Currently, I have 2 iphones, and the 2 separate data plans that I have to get from AT&T for those. In addition, I also have a Verizon MIFI that I plug into my Cradlepoint router, to use as my home network for internet. Since I am capped at 5gb per month on my mifi, I really have to watch what I do each month on the internet (no streaming, etc).
I am seriously considering getting 2 EVOs instead, and ditching the iphones, and the mifi, but I would only do this, if I could truly use one of the EVOs as the main internet connection for my home. It makes sense to just have one of them with the $30 unlimited data plan, so I would only do the high volume of internet stuff when that phone was physically located in my house.
Is anyone using their EVO as their primary internet for their home?
i don't as i like my 12mpbs + comcast internet connection at home as the best i can get from my evo is 2-3mbps. you would not be in a good position if you have to rely on your evo to have internet connection. mainly, either phone has to be setup the same either either one of you leaves while the other needs internet access (and what would happen when you need leave and the other is using the internet?). secondly, what will you do for internet access while on the phone as sprint does not allow/voice & data at the same time. that is where you would benefit from the mifi as your internet is not dependent on your phone.
you would more than likely be saving money over the longterm by switching to sprint but you would not save money upfront. 2 x evo's @ $200 each = $400 + activation fee $36 = $436, cheapeast data and voice plan = $69 + $10 premium data usage = $79 + insurance/tax = $90 X 2 = $180/m for both phones
or family share plan
cheapest family plan $109 + (2x$10 premium data) = $129/m
you will save money overall in the end, but definately not upfront by switching to sprint. Does the $436 cost of paying for 2 evo's out weigh the cost of mifi for verizon? you could also look into getting a sprint mifi/hotspot instead....
Yes!!! I cancelled my stupid Comcast internet. I was paying $60 / month for a garbage connection that went down all the time. Sprint internet at least doesn't disconnect for periods of days at a time. Maybe it's not 6 mb/s YET but at least it's stable.
Basically it looks like this for me:
Before: Sprint SERO $30 + Comcast $60 = $90
Now: Sprint EPRP Family plan $45 + $30 Hotspot = $75
Cancelling Comcast: PRICELESS I despise this company so badly, that I think I would have paid more than double the price just so that I wouldn't be forced to use them. (My apt is covered by the Comcast monopoly unfortunately)
Seriously, try it out. Worst case you change your mind. I have nothing but good things to say, and I'm running only over 3G. I can't wait til 4G, it will be amazing. The only problem is, as you know, the phone must be there and not on a call. Also streaming netflix you get lower quality (not HD) video so that stinks but I am guessing on 4G it will be better.
This probably doesn't matter to you, but just so you know the pings are very decent for me at least: I range from as low as 70 ms to 150 ms if signal is bad. I've been playing games like Halo 3 and Warcraft 3 with no issues whatsoever ( and winning )
A disclaimer: I am single, living alone, so my flexibility is better. Still, if you are not in the best financial position, you have to ask yourself where the value lies in internet for $60 / month. Obviously a dedicated cable / dsl / T1 line is preferable, but is it really worth it?
Any questions feel free to ask.
After just my first post, i get 2 great contrasting posts, with useful information in both. That's awesome.
The biggest issue I see now, is the fact that you can't hotspot & send/rcv calls at the same time. That almost defeats the purpose, if I have to use my connection to work, and am either on the net, or on the cal
Is that true for tethering and the hotspot? Perhaps that is the same interface on the phone?
The cost savings would be about $50 per month, based on the config. Based on the months left in my contract, that would mean the sooner I want to switch, the better off I would be, from a monthly expense. The costs of early termination for both iphones, and my mifi, are not really that bad, and it actualloy appears that the sooner I do it, the better it gets.
Im surprised no1 has said this yet but are u aware that you can root ur phone and have free unlimited wifi tendering.
I use my evo as my main connection in my dorm. My college uses a wack internet connection in the dorms, that doesnt go above 1mb/s on wifi and 1.5 mb/s when using a landline. N on top of that they moniter ur connection, make sure u dont do illegal stuff.
