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A newbe

Hi guys! Amazed by this forum, so much advanced users here...
I have been a user of blue angel for about 4-5 years, travelled with it in Europe, Asia, Americas, sank it, dropped it, loved it... got it from expansys long time ago...
Got my Touch HD yesterday, unlocked, nice and shiny. Impressed so far, no flaws at all, Edge is fast here! (I'm in Houston, TX now)
Question. I am with ATT, and have a basic plan that does not include internet. However I am able to use internet thru data connection on my Touch HD. Are they charging me for usage? Do I have to be subscribed to a more expensive plan to be able to use it? Well, I'm using it now...so does ATT know at all that I am using it and how does it work with them if they don't know what phone I have?
Free internet just sounds too good to be true...
Thank you!

Newbe, data is data it doesn't really matter the phone. I can throw my AT&T SIM in any phone and use the AT&T network. You probably had some form of default data set up on your SIM and I would be very surprised you're getting something for nothing. More probably you're going to be charged on a usage based per kb basis. I would suggest you contact them and get the all you can eat plan cause you'll need it. It runs about $30 a month. If you stick with the metered plan hang onto your wallet.

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Newbe, data is data it doesn't really matter the phone. I can throw my AT&T SIM in any phone and use the AT&T network. You probably had some form of default data set up on your SIM and I would be very surprised you're getting something for nothing. More probably you're going to be charged on a usage based per kb basis. I would suggest you contact them and get the all you can eat plan cause you'll need it. It runs about $30 a month. If you stick with the metered plan hang onto your wallet.
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this is correct: any data capable phone can access the internet using pay-per-use and your charged for each KB of data, unless internet usage is explicitly turned off by calling at&t cust service! get on the $30 unlimited pda-connect data plan very soon, or you'll be paying through the wazoo
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[Q] How are your Streak ATT Data Rates ?

Can you guys post your data rates received ? I feel like my streak is crawling since Dell318 2.2 network wise, in 2.1 it was pwning my TMO buddies with 2MB/s down and like 1Mbs up.
Now I'm getting like .6MB/s down, thats right barely 600Kbs and 1MB/s up, what gives?
Oh I used speedtest from market in case you're wondering

After I updated to 2.2 (via the QDL tool), I got 2.2 down and 1.3 upload

Yes it seems my speeds are better. Especially upload speeds. I used to get half a gig.
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I'm getting 2Meg up and 1 Meg down
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I an on the 318 pkg, and get over 3MB a lot @ home. Occasionally I get 4MB though. This is good enough that I can play PS3 Call of Duty with no lag. On the 315 update my speeds were faster though.
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WOW something must be up with my Streak I no longer get over 2MB heck I struggle for just 1 MB I think it might be a FL thing maybe.

there was something weird about atts network. it was only 600kbit in alot of places. theyve gone around and fixed things up it seems. i get 5mbit up and 2mbit down at my house. thats faster than any other mobile network provides and even faster than what i get wired to my house. i end up never using wifi, which does lead to me hitting 2gb all the time. if i didnt have the unlimited data plan, id be screwed.
they stop counting at 2gb, which i why i think they limit data to that now. the att mywireless app is critical for anyone who has capped data though.
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Data speeds 3G :)/ :(

Mm well so 3 years ago I went to Verizon from sprint cause a phone that I wanted and data speeds and service in Las Vegas (north) sucked for.Sprint back then And I went back to sprint because their.service got cheaper and I.wanted the.hero (evo Wasn't announce yet) so anyway my friend got a Droid x and his girlfriend a Droid Inc and I got an iPhone 4( I hated at&t and don't worry I'm not leaving android ) I been running some speed test in android Evo (sprint) and iPhone (Verizon ) and the speed in sprint looks faster by almost a 1 mb almost every test but I ran the speed test on the Inc and Droid x and speeds are practicly the same on those phones then the evo, do you guys know why iPhone speeds are slower? Maybe the app was make in a different way for iPhone (the data package is bigger? ) because speed test on the browser are almost the same on iPhone and evo
Weird?
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Thanks for the help guys
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Use an ad blocker your speed might slightly improve

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Use an ad blocker your speed might slightly improve
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adblockers make your internet slower, not once a connection is made, but while trying to make the connection. Every time your phone tries to access a website it has to parse that huge hosts file. Even on desktop PCs this will cause slow downs.

