Sprint 5GB internet cap

[No1ustad]

if it hides the fact that ur thethering, it'll look like ur just accessing the pages via ur phone. unless u stick out enough to notify someone to check you out.

[soinkster]

this really efed up my day being that I intended on buying a laptop tomorrow smh

[jason25]

I just bought a TV Tuner so I could use Orb for more than streaming music.

[VW]

This does suck, but to put it in perspective, I am at 1.2 gigs for 2/3 a billing cycle, after slinging, push email, surfing etc. you only really needto be careful if you are tethering at this point (which ive done of too)

[nico4k]

i dont think sprint can afford any major mistakes like these at this time...they already screwed up with the contract change terms...and more than a million people left them...
I dont think they would do this...and if so...they are just planing to bring down the company to bankruptcy.

[ryanbg]

I emailed dan@sprint.com for the heck of it, and stated my concern about the 5GB cap.

[Success100]

dude 5 gigs in one month is FAR more then what the most of us use.

VW is right, the only people who REALLY need to worry are the ones who are doing major slinging and using the phones as modems for XBL and such.

In my few years with alltel/sprint, i have never came close to 5 gigs of bandwidth in a month, and im a power user....

[schettj]

5GB=18.2 hours of "orb" streamed video at 80KB/sec, which is the size of my out pipe for orb.

I can't imagine it would be any *more* time for sprint TV.

So they're giving you a half-hour/day use for sprint tv, give or take. Interesting.

Now, looking at my usage, I'm at 72,000 or so of whatever units it reports (probably KB) after 2 days in the current billing cycle. So for my typical email and light browsing use I would use just a couple meg a month. That leaves quite a bit...

I could see maybe busting that cap every now and then, but it would be a somewhat atypical month for me.

[Success100]

Originally Posted by schettj

5GB=18.2 hours of "orb" streamed video at 80KB/sec, which is the size of my out pipe for orb.

I can't imagine it would be any *more* time for sprint TV.

So they're giving you a half-hour/day use for sprint tv, give or take. Interesting.

Now, looking at my usage, I'm at 72,000 or so of whatever units it reports (probably KB) after 2 days in the current billing cycle. So for my typical email and light browsing use I would use just a couple meg a month. That leaves quite a bit...

I could see maybe busting that cap every now and then, but it would be a somewhat atypical month for me.

nice analysis!

[blasphemous_prime]

i do apologize if i missed anything, but i also hope that there ain't no limits set on my data since i changed to simply everything.