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Using tokens
SQOTD*: I haven't used tokens in yonks so I don't remember how they work. I don't plan to be out of data and in need of tokens, but I have saved up 25 GB worth of tokens, and I am just curious ab...
Thank you for the thorough answers, BirdDog, Gwalk900, GabeU, C0RR0SIVE. And this is why you guys will always be champions, no matter what title the system gives you.
I haven't run out of data and had to rely on tokens, I think, since I had Gen3, so I had totally forgotten how they worked, and on Gen4 I've never run out of data so as to go to SmartBrowsing -- I thought SmartBrowsing would kick in first and then tokens. After reading the replies, that of course doesn't make any sense (facepalm!).
Now I understand the flow, and I'm relieved that tokens are used as needed but if there's a remainder, it stays on the account. I was concerned they would all disappear like the carryover data from Verizon (it only stays on the account for one cycle and then it's gone).
I "used" all of my tokens in the sense that I moved them all to the tokens bucket. By deploy, I meant putting them to work, but of course that's automatic when the data runs out. Big duh in hidnsight!!
One additional thing. SmartBrowsing will only kick in when you have used all available data during the given time. So, if you are on during the middle of the day and you exhaust your Anytime Data, data will be drawn from your Token bucket. Then, if your Token bucket data is depleted, SmartBrowsing kicks in, but not until then.
It's the same with the Bonus Bytes period. If on during this period and you exhaust your Bonus Bytes, the system will then draw from your Anytime Data. If you then exhaust the Anytime Data, the system will draw from your Token bucket. If you then exhaust your Token bucket data, SmartBrowsing will kick in. So, during the Bonus Bytes period, all three data areas would have to be depleted before SmartBrowsing kicks in.
If on Gen5 it's the same thing, only the new FAP has replaced SmartBrowsing (or so it appears).
BTW...the only stupid question is the one that isn't asked.
Like GabeU stated, if you have data sitting in your Token Bytes Available bucket, Smartbrowse will not kick in till those are fully exhausted.
Thank you for the thorough answers, BirdDog, Gwalk900, GabeU, C0RR0SIVE. And this is why you guys will always be champions, no matter what title the system gives you.
I haven't run out of data and had to rely on tokens, I think, since I had Gen3, so I had totally forgotten how they worked, and on Gen4 I've never run out of data so as to go to SmartBrowsing -- I thought SmartBrowsing would kick in first and then tokens. After reading the replies, that of course doesn't make any sense (facepalm!).
Now I understand the flow, and I'm relieved that tokens are used as needed but if there's a remainder, it stays on the account. I was concerned they would all disappear like the carryover data from Verizon (it only stays on the account for one cycle and then it's gone).
I "used" all of my tokens in the sense that I moved them all to the tokens bucket. By deploy, I meant putting them to work, but of course that's automatic when the data runs out. Big duh in hidnsight!!
