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| 5 gb Cap I've always viewed this as a supplemental vs. primary ISP provider. But, for some it can work primary. Needless to say, 5 gb cap / and over 50 bucks a month, no way that's gonna happen. Too pricey for most to have as a secondary mobile, travel option, and definitely not enough usage bandwidth at 5 gb per month to serve as primary. On our primary, we have 3 computers, and easily run in the 5-15gb per month range. What's the big deal with 5gb per month caps on this? And why does each wireless carrier copy the other. One has 5, they all have 5. Kinda stupid. I believe my sister has Cricket, and she's unlimited on that for mobile broadband, for maybe 40 bucks a month? Typical case of WAY overcharging, and setting caps TOO low. Ripoff. What's wrong with these copy cat companies, going with say, 15 or 20 gb caps. Is it THAT much more? That would make a nice difference. Then again, these are the same cell companies, that charge ridiculous amounts for bytes of "text" data. | |
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| Cricket advertises "unlimited," but if you read it's fine print it says "5GB per month cap." Cricket, afterall, is just running on Sprint's 3G network (and Sprint has a 5GB).
According to the carriers, 5GB is the "magic number" because somewhere north of 95% of their customers use that amount or less of data services per month. So most of their customers are UNaffected by the cap. (obviously, I've got no way of knowing whether that number is true; but it is what they say).
Again, I've been running on "metered internet" for nearly 3 years - first with Hughesnet and now with Sprint mobile broadband.
Never, ever hit the 5GB limit. Of course, I'm not downloading movies from Netflix or gorging on Hulu. But, I can live without those. | |
| i leave mine on wifi pretty much every day for my laptop and even allow co-workers to use it and i have never reached the cap. | |
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