So for me a evo is a gift from god
If you are not in a 4g area you could pick up an old sero plan for 30/mo and a cheapo winmo phone and tether exclusively from that, and use the evo for your main phone. When/if you get 4g, cancel or sell the sero line and use the 4g off the evo (4g is data and voice at the same time).
Was reading thru the threads and decided to try something out.Am running a rooted Evo with wireless tethering on 3g and just made a call to see if both will work at the same time and they doWe have Road Runner from Time Warner and it doesn't seem to run all that much quicker thru a wirless router than Sprint's 3g,If my wife and I tether both laptops to the Evo at the same time,it slows down a little but not too bad considering its free.
To the people talking about that Sprint does not allow Call and Data at the same time never considered 4G. You CAN do Call and 4G Data at the same time.
I ditched my Road Runner bill of about $40. Almost completed a month as my phone as my sole internet provider. I play on Xbox Live, stream from Netflix, and internet on my desktop and laptop. So far so good.. I live by my self so I don't need the internet at home all day. What I am running below:
Evo 4G (1.47.651.1 and 25% discount/month) + Root + Wireless Tether 2.0.2
I wanted to know if I can hard wire my phone to a router. One because my download speeds when I wire tether to my PC are about 1.5 to 2.0 mbs faster than when I wireless tether. And second I want to amplify my wireless signal.. make sense? lol
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To the people talking about that Sprint does not allow Call and Data at the same time never considered 4G. You CAN do Call and 4G Data at the same time.
I ditched my Road Runner bill of about $40. Almost completed a month as my phone as my sole internet provider. I play on Xbox Live, stream from Netflix, and internet on my desktop and laptop. So far so good.. I live by my self so I don't need the internet at home all day. What I am running below:
Evo 4G (1.47.651.1 and 25% discount/month) + Root + Wireless Tether 2.0.2
I wanted to know if I can hard wire my phone to a router. One because my download speeds when I wire tether to my PC are about 1.5 to 2.0 mbs faster than when I wireless tether. And second I want to amplify my wireless signal.. make sense? lol
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How is netflix over 4G? what quality do you get? HD? On 3g the picture is very standard def.
What if you try a kernel with wireless N? Not sure if it would be reflected in speeds, but in theory it should help.
having wifi N wont make anything faster except inter-network transfer, the bottleneck is the 4g, its slower than N, so anything between the phone and your laptop should be fast, but not to the outside world.
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How is netflix over 4G? what quality do you get? HD? On 3g the picture is very standard def.
What if you try a kernel with wireless N? Not sure if it would be reflected in speeds, but in theory it should help.
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Netflix (wire tether) on PC looks the same, HD content does not look that great, maybe a hair better, but not by much. Netflix over Xbox Live is almost the same. HD content doesn't look like HD lol... but it is viewable
On a second note, trying Windows Internet Connect Sharing now. Not no expert in network by all means and first time I tried this..
But this is what I am trying to do. Wire tether to PC, ICS to Xbox 360 via eathernet cable.
Only reason I am looking for a wired solution is because it is faster. Wireless Tether 2.0.5-2 is slower than 2.0.2. On Xbox Live trying to play Modern Warfare 2 with Wireless Tether 2.0.5-2 is sloooooooow. Searching seems to take forever. Went to 2.0.2 and noticed connection speeds a lot faster. Can't play Red Dead Redemption multiplayer with any of the two. Hoping that wire tether + ICS will work.
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To the people talking about that Sprint does not allow Call and Data at the same time never considered 4G. You CAN do Call and 4G Data at the same time.
I ditched my Road Runner bill of about $40. Almost completed a month as my phone as my sole internet provider. I play on Xbox Live, stream from Netflix, and internet on my desktop and laptop. So far so good.. I live by my self so I don't need the internet at home all day. What I am running below:
Evo 4G (1.47.651.1 and 25% discount/month) + Root + Wireless Tether 2.0.2
I wanted to know if I can hard wire my phone to a router. One because my download speeds when I wire tether to my PC are about 1.5 to 2.0 mbs faster than when I wireless tether. And second I want to amplify my wireless signal.. make sense? lol
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You are correct but you need 2 things to make that work. First is 4g in your area and secondly a good/reliable 4g signal. I can't wait until sprint does evora so we dont have to have 4g
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Hey, has anyone here tried using AT&T's EDGE network as an internet source for your main computer via the HD? I'm mainly using my HD as a pda for school where the hospital has wifi everywhere so decided not to get a data plan, however, if I can use my HD as an internet source for my laptop at home and get rid of my broadband cost, I would get the data plan, be able to use my phone to it's full potential, AND save money overall by not having a separate monthly internet charge However, I wouldn't do that if the internet speed sucks compared to regular broadband. So, has anyone tried this? What was the speed like in comparison to broadband, wifi, dialup, etc?
