[tor-talk] Orbot Data Overhead

[Patrick B]

It depends on what you use it for. If you are using it with specific
applications that support proxying, you can just turn Orbot on as you
need to, this probably won't inccur very much extra data usage.

Worst case scenario, if you leave Orbot running 24/7(~200MB a month)
and all your data has high overhead (web traffic) you would only be
able to use about a little less then 200MB of your plan. You could
gain an extra 100 MB back by running Orbot 12 hours a day.

On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 6:21 PM,  <tor at lists.grepular.com> wrote:
> I was concerned about the idle usage of Orbot myself when I originally
> installed it and took some measurements. I decided that I couldn't
> leave it turned on permanently because it was sucking up too much
> bandwidth. I only get 500MB/month on my phone plan. Is it going to be
> possible to significantly reduce the idle bandwidth usage?