GPRS - What's the size of each download???

[Spudson]

All,

In considering TomTom Traffic, I'm trying to price up how much it could cost me over the course of 1 year.

From the moment you switch on TomTom, and pair it with a GPRS, bluetooth mobile, how much data is downloaded for a typical journey of 100 miles?

You see, the annual subscription to traffic (€59) is one cost. The data download is another, but I cannot quantify how much it'll cost me to download the traffic information.

Couple of things:

I know that it's going to be dependent upon prevailing traffic conditions but would be grateful if regular users could give an indication of data downloaded, together with the frequency of usage.
I also know that the information is sometimes unreliable.

But I'd like to keep on-topic please.

Many thx.

S

[Talkingbollox]

I have begun a month's trial from 22 April.

During this time I've been making a trip round trip of 160 up the M1 once a week using TT Traffic, and been up to Center Parcs in Cumbria over the holiday weekend. I've set auto update every 12 minutes, and I maunally update in between as well.

Data usage to date has been 86k sent/479k received. So I guess 1 mb would be enough each month?

I have found it to be pretty accurate too.

Hope this helps.

[Spudson]

Thx TB,

It would be good to hear of other users' experiences...

S

[SimonCatlin]

Less than 1 mg a month (or about £12.00 in data costs on orange for a year) + the subscription. It's a bit cack sometimes and the data feed is from itis, so don't blame TomTom all the time.
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[Spudson]

Thanks SimonC,

How often do you use traffic??

S

[rogbear]

1 Mb per month?

T-Mobile charge 75p per 1K

1Mb is 1024K

So that is 1024 * 75p = £768 per month I calculate

Or a rate of £9.99 plus £40 per month flat-rate connection fee.

[SimonCatlin]

[SimonCatlin]

[Brightlands100]

I used Traffic over an 8 hour period and a 400 mile trip recently and it updated itself every 10 minutes. Total cost 40p. This is on an Orange Open Access tariff of £4 for 4MB monthly.

[11244]

I have used traffic now for 1 month and with autoupdate every 10 minutes. I spend 3 hours each day in my car.

Total megs up and downloaded = 2.45
Lucky me has 10mb download per month for €3

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