GPRS... How much mb do I need?

[Guest Mlind1]

I 'm on t-mobile and the tarrif is as follows :

5 pound 3mb

10 pound 6mb

15 pound 10mb

I won't be a heavy user and will mostly use wap sites.... how many kb is the average wap site?

also how many kb does msn messenger use? if its left on without any contact is it continuosly sending data?

finally how can you keep a track of amont of kb used?

thanks in advance

Mike

[Guest MoRFLeZ]

I'm not too sure on wap sites .. I've never used it much!

As for messenger, it really doesn't use a lot of traffic! I should really try and test it ... I've been buggering myself to do so! I'll get right on it!

As for surfing in general, I have disabled pictures in my browser, and that way don't use as much traffic on seeing 'pictures' on various sites. It looks crap, but oh well...

There is a program that will keep track of how much traffic you use. You can find/buy it here:

>>Click Me

I think it's the only one at the moment, and I use it! (Will try and test out Messenger in a sec....)

As for leaving Messenger on .. it will receive some info and use traffic even though you aren't chatting .. I seem to remember someone testing this, but I forgot how much it was! It was 'fairly' much tho.... considering you weren't actually doing anything else...

Will get right back to ya after using MSN for a bit!

[Guest MoRFLeZ]

Okay a small test... would need some serious testing to make an accurate answer though, but here is what the first small test concluded:

I chatted on MSN for 5 minutes CONSTANTLY. We are talking a message sent and received every 10 seconds...

After the 5 minutes I had received 29,88 KB and Sent 21,68 KB. So that would cost me around 27 'øres'! Which is NUFFIN (100 øres to a kroner - around 10 kroners to a british pound :) )

[Guest Brody]

I would say that there's no need to spend as much as £15, i fairly regularly use my GPRS but for nothing too heavy, the odd site (HTML and not WAP) and messenger on occasion and i normally use about 5 or 6 meg. Hope this helps!

[Guest cybercamel]

I don't use WAP sites but according to Orange 1 Megabyte equals 1200 WAP pages.

They also say it equals about 20 web pages or 100 emails without attachments.

Hope that helps.