Google Fi is launching a $35 / month unlimited plan
Google Fi is launching a $35 / month unlimited plan
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Google Fi is launching a $35 / month unlimited plan
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After the 30 GB, your speed will be throttled to 256 kbps. These are 2G speeds, painfully slow. So, as long as you're sure you're not going over the cap.
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That's a lot of data...
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I have 50GB with the possibility to get 5G (but we mostly have 4G infrastructure) at 25ā¬.
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How much of that data cap do you use?
A lot of my coworkers get unlimited, but when I ask about actual use, they don't get close to even a lower tier. My SO wanted unlimited because they hit their previous cap (5GB), but we agreed to try the 15GB cap and they've been happy, not hitting the cap. We save a bit of money and they don't need to worry about data caps anymore.
Everyone is different obviously, but I feel like a lot of people get unlimited when they don't actually need unlimited.
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I've definitely hit my 400GB cap once or twice and regretted switching from unlimited. Most months is 20-60 GB but the next highest option after 400 is 40 and I'd hit that too often. And yes, this is mobile. My desktop runs 24/7 and has a torrent client on, so I can get a terabyte per month on my home network too, though thankfully those are all unlimited in my country.
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My household usage is well over 2TB/mo. It's not unrealistic to expect individual usage to be fairly high outside of the house.
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That's higher than my household's entire internet usage, and we're not particularly light on the video streaming (I often have YT in the background when I WFH).
I can see 10-20GB/month for a single person being fairly reasonable if they steam music or something a lot while out and about.
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I can see 10-20GB/month for a single person being fairly reasonable if they steam music or something a lot while out and about.
Which a lot of people do. And videos. And play games.
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That's not an unlimited amount of data.
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Is it technically unlimited, just very very slow?
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Assuming you somehow use up your original data cap in... Let's say one incredibly data intensive day somehow. That leaves you with (30 days * 24 hrs/day) * 3600 seconds/hr * 256,000 bps = roughly 660 gigabytes. So I guess that's probably the limit? Plus your original cap.
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Limited to 256 kbps aka unlimited
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80 GB per month if you max it out. Seems pretty limited to me..
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Correct. But it's a lot of data.
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Its not really, I just checked and mine is 23gb usage a month and I work from home.
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That still seems kind of high. Are you constantly streaming video/audio when not at home?
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Yeah I might have to drive a few hours for work and it is always on android auto for podcasts, music and youtube though audio only for all of them.
Probably a lot pictures and such, I have to wipe my downloads a lot for memes.
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Well, I use 250/300 GB a month
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That's nuts. Our total internet usage for our house internet connection is about 100GB for the week, and that includes a lot of video streaming. You almost use as much as my household, but on your phone.
Most months I use <1GB because I mostly just browse the web when I'm not at work.
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No that's obviously my total usage, because I only have a mobile data plan and I use my phone's hotspot when I'm at home
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On the other hand though I limit myself at 480p streaming when I watch Twitch (which I do a lot) so potentially I could top your family's total usage š
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Lol. But yeah, if it's your primary internet source, that makes sense. I imagine most people have a dedicated internet line at home, so you're absolutely an outlier.
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True.
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Exactly, imagine your speeds drop to sub dsl speeds after 30gb. Nonsense
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Modern websites are excessively bloated. That data goes fast.
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I highly doubt random websites are eating your data, it's much more likely your videos and whatnot. I browse a lot on my phone and I generally use 1-2GB in a month. If I watch video, that's gone in an hour.
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It's not uncommon for a single web page to use 5-10MB. Shopping and social media sites are the some of the worst since they have lots of javascript libraries and pictures. It's not hard to use a couple GB in a day without streaming anything.
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My only social media is Lemmy, and I'm not interested in the video content here, which probably explains my low data usage. When I'm on data, I'm mostly reading text (news, technical docs for personal projects, etc), submitting text (Lemmy, bug reports, etc), or occasionally looking at rendered charts (stocks, statistics, etc). I usually use about 1GB/month.
My SO uses Instagram, listens to YouTube when going for a walk, etc, and is a much heavier user than I. Most of that's on WiFi, but they keep the same habits when going out each day. We recently needed to bump from 5GB to 15GB data cap, and a typical month is probably 8GB or so now.
So that's my metric for lean and typical users. Using more than double my SO's cap sounds like a lot of data and puts you in outlier territory.
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