I have a dataplan, but its a cheap one so I only get 1mbit down and 168kbps upload so its not viable as a replacement to my broadband of 16Mbit(supposed to go up to 20Mbit but I guess I'm too far from the central). Eventhough the HD in theorie can reach up to 7.2Mbps you probably will never get that speed due to external factors and your ISP would squeeze it to death so that you won't use up too much bandwidth. And probably a 7.2Mbps plan would probably cost an exorbitant amount of money per month, so you'd just be better off with a regular DSL line anyway.
So I'm in Atlanta and we now have Wimax all over the city.
I can get wimax 6Mbps for $50ish a month. I can then buy a $129 Clear Spot which takes the 4g signal and broadcasts a wifi signal I can connect to. Then my internet usage is going through wimax. The Clear Spot is cool because its battery powered for 8 hours at a time.
So the question is this. Wimax + ClearSpot for $50/mo instead of the $34.99/mo. for the TMobile dataplan?
up to 8 devices can connect to the Clear Spot at once, so I could also connect my laptop or other wireless devices to get internet access.
The only disadvantage to this is that if I go outside the wimax coverage area, I wont get data to my cell. Thats not really an issue for me since I dont travel...
Thoughts?
Not sure what this has to do with the dream phone....
The phone I'm using is the Dream, and it's with TMo on TMo data plan...
Given the proliferation of free wifi access points, I would never bother with a phone data plan at all. If you are going for that wimax rig, make sure that it is going to be your primary net connection, i.e., it would be a waste to pay $50/mo for that and another $50/mo for cable. Presumably, you already have a stationary net connection, so figure on dumping that for the wimax and breaking even on the cost.
Costs breakdown is this
Comcast $40/mo or $480/year
G1 Dataplan $34.99/mo or $419.98/year
total = $899.88 for the year
wimax single dongle + clear spot wifi router = $798/year (first year), $600 (second year)
dongle = 59, clear spot 139, monthly costs $50
or i can upgrade to the dual account plan
dongle = 59x2, clear spot 139x2, monthly costs $55 (only $5 more) = $1057/yr (first year) $660/yr (second year)
I am interested in the optional Mobile Hotspot feature and its extra-cost service. I cannot justify that expense if I have to lock it in for a whole two-year contract, but I would find it useful sometimes.
For example, if I plan to be traveling in a certain month and want to add this service for $30 for that billing cycle but drop it later, could I do so?
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I am interested in the optional Mobile Hotspot feature and its extra-cost service. I cannot justify that expense if I have to lock it in for a whole two-year contract, but I would find it useful sometimes.
For example, if I plan to be traveling in a certain month and want to add this service for $30 for that billing cycle but drop it later, could I do so?
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If you add/remove the hotspot service before your billing cycle they should be able to change it whenever you want.
Personally though, if you just root your phone, you can have free tethering whenever you want!
You don't have to commit to it, you can add and cancel whenever.
I heard that if you want to use the full-fledged mobile hotspot funstionality to connect to multiple devices, you must pay the $30 mobile broadband service, but if you just wanna tether to one device using, says, PDAnet, you don't have to buy the plan. Is it true? There are EVO users who claim that Sprint cut it off once they know you're tethering w/o plan even just to one device using PDAnet.
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I heard that if you want to use the full-fledged mobile hotspot funstionality to connect to multiple devices, you must pay the $30 mobile broadband service, but if you just wanna tether to one device using, says, PDAnet, you don't have to buy the plan. Is it true? There are EVO users who claim that Sprint cut it off once they know you're tethering w/o plan even just to one device using PDAnet.
