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For those who consume multiple GBs of mobile bandwidth a month...

ManSnake

ManSnake

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What do you do to consume so much? Do you download torrents on your phone or what? I hardly ever run over 1GB a month. Most of the time it's around 500mb.
 
Pandora, Youtube, Slingbox, which is just a start. It's not that hard to figure out what eats bandwidth. There are people that use their phones for all their worth.
 
64kps radio stream = 8KB/s * 60 * 60 = 28.8MB/hour * 8 hour work day = 230MB/day of work * 20ish days of work/month = 4.6GB

I never thought it possible either, but making work half way bearable with some music is worth it.
 
RedRooster said:
64kps radio stream = 8KB/s * 60 * 60 = 28.8MB/hour * 8 hour work day = 230MB/day of work * 20ish days of work/month = 4.6GB

I never thought it possible either, but making work half way bearable with some music is worth it.
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I would sell my left appendage to be able to listen to music at work.

Call center FTL
 
Most of mine is podasts. I work 12 hour shifts, most of which is spent in my car. I get tired of music.
 
RedRooster said:
64kps radio stream = 8KB/s * 60 * 60 = 28.8MB/hour * 8 hour work day = 230MB/day of work * 20ish days of work/month = 4.6GB

I never thought it possible either, but making work half way bearable with some music is worth it.
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thats where the bulk of mine comes from as well, however i dont listen for 8 hours every day, also IDK if the high quality option on various streams uses more bandwidth
 
It's mostly streaming services. With the addition of the Netflix app, among other streaming apps, mobile bandwidth is gonna be used more heavily.
 
ChAoTiCpInOy said:
It's mostly streaming services. With the addition of the Netflix app, among other streaming apps, mobile bandwidth is gonna be used more heavily.
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Which is sad cus carriers are giving us LESS bandwidth to work with. Mobile technology is growing so fast but the damn carriers are hamstringing us with low caps.
 
Well I think it was a preemptive move by the carriers because they knew streaming was going to start coming. So they offered the lower tiered plans to protect their bandwidth.
 
ChAoTiCpInOy said:
Well I think it was a preemptive move by the carriers because they knew streaming was going to start coming. So they offered the lower tiered plans to protect their bandwidth.
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you mean to protect t heir infrastructure.. so they can plan their network to handle the usage in the coming years... ( yeah..... right 😀)
 
zerocool84 said:
Which is sad cus carriers are giving us LESS bandwidth to work with. Mobile technology is growing so fast but the damn carriers are hamstringing us with low caps.
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Which is why I love Sprint, still unlimited data use. (not including tethering unless on an EVO/Epic using Hotspot)
 
buzzsaw13 said:
most of my bandwidth is from tethering, I can go through 2-3gb in a weekend without wifi
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Why are you using your cell account rather than your home broadband? I only use cell data when I'm out of my home and can't get free WiFi. Even then I don't start up torrents or download linux distros while on it. It just doesn't make sense to me.
 
I've only done it once, 1.24gb in July. Did it by web browsing, navigation/maps(I would estimate 60-80 hours of that), and some Pandora. Yeah, I was constantly on my phone that month!
 
Rhapsody, Pandora, Netflix, AirVideo, SlingPlayer, WunderRadio, Skype Calls, YouTube... just a few. :]
 
zerocool84 said:
Sprint is still 5GB cap but they are very lax about it and will let you go over sometimes but not all the time.
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No it's not. Data used on the phone is unlimited. There is no 5GB cap. The 5GB cap applies to data cards and tethering plans on some phones.
 
I guess I don't understand it either, cause I don't use streaming ANYTHING. Pandora? Slacker? Meh, I have a couple GB of my favorite music on my storage space (16gb internal, 8gb external), unlimited skipping, it costs nothing, and it's not subject to signal quality issues.

I also don't bother with streaming video, either.
 
ChAoTiCpInOy said:
Unlimited plans are usually never unlimited. They have an unofficial cap of 5GB.
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Ok, you can think what you want but it doesn't make you right. Take a look at the Sprint forums with Sprint employees, it is unlimited. Yeah, if you somehow manage to use 30GB's your going to have a problem but 10GB's is not. Again, as long as your not tethering. Every other carrier explicity states 5GB's, Sprint does not. Sprint employees says it's unlimited, on private web sites where they have no interest. Here is the TOS, show me where it says it's limited.http://shop.sprint.com/en/legal/legal_terms_privacy_popup.shtml Heck find me ONE person who has gotten charged an overage for in-network data overage that wasn't related to tethering.

Here is unlimited hotspot http://shop.sprint.com/en/stores/popups/mobile_hotspot_popup.shtml I have seen folks use ungodly amounts of data on that without issue.

The fact is Sprint has a crap load of bandwidth and not very many subscribers. They are using that to try and leverage more users. If they every get to the point where they have a subscriber count that starts to strain the network they will do what the others have and start doing caps, they are not at this time.
 
I didn't used to go over 500MB, but now with Netflix being out for the iPhone, I could easily go over the 5GB "unlimited" cap without any problems at all. Unfortunately it's a little buggy and I think their servers get overloaded, kicking me out of the movie -- even on my 22Mbps WiFi in my apartment.
 
i thought there was a federal law just passed that allowed anyone to tether their phone any way they want? meaning you dont have to pay extra to do it?
 
wirednuts said:
i thought there was a federal law just passed that allowed anyone to tether their phone any way they want? meaning you dont have to pay extra to do it?
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Nope, not a chance. They passed a law that makes it legal to jailbreak or root your phone and install any software you want. It doesn't make it legal to tether against the ToS of your carrier.
 
best ive ever done was just over 5gb one month. mypod + revision 3, twit and a bunch of podcasts and forgetting to put the phone on wifi when im home. normally im in the 2gb range now, mostly because im watching the small videos OTA as opposed to downloading higher quality with mypod. verizon hasnt said a word to me about it as of yet, so no worries until my contract is up.
 
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