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How much data do you use? (sprint users)

http://shop2.sprint.com/en/shop/why_sprint/mobile_broadband_usage/index.html

I used right at 1.8gb in February. Some past months:
Oct 2011: 1.6gb
Nov 2011: 2.19gb
Dec 2011: 2.35gb
Jan 2012: 6.16gb
6.16gb - damn. I was over a gig roaming that month, and 3.46gb on 4G. No tethering. This is why unlimited data matters - I would have paid $40 or more on other carriers just for January!

not much sprint 3g(475MB) and 4g(200MB) sucks in my area so 90 % of time im on wifii

5 lines
19727433 kB 3g (18.841 GB)
13783812 kB 4g (13.145 GB)
that was feb4 to mar4.

not much, i'm on wifi most of the time.

From 25 Jan -25 Feb about 500 Mb 3g and 5.3 Gb on 4g
This is pretty average for me. I don't tether just use my phone a bit.

I've use anywhere from 500 to 2gb in a month norm. For a while I was using my 4G as my internet while I moved and didn't have home internet. Used 20 to 60GB of 4G for 3 months. Yes Torrents and such (private trackers), I still have my service and Sprint had no problem with it, I called them once a week to ask. Now my network is up. Wifi = low data for me.
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3 line total less then a gig

austin420 said:
5 lines
19727433 kB 3g (18.841 GB)
13783812 kB 4g (13.145 GB)
that was feb4 to mar4.
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Holy **** that is a lot of data. I don't even think I use that much on my computer. What on earth do you do to get up that high?

danipoak said:
Holy **** that is a lot of data. I don't even think I use that much on my computer. What on earth do you do to get up that high?
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divided over 5 lines, its really not that much. i use about 10 myself, the other 20 is divided up over my wife, her sis, and 2 kids.
we have hbo go and netflix. im sure thats where most of it goes. hd movies are a data killer.
we dont tether. i pay for 50 mbps internet at home, so no point in that.
as far as home use, i torrent my ass off. if timewarner started capping me, id be ****ed. my home internet use has to be 100 to 200 gb per month id say.

I usually average ~8-12GB/month. However, last month I hit just over 20GB. All over 3G.
It's from streaming from Google Music mostly.
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Feb05-march 04:
3G data: 1.46gb
3G data roaming: 15,019kb
4G data: 8.83gb
that's mostly Amazon MP3, MLB @ Bat 12 and NHL Game Center

Wish I could get that much hell I hardly go over 1gb just cause 3g is piss poor where I'm at so... kinda said to stay but I'm sticking it out for the long run since maybe one day sprint will start to become a bigger co.
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2-3GB per month - most of which is on 3G with occasional 4G use. Probably a ton more when I'm connected to Wifi.

I use about 1gb a month. I don't use sprint, I have virgin mobile which is still unlimited (do throttle after 2.5gb) but still is nice to know that if I did go over I don't have overage fees.

brooksyx said:
still is nice to know that if I did go over I don't have overage fees.
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That indeed it most certainly is.
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lawlhai said:
2-3GB per month - most of which is on 3G with occasional 4G use. Probably a ton more when I'm connected to Wifi.
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Sounds just like my usage pattern, about 3.5GB on 3G and less than a gig on 4G. The reason why I hardly use 4G, even though most areas I'm in have 4G coverage is because I forget to turn it on. Most of my data usage is streaming YouTube videos.

t-mobile 5gb plan

So I see a lot of people going with the T-Mobile 5 GB 100 minute plan and was wondering..
What happens when you eat up all 5 gigs of bandwidth? Do they turn you off, charge you , or throttle you and if so what are the throttled speeds?
Thanks in advance !

I've never hit 5gb myself in the past, but you get throttled. Looking at or below EDGE speeds.

desynch- said:
I've never hit 5gb myself in the past, but you get throttled. Looking at or below EDGE speeds.
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I don't expect to hit it either I just was wondering "thanks" bud

Here in the UK (if your not from here that is) when you go over the 5gb they start charging you for every mb you go over by. I have a sim plan that has unlimited data 600 mins and 5000 text. I used around 6-7gb on a busy month but mostly use about 3-4gb so I'd say 5gb is plenty.
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It's unlimited. They just drop you to 2G/EDGE when you hit 5GB.
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http://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php/1763109-I-ve-just-been-throttled!

The signal is Edge but its slower, only 5-7k/s. I used to have the 200mb unlimited plan and went over to see how fast it was, it is unusable for just about everything since everything ends up timing out before they load. It is just fast enough to keep apps that use a little data (like weather) from breaking.

