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@Arkandel said:
I guess occasionally listening to the radio (4-5 hours a month) is doable but anything remotely like regular use would decimate the data plan.
Having spent the last 2.5 months learning all about cellphones, yes, yes it will.
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If only phone companies offered infinite data plans... but they don't.
Whaaa? Maybe I misunderstand the comment here, but I know plenty of folks who are on T-Mobile and get unlimited data. There can theoretically be some throttling if you've gone over 21gb and are engaged in heavy data usage at a time and place where others are doing the same, but several of the folks using it burn through more than that in downtown Atlanta without noticing any significant speed reduction, so I dunno how bad it really is. From the accessibility page linked there it doesn't seem like it's an automatic slowdown, just prioritization based on that 21gb data point if there's a lot of competing traffic just then.
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@HelloRaptor said:
downtown Atlanta
This is probably a case of your city having a major pipe for TMOB. Around here (Columbus, Ohio), going with T-Mobile is admitting you don't really need good data service, and we're not exactly a small city.
Most people I know go with a second-tier pay-as-you-go as a better option than T-Mobile.
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@Thenomain
I guess it was more just the most immediate example I had of there being an unlimited data plan for smartphones, which Ark seemed to be indiating wasn't a thing.As to the service, I don't really leave Atlanta much. It worked fine from California, and I've got a friend who goes back and forth from Canada regularly who says it works fine when she's up there as well, but I'm sure that's not the case everywhere.
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AT&T has an option for unlimited data, too. So it isn't just T-Mobile. Pretty sure Sprint has something like that as well.
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@Miss-Demeanor said:
AT&T has an option for unlimited data, too. So it isn't just T-Mobile. Pretty sure Sprint has something like that as well.
So @Ark is just crazy. Crazy!
Also, could somebody else running Windows 10 try to use google maps? I'm too lazy to go check one of my other machines, but when I load it here the map comes up, but as soon as I put an address in and search all the map portion of the screen goes black. The various google map gadgets and options and stuff in the overlay are there, the map is just blacked out.
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@HelloRaptor Its working just fine for me. I pulled up a location (Work) and was able to get the route to it from another location (Home). Showed me traffic, time, everything.
Edit: And yes, the map itself, too.
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@HelloRaptor said:
@Miss-Demeanor said:
AT&T has an option for unlimited data, too. So it isn't just T-Mobile. Pretty sure Sprint has something like that as well.
So @Ark is just crazy. Crazy!
Or he doesn't live in the States... so maybe it's different.
"Excuse the hell out of you. He's a bag of dicks. I'm a carefully curated box of cocks." -- to @GirlCalledBlu upon being misrepresented.
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@Coin said:
@HelloRaptor said:
@Miss-Demeanor said:
AT&T has an option for unlimited data, too. So it isn't just T-Mobile. Pretty sure Sprint has something like that as well.
So @Ark is just crazy. Crazy!
Or he doesn't live in the States... so maybe it's different.
Eu não entendo o que você está dizendo, você poderia explicar?
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@HelloRaptor said:
Eu não entendo o que você está dizendo, você poderia explicar?
Well, I think so, Brain, but if Jimmy cracks corn, and no one cares, why does he keep doing it?
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Back to the thread topic... does anyone else have issues where a headset keeps being deemed 'incompatible' with its usb port? Because no matter WHERE I place my wireless headset's usb, it keeps telling me it isn't USB 3.0 compatible, no drivers are available to update, and I cannot for the life of me make calls on Skype.
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@Miss-Demeanor said:
Back to the thread topic... does anyone else have issues where a headset keeps being deemed 'incompatible' with its usb port? Because no matter WHERE I place my wireless headset's usb, it keeps telling me it isn't USB 3.0 compatible, no drivers are available to update, and I cannot for the life of me make calls on Skype.
Is this in Windows 10? I know for one of the computers I updated to 10 even though it said it found all the drivers I did have to actually go download motherboard drivers for a couple of things to actually work correctly. Maybe doublecheck for mobo or add-in card drivers specific to win10?
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@HelloRaptor Yes and yes. I ended up having to go to the mobo's site and download new drivers for audio to make it work properly. Seems to be running fine now, we'll see how it works tomorrow.
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@HelloRaptor said:
@Coin said:
@HelloRaptor said:
@Miss-Demeanor said:
AT&T has an option for unlimited data, too. So it isn't just T-Mobile. Pretty sure Sprint has something like that as well.
