I do the same thing. I have WiFi at home of course but why use that when I am paying for LTE on my phone. I have not used Wifi on my phones in 3-4 years ever since moving to T-Mobile. My service is that good and even before I had unlimited, I kept Wifi off.
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Are you purposefully consuming more cellular data with the new unlimited plan?
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Because wifi at home its 10 times faster than connecting to carrier data and also consumes less battery
If Im in the basement I barely get much LTE signal down there and speed will be slower than my fast wifi.
That's just me though.
In the end if I get faster speeds, good battery and wifi calling available I think its better than using my carriers LTE when Im at home. I dont get the feeling that Im paying Tmobile for nothing or they're taking me for a ride if I use less data needed per month or if I use my cable wifi at home for my iphone. Im paying unlimited to both companies anyway
No. It just alleviates the need to use free Wifi in certain places that offer <2Mbps.
My WiFi may be faster but just how fast do I need to go to retrieve an email or have the Weather app update?Because wifi at home its 10 times faster than connecting to carrier data and also consumes less battery
If Im in the basement I barely get much LTE signal down there and speed will be slower than my fast wifi.
That's just me though.
In the end if I get faster speeds, good battery and wifi calling available I think its better than using my carriers LTE when Im at home. I dont get the feeling that Im paying Tmobile for nothing or they're taking me for a ride if I use less data needed per month or if I use my cable wifi at home for my iphone. Im paying unlimited to both companies anyway
BTW, I only have 4G at home so T-Mob gave me a 4G LTE Personal Cellspot. Which only doubles my reasons for using cellular.
My ISP has a high data cap but it's still a cap.
I go to bed with over 70% of battery life left almost every day and I am up for 18+ hours usually. But then my normal data usage does not include streaming, video watching or playing games. And when i go to bed my phone is plugged in.
Yes, we all are different.
My WiFi may be faster but just how fast do I need to go to retrieve an email or have the Weather app update?
BTW, I only have 4G at home so T-Mob gave me a 4G LTE Personal Cellspot. Which only doubles my reasons for using cellular.
My ISP has a high data cap but it's still a cap.
I go to bed with over 70% of battery life left almost every day and I am up for 18+ hours usually. But then my normal data usage does not include streaming, video watching or playing games. And when i go to bed my phone is plugged in.
Yes, we all are different.
Nice, my battery used to be about 50-60% before by bed time but now I tend to use my phone more during the day than before.
I stream lots of hours of pandora all day so that tends to eat it up faster.
I'm at 8% right now ready to go to bed and plug my 7 plus in if the night.
I don't think WiFi consumes less at all and my T-Mobile LTE usually runs 85-150Mbps. My Comcast averages 115Mbps, not much difference.Because wifi at home its 10 times faster than connecting to carrier data and also consumes less battery
If Im in the basement I barely get much LTE signal down there and speed will be slower than my fast wifi.
That's just me though.
In the end if I get faster speeds, good battery and wifi calling available I think its better than using my carriers LTE when Im at home. I dont get the feeling that Im paying Tmobile for nothing or they're taking me for a ride if I use less data needed per month or if I use my cable wifi at home for my iphone. Im paying unlimited to both companies anyway
Your carrier signal strength will make a difference in battery consumption. I used to have AT&T and my battery would barely last a day because of AT&Ts weak signal in my area. Once I switched to T-Mobile, my battery life doubled. This is why I keep Wifi off. I never notice any difference in usage when on WiFi or LTE.
No, the carriers already have QoS on their networks (voice being the highest priority). It would be just as easy for them to throw your browsing & streaming data into lower priority categories when you've hit your cap as it would be to put a lower bandwidth cap on your account. Want to confirm? Use one of the speedtest apps both before and after you've passed your soft cap. If the speed's the same, they're using QoS (everything else being equal of course...likely best to pick a time of low usage so you get the most reliable result).
Why would that be abusing it? You pay for it. It's your right to use it however you want.
I was on ATT's unlimited and I was less strict on how my daughters used their phones, now that I'm on VZW (and not unlimited), they need to be on wifi before watching any videos. On ATT, I didn't care of they were on wifi or not.
I agree.
But there is a certain segment of the population, some of whom are here on MR, that believe that using upwards of 50GB+ a month is abuse. I've run across lots of people with UD plans that do 400GB plus a month and they say it's all on the device.
