I know the only real way to measure this is with perfmon or something, but just trying to get a general gauge of how much bandwidth RDC uses. I figured there were plenty of admins here who have looked at RDC traffic so I thought I'd throw it out. Does anyone have an idea whether 4-5 hours of RDC traffic would exceed 5GB?
My wife's phone was about 4yrs old and her PDA died so I got her a Centro (a small Palm Treo 755p, basically) from Sprint -- primarily for the PDA/phone functionality. I got the cheap $15 "unlimited-data" plan so she could occasionally do email/web surfing, and b/c the purchase of the Centro requires a data plan. This $15 data plan is designed for surfing only from the phone. If you want to tether the phone and use it as a modem for your laptop you're supposed to purchase the more expensive $45+ plan. The Sprint-supported tethering software doesn't even work if you don't purchase the expensive plan. However, I have an app (PDAnet) I got for my old Treo that will allow the phone to be tethered with the $15 plan. The only catch is that there is supposedly a monthly bandwidth cap around 5GB. The cap is unpublished... the contract is just vague enough to allow them to kick people they think are "abusing" their unlimited data plans. Regardless of how false this advertising seems to be, it's a seperate argument i guess.... I knew it going in. I had heard there are caps on data plans, even the expensive ones.
My wife works from home and doesn't really need an expensive data plan. The $15 data plan is the only thing that makes the Treo/Centro viable for her in the first place. But there are 4-5 times a month tethering the phone would be more convenient than shlepping it to a crowded starbucks/panara. She'd be doing RDC sessions to her office during those times -- probably totalling 4-5 hours per month. Ignoring all other traffic she might be using with the phone, could anyone estimate whether 4-5 hours of RDC would exceed 5GB?
TIA
My wife's phone was about 4yrs old and her PDA died so I got her a Centro (a small Palm Treo 755p, basically) from Sprint -- primarily for the PDA/phone functionality. I got the cheap $15 "unlimited-data" plan so she could occasionally do email/web surfing, and b/c the purchase of the Centro requires a data plan. This $15 data plan is designed for surfing only from the phone. If you want to tether the phone and use it as a modem for your laptop you're supposed to purchase the more expensive $45+ plan. The Sprint-supported tethering software doesn't even work if you don't purchase the expensive plan. However, I have an app (PDAnet) I got for my old Treo that will allow the phone to be tethered with the $15 plan. The only catch is that there is supposedly a monthly bandwidth cap around 5GB. The cap is unpublished... the contract is just vague enough to allow them to kick people they think are "abusing" their unlimited data plans. Regardless of how false this advertising seems to be, it's a seperate argument i guess.... I knew it going in. I had heard there are caps on data plans, even the expensive ones.
My wife works from home and doesn't really need an expensive data plan. The $15 data plan is the only thing that makes the Treo/Centro viable for her in the first place. But there are 4-5 times a month tethering the phone would be more convenient than shlepping it to a crowded starbucks/panara. She'd be doing RDC sessions to her office during those times -- probably totalling 4-5 hours per month. Ignoring all other traffic she might be using with the phone, could anyone estimate whether 4-5 hours of RDC would exceed 5GB?
TIA
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