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| Author: | King Crab [ September 11th, 2010, 4:48 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Air Card Data Usage Cap |
Hi guys I am using a sprint mobile broadband aircard to connect to the internet. I heard that these have a 5g data cap. I've been using it for 2 years and have had no problems with bills and I used to play more than I do now. I'm a little bit worried because on the app that runs the aircard it said the other day i had used 2gb. All i had been doing was playing runescape and watching a few videos on youtube for about 5 or 6 hours. Does that mean that i'm going over the cap? Sorry, I don't now much about it and i would appreciate some help. |
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| Author: | Adbot [ September 11th, 2010, 4:48 pm ] |
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| Author: | Killjoy [ September 11th, 2010, 10:51 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Air Card Data Usage Cap |
You should call and ask what your internet data plan is. If its unlimited then you should worry. Also might I ask why you are using the instead of a Cable/Broadband connection? |
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| Author: | Southrend [ September 12th, 2010, 4:41 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Air Card Data Usage Cap |
Youtube probably used most of that bandwith. I don't know the exact figures but it wouldn't surprise me if it was 10 MB+ per minute of video. If you only have exact 5GB of bandwith and after you've to pay for every GB you spend extra I should be aware. However, most services I know provide the first X-amount of GB at a normal speed and if you exceed it you're download speed would be greatly reduced. You've to look that up to be sure. |
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| Author: | Pfkninenines [ September 12th, 2010, 1:14 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Air Card Data Usage Cap |
Video is one of the most bandwidth heavy thing you can do while normal browsing on the internet. Gaming hardly uses anything, just sending and receiving movements. For RS, it would also download parts of the world as you visit them, at least in the areas you hadn't been to yet. The Sprint plans seem to be at 5gb, unless you're using an OverDrive wireless modem. That has the 5gb cap on 3g, but unlimited on 4g. From what you've said you do have a 3g modem, and all of those are capped at 5gb. But 2gb/5gb isn't anything supposing you don't normally watch lots of videos. If you're on YouTube and you do want to watch more videos, I'd suggest making sure that you're loading them in the 360p or if possible the lowest quality offered, 240p. That will use the least of your bandwidth. Try adding &fmt=5 at the end of your video (ex: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSX2fN5IP60&fmt=5) and you'll get the 240p version at the lower quality. If you've got a YouTube/Google account, go into the preferences and set the quality to automatically be low. That should at least put it to 360p, which would use less bandwidth than the fairly normal 480p. |
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