bikeman564™ Posted January 13, 2022 Share #1 Posted January 13, 2022 I have the lowest plan with 2 GB, and typically stay w/in that. Verizon offers rewards each month, and one choice is 1 GB. Sometimes I use that, but I've never gone over 3 GB usage per month. Just wondering what you all use. I only use internets on my phone for here and looking things up sometimes. That's it. I need the old peoples, wtf is this internet thing, plan 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Razors Edge ★ Posted January 13, 2022 Share #2 Posted January 13, 2022 3 minutes ago, bikeman564™ said: I have the lowest plan with 2 GB, and typically stay w/in that. Verizon offers rewards each month, and one choice is 1 GB. Sometimes I use that, but I've never gone over 3 GB usage per month. Just wondering what you all use. I only use internets on my phone for here and looking things up sometimes. That's it. I need the old peoples, wtf is this internet thing, plan Since WFH and always on my wifi, it is a TINY amount. I could cut it a bunch, but that may jinx my WFH status 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bikeman564™ Posted January 13, 2022 Author Share #3 Posted January 13, 2022 2 minutes ago, Razors Edge said: Since WFH and always on my wifi, it is a TINY amount. I could cut it a bunch, but that may jinx my WFH status At work I don't use our wifi, so it's plan data. At home it picks up a Comcast hot spot. But I don't use it much because I use my puter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JerrySTL ★ Posted January 13, 2022 Share #4 Posted January 13, 2022 We had to go unlimited. WoJSTL was using about 5 GB a month by herself. For some reason her phone usually has WiFi turned off when we are at home. When we travel I like to stream music as WoJSTL's 2012 Nissan only has AM/FM/CD but does have an Aux port where I can hook up my phone. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goldendesign Posted January 13, 2022 Share #5 Posted January 13, 2022 Nowhere near as low as @bikeman564™. My company provides my phone and plan and for the fist few yeas I thought it was 2gb, you can go over but that's frowned upon. Fast forward 3 years of this and I come to find out that it's 20gb! Even with primarily WFH, I am out and about a bunch using data and average about 15-18 gb per month. WoGolden has the Verizon unlimited plan for her phone and uses it for all it's worth. Her commute when she goes into the office is one hour and she uses that time to facetime her family overseas and streams YouTube videos of podcasts; the Turkish people have a weird fascination with turning everything into a YouTube video. I think last month she used about 60gb. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dinneR ★ Posted January 13, 2022 Share #6 Posted January 13, 2022 My plan is 1GB/year. I will usually buy 1 or 2 extra GBs/year. Bikepacking usually eats more. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kirby Posted January 13, 2022 Share #7 Posted January 13, 2022 I think I'm on a 5gb a month plan, but I use very little. If I had unlimited I might use it for gps when I drive, but I don't, so I don't. I don't stream video to my phone except for a few youtube clips, and even then I'm usually home. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maddmaxx ★ Posted January 13, 2022 Share #8 Posted January 13, 2022 Womaxx and I share phone data in the plan. 3GB for both together. We never use it all up including power outage time and things like Waze. The kids are on unlimited. I guess that defines me as old. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goldendesign Posted January 13, 2022 Share #9 Posted January 13, 2022 We should also look at data consumption via the home internet as a comparison too. Quick look at my router tracking logs shows I have 38gb upstream (the webservers doing) and downstream a whopping 398gb, so far. Considering my entire network and server clusters are essentially media streamers, data scrapers, and more I am not entirely surprised. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MickinMD ★ Posted January 13, 2022 Share #10 Posted January 13, 2022 I hardly use any, 10 - 20 MB in a typical month. 121 MB last month because I kept checking my fantasy football teams on Thanksgiving. In the house I use my laptop for most online things and WiFi for my phone. I use the Walmart, supermarket, etc. WiFi when I'm in most stores. Outside the house I like not being highly connected to the world unless I need to check the weather or the price at Amazon, get a text message or phone call, or need to call and ask something like, "They're out of Tropicana, what other brand do you want me to get?" I have a Tracfone plan for $199/yr with unlimited minutes, unlimited texts and I don't know how much DATA but I have 23.83 GB left (some rolled-over from previous years) through May 2023. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ralphie ★ Posted January 13, 2022 Share #11 Posted January 13, 2022 We went from 20 gb or so fambly to unlimited, so I went from 2-3 gb up to around 10. I usually cache radio paradise when on WiFi but I forgot a lot recently so I streamed instead. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maddmaxx ★ Posted January 13, 2022 Share #12 Posted January 13, 2022 42 minutes ago, goldendesign said: We should also look at data consumption via the home internet as a comparison too. Quick look at my router tracking logs shows I have 38gb upstream (the webservers doing) and downstream a whopping 398gb, so far. Considering my entire network and server clusters are essentially media streamers, data scrapers, and more I am not entirely surprised. A very good point as some of us use the phone as a computer and others do not when accessing the internet. I use very little phone data but I'm on the internet much of the day. That consists of recreation, here or on the book of faces, on the laptop and more of that on the 2nd monitor of the lab computer while at the same time I'm using the lab computer for research into numerous things I'm interested in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris... Posted January 14, 2022 Share #13 Posted January 14, 2022 We have a shared unlimited plan. I used 2.14gb last month. My son used 10gb and my daughter used 20gb 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thaddeus Kosciuszko Posted January 14, 2022 Share #14 Posted January 14, 2022 Since I have a flip phone, this month my data usage was a 1 and a 0. Most months, however, it's usually just a 1. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bikeguy Posted January 14, 2022 Share #15 Posted January 14, 2022 WoBG and I use the Verizon 2GB plan. This month we used a total of 0.13GB of data. The prior month a 0.85GB, and that would be a LOT for us. We both us our wi-fi at home. And we use wi-fi calling the cell reception is not great here. 6 hours ago, goldendesign said: We should also look at data consumption via the home internet as a comparison too. This month so far 17GB used. 81GB was the must used. And I'm nowhere near the 1000GB limit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdc2000 Posted January 14, 2022 Share #16 Posted January 14, 2022 none Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bikeman564™ Posted January 14, 2022 Author Share #17 Posted January 14, 2022 15 hours ago, goldendesign said: We should also look at data consumption via the home internet as a comparison too. I use <10% of what I'm allowed. So to me, I have unlimited. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Airehead Posted January 14, 2022 Share #18 Posted January 14, 2022 I have no idea. How do I tell? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bikeman564™ Posted January 14, 2022 Author Share #19 Posted January 14, 2022 1 minute ago, Airehead said: I have no idea. How do I tell? Verizon & Comcast have the amount of data listed, either on the bill &/or the account. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maddmaxx ★ Posted January 14, 2022 Share #20 Posted January 14, 2022 I was incorrect above. Womaxx and I share 1GB between us. So far this month I've used 0.02GB and she has used 0.01. It's time to put the brakes on I think. 383 GB data on the wifi this month. Last October was a high of 1400 GB. That's with 4 users on line. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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