# High Data Usage for BSoM 404X **URL:** \ **Category:** Cloud\ **Tags:** boron\ **Created:** [March 4, 2024, 10:14pm UTC](https://community.particle.io/t/high-data-usage-for-bsom-404x/66485 "2024-03-04T22:14:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![gusgonnet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/community.particle.io/gusgonnet/32/27491_2.png) [@gusgonnet](https://community.particle.io/u/gusgonnet)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2024, 10:28pm UTC](https://community.particle.io/t/high-data-usage-for-bsom-404x/66485/2 "2024-03-04T22:28:10Z")
Hi and welcome to the community, I'll link here some related threads, there might be some interesting info there for you: > [@Excessive data consumption for no apparent reason](https://community.particle.io/t/excessive-data-consumption-for-no-apparent-reason/66360): > > I want to scale out this account to many hundreds of devices, but I have a serious concern about data usage. I have active devices on this account that are calling in, on average, 4 times a day. Each payload on call in is well less than 1K. To my surprise, most chips are showing consumption usage in the many MBs, some of which are showing 21MB, 19MB, 14MB, lots north of 10MB. That seems wildly wrong. Something is going on. The problem is now my particle account is deactivated because I shot WA… > [@Measuring cellular data usage from DeviceOS](https://community.particle.io/t/measuring-cellular-data-usage-from-deviceos/66373): > > Hey @Dan-Kouba , @rickkas7 et all, When I see posts that ask about why a particular device is consuming that much data, it makes me wonder if there is a way from DeviceOS that we can find out exactly what is happening at the cell connection, on device. For instance, can Device OS know when this case below is happening, so we increase a counter to watch out for in our user code, then do a particular move? PS: I can imagine that many many factors impact the cell connection, and particular sol… --- _[View the full topic](https://community.particle.io/t/high-data-usage-for-bsom-404x/66485)._