So @Ark is just crazy. Crazy!
Or he doesn't live in the States... so maybe it's different.
Eu não entendo o que você está dizendo, você poderia explicar?
Que te recontra por las dudas.
"Excuse the hell out of you. He's a bag of dicks. I'm a carefully curated box of cocks." -- to @GirlCalledBlu upon being misrepresented.
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@Coin said:
@HelloRaptor said:
@Coin said:
@HelloRaptor said:
@Miss-Demeanor said:
AT&T has an option for unlimited data, too. So it isn't just T-Mobile. Pretty sure Sprint has something like that as well.
So @Ark is just crazy. Crazy!
Or he doesn't live in the States... so maybe it's different.
Eu não entendo o que você está dizendo, você poderia explicar?
Que te recontra por las dudas.
No, your mom.
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@HelloRaptor said:
@Coin said:
@HelloRaptor said:
@Coin said:
@HelloRaptor said:
@Miss-Demeanor said:
AT&T has an option for unlimited data, too. So it isn't just T-Mobile. Pretty sure Sprint has something like that as well.
So @Ark is just crazy. Crazy!
Or he doesn't live in the States... so maybe it's different.
Eu não entendo o que você está dizendo, você poderia explicar?
Que te recontra por las dudas.
No, your mom.
Y la tuya tambien.
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@Thenomain iTunes IS unusable. It would gobble up 50-75% of the system memory for no reason on my Windows PC and even 'off' but not really off, it would still eat a big chunk of my system resources. The idea that it was worse on a Mac defies belief... and yet can be validated just on my prior experiences with the Apple ecosystem. But at the time, it was a huge step up from the alternatives (WinAmp was still my first love) and only recently have media players caught up to some very easy user interface choices that Apple made over, say, RealPlayer.
Sprint has (had?) a back door unlimited plan for really cheap if you were a prior customer or had an employee code. It was only like $70 for unlimited data but it had hard throttles after a certain amount of data used like T-Mobile's unlimited. The only truly unlimited plans are legacy plans grandfathered in and you have to pay hand over fist (they won't let you upgrade a phone at subsidy while charging you for the cost of a phone and the service) AND they'll do everything in their power to make sure that unlimited plan no longer works for you.
But then you'd have to use Sprint.
Honestly, I liked Sprint. The desperation in their business model by the time I signed up with them in 2010 meant they bent over backwards for you to retain you. But I wasn't getting good service indoors at work (I did work at a refitted-but-still-reinforced munitions holding warehouse on the waterfront) and I ended up consolidating my plan with my parents plan on Verizon for cheap. I've threatened to jump ship to T-Mobile a few times now because every new activation has encountered all sorts of unexpected problems with my account. I suspect something was set up wrong when I assumed control of my parents' account, which meant pulling my line out of their plan, making it the primary line, and bringing in the other lines.
Also, T-Mobile's rural coverage is atrocious. Even when Sprint clings to 3G, T-Mobile has no service at all even an hour outside of the Washington DC suburbs.
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@Apollonius I have T-mobile's unlimited dataplan and its WIN. I stream Apple Music all day via iTunes on my iPhone and haven't had issues yet with throttled speeds or anything like that. Connectivity for me is great but I'm in Los Angles so it could be a different experience with coverage.
I know I had sprint and the unlimited plan but I never got connectivity anywhere so it felt like a huge con. Unlimited bandwidth that you can never get to!
AND! I use my iPhone to sync with my MacBook and sometimes use airplay to watch either on my TV via my AppleTV... <--- iLemming FTW
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I have an ancient smart phone, it only gets 3G, but I won't update it till the thing fucking DIES and dies so hard I have to buy a new phone because I have a grandfathered Verizon unlimited data plan with nothing stopping me from using it as a wifi hotspot for all the data, sure it's only 3G but 3G is good enough for most things, hell you can even game on it as long as you're not bothered by 140ms latency (Which, really, it's a fraction of a second, when is that going to really matter).
Every time I've tried to get an updated phone they keep trying to force me onto a new plan, well screw that, I work third shift and there are literally HOURS of dead time, without my phone to give me wifi to watch netflix, hulu, amazon prime, mush, or whatever I'd go batshit insane.
That said, Verizon network is really strong. I've driven across the country from east coast to west coast on Interstate-10 and never lost all my bars completely. I might be paying a bit much but hell, since I use well over 20 gigs of data a month on my phone (even with 3G speeds) it's worth it.
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