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-Liz
Where did the 33 GB worth of token data come from?
Good question Liz.
When I moved to Gen 4 in 2014, I used a bunch of my tokens for "Token Bytes" so I could never go FAP at an inopportune time. Over the years I periodically moved more tokens into "Token Bytes" just to check on them for continued viability. I last did this on 12/7/20, as mentioned in the conversation with Gabe when he gave me the new directions to locate the totals in my token stash.
I also received a metric s-ton of tokens from Hughes over the years to compensate for the myriad problems, outages and testing I had to do while on the miserable Gen 4/Beam 55 that was always such a disaster. This continued through all the problems I had with Gen 5/Beam 107. More token bytes came from an accidental purchase in 2017 when I was goofing with my saved tokens.
I looked in my files and found screenshots that show some history. Here are a few.
I had 7990 Token Bytes Available on 4/10/15.
29.5 GB of Token Bytes remaining on 4/20/17.
41.6 Token Bytes remaining on 12/28/18.
And I have 31.8 Token Bytes remaining today, 6/21/23
How it got down to 33.2 by 12/7/20 was because I used a bunch of it to watch the college football playoffs and National Championship game for the 2018 season when Alabama won the championship. We have only OTA TV. The finals are only on ESPN and pirate websites. Using the internet was our only convenient option for watching these games that year.
At that time I had really great 4G with the new Verizon tower they built almost next door in early 2018 but I had a smaller 4G allowance. The Vz was my emergency backup data for taking care of my business when needed so I was very conservative with it. My Vz MVNO upgraded my plan to unlimited data in December 2019 so watching them win the 2020 championship wasn't a problem. It never will be again with three Verizon phones in the house, all with unlimited data.
