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	Capt'n Corrupt	2009-04-22 , 19:17
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Originally Posted by TA-t3

Difficult to tell. But if I leave my NIT tethered to the phone for 3-4 hours it'll have consumed some 700KB-1MB or thereabouts. It runs the following while connected through the phone:

- gmail notifier. Checks every 10 ten minutes. I think this one uses very little bandwidth.
- telepathy (or at least I think that's what runs the chat stuff). It monitors my gtalk etc. friends (online, offline, idle etc.). Not sure how much this uses.
- email program. It checks my work mail over IMAP. This is the old email program btw, not modest. It checks every 15 minutes. I think this one is using most bandwidth. It looks like it uses some 15-30KB just to check if there's anything new. It doesn't use IMAP IDLE or any other efficient protocol. In my opinion it should really be possible to check for new mail with vastly less transfer of data (my inbox is always very small btw).

Thanks for that, it was very helpful.

I'm thinking that I'd love the N900 to have some sort of hand-off capability when switching between WiFi/WiMAX/3G networks, though
I could survive even if this wasn't the case. It would just mean that most operations would be interrupted if I left the house as the network automatically switched. My only concern is VoIP, but I can finish up the convo before changing locations.

If I had to manually switch networks, it would be extremely disappointing. Fewer steps == better.

It would appear that I use quite a bit of bandwidth on my little unit! In the past 8 hours, I've clocked around 100MB (up and down) as displayed by the 'Connection Manager' app. Of course, this mainly includes 2+ hours of VoIP conversations that I had which I only have when I'm at home. On the road, this won't be the case, unless the situations are extreme (vacation, emergency consolation, phone meeting, etc).

So it appears as though I should be able to comfortably use HSPA with my N900 without breaking the bank (even with these ker-azy Canadian prices). It's expensive, but easily justifiable as a business expense.

I'm going to write a small cron'd script (hopefully some form a timer installed) to poll my bandwidth hourly and dump the data in a file so that I can have a definite answer as to the amount of bandwidth I consume. This is the precise reason openness rocks.

YARR!
}:^)~
UBCorrupt

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