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In an area with poor T-Mobile and Sprint service, which plan is best as a substitute for home internet?
Television will be be streamed most of the day from a single TV However, even 480P quality will be acceptable as long as it’s stable and doesn’t stutter and buffer. At 480P to 720P, I don’t think a super massive amount of data would be required.
So, maybe a completely unlimited plan isn’t necessary. Would we be able to get away with plan with 30 GB per month or less?
The rest of the data use would only be web browsing, email, WiFi calling and performing iOS updates and nightly iCloud backups.
The Visible wireless plan seemed perfect on paper, but users say data deprioritization cutting the connection to dial up speeds often makes the data service useless.
Are there other affordable prepaid services that are not necessarily fully unlimited like Visible, but where data deprioritization is much less of an issue?
We don’t even need full high speed 4G LTE speeds, but we want to have a lot of monthly data just fast enough to reliably stream 480p to 720p video so we can avoid having to pay for a satellite dish service for TV.
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Do you not have any internet providers? Like AT&T, Spectrum, Comcast? Cellular internet is a next step not first step.
Steaming 480p or 720p all day long can use a good chunk of data. You would easily eat through 30GB a week for just 1 tv and nothing else
iCloud backups and updates can also rack up tons of data usage.
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Aren’t there some cellular services that include some 480p video services through the phone that don’t count towards your data limit? The phone could be connected to the TV with an HDMI adapter.Originally Posted by hyelton
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It would use data. I don't think data from netflix gets counted on tmobile. But is on AT&T.
I'm not 100% certain on what each carrier does as it's all different. But only a few video streaming services will be whitelisted. Not all of them. Like youtube etc will come out of your data.
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Then we would need to find which carriers whitelist which video services. If we can just use those whitelisted services most of the day, then the rest of the data use wouldn’t add up to much.
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What are you mostly going to be streaming?
Are there no internet providers in your area? I'm some cases you would pay the same for unlimited internet through a internet provider as you would for just 30GB of data.
If all of your video streaming is going to be done directly on the phone and not through hotspot you might could get by with a cheap cricket (att) or Metro plan (tmobile) assuming you get decent enough signal/speeds with them at the location
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The local internet service is $85 per month for the cheapest plan offered. DIRECTtv is around the same price after the new customer deals expire.
The person living at that address is looking for a way to watch TV at home on a much smaller budget.
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IMHO, I would not use a cell phone for exclusive home internet and TV watching. Battery life/heat for one thing. Get a Hotspot device if wireless is your only option. Or all 3 carrier/networks have unlimited fixed wireless internet in some limited areas.
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No fixed wireless is available in the area.
Obviously, the phone would be plugged in to power to charge and we would not be relying on battery power at home.
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Is the phone 100% going to be for that purpose? What they’re meaning is doing that is going to degrade the battery on that phone.
What isp is charging $85? Generally you can’t go by current customer pricing, especially if it’s an old plan. Unless it’s sat internet then I could understand the reason for wanting to switch to cellular.
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Yes, the phone would be used 100% as a hotspot. The plan was to get the cheapest phone that works as a hotspot and just keep it charging all day and night so it can be used as a hotspot so iOS devices can do iCloud backups and software updates. We would also would like to use it for streaming video of at least 480p.
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Even if it's plugged in all the time while you're using it it's going to get real hot and cause other issues. And as mentioned you'll be looking for a new battery more often then usual.
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Do any AT&T or Verizon MVNOs have an equivalent to T-Mobile’s BINGE ON?
We can’t use BINGE ON because T-Mobile service is so weak at the location that a signal booster in the window didn’t do much of anything to help reception when we tried it a couple years back.
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Battery life will not be a concern. If the phone has a removable battery like the ZTE A3 and the phone works without a battery, we might just leave it out.
I don’t think a phone sim will function for this in a dedicated hotspot. The carrier might block it.
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Your best bet is gonna be Visible with the 5mbps cap. Otherwise it’s just going to cost as much or more than the $85 ISP.
T-Mobile has the 100GB plans for for $50 which is about the best but you said T-Mobile doesn’t work well there. But that’s about as good as it’s gonna get cellular data wise.
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