Good wireless speeds?

[macelodeon]

SO where I live there are almost no good providers, the one I have now is complete shit, I can barely stream two screens on netflix without some buffering. So im looking into my options and I have found one. First off what would 4G fixed wireless mean? and is 10MBPS Download/ 1MBPS upload with a 300GB cap good? We have three people watching netflix (at different times) throughout the day, I like to game sometimes and I watch a shit tone of youtube on A daily basis. we currently have unlimited usage on our plan, but the speeds are really bad. This provider charges like 2$ for every GB you go over so I want to know if 300GB/month is good enough, and if 10 MBPS download/1MBPS upload good enough? P.S. there is a 500GB option but its almost double the price.

 

[rabidrabbit]

you will probably blow through that 300GB cap. especially when it gets faster and you can do more on it. not sure what you mean or they mean by 4g fixed wireless? who is the provider? what speed do you currently get?

 

[macelodeon]

you will probably blow through that 300GB cap. especially when it gets faster and you can do more on it. not sure what you mean or they mean by 4g fixed wireless? who is the provider? what speed do you currently get?

I think it is 3MBPS down and 786 kbps up... so yeah quite the upgrade.

 

[DeadlyDays]

4G means it is a wireless connection to a cellular tower. Biggest drawback typically is Ping time. Trying running a ping test from your cell phone and you'd get an idea of what to expect.
I don't know if you'd push 300GB or not tbh, if you have a router that supports logging traffic you could find out. I know I personally am some months under 150GB/month, and sometimes I push 500GB a month, but I torrent things as well so hard to say. Depends highly on quality of streams and efficiency of encoding of said services at that level.
300GB == 2.4Tb(2400Gb/2,400,000Mb)
2.4Tb / 2Mbps == 1,200,000s (333.33hrs or 41 days at 8 hrs a day)
@10Mbps == 240,000s (66.66hrs or 8 days at 8hrs a day)

That's the math. Not sure if you'd perceive the quality of the connection to be any higher.

EDIT
Cell towers can be highly congested at peak hours(same issue effects plenty of cable connections as well though) and signal can be spotty in some locations(but you will probably find a good location to place the modem)

 

[macelodeon]

4G means it is a wireless connection to a cellular tower. Biggest drawback typically is Ping time. Trying running a ping test from your cell phone and you'd get an idea of what to expect.
I don't know if you'd push 300GB or not tbh, if you have a router that supports logging traffic you could find out. I know I personally am some months under 150GB/month, and sometimes I push 500GB a month, but I torrent things as well so hard to say. Depends highly on quality of streams and efficiency of encoding of said services at that level.
300GB == 2.4Tb(2400Gb/2,400,000Mb)
2.4Tb / 2Mbps == 1,200,000s (333.33hrs or 41 days at 8 hrs a day)
@10Mbps == 240,000s (66.66hrs or 8 days at 8hrs a day)

That's the math. Not sure if you'd perceive the quality of the connection to be any higher.

Sorry, what was that math for?

 

[rabidrabbit]

keep in mind also that Mbps is mega BITS per second not Bytes so with your 10Mbps connection it would take 8 seconds to download a 10 megabyte file not 1.

 

[ComputerSecurityGuy]

Well what are your options? There is aforementioned 4G, but do you have cable or even DSL where you are?

 

[macelodeon]

Well what are your options? There is aforementioned 4G, but do you have cable or even DSL where you are?

here is one option, that I just found....

$79.95/month
Download up to 5 Mbps
Upload up to 1 Mbps
5 email accounts?
No data caps
vs.

79.99/month
10mbps download
1mbps upload
300 GB cap
2$/GB overboard...

 

[DeadlyDays]

That math is how long it will take to reach your 300GB/month cap, IF the GB notation is accurate, GB meaning GigaByte, Gb meaning Gigbit. There are 8 bits in a byte. So I did the math and gave you the time it takes at certain rates to reach the limit. @ 2Megabitspersecond, and at 10Megabitspersecond at 300 Gigabyte limit.
I wasn't sure if they counter base 1024(which is standard) or 1000(which is metric). But wouldn't change the calculations dramatically, I used metric for ease

 

[macelodeon]

That math is how long it will take to reach your 300GB/month cap, IF the GB notation is accurate, GB meaning GigaByte, Gb meaning Gigbit. There are 8 bits in a byte. So I did the math and gave you the time it takes at certain rates to reach the limit. @ 2Megabitspersecond, and at 10Megabitspersecond at 300 Gigabyte limit.
I wasn't sure if they counter base 1024(which is standard) or 1000(which is metric). But wouldn't change the calculations dramatically, I used metric for ease

