S4GRU Members Average Monthly Data Usage (with Poll)

[jamisonshaw125]

Me and my friends.. Every night, we've watched ton's of shows on my phone and their are so many apps for Cable now. I can watch live games and tv too.

Why not just get rid of cable and get home internet and pay 8 bucks a month for Hulu lol

 

 

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[Trip]

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mobidia.android.mdm&hl=en

 

Thanks!

 

- Trip

[awsum gam3r]

Why not just get rid of cable and get home internet and pay 8 bucks a month for Hulu lol

 

 

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Because I go over to their place.. lol

[Jeff68005]

 

I do my part with using Wi-Fi where i can.. 

Cute .... where did you get the above app or widget?

[lilotimz]

What app is that?  I wouldn't mind having that.

 

- Trip

 

 

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mobidia.android.mdm&hl=en

 

 

Cute .... where did you get the above app or widget?

[Jeff68005]

These links are for me individually and the entire family which is 4 smart phones plus my Katana which does not qualify for this topic.  My sister has a 5 Gig rider for her cell phone number for a hotspot.  I understand the hotspot allowance in separate in the bookkeeping from our family plan.  I know this because she busted the hotspot budget and I got a text warning message.

 I am less than a gig a month on my cell phone.  My new LG G tablet is under 450 MG due to some tower chasing and speed tests.  I have only had the tablet less than three weeks.

 

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[sbolen]

I think my biggest usage month had 12GB used, but it was when we had a big-time outage with our home internet. Otherwise, I'm offloading to wifi as much as possible.

[bigmachine]

.72 GB so far this month. I've had months up to 10. I guess I don't really need Unlimited, but I like the idea of it.

[Scott]

My average monthly usage over the last year is 7.19 GB. I didn't think it was that high, I would've guessed it was closer to 5 GB. 

[derrph]

I use about 35GB a month. I mainly stream music at the highest setting and I have daily volgs on YouTube I watch. I also update my apps too. My sprint service works so good that I really forget to use wifi when I'm at home.

 

 

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[WiWavelength]

I use about 35GB a month. I mainly stream music at the highest setting and I have daily volgs on YouTube I watch. I also update my apps too. My sprint service works so good that I really forget to use wifi when I'm at home.

 

Yeah, agreed, the Sprint network has gotten really good in a lot of places.  Woo hoo!

 

But how do you "forget" to use Wi-Fi at home?  You should almost never turn off Wi-Fi.  Rather, you configure your device once for each trusted network -- after that, it should automatically connect to only those trusted networks.  I pull into my driveway and, boom, my handset is already off LTE and on one of my two home Wi-Fi SSIDs.

 

Consider this a public service announcement.  Everyone, there is little reason if you have your own secure Wi-Fi network that you should not be using it.  Please do not unnecessarily increase the load on the macro network while at home.  Each bit of Wi-Fi offloading may be small, but it adds up and helps maintain capacity for truly mobile users.

 

AJ

[nmartine3]

I use about 15 GB a month, sometimes 30 GBs, when my home internet acts up. Having unlimited is a good safety net.

[jamisonshaw125]

I never use LTE over my home wifi. I think it's a waste of me paying to have wifi. For everywhere else, theres LTE when I need it. 

[WiWavelength]

From the data accumulated thus far, here are some sobering statistics:

• Those who average less than 10 GB of data usage per month make up 65 percent of the polled population, while those who average greater than 75 GB of data usage per month make up just four percent of the same population.  
• If the median data usage value is applied to each of the polling categories, giving the 90+ GB category the benefit of the doubt at just 90 GB, then the aforementioned 65 percent average in total 217.5 GB of data usage per month, and the latter four percent average in total 262.5 GB of data usage per month.

AJ

[travismheim]

Yeah, agreed, the Sprint network has gotten really good in a lot of places.  Woo hoo!

 

But how do you "forget" to use Wi-Fi at home?  You should almost never turn off Wi-Fi.  Rather, you configure your device once for each trusted network -- after that, it should automatically connect to only those trusted networks.  I pull into my driveway and, boom, my handset is already off LTE and on one of my two home Wi-Fi SSIDs.

 

Consider this a public service announcement.  Everyone, there is little reason if you have your own secure Wi-Fi network that you should not be using it.  Please do not unnecessarily increase the load on the macro network while at home.  Each bit of Wi-Fi offloading may be small, but it adds up and helps maintain capacity for truly mobile users.

