Data limits
Why are there data limits? At first glance, data limits seem to make sense. at least for satellite systems, due to the high cost of putting a satellite in orbit, etc. OTOH I suspect that no o...
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I agree with GabeU. If everybody bought massive tokens monthly, it would overload the system quickly. But people hate spending extra money and tokens are expensive enough that very few customers, relatively speaking, buy lots of them regularly.
Obviously, video streaming takes up the most bandwidth, followed by music, followed by text, which takes up so little that I can do research all day every day and barely put a dent in my data allowance. Even playing iTunes really doesn't use up all that much. But watch a couple of movies...oh boy!
Gabe, I could only dream of 30 gb per month! My limit is 20 out here. OTOH, maybe that's why I never have any problems...they're keeping only 3,000 cars on that road, lol! 😀
Obviously, video streaming takes up the most bandwidth, followed by music, followed by text, which takes up so little that I can do research all day every day and barely put a dent in my data allowance. Even playing iTunes really doesn't use up all that much. But watch a couple of movies...oh boy!
Gabe, I could only dream of 30 gb per month! My limit is 20 out here. OTOH, maybe that's why I never have any problems...they're keeping only 3,000 cars on that road, lol! 😀
I get by pretty well with the 20GB plan I currently have. With the exception of one time, about three months ago, I have never come close to going over my data limit. A lot of times I use less of my Bonus Zone data than my Anytime Data, if you can believe that. As of today I have four days left before my cycle starts again, and this is what I have left....
When I had Gen4 I had the 10GB plan, and, most likely due to Gen4's data compression being so good, I rarely ever used more than 6GB of Anytime Data, and even less Bonus Bytes.
And, the following is not a joke...
That's my folks, who have Gen4. Mostly Facebook and baseball related sites, and they use it nearly every day, or I'd say six out of seven days of the week. And people used to joke that I was a data miser! LOL. They don't try to do this (using so little data), it's just the way it works out. That fantastic Gen4 data compression, again. They use a Windows 7 laptop, and that's it, so it probably uses very little data in the first place (they do have automatic Windows updates set up).
