Skype data usage on iMac

How much data per minute does a video skype use using the Facetime camera on a new 21" iMac                                                                                                                       

John,
With due respect that is a question you should be asking on a Skype forum. I also think you should ask your ISP too, they may have other users that use SKYPE and know how much bandwidth it uses.

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    Hi folks,
    Computer dummy here.  
    Data Usage
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    Group Calling
    Is it free to have group calling, say I want to add two other callers who also have Skype, to chat at the same time?
    Thank you in advance,
    Kwei1955

    Ditto.  Skype is sucking the data bank dry.

  • Skype via 3G not showing on data usage?

    I live in the US and received a skype call from a buddy in Greece. We're both using our iPhones. I'm on 3G...he is on wi-fi. We had a 5min call, but when I check AT&T data usage, I don't see any data usage that reflects my skype call using 3G. How is that?

    From the call receivers point of view, a Skype call to a mobile or landline appears to be just another phone call, and is subject to any local charges you may have to pay to receive calls (you'll probably pay to receive calls if you were outside your home country). A Skype call doesn't require the person called to have Skype installed, or to have a data connection, as the routing of the call is done via the Internet, but ultimately the call is connected the same way as any other call - through the telecoms network.
    If you call someone, you'll need the WiFi connection or 3G to make the call, in which case it'll show up as data usage if 3G is used.
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    Check out the Skype pages for more info on how this works.
    http://www.skype.com/intl/en/features/allfeatures/call-phones-and-mobiles/

  • Does tethering to an iMac affect data usage compared to a standalone iPhone?

    Does tethering to an iMac affect data usage compared to a standalone iPhone?

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  • Lights Blinking - Bottom 4 Buttons on Phone / Skype Running / Data Usage

    A couple times I have noticed the 4 buttons at the bottom of my phone (Menu/Back/Home) start blinking or flashing. Is this the phone trying to tell me something or a glitch of sorts? I know one time I had a text message that I hadn't noticed had come in, the other, I think I had a missed call, but not 100% sure but have noticed it a couple times when a phone call was coming in and then one day, as I moved the phone away from my ear to hang up on a phone call I had been on, they were blinking. No logic or pattern to the occurrences that I've noticed.
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    yes, you are correct, the phone comes with a bunch of apps that you may never use and can not remove them.
    I went a few rounds with verzion several times, they basically say its there if you want to use it.  
    yes, you PAID for a phone you have little control over and they FORCE you to run apps (ever notice that skype runs a service that auto restarts if you kill it?).  they say it's a small amout of resources and it's there if you want to use it.  
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  • What is the best app for managing data usage on an iPhone 4S?

    What app are most of you using to manage your data usage on an iPhone 4S.

    Assuming that DonXX means 'monitor' rather than 'manage', my experience may be of relevance.
    I have a data usage problem with my iPhone 4. It started for me when I 'upgraded' to ioS 6. This may or may not be a coincidence. I went from an average monthly data usage of 150MB/month (a 2 year average) to 8.1 GB up/download in 28 days. To try and track down which app is The Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal, I've just installed the Onavo Count app. This claims to monitor the data usage of each app. My sights at the moment are on Skype. I only use iCloud for Calendar syncing.

  • Any way to get a history (detailed) of data usage on 3G?

    Hi all.
    I'm in Canada, have a 3G iPad and had a 250MB data plan with Rogers. That 30-day plan went from June 2 to July 2.
    This being the first month, I monitored data usage fairly closely and was surprised at how slowly my data balance was going down, throughout the month.
    However, my balance apparently went from 20 MB yesterday to 0 MB this morning, although I didn't use the 3G network yesterday (I was at home and hardly used the iPad which was connected via WiFi anyway).
    When I asked Rogers if there was a way to get a detailed history, their rep seemed confused and said to look on the iPad; of course, the iPad only gives the balance, not the history.
    Does anyone know if there's a way to get the history (such as is available on Skype, for instance)?
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    Can't you access such a history online via rogers.com?
    I'm using a Rogers Pay-as-you-go: A detailed Call/Data/Text history is accessible through my Rogers online account.

  • MiFi Data Usage Analysis?

    Our monthly data usage continues to explode and there doesn't appear to be a way to figure out what is driving the amount of data... Verizon has a data usage report that shows GB/MB at certain times of the day, but those times apear to be "groupings" of data usage vs. actually coinciding with actual usage.  For example, if one son is doing XBox-Live thru the MiFi, while his mom is "Skyping" with a friend at a similar time, how can I know what's driving the most data?  We live in a rural community with no cable, no DSL, no FIOS, no nothing - except HughesNet Satellite (which still is too slow and not recommended for XBox-live type usage anyway) or the MiFi.  But I want to figure out what types of usage drive the highest amounts of data, and the Verizon analysis tools don't seem to help.  Anybody have any recommendations?

