[The Guvnor]

In the Uk packages are slightly limited on my provider. I rang them today and had the joy of speaking to some halfwit in India who put me on hold for 30 minutes while he went and spoke to someone else who did not know what data package I had

Anyway. What is your usual data use each month?

They put me on an 8mb bundle for £10.00 extra. I won't be surfing the net on it, but I currently get every personal email some with attatchments (the odd photo)

Be very interested to know how much you use yours etc.....

[beyondalegend]

I used to use around 38 Megabytes a month, but I removed this feature because my phone bill was pushing $130.00 without any overages!

[JSanders]

I use upwards of 25mb per month, but I surf on the browser, I have several applications which use data, as well as receiving lots of mail.

I am betting that with primarily mail, you will not hit 8mb each month. My wife has a 8100 and rarely does much more than mail and hits less than 8mb each month, admittedly also, her incoming email is as well light.

In my experience, your best best with go a couple-three months to see how it runs and adjust from there.

[The Guvnor]

Thanks.....when you say lots of mail, is that purely text stuff?

[JSanders]

You BB will only download the headers of the mail until you open it. Any attachments and lengthy emails don't count the data until you ask for it.

For instance I get a very lengthy news update several times a day, which 75% of the time I delete without reading. However, if I scroll through to read, I have to ask for "more" (or it happens automatically) to receive the remainder of the lengthy email. Does that make sense?

[base-x]

wow.... thats it!?! i got all of you guys beat! im pushing around 85+MB per month and over 6000 emails,IM, TEXT, etc... thank god for UNLIMITED DATA!

[JSanders]

I need to show these posts to my wife... proof that I am only partially addicted!

[0deuce0]

None!

I dont have data on my pearl! Crazy huh? Well, just trying to simplify, and disconnect myself from too many emails. I have to say the Pearl is a great regular phone. The only downside to not having data, is not being able to send Multimedia messages...

[Jifffer]

I'm on a limited data plan, 25Mb for C$60/month - receive approx 50 - 60 email per day - many with attachments - important not to open the large attachments (see file size at bottom of email) - I respond to approx 25 - 30 emails per day and do some light surfing (Google and Yahoo search - screen appears to small or my eye are going in order to do much anything else regarding the net) on my phone and I'm using less than 7 Mb per month - hope this helps.

[base-x]

Originally Posted by teamjordan23

Between 70-90MB. Last month was 71.5MB and my highest has been in the 91MB range.

my kinda guy^^

[Impaler80s]

I use over 1000 text messages a month--fortunately my girlfriend is also on AT&T and we have the unlimited to other AT&T or we'd be hosed. That's not part of the data plan, per se, but just wanted to note that.

I went through 16MB of e-mail pushes, and 3.5MB for data surfing. Don't do much surfing on my device, though.

[artemis104]

Do you guys leave your messenger programs running/connected throughout the day?

[GBallew]

I'm a true Crackberry addict . Somewhere between always being on my Pearl and sending countless E-mails and TXT's a day, I got the JiveTalk Beta so I'm always on MSN Messanger, Plus surfing the Interweb...I'm running about 100mb a month...on a slow month.

(Thank God I'm not paying for any of it! I got a job at a wireless carrier!)

[Neverl8]

I average about 40+mb a month. Luckly with tmobile BB service, its unlimited. I would use it with my laptop to get full outlook mail to view full attachment that I cannot see on the bb screen.

[naabster]

25-30mb per month. email, maps, browsing...

[The Guvnor]

I can see why these are named Crackberrys now! Its incredible how addictive they are. Also find I am emailing people I would not have even bothered to before now, just so I can! LOL

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[pepepex]

Hi people. How do you do to know how much data you have used during a month? I have been trying to find a tool/application that would allow me to measure and track this... is there a standard way for doing so? I am paying for a 200MB plan and I thought it was too short a plan. Cheers.

BTW: does anyone know how can I check my IP address, uptime, APNs in use, etc... all this networking stuff. I downloaded an application called BlackBerry Diagnostics, but it doesn't show this info... been even thinking on learning how to develop for BB.

[Neverl8]

Originally Posted by pepepex

Hi people. How do you do to know how much data you have used during a month? I have been trying to find a tool/application that would allow me to measure and track this... is there a standard way for doing so? I am paying for a 200MB plan and I thought it was too short a plan. Cheers.

BTW: does anyone know how can I check my IP address, uptime, APNs in use, etc... all this networking stuff. I downloaded an application called BlackBerry Diagnostics, but it doesn't show this info... been even thinking on learning how to develop for BB.

Damn, a 200mb plan. If you are only using the BB without attaching it to a laptop for web surfing, I would guess that will be overkill for a month. That would almost be constant downloading of mail or attachments.

Or is your plan for over the course of several months?

[Air Force One]

Originally Posted by pepepex

Hi people. How do you do to know how much data you have used during a month? I have been trying to find a tool/application that would allow me to measure and track this... is there a standard way for doing so?

I log in to my account at the Cingular website. There, Cingular users can check their data usage and voice minutes used. Not sure if there is a Telefonica website which would allow for this.

Originally Posted by pepepex

BTW: does anyone know how can I check my IP address, uptime, APNs in use, etc... all this networking stuff. I downloaded an application called BlackBerry Diagnostics, but it doesn't show this info... been even thinking on learning how to develop for BB.

I think you can check it this way: click options icon: click status: click menu button next to green phone button: click diagnostic: click menu button next to green phone button: click run. You should see you IP address listed among the other entries by the time the diagnostic is finished running. Mine changes quite often so I think your IP is not static. All this assumes that I'm right and this is the phone's IP that is listed when running a diagnostic, and not something I'm misinterpreting.

Hope this helps

As to the first post: I used ~48MBs of data last month.

AF1

[churchill]

Im averaging between 20-30 meg per month, that includes gsm im, browsing, downloading audiobooks from audible.com with audible air (if you are an audible customer, they have a pretty polished beta for the pearl that lets you access your whole lib and download anything in your lib to your media card).