Internet from cell service???????????
Hi, we currently have Hi-speed internet with Windstream and a wireless gizmo that several laptops in out house can use. That is $40.00/month that we would like to eliminate. The wife just upgraded o...
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The guy at the AT&T store could have checked your usage for the wireless, but if you just started there is no history on which to estimate what you might use.
I just added another device to my Value Share plan (which can handle 10 devices), and since that brought my collection up to four, the limit for the 10G plan, rep checked my usage and it wasn't high enough to save money by changing.
But there is no way it can replace my land-line Internet connection, which uses 50-100 GB a month, sometimes over 10 GB a day. That would be hundreds of dollars worth of data on wireless.
So whether or not dropping a low-cost land connection to go all wireless will save you the cost of the land connection all depends on how much data you use, and without historical measurements, that's at best a guess. The "how I will use it" estimating tools don't work for my wireless data usage, they overestimate because most of the time I'm on WiFi to my land line or somebody elses (usually free AT&T).
I just added another device to my Value Share plan (which can handle 10 devices), and since that brought my collection up to four, the limit for the 10G plan, rep checked my usage and it wasn't high enough to save money by changing.
But there is no way it can replace my land-line Internet connection, which uses 50-100 GB a month, sometimes over 10 GB a day. That would be hundreds of dollars worth of data on wireless.
So whether or not dropping a low-cost land connection to go all wireless will save you the cost of the land connection all depends on how much data you use, and without historical measurements, that's at best a guess. The "how I will use it" estimating tools don't work for my wireless data usage, they overestimate because most of the time I'm on WiFi to my land line or somebody elses (usually free AT&T).