    Hello,
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    That being said I would assume that Skype would be your biggest data drain.  Streaming audio and video definitely are the best ways to chew through a data plan at any given time.  Although you may suspect Xbox to be the same each game is different.  Some games only send small pieces of information across the Internet and are very data plan friendly.  Other games that stream the entire game across the Internet are not.
    Trial and error and the process of elimination are your friends.  Given enough data you will be able to gauge your own usage habits and stay on top of your bill before it blind sides you at the end of the billing cycle.
    Example of Good Habits:
    Avoid Video, use low def options if necessary
    Avoid Streaming music, use low def options if necessary
    Avoid High-res pictures, use low def options if necessary
    Close down your applications when you are done using them
    Disconnect from the device when you are not using it
    Check in on your usage frequently until you understand what impact your habits have on the plan
    Turn off automatic updates for any programs or services
    Secure your device by changing the default connection credentials to custom values

  • OS X Mail - excess data usage

    I have been struggling with extreme data usage - approaching the 300GB/mo Comcast allotment.  I do not stream HD content or play multi-player games, etc, the normal drivers of high data usage.  Other investigation of Wi-Fi looking for pirates, etc show no unexpected devices using my modem/router.  I closed the router firewall to bittorrent, kazaa, etc.  I finally noticed in the Network tab of the Activity Monitor that Mail was the highest consumer of inbound data, to the tune of 250 KB/sec, which can pile up a GB pretty fast!  Restarting Mail clears the problem.  I finally was watching the monitor while moving through mail messages and when I hit an HTML message with several images, there was a long pause trying to display the message content and eventually just broken images displayed - and usage went to the ~250 KB/sec level!  Going to another message and returning to the "trigger" message showed the images fine, so they HAD been downloaded/cached, but perhaps Mail doesn't know it and is in a retry loop?  Usage stays at this level until Mail is restarted, then all is well, even when going back to the trigger message (as expected due to caching).
    This is occurring on an iMac running Yosemite, but I have NOT observed the same behavior (yet?) on MacBook running Yosemite with same Mail config.  My usage has been high for several months, but I had not investigated until recently.  I had been using Postbox as my mail agent since Mavericks due to the IMAP issues with Gmail.  Since Yosemite seems to have solved that I switched back to Mac Mail.  A Comcast level 2 agent said he had heard of some data-loop issue with Mailplane - another Gmail client app for OS X.  Since I do not/had not used Mailplane, I discounted that cause, but it eventually made me wonder and now this issue has surfaced.  Current Mail config has 1 iCloud, 1 Exchange, 3 IMAP Gmail and 1 IMAP Comcast accounts defined.  The trigger message was in a Gmail account, so is that the common denominator??
    Is anyone else seeing this behavior?  Any ideas for a solution?

    The iOS view vs classic view in Mail is not the problem; I've already configured for classic view.
    Mountain Lion itself is.
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    ** No up/down arrows in scroll bar slider;
    Expose` not as easy to navigate as in Snow Leopard;
    Mail does not request passwords for either receive or send;
    No "Save Draft" icon in Mail compose window (workaround: use command-s);
    "Save As" selection missing in most app menus;
    No separate Search window in Safari (workaround: use Firefox or Opera);
    ** Can't export Mail from Mountain Lion into Snow Leopard if downgrading (I compiled this list before I stumbled on the method in this thread, but I'd prefer to effect this with Unix symbolic links);
    iWork 09 seems to have "circled the wagons" re compatibility with MS Office or LibreOffice (workaround: just use Libreoffice);

  • Data usage spikes

    I have an iMac and an Airbook, both using Time Capsule for WiFi connection to a Verizon 551L via a CradlePoint bridge.  Looking at my normal data usage on my shared plan, my computers and three iPhone 4 (3G) cell phones typically use 250MB/day with normal browsing, e-mail, etc.  I have automatic downloading of updates turned off on all of my devices and I set them to power down at night and sleep during the day if I don't use them for 30-minutes.  When I download iTunes albums, add an app, or update software, my usage will spike to 1-2GB, but I usually stay within my 16GB data plan. When I updated both computers to Mavericks in November, I really paid for that one, using nearly 30GB that month but hey, that was my fault.  But January has been unusual.  Eight days into the current billing period, I had used 5GB of my plan and on day 9, I had a 2.3GB spike at 4AM (My hardware and I were asleep).  Just after noon on the same day, (while I was at work and not using my hardware) I received two data alerts on my company computer; one at 12:10PM (75%) and one at 1:23PM (90%).  I live in a rural area where my nearest neighbor is out of range of my WiFi network and even if they could get through my firewall, access settings, and password restrictions, the data rate required to create those two alerts would have been (at a minimum) 2.4GB/73m or 6mbps.  That's uninterrupted streaming for 73-minutes!  Sorry, that's out-of-family performance, even for 4G LTE.  I'm almost certain that this is a problem with Verizon's usage monitoring and not representative of my actual usage.  I see a lot of posts about this same issue, so there must be something going on.  I understand Verizon not being too anxious to resolve it because it's very profitable.

