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Hit your 5GB limit faster

island-guy

Mar 6, 2009, 1:24 PM
I like to listen to Pandora and watch news clips while on the road and believe me when I say 5GB is very easy to hit. My only gripe with faster connectivity is that you're still screwed with a data cap. If you can do 5 minutes worth of net surfing in 3 minutes are you gonna sit still for 2 minutes? If all they expect you to do is email and 'simple' web surfing then why the need for more speed?
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nextel18

Mar 6, 2009, 2:14 PM
Well, more speed is great for the business customers as well as regular consumers for doing more stuff. Plus, it will increase capacity which is a great thing.
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murmermer

Mar 6, 2009, 2:36 PM
your response didn't answer his question- if they are going to limit your usage then why keep increasing the speed?
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nextel18

Mar 6, 2009, 2:40 PM
Because that will help with return on investment for the carrier as well as for the user. The higher the speed is the more things that user can get done. Also, look for those caps to go away especially if the carrier sees high demand for that data. Right now, data is very expensive so as these new higher speeds come out, the cheaper they will be, in turn all of these caps will go away.
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Multi-Tasker

Mar 8, 2009, 8:06 AM
People are hogging the bandwith by downloading movie and music. Creating SLOWER speads for other "simple" surfers. Companys like Verizon and ATT have a cap on theres for a paticular reason. To charge those the hoggers more $$$ to do it and in hopes discourge them from doing it.

This is not just on cellular line but as well as landline service (cable and DSL). My thinking is, unless people change there interent behavior those caps are still going to be there.

Speeding up the service means those who are downloading stupid stuff is going to hit there limit faster and more $$$$ to the carriers.

I really DONT blame those carriers for doing it.
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Versed

Mar 8, 2009, 11:41 AM
There is some truth in what you say, but lets also be fair, when I bought my Sprint 595u and plan, they guy in the store and Sprint basically encourged you to use it as a home broadband replacement, even route it if you so wish. It had no cap, I still have no cap because of legacy, and to be honest, I don't use it for heavy bandwidth use so its a non-issue for me. Now my contract gives out next month, and from what I've heard, it will be capt from there on.

The otherside of the story even in these bad times, the big two ARE still turning profits, maybe not to the same extent. I also believe they should built out and up their 3g infrastructure to handle the use.
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shiftmobile

Mar 8, 2009, 12:22 PM
You might want to check the small print on your legacy plan. I know Verizon "unlimited" plans listed a 5GB limit in the small print. Hence the reason they changed the wording. Sprint may have done the same thing. I believe AT&T did.
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Versed

Mar 8, 2009, 12:27 PM
My online account still says "unlimited". But I don't trust them or any carrier, so you may have a point.

But, a friend of mine just got a broadband account and he mentioned he had a friend (me) and said his is do to legacy on on unlimited data. (me)
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Multi-Tasker

Mar 9, 2009, 7:00 AM
"Alltel" still offers the unlimited plans for data on the cards. There is no fine print of any cap. At this point with out doing other check and verify, I do believe Alltel may be one of the very few companys that still has the true unlimited plan.

What I was trying to say earlier was that the carriers where doing the caps for a paticular reason. The reason was to discourage heavy users from doing heavy stuff (ex. downloading movies) not to make a profit.

In the same since you still have stupid people that would do such a thing. You can not fix stupid but you can make so money off of them.
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ikon

Mar 17, 2009, 11:39 AM
Versed said:
It had no cap, I still have no cap because of legacy, and to be honest, I don't use it for heavy bandwidth use so its a non-issue for me. Now my contract gives out next month, and from what I've heard, it will be capt from there on.


Incorrect, it is already capped. Current subscribers were still capped when the switch occurred however the terms of service were changed nullifying your contractual commitment.


https://www.phonescoop.com/news/item.php?n=3033 »
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Chobee

Mar 6, 2009, 3:18 PM
I was under the impression that WiMax wouldn't be capped. So the 5MB cap wouldn't apply.
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shayshaybhai

Mar 6, 2009, 3:28 PM
this is true, one the evdo side will have 5gb, the 4g aka wimax side has no cap
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Jayshmay

Mar 7, 2009, 3:39 AM
Are you ?SURE? about WiMax not having a data cap?
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Mektah

Mar 7, 2009, 5:35 AM
here in portland we have an unlimited version without a cap available. i dont know about elsewhere.
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Jayshmay

Mar 7, 2009, 5:39 AM
Hmm, interesting. And is this Sprint, or Clearwire? Also I'd be curous as to how fast the WiMax ndtwork is there? How much do you pay?
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Mektah