So I still don't know what's making the speed test slower in iPhone 4 but in wifi iPhone 4 has better speeds in the same wifi network, maybe the app wasn't make the same
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My Sprint Service at Home

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:'(

Don't feel bad. Mine isn't always much better. I am normally on wifi when I need to do web surfing or anything major. I see you are in Dallas which I guess I could understand the speeds because of major usage. I live in a small city and still get somewhat pathetic times, usually just a little bit faster than dialup.

Skeeredfitless said:
Don't feel bad. Mine isn't always much better. I am normally on wifi when I need to do web surfing or anything major. I see you are in Dallas which I guess I could understand the speeds because of major usage. I live in a small city and still get somewhat pathetic times, usually just a little bit faster than dialup.
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Ouch. I have WiFi too, but it's also an unreliable POS because it drops out every ten minutes. I'm thinking of switching, but the only other carrier that has a decent signal is Verizon, but 5GBs of data is a killer. I often pass 6GBs on my EVO.

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Ouch. I have WiFi too, but it's also an unreliable POS because it drops out every ten minutes. I'm thinking of switching, but the only other carrier that has a decent signal is Verizon, but 5GBs of data is a killer. I often pass 6GBs on my EVO.
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Is the wifi a hotspot problem or a phone problem? If it is a hotspot problem then I would flash an updated firmware for it. I had a linksys with that problem and the firmware fixed it. You could also try changing the wireless channel in the routers configuration.

It's a Sprint problem.
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I switched and got unlimited data on Verizon with the hotspot trick
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I switched and got unlimited data on Verizon with the hotspot trick
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I read on here that they catch on and put it back to what it was.

Yea no ones confirmed just hear say, someone heard someone say they heard it happened to them so it must be true
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[Q] Seeking advice in regards with my data consumption.

Okay. So I used to have a blackberry paired with an unlimited bis before I switched to android.
I didn't subscribe to a data plan because we finally now have wifi in the house. But now, I'm kind of missing emailing/chatting on the go. Even posting sns statuses whenever I feel like it.
So I've looked at some data plans my carrier are currently offering and found the following:
8.00 USD for 300mb
16.00 USD for 1gb
And that's monthly. The unlimited data costs about 26 USD a month.
Now my dilemma.
Here's my data consumption on wifi
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As you can see, I consumed 20gb in 2 weeks. Granted, minus 10gb for youtube and the podcasts, still, that's 10gb in 2 weeks.
And specially now that I don't have a job, I just can't afford that unlimited data plan. So the only option that I'm currently looking at is that 300mb a month one.
Can I survive with only just 300mb a month?
I know that this has been probably asked a thousand times before, but I don't have access to a computer right now so I'm using Tapatalk. And the search feature on this is next to useless.
I hope someone can help me with this and give advice and steps to take in order to minimize my data consumption if I ever do decide to sign up for a data plan.
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Also. Can somebody tell what could android be possibly doing to consume this much data in background?
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The background data is for Gmail syncing and stuff I think. You'd be best turning it off and on and maybe limiting yourself to Edge/2G until you need the 3/4G so you don't use that much.

Well for the iphone, one big way of saving data is through Onavo.
It basically compresses the data on their server and then sends it over. maybe theres an android alternative

kinganu123 said:
Well for the iphone, one big way of saving data is through Onavo.
It basically compresses the data on their server and then sends it over. maybe theres an android alternative
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Both Onavo apps are on the play store and they seem to work great
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