    Good day
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    I got app to monitor my usage it was only was $0.99 I got Instagram sideloaded and that was my main source of data being used! 
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  • After updated to ios 4.3.2, network cellular data usage bug..

    I just updated my iphone 4 to ios 4.3.2, and I have so many problems now
    I have lag problem that it takes forever to access to setting.
    Also the network cellular data usage keeps changing..
    I got 118TB sent and sometimes I get -162...sent  I am outside of country so I didn't wanna get roaming charge so I put on airplane mode
    and I turned off cellular data and the first time I checked my usage I was freaked out!
    It scares me that 118TB that was sent which is ridiculous and I never ever used actually will be on my bill or something..
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    Hard-reset didn't work multiple times.
    Restore from backup didn't work either.
    I called AT&T from skype on my computer and resolved the issue. Thank you for your help everyone. Here is the solution that worked for me for others to reference:
    I swapped my iphone 4 SIM card with my wife's iphone 4 SIM card. Both phones received service immediately and I made successful test calls from both phones. Upon returning the SIM cards to the rightful phones, they both worked right away. I suppose just removing and reinstalling the SIM card could have worked.

  • Excessive & unexplained pre-paid data usage

    My prepaid mobile broadband which I use on my home computer -After re-charging with the new deal - 16GB for 730 days - all I have left now is 5.99GB - after only 2 months!!There is no obvious reason for this, I now spend minimal time online, checking emails, internet banking, check Fb & that's it. I don't download music or movies, to afraid to watch any Youtube.  Once/twice a week I make calls via Skype - max time 15mins.I have password protection on my modem, I have set my windows downloading/installing to manual.  I have set my antivirus protection to "economy" - which was recommended to save chewing thru my data usage. I now wonder what's next to do????  Up until 6 months ago, this problem did not exist - I was able to complete 18mths of study, using the internet daily & doing massive research, downloading etc, then all has gone pearshaped!!! If anyone can provide advice - it would be much appreciated, thank you.

    I have had exactly the same problem. Logged in on sunday to check emails and it took 1959Mb of my data and shut down my account. Reported it, still waiting. Went in to my local Telstra store and they phoned help (overseas) for me. They did not even have my current address so I could verify who I was. Afet half an hour I eventually got put back to an operator who asked me if I wanted to pay my account that was paid a week ago. If there were awards for disgusting customer service nobody would come near Telstra. In 2015 I have been without internet for 2 days now.

  • Does anyone have problems with data usage with att and Iphone5?

    Hello, Does anyone have problems with data usage or non usage I should say with Iphone 5 and AT&T?

    After 4+ months of dealing with this data usage and battery drain problem that included 3 data captures of my wife's iMac, the trigger for us regarding the problems syncing with iCloud, and 5 hours of logs off my iPhone 6 to be analyzed by Apple engineers that included times my wife's computer was both on and off to demonstrate the difference in data usage and battery drain under those conditions, I can say with very reasonable certainty that the iOS 8.3 and corresponding Mac OS 10.10.3 update has solved the problem. 
    We have now been running for about 2 weeks and data usage with the iCloud Servers attempting to sync has dropped from a rate of 31 GBs to under 15 MBs per month.  Yes, you read it right.  We were burning 2000 times as much data doing absolutely nothing important on both of our phones, a 5s and a 6.  Just imagine what that does to battery life!  The 5s would last about 5 hours and the 6 was dead in less than 14.
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  • Is it possible to view wireless user data usage through Time Capsule

    I am currently running my Time Capsule connected to my internet router to provide wireless internet access to my household.
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    Wow, that was quick — thanks!  Being computer illiterate is a major pain!

  • 2GB / hour data usage

    I am using skype video on an ipad over Verizon LTE to my partner on a macbook. Skype is using 2GB (gigabytes) per hour! (871MB for 29 minutes, precisely.) The info I've found is that skype uses 300kbps which is 1.06 GB per hour. Why is the actual usage twice that high? Skype video is using significantly more data per hour than it did, say, six months ago. There have been updates to skype and to IOS so I can't guess what is responsible for the increased usage. Is there a way to decrease the bandwidth that Skype video uses? Is there a control to tell skype to downsample the video to, for example, 800x600, or to use more aggressive data compresskon to decrease data usage? If not, why not? This is clearly a huge usability issue in a mobile application.  What can I do?

    I agree with all of you.  I don't like where Skype is going.  I teach by Skype - one hour videos call = one lesson.  I want to be able to get away from the home and still teach and am looking into mobile hot spots.  My main consideration is how much data Skype is going to require.  So now I am looking at other video conferencing options.  I was appalled at the way skype was acting on my mother's new computer with Windows 8.  I could not figure out how to do anything on it.  I had to use it when my computer died and had to end up calling Skype twice, which I think is ridiculous because it's a simple program I've used successfully without issue for years.  This is exactly the same reason why I bought a Mac instead of dealing with Windows 8 which drives me up the wall.  Had been a happy windows user for 20 years.  It is ridiculous that MS wants to connect everything a person has, so there is no privacy left anymore.  Like Google.  

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