My internet usage shows a significant spike when I stream movies on my Playbook - why?
- You could use your phone as a wifi hotspot then connect your PB to that. It is just unusual these days to find a home internet plan that is not unlimited. Cell phone data plans used to be unlimited but they are finding they can make more money with the limited plans, especially if you go over the limit. LOL.02-20-14 12:26 PMLike 0
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Do you have a cell enabled pb?castoridae likes this.02-20-14 12:36 PMLike 1 -
Poor Ma and Pa company Northwestel, Wait they are owned by Bell.02-20-14 12:41 PMLike 0 -
I don't play the interactive games (or any games), so use it mainly for email and FB.
2 GB used to serve me until I started using the playbook to watch movies.02-20-14 12:44 PMLike 0 - Unless your home ISP has a cap or is limited, most in the states are unlimited for a month fee, it should cost no more to stream. But if they charge by the GB then you could get into trouble. At McDonald's you are not using your internet you're using McDonald's internet so that doesn't go against your plan.
Do you have a cell enabled pb?
I can take my playbook with me and can access free wifi from it.
For examle, if I'm travellilng to the States or Europe, most hotels offer free wifi, so I take the playbook with me then.02-20-14 12:48 PMLike 0 -
but if you replay the movie, there is no cost?
(-I'll have to email my friend once again because my friend did not lie - just was under a false impression)02-20-14 12:53 PMLike 0 - Downloading and streaming are two different words but when it's dealing with Internet usage it has the same affect on your usage, plus or minus a few mb. I tend to download all my shows and movies because they usually get watched more than once, if you stream, you incur download usage each time you stream that show or movie, but if you download you only incur the download usage once during the download of the file, then you are safe to watch as many times as you want without incurring more usage.
Posted via CB10castoridae and kbz1960 like this.02-20-14 12:59 PMLike 2 - So you use exactly the same amount when you stream a movie that you would use if you actually downloaded the movie??
but if you replay the movie, there is no cost?
(-I'll have to email my friend once again because my friend did not lie - just was under a false impression)
Replay after downloading is completely free! You can watch as many times as you would like
Posted via CB10castoridae likes this.02-20-14 01:02 PMLike 1 - 02-20-14 01:04 PMLike 1
- Home internet is different in Canada - it sounds like it operates much the same as U.S. cell use packages, in that there are different packages and each has a different amount of usage. Mine is one of the lowest in cost and GB.02-20-14 01:05 PMLike 0
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BlackBerry Since 2006. Rogers Halifax, NS - Official 10.2.1castoridae likes this.02-20-14 01:05 PMLike 1 - I have never even approached the 20 GB limit on my home WIFI before this time - that's why I was so confused.
I don't play the interactive games (or any games), so use it mainly for email and FB.
2 GB used to serve me until I started using the playbook to watch movies.
BlackBerry Since 2006. Rogers Halifax, NS - Official 10.2.1castoridae likes this.02-20-14 01:08 PMLike 1 - 02-20-14 01:13 PMLike 0
- Well, home internet cost in the US depends more on connection speed rather than usage. The connection speed can vary from <1 to >50 mbps and gets more expensive.castoridae likes this.02-20-14 01:30 PMLike 1
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Here, in Canada, we have a range of packages that have different usage limits.
From some of these posts, I get the impression that the U.S. Cell phone packages are like this, but for home internet it is unlimited.02-20-14 03:57 PMLike 0 - internet prices works the same all over the world! but here in Canada we are charged more because we are gullible or easily robbed? LOL the way it works you have different packages that have different speeds and data allowance. so for example there is a cheap plan for 10mbps and have a data allowance of 30gb if you go over your allowance you are then charged 1$ per GB so say you download 40gb and are allowed 30gb allowance then you went over by 10gb and are charged $10 xtra. get it? now whether you download movies or stream it, your still using DATA and it doesn't make a difference download VS stream. with me? what you have to watch is what your downloading and what you are steaming which includes Netflix/youtube/putlocker or whatever else is out there... now you can call your ISP and ask them if they have unlimited for xtra amount of dollars like videotron charges $10 xtra ontop of your GB data allowance which is worth it to me to have cuzz I watch Netflix ALOT and I game and I download a lot. and I would seriously tell your friends to take courses on computers and internet protocol as he doesn't know sh!t lolnappp and castoridae like this.02-20-14 09:54 PMLike 2
- internet prices works the same all over the world! but here in Canada we are charged more because we are gullible or easily robbed? LOL the way it works you have different packages that have different speeds and data allowance. so for example there is a cheap plan for 10mbps and have a data allowance of 30gb if you go over your allowance you are then charged 1$ per GB so say you download 40gb and are allowed 30gb allowance then you went over by 10gb and are charged $10 xtra. get it? now whether you download movies or stream it, your still using DATA and it doesn't make a difference download VS stream. with me? what you have to watch is what your downloading and what you are steaming which includes Netflix/youtube/putlocker or whatever else is out there... now you can call your ISP and ask them if they have unlimited for xtra amount of dollars like videotron charges $10 xtra ontop of your GB data allowance which is worth it to me to have cuzz I watch Netflix ALOT and I game and I download a lot. and I would seriously tell your friends to take courses on computers and internet protocol as he doesn't know sh!t lol
So I understand it now. My friend only passed on what information they understood. Most people who use devices don't understand how this works. If you go to different providers websites, they give you limited information.02-21-14 07:15 AMLike 0 - Out of curiosity, who are you with? what you have to do is look around a bit and compare, there's other ISP's who do offer unlimited and you have to call your ISP and tell them 'such n such has unlimited for this much' and ask them to match it... sorta like haggling and if not then threaten to go to another ISP! 9 out of 10 times they will match. And if they don't then I recommend you jump ship and bail on your ISP because they're the worst kind of ISP and you don't wanna be with them anyways.kbz1960 and anon(5597702) like this.02-21-14 08:52 AMLike 2
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castoridae likes this.02-21-14 09:44 PMLike 1 - Bla1zeCB OGKinda what I was wondering. Someone who claims to not know how the internet works is speaking for all of Canada in how their internet works. LOL. All over Canada the services are different, just like all over the U.S.
One thing is for sure though, whether you download something or stream it........ it uses data. lol.nappp and DrBoomBotz like this.02-21-14 11:09 PMLike 2 - There is no such thing as "free"... in fact even the air that we are breathing is not free... you have to give CO2 in exchange...
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