Virgin Mobile tethering policy

[itsrayray]

In many places a 5gig cap is useless as it will take almost all month of solid downloading to hit it based on some of the speeds.

Luckily i use wifi wherever i can especially work to avoid racking i up like that. I enjoy my 25 a month bill and hope to keep it that way.

The other night took me 30 minutes to get 5 megs. Another took 3 hours for 20 megs.

You wouldn't imagine how many meg you can go through just watching HQ YouTube. I was amazed after a hour of YouTube that it racked up a lil over 100meg.



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[LeslieAnn]

You wouldn't imagine how many meg you can go through just watching HQ YouTube. I was amazed after a hour of YouTube that it racked up a lil over 100meg.

I know all too well about bandwidth, the problem is in many places the speeds are not anywhere close to fast enough to stream any video. When it takes 20 minutes to download 5 megs, your 100meg video would take well over an hour and probably get stuck at some point.

 

[anthonycr]

I know all too well about bandwidth, the problem is in many places the speeds are not anywhere close to fast enough to stream any video. When it takes 20 minutes to download 5 megs, your 100meg video would take well over an hour and probably get stuck at some point.

That is so true. There are times when small webpages will not even load the connection is so slow. At that point I give up and look for some wifi.

 

[glennhkc]

Hardly. If he were to go over 2.5 GB over the course of the month they would slow him down to a 1X data rate. I also tether frequently, but never for long and certainly don't use much data accessing email and the occasional web page or two. We're paying for access and it matters not whether we're viewing it on a phone, laptop or tablet. Data is data is data. You're paying for it, so I say use it. Just be judicious about it.

 

[DF3]

Dude really... that's why they decided to boost prices, because people like you are devouring the bandwidth

Eh...Any company will raise prices if they feel that the additional revenue from the customers who decide to stay outweighs the loss of customers who leave. Companies generally won't offer additional services for less money unless their position in the market place is threatened, or they are trying to get some of the market share that the bigger corporations are getting.

Competition is what results in better product offerings for customers, so when there isn't much, companies can get away with raising prices a bit and even take away features like Verizon and ATT have done.

 

[roblox84]

One of the reasons i love virgin mobile so much is because of their lax tethering policy.

I've been tethering just about every day for 2 years and they haven't cared. Anything from downloading torrents on my pc to streaming video.

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[CaneToad]

Obviously you are referring to virgin in the USA and it must be a unlimited data plan. Tethering isn't even mentioned here but it's big dollars if you exceed your data amount.

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[roblox84]

Obviously you are referring to virgin in the USA and it must be a unlimited data plan. Tethering isn't even mentioned here but it's big dollars if you exceed your data amount.

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Yes sorry. It's not unlimited though, you get 2.5gb a month although I've never gone over. Tethering doesn't seem to take up much data even streaming video/music.

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[dfrandin]

I have CM7.1 on my Optimus and frequently use the wifi tether when I'm not near a McDonalds/Starbucks and need an internet connection for my laptop.. During one month
I had to use it nearly everyday and found I hadn't even hit the 2.5Gb "throttle limit".. Of course, I don't stream video or music over it, and do mostly ssh/remote desktop to
some servers I manage.. Would hate to be without it as a backup...

 

[AQAA]

It is a great feature when you are in need of data for a laptop or tablet when on the road.
If people would just use it as that, an occasional connection.
Unfortunately it gets abused like anything else, they slap on limits and make sure new phones does not have the feature available out of the box.