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Why would it matter where he lives? He has no wi-fi at his house?

Myself, I can't get any 3G connection at my home. Fortunately, that is about the only place in the world where I really don't have any need for a 3G connection and I absolutely don't care.

But there are probably lots of people who fall for all the marketing BS. Here in England, first they sold you "wireless broadband". And people bought it thinking it is somehow better than "wired broadband" - not realising that it is still broadband coming into your home through the phone cable, and the whole difference was that it was a wireless router instead of wired router using Ethernet. People have crawled under their desks to remove ethernet cables from computers in their office, standing in a fixed location two meters from their router, using slower WiFi instead.

Now they are doing the same with 3G instead of WiFi. So people buy a laptop, with an expensive 3G data plan, using it exclusively at home, even when they have perfectly working WiFi. So they pay more money, have a slower connection, have severely limited data, and they think it is progress because it is 3G instead of WiFi. :mad:

Just wondering if anyone has tried this: If you have no wireless router at home, just a Macintosh connected to a wired router through broadband, then "Internet Sharing" should allow an iPad access to the Internet, right?
 
$130, plus the additional monthly cost, is too expensive. $30 a month for 3G internet access is preposterous.

If the 3G iPad was $13 more (instead of $130) and if the 3G internet access pricetag was $3 a month I'd consider it.

I bought the wifi-only iPad a few days after it was available and i'm glad I did. I can go just about anywhere in the US and find free WiFi, especially if I'm willing to go walk or drive to a mom 'n pop coffee shop.
 
I gought the 3G model and subscribed to the unlimited plan...now I am scared to downgrade b/c I will lose my option to go unlimited. I know that once I downgrade I will start using more data. Just the way my luck is...

I dont take it with me everywhere I go but it is nice to have available all the time. Sometimes the iPhone's size is not great for browsing. the iphone is great for finding a phoen numeber, email, short fact finding. The iPad is great for browsing, or doing more intense research. For instance I saw a watch I liked and was nto sure if the pricce was that great. On the phone it would have been difficult to tell if i was looking apples to apples, on the ipad I knew reight away and made a better purchase decision. I saved myself $125.00 so that atleast buys me a couple of months of service...
 
I gought the 3G model and subscribed to the unlimited plan...now I am scared to downgrade b/c I will lose my option to go unlimited. I know that once I downgrade I will start using more data. Just the way my luck is...

I dont take it with me everywhere I go but it is nice to have available all the time. Sometimes the iPhone's size is not great for browsing. the iphone is great for finding a phoen numeber, email, short fact finding. The iPad is great for browsing, or doing more intense research. For instance I saw a watch I liked and was nto sure if the pricce was that great. On the phone it would have been difficult to tell if i was looking apples to apples, on the ipad I knew reight away and made a better purchase decision. I saved myself $125.00 so that atleast buys me a couple of months of service...

Are they still doing the unlimited plan? I thought they stopped that? Or did you mean earlier?
 
Hey Att,
How about bringing back the 30 dollar month unlimited plan for iPad so I can buy like 5 more 3g ipads.

I really hope verizon gives an unlimited plan whenever they get the iPad.

Verizon is supposedly getting rid of unlimited plans as well, so I wouldnt be too harsh on AT&T
 
I purchased 3G service Once, then Twice only to realize I hardly used it at all. WiFi is so readily available 3G barely made sense for me.

Isn't it marvelous that different people have lots of different options?

I blew thru the $15 250MB plan in two days flat, now averaging 3GB/mo. WiFi is so unreliable I just leave it on 3G all the time unless streaming a movie.
 
foreigners

What about foreigners who buy the ipad 3g on holiday / businesstrips to the states? Im pretty sure theres a large number of ipads bought in the states who now resides in Europe (I know mine does)
Those wont necessary activate an AT&T plan before they go home.
 
Well? Stupid Is as Stupid Does

And, it is a _stupid_plan.

$15 for 250 megs OR $25 for 2 GIGS? Well, duhhhhhhh.

Hmmm. How to decide. Hmmmmmm. Do I come in low and have to watch it like a hawk, then blow another $15 right toward the end for just a few days service? OR do I plunk down the $25 with the gamble that I only may use half of it???

If they were just smart enough to tier the system to something that made sense and had value to their customers they would sell more of the service.

I keep mine turned off, but would love it on all the time for the occasional times I might use it. But I refuse to waste money on the "scam plan" that the bean counters at ATT _think_ is going to add to their fortune.

Give me a reasonable plan that makes sense, and I am all theirs...

Or maybe another company who will.


SAS/DALLAS
 
And, it is a _stupid_plan.

$15 for 250 megs OR $25 for 2 GIGS? Well, duhhhhhhh.

Hmmm. How to decide. Hmmmmmm. Do I come in low and have to watch it like a hawk, then blow another $15 right toward the end for just a few days service? OR do I plunk down the $25 with the gamble that I only may use half of it???

If they were just smart enough to tier the system to something that made sense and had value to their customers they would sell more of the service.

I keep mine turned off, but would love it on all the time for the occasional times I might use it. But I refuse to waste money on the "scam plan" that the bean counters at ATT _think_ is going to add to their fortune.

Give me a reasonable plan that makes sense, and I am all theirs...

Or maybe another company who will.


SAS/DALLAS

I pay for the unlimited $30 plan, but looking at my monthly usage since I got the thing, I would have saved money had I been on the $15 plan the whole time. I seldom have gone over 200MB, and for the once or twice I did, I was under 400MB. There's probably a sizeable number of folks for whom the same is true. Certainly, when I pass my existing ipad to my wife when the 2 comes out, I'll keep the old SIM and let her sign up for 200MB increments when she needs them.
 
But there are probably lots of people who fall for all the marketing BS. Here in England, first they sold you "wireless broadband". And people bought it thinking it is somehow better than "wired broadband" - not realising that it is still broadband coming into your home through the phone cable,
Minneapolis has wireless internet access you can buy. It isn't all that fast, I think 3Mbps is the top tier, but it is actually wireless to your house. Then you need a "modem" or whatever they call it, which can be wired to your computer, or wireless inside the house, too. It works for mobile devices, anywhere in the city.

Actually, I think it can run right to a computer with wireless, but they recommend the modem or something.
Just wondering if anyone has tried this: If you have no wireless router at home, just a Macintosh connected to a wired router through broadband, then "Internet Sharing" should allow an iPad access to the Internet, right?
It works for another laptop, I don't know why it wouldn't for an iPad.
 
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