Grand Daughter wants to take Old iPhone 4S

[testcase]

I'm VERY happy I kept my Unlimited data plan with ATT. I routinely exceed 20GB of data a month and, that's with virtually no video streaming. The $5/month I would have saved would have been easily offset by a month or three of data overages.

[davester]

testcase wrote:
I I routinely exceed 20GB of data a month and, that's with virtually no video streaming.

I'm curious as to how that is even possible. The only thing I can figure is that you are constantly streaming music instead of storing it in iTunes.

[testcase]

"I'm curious as to how that is even possible"

I"m not exactly sure myself how I use that much data. I stream Pandora occasionally (while walking, I usually listen to an audiobook). I do have over 800 Apps on my iPhone5s (over 5300 Apps in iTMS account on my 17" MBP) and, updating those Apps will eat up some data (especially GPS App databases). From other posts, it seems that iPhones routinely "call home", even when cellular data is supposed to be off and, that activity uses some data. Again, since I'm grandfathered in with Unlimited Data, I'm not paranoid or frugal with my use of data. This unlimited data is the reason I still use ATT. If ATT ends my Unlimited Data, I'd end ATT as my provider.

[silvarios]

davester wrote:
[quote=testcase]
I I routinely exceed 20GB of data a month and, that's with virtually no video streaming.

I'm curious as to how that is even possible. The only thing I can figure is that you are constantly streaming music instead of storing it in iTunes.
When pages are 1MB, apps are sometimes 1GB in size (mostly, but not exclusively games), and even one HD movie streamed per month is bound to be over 1GB a pop, right? Adds up quicker than we think. Don't forget photos and videos syncing in the cloud.

[davester]

silvarios wrote:
[quote=davester]
[quote=testcase]
I I routinely exceed 20GB of data a month and, that's with virtually no video streaming.

I'm curious as to how that is even possible. The only thing I can figure is that you are constantly streaming music instead of storing it in iTunes.
When pages are 1MB, apps are sometimes 1GB in size (mostly, but not exclusively games), and even one HD movie streamed per month is bound to be over 1GB a pop, right? Adds up quicker than we think. Don't forget photos and videos syncing in the cloud.
I have always made it a point to do those high bandwidth tasks when I'm on wifi at work and home (though not exclusively). However, for folks who use cell data for everything (because they don't have access to, or can't be bothered to sign on to, wifi) and do frequent high bandwidth tasks over cell data then they will use vastly more data. Nobody in my family has any issue with doing things this way except my son, who streams a lot of videos while he's on the bus. Still, he seldom exceeds 2 gb/month because he's hooked to wifi at home and school.

[silvarios]

davester wrote:
I have always made it a point to do those high bandwidth tasks when I'm on wifi at work and home (though not exclusively). However, for folks who use cell data for everything (because they don't have access to, or can't be bothered to sign on to, wifi) and do frequent high bandwidth tasks over cell data then they will use vastly more data. Nobody in my family has any issue with doing things this way except my son, who streams a lot of videos while he's on the bus. Still, he seldom exceeds 2 gb/month because he's hooked to wifi at home and school.

True. Wifi is helpful, then again, my car doesn't have a landline backed Internet. My daughter has streamed two hours or so of videos this month. That plus app updates and I'm already on 800MB on her line. We have 2.5GB per line. It isn't hard to use data.

[testcase]

At home, the only internet I have is my iPhone5s & Galaxy Note3, both with Unlimited Data. I believe it was back in the summer of 2005 that I dropped ALL ties with Cablevision and the terrible service they delivered (FIOS not available in my area). My local public library offers excellent free WiFi (and all the DVDs I want to watch) and, when I need to do really large downloads, I head there. I even get a good WiFi connectivity sitting out in the library parking lot! Should either ATT (iPhone5s) or Sprint (Note3) cancel my Unlimited Data, I would drop them. I guess it's easy to use large amounts of data this way.