 

AJ

I turn WiFi off when I leave for work. I do home delivery and find that leaving it on causes a larger than normal battery drain by having it scan all the time driving all over the city. However, if I do forget to turn it back on when I get home I usually remember when I pick up my phone. LTE is great, but I would never purposely use it over my home ISP as it really can't compare with fios.

[shaferz]

I revoted now that I logged on and saw average usage over the past 12 months:

 

[Fuber]

Even though I only got one vote. My four lines have a average of 4.3 gigs per month.  Leaving the wifi on doesn't drain the battery that much.  It's all the data usage that is draining that battery.

[cletus]

 

3 things happened here: 1) I went from a position where I met vendors to a higher up position where I no longer have to 2) We got fiber internet and gigabit wifi at work and 3) my wife was at home on bedrest and then the baby came in March (neat to see the spike from the hospital stay as the wifi was terrible there). I avg about 50-75 GB+/mo over WiFi now.

 

Happily I only pay $88 after taxes for the 24 GB shared plan (+4 GB from that promotion) because I expect to be upwards of 8 GB per month when my wife goes back to work. Streaming music adds up quick!

[Steve Dean]

_{For myself, it depends on travel.  I have used less than 5GB one month, then over 30GB the next.  I do have a 6GB hotspot on my phone that I use for my work laptop and I have run over several times.  This month will be 30+GB .  Already been on the road 7 days this month.  Heading out again Wednesday morning.}

[kojitsari]

Alright I actually voted now (got my hands on a PC finally), my statistics are definitely a bit skewed.

 

For the past year and a half (at the end of the month) that I've had Sprint (my opinion finally started to count xS) the first 7 months and this month have been an average of 15-50gb a month. While the middle 6-7 months I averaged about 7gb a month.

 

Why the huge discrepancy? At my parents house (current permanent address, due to school) we cannot get home internet excluding satellite. Streaming TV and movies plus running Pandora/sound cloud for 6-10 hours a day does add up quickly. However there is a wisp that just popped up that I'm trying to get something worked out with (barely outside of coverage, which is in even more rural areas..).

 

Tldr: no internet, to google fiber, back to no internet makes your usage look bipolar.

[WiWavelength]

Now that exactly 100 users have been polled, here are some other interesting stats.  Again using the median value in each data tier, the top five percent consumes 367.5 GB per month; the bottom 95 percent consumes 857.5 GB per month.  That brings the total to 1225 GB -- of which the top five percent accounts for exactly 30 percent.

 

AJ

[cletus]

Now that exactly 100 users have been polled, here are some other interesting stats.  Again using the median value in each data tier, the top five percent consumes 367.5 GB per month; the bottom 95 percent consumes 857.5 GB per month.  That brings the total to 1225 GB -- of which the top five percent accounts for exactly 30 percent.

 

AJ

I find it kind of interesting that the results are not skewed higher. I figured S4GRU would be on the higher end with most users above 5GB and quite a bit more in the 15 GB+ range. I won't be changing my plan but it does give me a bit of pause for next time I re-up.

[marioc21]

I find it kind of interesting that the results are not skewed higher. I figured S4GRU would be on the higher end with most users above 5GB and quite a bit more in the 15 GB+ range. I won't be changing my plan but it does give me a bit of pause for next time I re-up.

 

I don't know about everybody else, but from my end I avg about 2 GBs a month.  I have FIOS at home so I'm on wifi there. I also have wifi available at work. My phone only uses data while i'm commuting to and from work or walking at lunch time.  I rarely stream video over the mobile network. 

[Deval]

I average 7-8GB a month, and that's mostly streaming video during my commute or waiting for my wife to get out of work. The rest of my usage is all over WIFI.

[twospirits]

I've kept a spreadsheet of data usage since 2010 and looking over the stats, the most I've used was back in Oct-Nov 2014 where I used a total of 31.5GB between 5 devices (4 phones and 1 hotspot). 

 

Year 2010 Avg was   6GB per month (on SERO)

Year 2011 Avg was   7GB per month (on SERO)

Year 2012 Avg was 10GB per month (Everything Plus)

Year 2013 Avg was 11GB per month (Everything Plus)

Year 2014 Avg was 17GB per month (Everything Plus Jan 2010 thru Aug 2014)

Year 2015 Avg was 20GB per month (3 months) 60GB Family Share plan Sep to present)

 

Mind you, I signed up for the 30GB Family share plan and got bumped up to 60 with a promotion they did.

I also go on Wifi once I am home, 

 

TS