was: What's the best high speed internet option? / now: comment on video.

[keith smith]

Very interesting video.  Did you get a case number from the officer and explain why you were there?  Have you read what he wrote?

If the police are doing their job, they can be an asset to you in that they are a "credible" witness.  Of curse only if they are doing the right thing.  

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Keith Smith

--- On Thu, 5/10/12, Jim March <1.jim.march at gmail.com> wrote:

From: Jim March <1.jim.march at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: What's the best high speed internet option?
To: "Main PLUG discussion list" <plug-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
Date: Thursday, May 10, 2012, 5:56 PM

On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 5:17 PM, Carruth, Rusty <Rusty.Carruth at smartstoragesys.com> wrote:

Tmobile has a sort-of unlimited option.  You decide how much ‘high speed capable’ internet you want per month 500M, 1G, 2G, IIRC).  When you exceed that, you ‘automatically’ fall back to slow (I’m guessing 56K).
 Beware that even if you force your phone (or whatever) to slow speed TMobile still counts the usage as ‘high speed capable’….
 Rusty

I'm paying $80/mo for unlimited voice and 5gigs/mo of data.  If I blow out that 5gigs they slow me down to "EDGE/2G" speeds which still isn't half bad - closer to 128k as opposed to 56, still usable.


I walked into that deal already owning a phone.  My latest phone is an Android 2.3 "MyTouch 4G" (HTC Glacier) which is fairly easy to root/mod and is otherwise a pretty good phone.  4G data is fast enough to live-stream video and audio to a server in Sweden which is kinda my "killer app" for it :).  See also this site for my latest capture:


 http://www.pixiq.com/article/arizona-election-officials-call-cops-on-man-recording-them

I paid $100 for that phone used, cash, at a pawn shop.


I could have paid $60/mo for their current cheapest Android 4G phone but then I'd also pay $15/mo extra on my bill for TWO YEARS, which comes to $460 total with a big up-front tax.  Oh hell no - cruise Craigslist, pawn shops, etc :).


So far as I know, only Tmobile will knock huge amounts off the bill if you walk in with a phone in hand.

Their 4G coverage area is also very good.  They're not as fast as AT&T, Verizon or Sprint "LTE" coverage, but they're still damned good.  What they've done is, they bumped up their older 3G system (HPSA) with HPSA+ to call it 4G and it really is a speed bump.  But better yet, as they roll out new HPSA+ towers the HPSA 3G devices are also supported so they're the only ones out there increasing their 3G coverage areas.  And Tmobile's 3G data doesn't really suck either - you get typically 1.25mb/s inbound, 250-300k outbound which is fine unless you need to stream-upload video like I do.  You can grab 3G Android devices for a song if you look around.


Their 4G is for me is usually 4mb/s or so inbound, a bit above 1mb/s outbound.

Jim


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