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Anyone blown through their 4G data cap yet?

I usually only do anything involving streaming when I am on wifi. I have only exceeded one gig the first month I ever had my first generation iPad and then settled in to the 500 meg range so when I turn on my new Verizon iPad data play, I think the 1 gig will be fine.
 
Honestly, next month people will be complaining. Maybe by next week. With the speed it's way too easy to blow through 1 gb a day or more.

I noticed YouTube scales down, vevo and Netflix hog a lot of data.
 
I guess I'm in the minority. I would never be tempted to stream over my data connection. I travel a lot and use my data a lot but I load my ipad with movies, etc before I leave home. That way I watch what I want without worrying. Leaves my data for the things I need such as email, Skype, etc.

For those folks who blow through their plans early, well, guess they will either change their habits or buy more data. That's how life works, and that goes for more than just data consumption.
 
RevolvingSheep said:
I'm paying for the 3 gig for $30 plan via AT&T. I am out of town in an area with super slow wifi so I have been using the data most of the time. By using data mostly, but still only downloading apps on my computer and transfering them.. I am using about 100-150mb a day. If I lived here, I would definitly go through 3 gigs in less than 30 days.

But where I normally live, I have fast wifi at home and fast wifi at school and both places are where I spend most of my time. I'm not even worried about using a bunch of data here where I'm at now because I know I won't use very much at all where I normally live.

I'm not worried about it... I love my ability to go online with my iPad almost anywhere. And yes.. the LTE is blazingly fast and awesome!

As long as I don't download or stream using my data connection, I'll be fine.
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I have an update. I download "The Daily" from Newstand. Today I was reading some news and I watched some streaming video. I went from 200-250mb of data to 500mb with just a few streaming videos.

No more video streaming for me.
 
As a value proposition, I think that paying for tethering with my iPhone is a better deal. For $20/month, I get 2GB 3G tether to my verizon iPhone. I rarely don't have my iPhone with me anyways. And I could either get 6 months tethering with my iPhone or pay an additional $130 for 4G iPad. And I can use the iPhone tethering for other devices when I wouldn't have my iPad with me.

6 months of 4G tethering with the new iPad would be $30/month,plus the initial additional $130 price difference, so $310 vs $120 for the first 6 months and then $10 more bucks a month from there on out for faster email and Facebook since streaming is pretty much out and 4G isn't even everywhere.

Your mileage may vary, but iPhone tethering to iPad seems more attractive and works just fine for most things.
 
I think expecting to stream high definition movies over a cellular network is just not realistic. Sure, it can be done, but come on! The cellular traffic congestion would be amazing and you can't do things like, you know, make a freaking phone call!
 
ZBoater said:
I think expecting to stream high definition movies over a cellular network is just not realistic. Sure, it can be done, but come on! The cellular traffic congestion would be amazing and you can't do things like, you know, make a freaking phone call!
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Ok, it's unrealistic to expect to stream video over a 20mbps+ connection?Clearwire provides unlimited 4G for like $45/month. It's simply greed by the cellphone carriers. Nothing else.
 
cualexander said:
Ok, it's unrealistic to expect to stream video over a 20mbps+ connection?Clearwire provides unlimited 4G for like $45/month. It's simply greed by the cellphone carriers. Nothing else.
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Clear's network is nowhere close to LTE, and it barely performs better then AT&T 3G in some cities where it is available.
 
cualexander said:
Ok, what I mean is this. I work in computer support and explaining the concept of data caps to people is difficult.

Say they update it for 1080p Netflix streaming and you watch 1 movie, cap gone, watch 2 movies, 10 gig cap gone. See my point? Trying to explain to someone they can only watch a few movies is difficult.
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I feel you on explaining it to end users, I'm in IT also. Tests we ran on the review unit we had before launch showed that you ran through the 2gb data cap early into the third movie.
 
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