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I believe the official statement from Sprint is that this is allowed. However, the last time I used PDAnet, it wasn't very good, and I much prefer the root approach to it, as that way you can tether via wifi as well.
The only way Sprint will actually know if you are tethering is if you are using HIGH AMOUNTS of data CONSTANTLY. Which in that case, they have the right to cut you off if its obvious you are tethering on a constant basis.
But simply tethering a few devices to browse internet, stream videos/music doesn't use up TOO much data. The most I've ever used was about 200MB when I had 3 laptops tethered to my phone for about 1.5 hours.
$30 bucks a month for tethering is ridiculous unless you plan on being tethered for days on end.
The rooted tether works perfectly on my Nexus, to connect laptops, my DSi, friends iphones/ipod touches etc and is best of all free.
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The only way Sprint will actually know if you are tethering is if you are using HIGH AMOUNTS of data CONSTANTLY. Which in that case, they have the right to cut you off if its obvious you are tethering on a constant basis.
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$30 bucks a month for tethering is ridiculous unless you plan on being tethered for days on end.
The rooted tether works perfectly on my Nexus, to connect laptops, my DSi, friends iphones/ipod touches etc and is best of all free.
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Nevertheless, there is a difference between what the terms and conditions might forbid, and what you might get away with only because it is selectively enforced at the carrier's discretion. From Sprint's point of view, reading the agreement you sign, you might be considered to be cheating them out of payment for a premium service. You might think that "ridiculous," but you signed a contract.
I know about under-the-table, rooted tethering and hotspot creation. I can go to the dev forums and read about that if and when I need to. My question is about the business terms and process for following the contract.
The hotspot is $29.99 a month. You can turn it on and off all you want. If you only use it for the weekend, that's all they charge you for. I do it like twice a month with evo. I just chat with them and it takes like 3 mins. Most of the time I use USB tethering. I have 2.2 and cant root yet so I use PDAnet. Awesome little program. I have a good 4G so I use the hell out of it.
I've talk to sprint about it and the USB and Bluetooth tethering is fine. Free
Use PDAnet and it will work 4G and 3G.
If I plan to use the PS3 or Wii. Ill chat with a rep and turn the WiFi Hub on for a few days.
Last night I picked up a wireless ethernet bridge and hooked it up to my bluray player and xbox. Performance wise I'm actually pretty impressed. On 3g it streamed movies to my bluray flawlessly, and xbox live runs pretty well too. (Other than being disconnected every time I get a text or a phone call). On 4g xbox live runs damn near perfect, constant 3 bars with no lag on COD Black Ops.
Streaming movies to my bluray ate up a LOT of data. I burned through 750 megs in a few short hours. But xbox live barely uses any. A full game of Black Ops used maybe 1.5 megs at most, peaking at like 30-40 kbps.
I wouldn't mind using this fairly consistently, but there are some people out there claiming that Sprint will surely catch you and cancel your plan. Some people even claim that it could end up costing you thousands of dollars! I understand that this is against Sprints contract agreement, but this seems pretty ridiculous to me..
All I've read is speculation, but has anyone actually been caught? If so, what happened? Ive read that they can charge you for all the extra data you use, add the $30 hotspot to your plan without telling you, and even cancel you. I'm also curious about the unlimited data caps. Does Sprint do this? I read in a forum somewhere that some dude uses 30 gb a month playing on xbox live and has never been caught or charged anything extra!
Also, does it make any difference whether I'm on 3g or 4g? I know 4g uses Clear's network. How much control/access does Sprint have over your usage with them? If there is a real risk of getting caught, would it be safer to stick with 4g?
peeps got caught using too much roaming, canceled their acct, no etf. if your on sprint network or 4g your in the clear
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Last night I picked up a wireless ethernet bridge and hooked it up to my bluray player and xbox. Performance wise I'm actually pretty impressed. On 3g it streamed movies to my bluray flawlessly, and xbox live runs pretty well too. (Other than being disconnected every time I get a text or a phone call). On 4g xbox live runs damn near perfect, constant 3 bars with no lag on COD Black Ops.
Streaming movies to my bluray ate up a LOT of data. I burned through 750 megs in a few short hours. But xbox live barely uses any. A full game of Black Ops used maybe 1.5 megs at most, peaking at like 30-40 kbps.
