How long does data usage last ?

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col

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Iv not used my radio app on my phone as I dont know how much data it will use while listening. I have a one gig allowance a month. Anyone know how long actual radio listening time one gig would give?
 

Edge705

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if your at home I presume you'l use wifi so it wont affect your data usage but if you work on 1 meg per minute youv'e got 1000 of them
 
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col

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I do use wifi at home. About 16 - 17 hours of listening time, doesnt sound much does it? Ill only use it at home with wifi I think, thanks for that.:thumbsup:
 
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col

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have an xfi which I use all the time, it lasts 15 hours on a charge. I was thinking about the radio app on my phone as it has thousands of channels from around the world, would have been nice to have so much to choose from at work.
 

marinyork

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It will vary slightly depending on the station. Get the kbs of the station. 8 bits = 1 byte.

So 92kbs x3600 seconds x 17hours is about five and a half gigabits. Divide this by eight and you end up with less than a gigabyte. If you have lower than 92kbs than you could get to around 300Mb or so for 17 hours. If you use higher bitrate it could go above a gig.

So you're talking 10,20, 40MB an hour and so on depending on the bitrate of the station.
 
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col

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It will vary slightly depending on the station. Get the kbs of the station. 8 bits = 1 byte.

So 92kbs x3600 seconds x 17hours is about five and a half gigabits. Divide this by eight and you end up with less than a gigabyte. If you have lower than 92kbs than you could get to around 300Mb or so for 17 hours. If you use higher bitrate it could go above a gig.
Im glad you understand That:wacko: Thanks though, So 16 hours ish is somewhere near?
 

marinyork

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Im glad you understand That:wacko: Thanks though, So 16 hours ish is somewhere near?

Well it could be about 3/4 of a gigabyte or it could be a third of a gigabyte or many other values. It depends what the bitrate of the station is. I am quoting not completely unrealistic bitrates, but they do vary.
 
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col

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Ah so the lower the bitrate the less data usage, so longer time?
 

marinyork

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Ah so the lower the bitrate the less data usage, so longer time?

Absolutely, if you have a fixed amount of usage (as you do).

Bitrate just means the rate i.e. number per second of bits. So we have kila bits per second. If we want the total number of bits then we multiply the length of time we listen to it by the rate. There are 60 minutes in a hour and 60 seconds in a minute so 60x60=3600.

So bitrate x 3600 = number of bits in an hour. The only problem beyond that (ignoring the conventions of computer science on mega and kila) is converting bits into bytes - your allowance is in bytes.

I don't listen to internet radio though, so I can't just quote you the bitrate.
 
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