Are you hitting your 5gb cap? Verizon or Sprint

Dj_AmTraX · Posted: Sun Aug 16, 2009 11:44 pm Post subject:

I got the Sprint MiFi because I get very little to no 3g (AT&T) in San Francisco on my iPhone. With the Sprint, I get data service even when I am underground train ride (BART) all the way from home to work.

gb5393 · EVDO Fledgling Joined: 03 Sep 2007 Posts: 24

scowl · EVDO Fledgling Joined: 28 Oct 2007 Posts: 17

I hit the cap quite often. On a grandfathered verizon account and get dropped down to 25kb/s every month. This month I actually did not download much of anything after it recycled, and 7 days later I got hit with the threshold again. I guess video streaming eats up a lot.

tz1 · Posted: Sun Aug 23, 2009 6:40 pm Post subject:

I hit it rarely, usually when Ubuntu has a new release or something.

But if you are in an area where Cricket has coverage,

http://www.mycricket.com/cricketcoveragemaps/

they have a really good deal. $40/mo no contract, first month free, with $75 A600 evdo modem (which works with the latest cradlepoint firmware). They throttle at 5Gb. I'm grandfathered into the Verizon plan, but just went over (a rude coworker may have been loading his iPod, or something else), so I have this as an auxillary. Also IT INCLUDES UNLIMITED TEXTING! I was going to consider an AT&T prepay $20/mo texting - and I may eventually get it for coverage, but for $40, I get 5Gb throttled, not turns into a $$$ bill and texting.

EVDO_user · EVDO User Joined: 20 May 2009 Posts: 29

Would you consider this unlimited data?

evdoman · EVDO User Joined: 26 Apr 2005 Posts: 74

I use 40GB+ per month including p2p, streaming video, etc. on *each* of my USB720 cards (grandfathered - have never been throttled). I've actually been looking to dump one of my two grandfathered accounts and just combine my use on the one, but I'm hesitant to kill off such a valuable grandfathering. If anyone is willing to pay me a premium to switch the account over to their name and thereby keep the grandfathered status, PM me... would do it for the right price.

ko4qc · EVDO Heavy User Joined: 08 Feb 2006 Posts: 117

[quote="evdoman"]I use 40GB+ per month including p2p, streaming video, etc. on *each* of my USB720 cards (grandfathered - have never been throttled). I've actually been looking to dump one of my two grandfathered accounts and just combine my use on the one, but I'm hesitant to kill off such a valuable grandfathering. If anyone is willing to pay me a premium to switch the account over to their name and thereby keep the grandfathered status, PM me... would do it for the right price.[/quote]

I topped 40 GB for the first time this billing cycle...been with Verizon for several years now...service keeps getting better all the time but still has issues from time to time...I guess nobodys perfect...other than satellite its the only option other than dial up...buried utilities in my neighborhood keeps cable out.

Maureen · Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2009 12:39 pm Post subject:

Thanks to everyone for sharing their usage info in this thread - this is very helpful info for folks looking into mobile broadband!

One request: For those of you sharing your usage info, please make sure you're also giving us an idea of what you're doing to use the data - for example, are you using 15GB per month because you download movies from iTunes? Do you stream live games from MLB? Does your teenager watch YouTube videos 5 hours a night?

Some users are not very familiar with how much data common internet activity "uses up" and not everyone's use is going to be the same. While Person A uses 40GB a month downloading movies 4 hours a day, Person B might be online 24 hours a day but only use 4GB because all he does is email and read news.

Don't forget that you can also get a general idea of how much data common internet activities use in this chart: What Does 5GB Get Me?

imajypsee · Posted: Tue Sep 01, 2009 5:54 pm Post subject: If you have Verizon service

you can easily see your usage by logging in to your account. I'm not streaming much of anything, and have rarely used more than 3gb in the three months I've had the mifi2200. I do upload photos from time to time and do look at tv online when I'm traveling; email, web browsing.. reading the news online...that's about the extent of my use.

dvdvija · Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2009 9:56 pm Post subject: +5 Gb usage??

Could anyone please help me, what is internet usage of 9,809,756 means? This was the amount that I used last month. Is this over 5 Gb??

tate886 · Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2009 10:04 pm Post subject: Re: +5 Gb usage??

vpnavy · EVDO Junkie Joined: 29 Jul 2005 Posts: 169

dvdvija · Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2009 8:10 am Post subject: Re: +5 Gb usage??

ed · 3Gstore Employee Joined: 21 Jan 2009 Posts: 34