To start, let me clarify that I’m not going to post about data plans pros and cons. No, my questions is about usage – your usage to be precise.

Let me set the stage a bit for all you GearDiaryites…. I eat up a lot of bandwidth. A lot! I average nearly 100MB per day on my phone-flavor-of-the-week. That means if you extrapolate that out, I’m burning through about 3GB worth of data a month. Mind you, this is on my Widows Mobile device – not my PC – and that doesn’t include what data I download while I’m here at home on my WiFi network. How do I eat up nearly 3 gigs a month? Easy really. I have a corporate Exchange account in a company of nearly 200 people. I hold a national role in that company so I see a lot of email from every part of the organization – easily 100-150 per day in total. Add to that my Dashwire account which is contantly updating as it upload videos, images and what-not every day. Dashwire actually doesn’t account for much of the traffic unless I add a picture or video. Then there is Newsbreak, my RSS reader. That probably gets me more than I would like to admit. Between the hourly updates and the daily download of a podcast or four, I burn up a lot there. Add in the periodic weather updates from Spb Mobile Shell and, well, you get the picture. It all adds up to an impressive 3 gigs per month.

I know I eat through that much data per month because I measure it using Spb GPRS Monitor. GPRS monitor is an oldish application from Spb which allows you to configure it so it monitors your data connection. When it originally came out, unlimited data plans were both rare and insanely expensive and most mobile users needed to make sure they didn’t go over their included megabytes less they incur a massive overage bill. Although this is not so much the case today, I still like to see how much I’m burning through each day or month. Call it morbid curiosity.

So my fellow GearDiaryites, I ask this simple question: Am I alone? Am I the only one who eats through this much bandwidth on their mobile device each month? Am I on the low end? Do some of you eat up 10GB of data per month or am I absolutely insane by using what I do?

Post your bandwidth usage per day or month in the comments and let’s compare. Again, call it morbid curiosity…

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