# Reducing data usage **URL:** \ **Category:** Features\ **Created:** [February 27, 2020, 11:36pm UTC](https://forum.remote.it/t/reducing-data-usage/139 "2020-02-27T23:36:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![mycal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ebca7d/32.png) [@mycal](https://forum.remote.it/u/mycal)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2020, 1:31am UTC](https://forum.remote.it/t/reducing-data-usage/139/2 "2020-02-28T01:31:37Z")
what kind of bandwidth are you seeing? You have seen this right? > [@Bandwidth Utilization](https://forum.remote.it/t/bandwidth-utilization/63): > > Currently a device with 1 service (IE ssh) and bulk scripting will use the following amount of bandwidth when idle: .02 Mbyte per hr, .49 Mbyte per day, 14 Mbyte per month Each extra service you add to a device will consume an extra: .01 Mbyte per hr, .24 Mbyte per day, 7 Mbyte per month. An idle connected service (P2P or proxy) will use the following amount of data: .065 Mbyte per hr. This is not including Data transferred over the connection. Cellular connected devices may not want to l… From what we see this is much less than most keepalive’s we have seen. There are ways you can reduce this, but likely the biggest data usage is when you have a proxy connected, where the bandwidth goes up quite a bit. have you tried Desktop for connections? This might help a lot. Let me know how many services your device has and what your seeing for bandwidth. --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.remote.it/t/reducing-data-usage/139)._