|
VZTech
Anon
2012-Aug-6 10:15 am
100% of wireless subscribers complain of cost..If you're not on a truly unlimited data plan (is there really such a beast?), you're probably complaining about your wireless bill. Fast speeds are the wireless company's siren's song to get you over their "lucrative" rate plans ($50 / 2, 3 or 4GB) into their "criminal" overage rates.
Got unlimited data? Just wait until your next renewal / upgrade. Your old 3G phone data usage will pale to your new 4G phone's data usage; unless your paying attention. Even then - those new "bucket of minutes" to share between all the phones on your plan makes it nearly impossible to your usage until the bill comes in. | |
|
| |
Re: 100% of wireless subscribers complain of cost..I dunno about that. I have "unlimited" data on the Motorola Razr with LTE and rarely even use a gigabyte.
The phone spends most of its time at my office connected to the office WiFi or at the house connected to my zippy 165/50 FIOS WIFI. How much YouTube am i watching in the car while driving between the two places?
I feel like most of the people that complain about high bandwidth usage either are students at school all day long (don't they have WI-FI there?) or that lack broadband at home (they still make people like you?) or that don't know how to set it up. | |
|
| | stridr69 join:2003-05-19 San Luis Obispo, CA |
Re: 100% of wireless subscribers complain of cost..Ah, but you don't use your phone for other services it seems. Like your car. Have a newer one that offers Pandora? IHeart radio? Stitcher? I do. And I use streaming rather frequently so that adds up data pretty fast. Use your phone for tethering? I do. Yes, it's a rooted HTC incredible and I don't pay for VZW's BS tethering fees(nope, don't feel the least bit guilty about it either), so that data adds up as well. I don't use WiFi in public, as it's slow and unprotected. WiFi at the office? Slow as well. Average use per month? 5 gigs. My next phone will be purchased full priced as I'll never give up my unlimited plan. There are a lot of VZW peeps out there that will never give up their unlimited plan for the same reasons I listed. And they shouldn't. And they won't either. | |
|
|
But wireless is the future.....But wireless is the future..... Wireless is the way greedy corps like AT/T and Verizon can gouge customers for every last penny. | |
|
| openbox9 Premium Member join:2004-01-26 71144 |
openbox9
Premium Member
2012-Aug-6 9:13 pm
Re: But wireless is the future.....Mobility is the future. How and what you pay for service is between you and your carrier(s). | |
|
| | |
| | | openbox9 Premium Member join:2004-01-26 71144 |
openbox9
Premium Member
2012-Aug-7 8:14 am
Re: But wireless is the future.....Why, because you can't understand or acknowledge that a growing number of consumers are interested in being connected while not in their homes? Fiber to the house is great if you're in the house. It doesn't help you stay connected the rest of the time. | |
|
antdudeMatrix Ant Premium Member join:2001-03-25 US |
antdude
Premium Member
2012-Aug-6 3:41 pm
How slow?Is it slow as old dial-up modems (e.g., 3 KB/sec)? | |
|
| David Premium Member join:2002-05-30 Granite City, IL
1 recommendation |
David
Premium Member
2012-Aug-6 5:32 pm
Re: How slow?Slowest I have seen on my 3G here in STL is about 12kbps. which my dial up connections I don't think really broke 6kbps on it's best day, 8kbps max. Most times I kept well above 12kbps and around 51 to 150kbps easy in the country.
I may not have the conversions right, but for dial up to 3G, 3G is definitely faster, in my experience with both. | |
|
| | rradina join:2000-08-08 Chesterfield, MO
1 recommendation |
Re: How slow?When quoting speeds, capitalization is important: » Satellite Forum FAQ » What does KBps and Kbps mean and how do they reflect transfer speeds?Are you referring to bytes per second or bits per second? I ran a 300baud BBS in the 80s so I've been around a while. When faster-than-2400 baud modems arrived, I don't recall having significant problems connecting at speeds greater than 6kbps. (That's really slow!) If the other end supported it, 9600baud modems usually managed 9600 baud. 14.4 modems usually connected at their rated speed. Most questionable phone lines didn't reveal themselves until 28.8 modems arrived. Once the 56K modems arrived, maximum speeds required digital telco interconnects and V90 dialup provider capabilities. | |
|
| | |
| | tkdslr join:2004-04-24 Pompano Beach, FL |
to David
I used to get 50-60 kbps per second downloads. Using v.42bis compression, I would often hit 200-220kbps while downloading usenet headers, 150-200kbps downloading mostly text based web pages (,jpeg usually didn't compress).
Naturally you had to have configured the serial port running @ 230kbps+rts/cts flow control. So don't under rate those old dial up modem connections. | |
|
| David Premium Member join:2002-05-30 Granite City, IL
1 recommendation |
to antdude
yea I don't get those speeds around here on sprint. I get about 38kbps down and about 38kbps up. I don't even break 1mbps with sprint. I moved to clear for the office, and that is giving me easily 5.87 down and 2.01 up easy. | |
|
|
Google is wasting thier $$ if wireless is the future | |
|
|
|