Gotcha.... im metric and it is Gigibytes 😛

 

[rabidrabbit]

4G means it is a wireless connection to a cellular tower. Biggest drawback typically is Ping time. Trying running a ping test from your cell phone and you'd get an idea of what to expect.
I don't know if you'd push 300GB or not tbh, if you have a router that supports logging traffic you could find out. I know I personally am some months under 150GB/month, and sometimes I push 500GB a month, but I torrent things as well so hard to say. Depends highly on quality of streams and efficiency of encoding of said services at that level.
300GB == 2.4Tb(2400Gb/2,400,000Mb)
2.4Tb / 2Mbps == 1,200,000s (333.33hrs or 41 days at 8 hrs a day)
@10Mbps == 240,000s (66.66hrs or 8 days at 8hrs a day)

That's the math. Not sure if you'd perceive the quality of the connection to be any higher.

Sorry, what was that math for?

hes showing you the possible amount of data you could use if you used 100% of your connection all the time to see when you hit your cap. most of the time you can not even use 100% of what you pay for because of network overhead or other things that eat in to it just to function. it all depends on how much you use. find a way to measure a months usage. then take that number and add about 20% to it for the new things you will do with the faster connection and compare that to the 300gb cap and the cost of overage.

for instance if you right now use 280gb a month then project you will use 336gb w3ith the new plan. so thats $72 in overages. now if your bill is 200 a month for this then its not worth going to the 500 gb cap if that bill will be 400. but if the bill is 100 a month for 300GB but 200 for 500GB then you may be better going with the 500GB and not worrying about it.

all depends on how well you can police your use. but if someone uses 100% of your connection a month then you are on the hook for like $4200 in just data overages.

 

[macelodeon]

4G means it is a wireless connection to a cellular tower. Biggest drawback typically is Ping time. Trying running a ping test from your cell phone and you'd get an idea of what to expect.
I don't know if you'd push 300GB or not tbh, if you have a router that supports logging traffic you could find out. I know I personally am some months under 150GB/month, and sometimes I push 500GB a month, but I torrent things as well so hard to say. Depends highly on quality of streams and efficiency of encoding of said services at that level.
300GB == 2.4Tb(2400Gb/2,400,000Mb)
2.4Tb / 2Mbps == 1,200,000s (333.33hrs or 41 days at 8 hrs a day)
@10Mbps == 240,000s (66.66hrs or 8 days at 8hrs a day)

That's the math. Not sure if you'd perceive the quality of the connection to be any higher.

Sorry, what was that math for?

hes showing you the possible amount of data you could use if you used 100% of your connection all the time to see when you hit your cap. most of the time you can not even use 100% of what you pay for because of network overhead or other things that eat in to it just to function. it all depends on how much you use. find a way to measure a months usage. then take that number and add about 20% to it for the new things you will do with the faster connection and compare that to the 300gb cap and the cost of overage.

for instance if you right now use 280gb a month then project you will use 336gb w3ith the new plan. so thats $72 in overages. now if your bill is 200 a month for this then its not worth going to the 500 gb cap if that bill will be 400. but if the bill is 100 a month for 300GB but 200 for 500GB then you may be better going with the 500GB and not worrying about it.

all depends on how well you can police your use. but if someone uses 100% of your connection a month then you are on the hook for like $4200 in just data overages.

thats alot of money, so should go with the first option in a earlier post?

 

[rabidrabbit]

if they will let you go month to month and you can cancel any time with no penelties then go with the second. 500 is probably enough (just guessing) and you get the better speeds. then when the first bill comes and you see your over just switch. but the 500gb plan is probably fine i just dont download all of Wikipedia 😉

 

[macelodeon]

if they will let you go month to month and you can cancel any time with no penelties then go with the second. 500 is probably enough (just guessing) and you get the better speeds. then when the first bill comes and you see your over just switch. but the 500gb plan is probably fine i just dont download all of Wikipedia 😉

Oh shit, mistyped, its actually 300Gb xD oops

 

[DeadlyDays]

so at Gb lol, here is the math
300Gb / 2Mbps == 150,000s (41hrs OR 5 days at 8 hours a day)
300Gb / 10Mbps == 30,000s (8 hrs OR 1 day lol)

 

[rabidrabbit]

then take the other and see but most providers will let you change plans within their offering as long as you dont leave them all together. so take the other with unlimited and see if the speed suits you.