Live Tracking - SIM data size

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Rob Hague

• April 22, 2021 12:38

Anyone got experience of the data usage rate that Live Tracking by SIM uses?
I'm assuming it does work...?
Back of the envelope calulation indidates maybe 50kilobytes of traffic an hour - so any 2GB a month cheap phone+data SIM should be plenty.

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  Benjamin Hendler

  • April 22, 2021 13:15

  Wondering also!

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  Stephen Craske

  • April 22, 2021 13:25

  I'm in the UK and use a Lebara 2GB sim and have had no issues, data usage is minimum, never gone anywhere near the limit but I mainly upload my rides when I'm connected to Wi-fi.

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  Joe Wang

  • April 22, 2021 14:41

  I am in the US and use FreedomPop. I'm using about 1-1.5 MBytes an hour. This includes live tracking (which works fine) and ride upload (to HH dashboard) at the end. The freemium 25MB/month plan has been fine so far but as restrictions ease and the weather improves, I'll probably need to go to a higher plan. I can add 100MB for only $2.

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  Rob Hague

  • April 22, 2021 14:47

  Thanks guys! Sounds like a basic (UK) £5 (US$7 or so) 4GB SIM will be quite adequate for 4000hrs riding a month - not likely to happen! :)
  Sounds like we get much bigger dataplans here than in the US Joe!

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  Bob Lyle

  • April 22, 2021 15:25

  Hey Rob, 4000 hours riding in a month? Last I checked there are 720 hours in 30 continuous days, or was I napping again? <G>

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  Rob Hague

  • April 22, 2021 17:53

  Thanks Bob! We're all good then!
  Even if it pulls down the odd s/w update :)

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  Steve

  • April 22, 2021 20:11

  https://www.1pmobile.com/ is worth looking at for UK users, Rob.

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  Rob Hague

  • April 23, 2021 11:28

  Wow Steve, bargain!
  Annoyed - I just ordered a £5 a month one, but that does include £25 cashback.

   

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