The reasoning is that if you are using that much then it congests the network which slows everyone else down - hence abusing unlimited data.
I don't really have a problem with how much people use, as long as it's on the device itself, but some people do apparently.
I wanted to forestall any potential comments of "People like you are why we can't have unlimited data," or "You're abusing your unlimited data." I don't even get to the deprioritization cap each month so they can't make that claim to me - even though I believe in using my cellular data.
About to sign up soon
I won't intentionally use data just because I can, but I'm going balls to the wall on what I actually want to do
I've wanted to use GPS, I've wanted to watch 1440p in the car, I've wanted to tether to my mates, I've wanted to snap as much as possible, I've wanted to download software updates at work
[doublepost=1488204828][/doublepost]Would have said Jet Black all day
But I don't know
Jet Black looks like trash after a few months, but it feels a lot better on dry hands, not like a soap bar
I won't intentionally use data just because I can, but I'm going balls to the wall on what I actually want to do
I've wanted to use GPS, I've wanted to watch 1440p in the car, I've wanted to tether to my mates, I've wanted to snap as much as possible, I've wanted to download software updates at work
[doublepost=1488204828][/doublepost]Would have said Jet Black all day
But I don't know
Jet Black looks like trash after a few months, but it feels a lot better on dry hands, not like a soap bar
Yes, its well known that wifi uses less battery than carrier data.
My carrier data is very fast also but within a house when it comes to walls, basements and enclosed locations the carrier signal will not reach as strong and will consume more energy and not be as fast as your wifi router that is just feet away.
Speaking of…(WIFI).
One of the reasons I stayed using cellular instead of WiFi and one of the reasons things tripped me up when I moved to iOS/iPhone was battery consumption.
When I was on Sprint and I wanted to use WiFi my phone, an HTC Touch Pro, would slurp down battery to the tune of about 10% every 30 minutes or so. Shutting the screen off and letting the device ride WiFi did absolutely nothing. My wife's Touch Pro was the same way so I know it wasn't my specific device. Cellular was the exact opposite. I got an an entire day and a half on one charge while just using my phone as normal.
So, unless I wanted to deplete my battery in just a few hours I always had WiFi off. If I did need it, I plugged the damn phone into power.
When I came to iPhone I was pleasantly surprised to realize that the iPhone was not this way. But 3.5 years of habit at that point, disappointment that Sprint didn't have LTE in my area and my normal usage did not alter my consumption of cellular over WiFi.
The fact that all of the iPhones and iDevices I have had have reinforced my habits by not taking very much battery on cellular has also reinforced this for me. IDK. Maybe I'm just lucky that cellular has never seemed to consume a lot of power for me.
Yeah, not sure what was up with those other devices but the iphone gets you more usage over wifi than on LTE/3G data though.
http://www.apple.com/batteries/maximizing-performance/
Optimize your settings.
There are two simple ways you can preserve battery life — no matter how you use your device: adjust your screen brightness and use Wi-Fi.
Dim the screen or turn on Auto-Brightness to extend battery life.
- To dim, swipe up from the bottom of any screen to open Control Center and drag the Brightness slider to the left.
- Auto-Brightness adjusts your screen to lighting conditions automatically. To activate it, go to Settings > Display & Brightness and set Auto-Brightness to On.
- Swipe up to open Control Center, tap the Wi-Fi icon, and log in to a Wi-Fi network.
- Go to Settings > Wi-Fi to access a Wi-Fi network.
We have a harmony to conrol our home theater and often use the phone. It will now control over cellular too, but theres a delay, particularly when using the phone screen as a mouse for the HTPC. As such, we leave wifi on. I don't really notice a difference in load speed either way if I choose to browse on the phone, so it makes no difference to me haha.
I still find my cellular data usage limited due to battery considerations :/ If I had unlimited battery though..
http://www.techradar.com/news/phone...-iphone-battery-life-is-killing-apple-1258030
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8-20gb a month, just pandora, and waze app and fb and such. not a netflix or anything like that user. lol been this way for 5 years minimum
We use 250-350 gb a month between 4 phones and 2 iPads on att udp. Have never been throttled. Our home wifi is limited so we use the lte a lot here for our devices and wifi for the MacBooks, smart tvs and consoles
I don't think I have the patience to deal with 2G speed (64k). That is like using a USRobotics dialup modem from the old days again.