I wouldn't mind using this fairly consistently, but there are some people out there claiming that Sprint will surely catch you and cancel your plan. Some people even claim that it could end up costing you thousands of dollars! I understand that this is against Sprints contract agreement, but this seems pretty ridiculous to me..
All I've read is speculation, but has anyone actually been caught? If so, what happened? Ive read that they can charge you for all the extra data you use, add the $30 hotspot to your plan without telling you, and even cancel you. I'm also curious about the unlimited data caps. Does Sprint do this? I read in a forum somewhere that some dude uses 30 gb a month playing on xbox live and has never been caught or charged anything extra!
Also, does it make any difference whether I'm on 3g or 4g? I know 4g uses Clear's network. How much control/access does Sprint have over your usage with them? If there is a real risk of getting caught, would it be safer to stick with 4g?
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I don't know personally anyone that has gotten caught. I am sure it has happened if you go over the 5gb mark monthly. As for the fellow saying that he does 30gb a month playing xbox I would say he is full of BS. Sprint gets wise once you start blowing through your internet use and if they didn't say you were teathering they would contact you letting you know to either cut down your use or get booted off their network.
5GIG CAP ON 3G
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no cap on 3g but thanks for trying
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no cap on 3g but thanks for trying
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Correct, there WAS, but no longer.
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5GIG CAP ON 3G
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5GIG CAP ON 3G = False
Geeeawwwd I wish I got 4g worth a crap at my house!
I would love to cancel my cable internet and just lash this beast to the 'puter for internet
think it's coincidence that 4g doesn't work well indoors?, sprint knew
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As others have said it has been removed now. If you listen to the latest commercial it even says, "unlimited is truly unlimited we don't have a cap like other networks"
Yea. Unlimited is unlimited. I stream movies and download ROMs on my phone. I use a ton of data on just my phone. Not tethering. I use well over 5 gigs. And have for 2 years. Sprint won't do anything. Unlimited is unlimited. And we pay 10 bucks more for our already unlimited data. So, yea, I am using what I pay for. Twice.
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I use 30+ GB of 3G a month through tethering to my laptop and watching Netflix on Xbox Live. Haven't heard a peep from Sprint. I'm sure they know I'm tethering, but unlimited means unlimited. If they don't like it, they can terminate my contract.
Quick question... Anyone know the thread that shows us how to force roaming data on our EVOs?
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Quick question... Anyone know the thread that shows us how to force roaming data on our EVOs?
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This one (PRL hack)?
Damn I wish my 3g worked as good as that so I could rock my Xbox and what nots
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Last night I picked up a wireless ethernet bridge and hooked it up to my bluray player and xbox. Performance wise I'm actually pretty impressed. On 3g it streamed movies to my bluray flawlessly, and xbox live runs pretty well too. (Other than being disconnected every time I get a text or a phone call). On 4g xbox live runs damn near perfect, constant 3 bars with no lag on COD Black Ops.
Streaming movies to my bluray ate up a LOT of data. I burned through 750 megs in a few short hours. But xbox live barely uses any. A full game of Black Ops used maybe 1.5 megs at most, peaking at like 30-40 kbps.
I wouldn't mind using this fairly consistently, but there are some people out there claiming that Sprint will surely catch you and cancel your plan. Some people even claim that it could end up costing you thousands of dollars! I understand that this is against Sprints contract agreement, but this seems pretty ridiculous to me..
All I've read is speculation, but has anyone actually been caught? If so, what happened? Ive read that they can charge you for all the extra data you use, add the $30 hotspot to your plan without telling you, and even cancel you. I'm also curious about the unlimited data caps. Does Sprint do this? I read in a forum somewhere that some dude uses 30 gb a month playing on xbox live and has never been caught or charged anything extra!
Also, does it make any difference whether I'm on 3g or 4g? I know 4g uses Clear's network. How much control/access does Sprint have over your usage with them? If there is a real risk of getting caught, would it be safer to stick with 4g?
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Maybe I'm missing something.... how did you stream blu ray movies from your Evo to your blu ray player?
