don’t think I’m too consistent day to day
50GB for £7.95 a month. I probably use between 10-20GB, depending on what I’ve got going on in my life.
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.
Similar here yeah. FLAC file streaming is the majority of my usage.
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.
Looks like 47 GiB across two lines last month.
We only use WiFi at home, not when out
Usually between 1 and 2 GB/month, up to 10 in months where I travel, which happens about two or three times a year.
I have a plan which increases my data cap each year, giving me 30 GB currently. It’s 20 €/month, which is about average for a 5G plan of that size. I like not having to worry about my data usage.
20 euro, unlimited calls and data. Though i dont buy it every month only when I’ll need it.
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.
It’s hard to burn through half a terrabyte in a monthTwo plans, both unlimited calls and data. One is 30€, the other 15€ (the more expensive one has significantly higher speeds), on two different networks.
Depending on the moth, I tend to use 50-100 GB/month.
Basically not much. This month, 133 megabytes as of 18th of January. And all of it it’s free anyway.
I don’t really need mobile data aside of stints to the town, every place I need to go to probably has Wi-Fi anyway. We have a municipal Wi-Fi network at public institutions, it probably helps a lot. (And I don’t even use free wifi at commercial institutions.)
I rarely use wifi at home so about 300-900GB per month
Fair enough
