pamster
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Oh, PLEASE.
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Post by pamster on May 26, 2016 9:12:05 GMT -4
I need verification from someone who knows about this stuff, please!
I have an iphone 6 with Verizon, and Charter high speed internet at home. Our cell reception is not great in the house.
I just discovered the "wifi calling" setting a couple days ago and since I am suspicious as hell, I want to triple check that using wifi calling with my own wifi in my house isn't going to cost me anything extra.
Thanks so much.
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alpierce
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Post by alpierce on May 26, 2016 10:17:33 GMT -4
I haven't been with verizon for awhile, but I do not think wifi calling incurs extra data charges, although it used to, I think. What does your bill say? The only reason I stopped using it is because the call quality is generally horrible.
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pamster
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Oh, PLEASE.
Posts: 1,784
Apr 2, 2005 19:31:58 GMT -4
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Post by pamster on May 26, 2016 11:32:04 GMT -4
I haven't been with verizon for awhile, but I do not think wifi calling incurs extra data charges, although it used to, I think. What does your bill say? The only reason I stopped using it is because the call quality is generally horrible. We live in a hilly region where cell reception is lousy anyway, so believe it or not the wifi calling is an improvement! I never have more than 2 dots (of 5) at home. My account page online says it's included but it uses data, so that's a little hazy to me. We've never used all our data allotment so it'll probably be fine. My new billing period starts today so I'll keep checking the usage and see what's what. Thanks!
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Post by kateln on May 26, 2016 12:05:30 GMT -4
I haven't been with verizon for awhile, but I do not think wifi calling incurs extra data charges, although it used to, I think. What does your bill say? The only reason I stopped using it is because the call quality is generally horrible. We live in a hilly region where cell reception is lousy anyway, so believe it or not the wifi calling is an improvement! I never have more than 2 dots (of 5) at home. My account page online says it's included but it uses data, so that's a little hazy to me. We've never used all our data allotment so it'll probably be fine. My new billing period starts today so I'll keep checking the usage and see what's what. Thanks! I would confirm it with Verizon, as each carrier has their own policy, but it shouldn't cost a lot/eat up a lot of data as your data usage is coming from the wifi in your house not through the data plan.
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Post by Kaleidoscope Eyes on Jul 24, 2016 19:43:20 GMT -4
Bit the bullet and got a 2 in 1 tablet. Will take some getting used to, especially for typing small messages like this. I bought it mainly for surfing the web. For now, I'm meh on this tablet at best.
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alpierce
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Post by alpierce on Sept 5, 2016 10:44:33 GMT -4
One thing I've noticed about T-Mobile throttling you off of their LTE data once you hit their limit (mine is 1 gig of high speed data) is that being throttled is not so slow after all. As long as you have a good solid connection. After getting the notification via text that I've used up all my high speed data, as long as I have a good connection, watching video or refreshing web pages goes by fairly quickly. When it doesn't, it's almost always because my signal dropped.
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Post by divasahm on Sept 5, 2016 11:41:36 GMT -4
Good to know, alpierce. I hope AT&T will work as well for me as T-Mobile has for you--I just switched to a throttle plan, since ds1 still doesn't have wireless hooked up in her apartment yet and she's eating all the data as a result.
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alpierce
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Post by alpierce on Sept 5, 2016 14:50:31 GMT -4
I also use an adblocker called adaway. It's not available in the play store. Ads are usually the slowest part of a web page, and this ad blocker redirects the ad to the local host, which is your device. Since there is nothing to load you just see a blank space where the ad would have been. This, in part, is probably why it seems my throttled data isn't so slow. It does this by maintaining lists of ad servers and rewriting you host file to do the redirection.
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Post by prisma on Sept 24, 2016 19:06:23 GMT -4
I don't have cable and watch everything on my laptop. My tv has been in the closet since I moved into this house almost 3 years ago. However, there are times when I'd like to do work on my laptop and watch something in the background. I was wondering if there was an inexpensive way to connect my laptop to my tv so I can watch netflix on the tv and do something else on the laptop, which is the source? I have an aversion to asking about electronics and I also don't want to spend more than $25 on an adapter. Is this crazy talk?
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mrpeanut
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Post by mrpeanut on Sept 25, 2016 7:55:13 GMT -4
I don't have cable and watch everything on my laptop. My tv has been in the closet since I moved into this house almost 3 years ago. However, there are times when I'd like to do work on my laptop and watch something in the background. I was wondering if there was an inexpensive way to connect my laptop to my tv so I can watch netflix on the tv and do something else on the laptop, which is the source? I have an aversion to asking about electronics and I also don't want to spend more than $25 on an adapter. Is this crazy talk? Google Chromecast seems equipped for this (although priced at $35).
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