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Maybe I'm missing something.... how did you stream blu ray movies from your Evo to your blu ray player?
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At the beginning of the post, he said he picked up an Ethernet bridge. This basically is a device that you attach Ethernet devices to and it then connects those devices to a wireless signal (i.e. from a wireless access point or router, or in this case the EVO in HotSpot mode). There are also some Blu-ray players that have wireless built in and there are, of course, wifi adapters for XBox as well.
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Maybe I'm missing something.... how did you stream blu ray movies from your Evo to your blu ray player?
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To be specific, I bought a Tenda W150M Portable Wireless AP/Router.
$30 at MicroCenter. I didn't mind buying it because its a 5-in-1 device (AP, Client/AP, Wireless Router, WDS+AP, WISP), so when and if I decide to reactivate my Qwest DSL, I can use it as a range extender so I can pick up my WiFi out in the garage. It's usb powered and even has a mode button on the side so I can quickly switch between modes without having to adjust it via ethernet. $30 investment that does the job of both the $80 Sony BluRay wireless adapter and $100 xbox wireless adapter.
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To be specific, I bought a Tenda W150M Portable Wireless AP/Router.
$30 at MicroCenter. I didn't mind buying it because its a 5-in-1 device (AP, Client/AP, Wireless Router, WDS+AP, WISP), so when and if I decide to reactivate my Qwest DSL, I can use it as a range extender so I can pick up my WiFi out in the garage. It's usb powered and even has a mode button on the side so I can quickly switch between modes without having to adjust it via ethernet. $30 investment that does the job of both the $80 Sony BluRay wireless adapter and $100 xbox wireless adapter.
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Awesome! I'm going to microcenter tomorrow.
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My friend uses his 3G as his primary source of internet and has been for about 8-9 months now, as posted earlier, unlimited is unlimited. You get what you pay for. Although roaming will surely get you kicked off if not worse.
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Has anyone considered this?
I have AT&T and was wondering if it would be better to get a 2 year 4g hotspot from like Sprint (is it unlimited) and I could use it at home and take it with me to use on my xoom etc?
It's unlimited, but 4G on sprint doesn't do so hot indoors. Walls block 2.5ghz spectrum.
Also, it looks pretty likely that sprint will start to tier data levels soon.
I keep seeing the Mifi 4g hotspots available for like $300 with no contract. How does service work? Do you still need to activate it and pay the $50 a month with Verizon?
I guess it may be cheaper to pay the $$ and get a thunderbolt out of contract and use the 4G on that instead rather than the $300 for the mifi wifi hotspot huh
Why not wait till the Xoom has 4G and use it as a hotspot, unless you got the WIFI because you thought 4G would be useless!
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Why not wait till the Xoom has 4G and use it as a hotspot, unless you got the WIFI because you thought 4G would be useless!
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I got the Wifi because it was $200 cheaper and didnt want to pay for another data plan
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I got the Wifi because it was $200 cheaper and didnt want to pay for another data plan
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QFT
10 char.
DroidHam said:
I got the Wifi because it was $200 cheaper and didnt want to pay for another data plan
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I bought the 4g version and saved $200 by getting a $20 a month data plan (which I use about 750MB of). I will not have to upgrade my phone to 4g for tethering and spend another $200. I can also talk and surf the web/navigate at the same time, that statement sounds familiar!
It's about a wash depending on your needs.
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I bought the 4g version and saved $200 by getting a $20 a month data plan (which I use about 750MB of). I will not have to upgrade my phone to 4g for tethering and spend another $200. I can also talk and surf the web/navigate at the same time, that statement sounds familiar!
It's about a wash depending on your needs.
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Whats the point of 4g if your using 750mb?
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Whats the point of 4g if your using 750mb?
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It's all about speed not volume for me. I would not necessarily use more data because it's faster I would just get those tasks done quicker.
Now if I used as a hotspot I would needs a bigger plan.
As others have said, the Sprint 4G MiFi doesn't do well inside. The high mhz spectrum doesn't do well to penetrate walls. You very rarely get full bars inside in my experience.
It sounds good to try and use a 4G hotspot for your home internet, but once you start spreading out a single WiMax signal (less than 10mbps down, capped 1mbps up) to several people and/or devices, you're not going to be as comfortable as you would be with home cable internet.
