More turning to Web to watch TV, movies

Streaming radio takes about 68 Kb/s.

My Hi-Def connection recommends 2.5 mg DL speed minimum. I rarely use the Hi-Def settings.

But I have downloaded about 150 gig in the past month, on my home network.

I watch Hulu on a regular basis. I turned my cable/sat dish off last year.

 

I have Sprint, but it's not completely capped. The people that get one now have to pay overages, $50 a gigabyte, which is better than the others, AT&T charges $500. Basically I was told I wouldn't be charged overages, but if I go over 5 gigs I was gambling that they might cut me off. Someone on another message board that claims to work for Sprint told me as long as I keep it under ten gigs, they probably will never say anything, mainly because they can't afford to lose the business. Anyhow, I quit logging on to sites like Hulu, and now I find it hard to use the entire 5 gigs. I use a program called replay media catcher to grab those flash tv shows when I have a wi-fi connection and save them to watch offline later.

 

That sounds like a good way to do it. I also had Sprint for the last two years so I also was exempt from the overages. But they did begin to throttle my connection when I was going over 5gb. I took the chance jumping ship since if I were to go back now I would be subject to the overages. But I'm satisfied with Millenicom for now.

 

Are you sure they were throttling you? Personally I could live with that. I know Verizon does that to their grandfathered plans, turns them down to 200 mbps, which is still plenty fast for me. I haven't gone over since they implemented that change, so I don't know. I have been checking sprint user message boards, keeping an ear on the ground, to see what happens if you go over, since Sprint won't give you a straight answer.

 

There's no way to know for sure. But I was laid over for almost 5 days last Thanksgiving in FL and had excellent high speed coverage. I was watching a lot of streaming Tv. On about the third or fourth day, my streams started getting really choppy and sometimes I couldn't even connect.

I know there could be a lot of other reasons for this, but I was sure I was getting throttled.