New plans - unlimited still throttled?

I checked my usage (signed up yesterday). The guy at the store had my phone download and sync all of the apps over the HSPA+ network, so I had a lot of data usage yesterday. Anyway, my listing looks like this:
Data: 743 MB / Unlimited on our network (up to 9,765.6 GB high-speed data)
So are they still throttling? They said at the store that they were NOT throttling anymore, at all, ever, on the unlimited plan. So whats the truth?

psufan5 said:
I checked my usage (signed up yesterday). The guy at the store had my phone download and sync all of the apps over the HSPA+ network, so I had a lot of data usage yesterday. Anyway, my listing looks like this:
Data: 743 MB / Unlimited on our network (up to 9,765.6 GB high-speed data)
So are they still throttling? They said at the store that they were NOT throttling anymore, at all, ever, on the unlimited plan. So whats the truth?
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They probably throttle at 10gb then and advertise as unlimited cause it's really hard to use 10gb in a month.
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It's probably a system thing where they can't input a higher number into the system. Besides it's probably humanly impossible right now to exceed 10 terabytes in a billing cycle.
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looks like 10 TB to me

psufan5 said:
I checked my usage (signed up yesterday). The guy at the store had my phone download and sync all of the apps over the HSPA+ network, so I had a lot of data usage yesterday. Anyway, my listing looks like this:
Data: 743 MB / Unlimited on our network (up to 9,765.6 GB high-speed data)
So are they still throttling? They said at the store that they were NOT throttling anymore, at all, ever, on the unlimited plan. So whats the truth?
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Mine says the same thing but I can tell you I've used 11 / 12 ish GB per month every month since the start the of year and have not been throttled yet

kendiep said:
They probably throttle at 10gb then and advertise as unlimited cause it's really hard to use 10gb in a month.
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Ahhh, I use between 90 and 100 GB a month, yes that was gigs, not megs. Real easy, Netflix and Porn.
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I guess my sense of sarcasm wasnt seen here haha

(Q) Can I get past Tethering Only Data Cap on my network

I've been using the UK based Three network for nearly 2 years now since they are one of the only remaining networks to offer a truly unlimited data so as a student to save money I've been using the unlimited data to tether. They have recently changed the policy so when my contract expires at the end of the month I would then be paying for tethering when I exceed the 2gb limit which would cost me £5 per gb which isn't good since I'm using around 100gb per month. They still however offer unlimited plan for phone data so is it possible to get around the 2gb tethering cap? Another reason why I want to keep tethering is because the 4g speeds are faster than anything in my area.

My main question is for this how do they know your tethering and there should be away around it...!but not 100% sure
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How do you know if you're being throttled on Verizon with unlimited data?

How do you know if you're being throttled on Verizon on an unlimited data plan?
I am already at 5GB with my new GN3 because of video streaming.
Is there any way to censor/block throttling?

jamor414 said:
How do you know if you're being throttled on Verizon on an unlimited data plan?
I am already at 5GB with my new GN3 because of video streaming.
Is there any way to censor/block throttling?
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I average between 17 and 19GB per month on unlimited (without tethering) and have never noticed a slow down due to high usage.

jamor414 said:
How do you know if you're being throttled on Verizon on an unlimited data plan?
I am already at 5GB with my new GN3 because of video streaming.
Is there any way to censor/block throttling?
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Doubt they throttle at all, my friend from here uses 100+ gb of data month, never said he's been throttled.
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No throttle.

If I remember correctly... The FCC slapped Verizon with a $1M fine a while back for trying to charge limited users for tethering and trying to throttle speeds on their network. Because of the spectrum they use for LTE it isn't allowed by federal law and they signed agreements to that fact.
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I do about 60 gb a month and have not been throttled.
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This is awesome news. I won't hold back my streaming now.
The sharing of your GB usage really helps.
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Doubt they throttle unlimited but they try to get to lose it as best they can i had unlimited and when they switched over my phone they sneeked in a special step putting my number on a basic line temp so my data would be lost so i lost unlimited got it back i used 100+ a month because it was faster then my wifi they did not like that

If you have to ask this question, they're throttling you.
Only way to really know is to do speed tests randomly throughout the month to see what kind of speed you're getting.

no throttle.
did 116gb this month. record high for me. lol.

I notice certain places on the Web are slower than normal
I work from home and download big files which was at normal speeds up until just a few weeks ago
Now I cannot download big files because of how slow my connection becomes
People even on Verizon website notice
http://forums.verizon.com/t5/FiOS-Internet/Is-Verizon-throttling-speed-to-certain-sites/td-p/656487
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