Guest chucky.egg Posted September 2, 2003 Report Posted September 2, 2003 I've finally got around to setting up a Passport account so I can use IM, but I want to know what the usage of MSN (on its own) is likely to be. I've started GPRS Traffic Counter's personal counter, but an average over a couple of days would be useful - Has anyone already done this? What were your usage figure like?
Guest blewer Posted September 2, 2003 Report Posted September 2, 2003 Have not tried this myself. As far as I can see messenger itself doesn't use that much data. It will depend how much you use it to send messages and how long the messages are. The best thing to do is log on and switch back and forth with your GPRS tracker and it will tell you how much usage there is. Click on traffic and it will give you all the figures Let us know how you do. :)
Guest chucky.egg Posted September 2, 2003 Report Posted September 2, 2003 For now I'm not using it much at all (if my mates will stop trying to feck up my statistics for 5 bl00dy minutes that is - I shouldn't have told them!) Anyway having reconnected twice it seems to be saying 1.78kb in and 728b (bytes, not kb) out for the last 2 hours, with no change in the last 30 minutes. I've hardly started measuring, but at this stage I estimate the connection-only transfer would be about 288kb/month (2.4kb x 4 dropped connections x 30 days)
Guest blewer Posted September 2, 2003 Report Posted September 2, 2003 I'll try it for a few hours and let you know my outcome too. Keep watching! EDIT AAAAAARRRRRRRGGGG I keep getting msn messages, calls and text messages. :roll: I will post when I have a couple of hours with no interruptions. :)
Guest blewer Posted September 2, 2003 Report Posted September 2, 2003 Seems that it only takes about 3kb to log on to messenger. Then for about an hour of not receiving / sending messages there was no data usage at all. :) Done this twice. Chris let me know what your findings are. All we need now is an add-on to the homescreen to let us know when a buddy logs on. :wink: Anyone?
Guest chucky.egg Posted September 2, 2003 Report Posted September 2, 2003 I'm getting about the same, but keep getting IMs so it's getting a bit skewed. I'll try again all day tomorrow with a scrap passport!
Guest chucky.egg Posted September 3, 2003 Report Posted September 3, 2003 OK, not very scientific, but after a few re-logins (where it said I was still logged in anyway) it used 11.45 Kb today. I haven't used GPRS for anything else so that's just to maintain an MSN session, but I would expect that if you used your GPRS session more (e.g. checking your email) the conenction would not be dropped and you wouldn't have to login again and again. I'll try that tomorrow, but for now I've attached a CSV file with todays numbersMSN GPRS Traffic.zip
Guest chucky.egg Posted September 4, 2003 Report Posted September 4, 2003 OK, todays number is... 17.55 kb Today I was mostly... auto-checking an empty email account to keep MSN connected. I had one "drop off" on my way to work, but apart from that haven't had to re-sign in at all. Used more data than last time, but for those that check email regularly (mine was checking every hour, and limiting downloads to 1000 bytes) it's an easy way to keep MSN going.MSN and EMAIL GPRS Traffic.zip
Guest superken Posted September 6, 2003 Report Posted September 6, 2003 could I have the GPRS traffic tracker? thx! [email protected]
Guest blewer Posted September 6, 2003 Report Posted September 6, 2003 You have to buy it mate. Try orange website 'HERE'
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