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I think there's a terminology issue here: WiFi has nothing to do with internet access, and is just a wireless technology between devices (computer to router, phone to router, etc). You can still have WiFi in your house without having internet access from an ISP (you just need a wireless router).
Thank you. I feel pretty stupid now.
So when I look at that list below, number #7 and #9. Are they referring to fiber optic customers, or to LTE customers (or both)?
Top 25 Multichannel Video Programming Distributors as of Sept. 2010 – Source NCTA (National Cable Television Association)
Rank MSO BasicVideoSubscribers
1 Comcast Corporation 22,937,000
2 DirecTV 18,934,000
3 Dish Network Corporation 14,289,000
4 Time Warner Cable, Inc. 12,551,000
5 Cox Communications, Inc.1 4,968,000
6 Charter Communications, Inc. 4,653,000
7 Verizon Communications, Inc. 3,290,000
8 Cablevision Systems Corporatn 3,043,000
9 AT&T, Inc. 2,739,000
10 Bright House Networks LLC1 2,194,000
So when I look at that list below, number #7 and #9. Are they referring to fiber optic customers, or to LTE customers (or both)?
Top 25 Multichannel Video Programming Distributors as of Sept. 2010 – Source NCTA (National Cable Television Association)
Rank MSO BasicVideoSubscribers
1 Comcast Corporation 22,937,000
2 DirecTV 18,934,000
3 Dish Network Corporation 14,289,000
4 Time Warner Cable, Inc. 12,551,000
5 Cox Communications, Inc.1 4,968,000
6 Charter Communications, Inc. 4,653,000
7 Verizon Communications, Inc. 3,290,000
8 Cablevision Systems Corporatn 3,043,000
9 AT&T, Inc. 2,739,000
10 Bright House Networks LLC1 2,194,000
I can use chromecast to send videos from my phone to tv.
Are you using the T-Mobile connection exclusively, or do you have regular broadband?
I'd be interested in how the Chromecast works if you don't have an upstream provider on the wireless router, and it has no internet connection.
I know that it connects to the internet directly to get most cast content if there's a connection (so the phone is just handing the Chromecast a URL, and not providing the internet connection).
Are you using the T-Mobile connection exclusively, or do you have regular broadband?
I'd be interested in how the Chromecast works if you don't have an upstream provider on the wireless router, and it has no internet connection.
I know that it connects to the internet directly to get most cast content if there's a connection (so the phone is just handing the Chromecast a URL, and not providing the internet connection).
I have broadband too but I use lte on my phone to play the video often because it's faster and more reliable than my broadband. I'm not sure how the handoff works in this case.
I do know that it still works when my broadband is down completely. Charter has a tendency to go out often.
I am not trying to connect to a WiFi device. I am trying to connect to a screen so that I can watch Netflix on a full size screen.
My question is will these $80 unlimited plans provide the same entertainment options as WiFi service?
I do this. I have the T-Mobile UNL plan, and I can stream all the Netflix to my phone that I want, all high speed. When I want to watch it on my TV, I can connect the phone to the TV with a cable that Samsung makes & sells for under $50 (don't recall the exact price, but it is below $50). Don't know of any way to use bluetooth for the connection instead.
I've found that this is actually more reliable (fewer pauses for refresh or buffering) than trying to watch the Netflix through Comcast to my TV. I've racked up some very large monthly GB usage this way... all included in my UNL plan, and all LTE speed.
The term 'UNLIMITED' isn't REALLY unlimited...
I use StraightTalk for 39.95 a month for what THEY call unlimited text, voice, data.
When I hit (what I think is) a 2 gig limit, my bandwidth is slowed down or throttled, as they call it.
I love my StraightTalk service (it's thru Verizon) and I'm staying with them despite the other companies offers to lower rates (The new plan from WalMart, for example).
This is wrong. T-Mobiles Unlimited really IS unlimited, not throttled. The lesser plans, as you mentioned, are throttled, but they aren't sold as Unlimited High Speed.
The other guys (Verizon, AT&T) charge you when you go over their limit -- don't think they sell unlimited anymore. No idea what Sprint does, but there network is so bad -- it is hardly useable.
I've found that this is actually more reliable (fewer pauses for refresh or buffering) than trying to watch the Netflix through Comcast to my TV. I've racked up some very large monthly GB usage this way... all included in my UNL plan, and all LTE speed.
So in theory you could get rid of Comcast entirely if you wanted. You could send documents you write on the computer over LTE. There would be no way to surf the web with your computer.
As someone earlier pointed out you could use WiFi in your home that is not connected to Comcast to bridge the connection from your phone to the TV wirelessly. Many people arrange their living room so that a wire would be inconvenient. I was wrong about Blutooth alone- it doesn't have the bandwidth to carry video (just audio).
So in theory you could get rid of Comcast entirely if you wanted. You could send documents you write on the computer over LTE. There would be no way to surf the web with your computer.
Yep, your phone would be the only internet, so you'd have to move documents to the phone to send them, or use phone based apps entirely.
Your computer would be fine for local things, but there would be no internet connection for updates, downloads, surfing, etc.
UNLIMITED 4G LTE DATA + Rhapsody unRadio subscription included
$80 /MO. INCLUDES: UNLIMITED TALK, TEXT & DATA
LIMITED TIME! 2 lines of UNLIMITED 4G LTE data on our network for just $100/mo. Additional lines $40/mo. per line.
My question is if you have a service like this, and you DO NOT HAVE home wifi. then can you
1) Link to your TV with bluetooth and watch Netflix, hulu+, and Amazon prime ?
2) Get a wireless mouse and keyboard and run traditional internet based programs (like word processors and spreadsheet programs).
I see these ads for 4GLTE Internet Installed which give you Internet connection in your home, but it seems like it is aimed at people who don't have access to broadband cable. In addition it is measured data.
I was wondering what you could do with the UNLIMITED phone only data.
Tethering is not unlimited on T Mobile. If you want unlimited tethering, check out AT&T GoPhone; they throttle after 4 GB, but you can still use your phone as a hotspot after you're throttled. I do it all the time.
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