What is the best cellular solution for use as home internet?
Everyone has cut the cord when it comes to cable TV and home phone service, but it seems no one is yet jumping to do the same when it comes to home internet.
I'm guessing this is mostly due to price? Perhaps speed (throttling / data limits)?
My household uses would be:
- streaming TV and movies (via Apple TV)
- regular internet use (the modern internet is picture heavy)
- occasional work use (may include file transfers of 10s-of-MB)
- streaming music (pandora, spotify)
- online gaming (via PS4)
All of this stuff is what people do on their phones and tablets over cellular already, so why not use cell networks for devices with larger screens?
I am considering this because the wired internet to my building is unreliable and just want to know what my other options are.
Can you still even get unlimited data plans for cellular? Trust me, if you ended up with even a 50GB cellular plan, you'd chew through that pretty quickly. My wife and I are on the computer a lot, but rarely doing anything really data intensive. She streams netflix for a couple of hours each night, but i think in low res. And our average monthly usage is around 250-300GB. Sounds like you are a heavier user of data.
That's actually not true. Cable Internet has around a 30GB monthly data cap and DSL Internet has about a 20GB Data Cap.
Say what now? 30GB is just a few days of normal usage around here, and we don't do online gaming, don't stream hi-def shows/movies, and don't stream music.
Comcast's cap is 300GB.
Reading this thread, I was curious what the average person uses for data at home. I have Time Warner Cable, and looked at my usage stats which I never even thought of looking at until now. In one month I used just north of 230GB. My usage includes web browsing, downloads (music, movies), Netflix, and streaming music. I doubt you could do that with a cellular chip for home use.
Our typical data usage since we dropped cable and have just internet is between 250-300GB per month.
We both do a lot of typical internet browsing.
She has a few iPhone games she plays, but I'm not even sure they are data games.
She streams low-def Netflix for about two hours each night when she goes to bed.
I mostly surf forums and work-related stuff.
I sometimes download work files that are a few megabytes in size.
Neither of us streams music.
Neither of us is into online gaming.