Now, LTE might be another situation because the speeds are much higher than WiMax and it penetrates buildings better, but still you're relying on a wireless signal to come down and then be spread back out to the devices.
For people like me who play games, I don't see myself cutting the cable internet any time soon. Not to mention that I regularly use 75gb+ of internet every month. Don't think theres a single carrier (even Sprint) that would be okay with this.
Verizon is a big bag of irony when it comes to LTE and pricing.
They're promising fast speeds, which for most people means streaming video and audio, but their pricing is too expensive to do much media streaming.
If I had deep pockets, Verizon LTE as a mobile hotspot would be great. Sadly, I don't have deep pockets. I think Clear/Sprint are currently the best options at the moment.
I'm not sure if I'm even going to upgrade to LTE. 3G seems to do alright, and I'm worried that LTE will be a battery suck. Battery is more important to me than speed.
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I'm not sure if I'm even going to upgrade to LTE. 3G seems to do alright, and I'm worried that LTE will be a battery suck. Battery is more important to me than speed.
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LTE (and other 4G tech) is very much so a battery hog. There's no way that you can have that big jump in bandwidth and connection without affecting battery life until they expand the technology more (remember, the move from 2G to 3G was met with the same concerns).
I think anyone using an Evo 4G or Thunderbolt will quickly tell you how much WiMax or LTE is killing their battery.
ive got the mifi 3g/4g gadget and 4G and 3G work wonderfully inside the house in my experience. also ive tried it inside the company building and 4G works well.. it does help im in a major 4G city.. but the 4G works quite well indoors. it has about a 28-32 foot range so you could sit it near an external wall facing 4g coverage and be set.
i have used the novatel with a laptop, xoom, first gen ipod touch. definitely a good option. there is also the overdrive pro which has 4G verizon and att have the same mifi box also..
the key here is to make sure your primary location has ample supply of 4G and your set for unlimited. again the spees ive seen are quite nice.
and this is why people are introducing caps....
However, if you can stay under the cap....
FLAME ON!
marctronixx said:
ive got the mifi 3g/4g gadget and 4G and 3G work wonderfully inside the house in my experience. also ive tried it inside the company building and 4G works well.. it does help im in a major 4G city.. but the 4G works quite well indoors. it has about a 28-32 foot range so you could sit it near an external wall facing 4g coverage and be set.
i have used the novatel with a laptop, xoom, first gen ipod touch. definitely a good option. there is also the overdrive pro which has 4G verizon and att have the same mifi box also..
the key here is to make sure your primary location has ample supply of 4G and your set for unlimited. again the spees ive seen are quite nice.
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Specifically Sprints 4G WiMax doesn't do well indoors, because of the specific spectrum it uses. Verizon, ATT, and Tmo use different tech and spectrum that has better building penetration...haha...i said penetration. But if you got it to work, cool.
yes mr. carpenter i understand your post and i do understand the cons of wimax inside buildings, hence why i said it works for me as im in a dense 4G area, so the two main places i frequent has 4G abundantly. it surely does fall off rather quickly inside structures however the results ive had are just superb, especially when its unlimited. sprints coming out with a 10gb plan this sunday and releasing new bundled plans so i should be able to get 10gb of 3G for 70 bux.
I've been using the Sprint Overdrive since last summer. Although I wouldn't recommend this particular device the 4G service itself is excellent. The Overdrive is plagued with well documented problems. When it actually connects and stays connected the service is fast and solid, as with the 4G service on my Epic. As for using WiMax 4G inside, I've found it needs to be positioned for optimal signal, I set mine on top of the refrigerator. I may eventually switch to the new MiFi unit, but I'm waiting to see how the reviewers feel about it first.
Better off rooting verizon's thunderbolt...
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and this is why people are introducing caps....
However, if you can stay under the cap....
FLAME ON!
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QFT...
Consumer: "but my unlimited plan gives me the RIGHT to download 300GB/s of data each month!"
Cellular Industry: "yeah right"
Data Caps.
I would personally thank iPhone users for abusing the snot out of AT&T's unlimited data plans for all of this.