Mar 7, 2009, 9:15 AM
Wimax here is for the Clear network. I get a discount through my job so i don't know what regular prices would be, but it should be around 50.00 or less for unlimited use. Speedwise up to 4 MB/s while mobile. And 6 Mb/s while at home. Upload speeds up to 1 Mb/s. It's noticeably faster than my old data card, and coverage here is great, but obviously since Portland is one of the testing sites services are to be more than ideal. I believe that most of the hype of Wimax is the equipment to coverage ratio. Because of the way it operates, there able to provide a very large coverage area with significantly less equipment costs. Within the next year or so, you will probably start seeing the next level of wimax, which is 802.16m. Which is sup...
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PDXMatt

Mar 7, 2009, 10:00 AM
grrrr I posted a link to a SS of the plans.

http://i257.photobucket.com/albums/hh236/MattPDX/cle ... »
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nextel18

Mar 6, 2009, 4:04 PM
Why do you think 3g has a cap and Wimax (4g+) will not?
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Mektah

Mar 7, 2009, 5:38 AM
You guys are thinking about two seperate things. I may have missed this somewhere, but services provided by Sprint for wimax and services provided by Clearwire for wimax would be under different terms, So right now Sprint has a 5 GB cap, 3g or 4g. Clearwire has no such cap. At least what they've offered in Portland works that way.
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rarodrig26

Mar 6, 2009, 4:13 PM
Why are you assuming the wi-max service has a cap on it? It doesn't.
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island-guy

Mar 6, 2009, 5:24 PM
They have 3G/4G EVDO/WIMAX dual band modem cards in use. Unless the und user can choose which network they want to use at any particular time, it would be a pain to monitor when you are on WIMAX and on EVDO. Hopefully they will dump the data cap once the bandwith is attained with WIMAX.......
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rarodrig26

Mar 6, 2009, 5:36 PM
Thats a good point and I have not used the new 3G/4G card. However, my current 3G USB card does tell you if you are in EVDO or 1X data coverage, so I would assume the 3G/4G card would do the same.
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nextel18

Mar 6, 2009, 6:03 PM
1. It should say what technology you are on. actually you can see it with regarding speeds and sometimes coverage.

2. With the new technology you would be able to again. You can create settings etc..
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nextel18

Mar 6, 2009, 5:50 PM
The main idea is to allow those heavy data users use Wimax and get off the DO network.
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PDXMatt

Mar 7, 2009, 3:51 AM
I have gotten several mailers regarding WiMax here in the Portland area and the cap/speed depends on what service plan you get from Clear.

http://i257.photobucket.com/albums/hh236/MattPDX/cle ... »
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ElTriste

Mar 7, 2009, 3:39 PM
Wimax is a completely different network. The reason for the cap on the EVDO and UMTS networks are to protect those using the voice service. If people are going crazy with data, that will hinder the voice networks like crazy. When the 4G comes out, it's a totally different network, free from the limitations of the voice service. For the time being atleast. I don't know if carriers are going to do a hybrid thing and keep the voice where it's at and have the data on 4G, if thats the case, look for a cap again, but I'm sure the companies will keep the data speeds in mind, and if they introduce another cap, I'm sure it's gonna be relative to the increase in speed. 10 gig cap maybe? 🤨
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shayshaybhai

Mar 7, 2009, 5:54 PM
This is from Sprint's site once you select mor einfor on the 3g/4g card, http://www.nextel.com/en/solutions/mobile_bro adband/mobile_broadband_4G.shtml

Plan Pricing
3G/4G Connection Plan:
$79.99/mo. with a one-year agreement*
5GB/mo. 3G allowance; $0.05/MB for additional 3G data.
You may not use more than 300MB/mo. while off-network roaming.

Seems like only 3g has the cap
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island-guy

Mar 8, 2009, 3:32 AM
http://www.nextel.com/en/solutions/mobile_broadband/ ... »
Okay, from what I gather from the Sprint website, there is no limit on 4G (Wimax) usage but a 5GB data cap on 3G. You pay $20 more so it's $79.99 a month. This could be an awesome alternative to paying for internet service at home along with mobile service. I guess you'll just have to keep tabs on your usage in 3G areas, at least in my neck of the woods Clearwire has things pretty well covered. Anyone here have any reviews for Sprint 4G service so far?
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stoopered

Mar 9, 2009, 11:11 AM
I do want to ask. Which carriers DO NOT cap their data at 5 gb? Sprint the last to adopt this, so you can't bash them for that anyway.
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