S4GRU Members Average Monthly Data Usage (with Poll)

[tybo31316]

I'm on pace to take down close to 20GB for the first time because of a family vacation. My wife is close to about 10GB.

 

It's all streaming crap to stave off a mutiny with the kids as we drive all over Florida.

Vacations usually will do it. Hope you enjoy Florida sprint service is great here.

 

Sent from my Nexus 6

[sbolen]

Vacations usually will do it. Hope you enjoy Florida sprint service is great here.

 

Sent from my Nexus 6

We flew to Miami and drove north to Jupiter/West Palm Beach with awesome coverage. Then to Disney with awesome coverage... And now we're on the Intracoastal in Venice with stellar coverage. I may not get more than 4Mbps down where we're currently at, but that's enough to stream Thomas the hellspawn Tank Engine to keep my youngest from flipping tables. (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻)

[Arysyn]

We flew to Miami and drove north to Jupiter/West Palm Beach with awesome coverage. Then to Disney with awesome coverage... And now we're on the Intracoastal in Venice with stellar coverage. I may not get more than 4Mbps down where we're currently at, but that's enough to stream Thomas the hellspawn Tank Engine to keep my youngest from flipping tables. (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻)

I've read the best wireless network in Disney is AT&T, because of some special arrangement they have with the park. It sure doesn't seem fair to the other carriers, and I wonder why there isn't more of an outcry about it from them, considering their loss. Unless of course I'm not getting the whole story about it from what I read.

[sbolen]

I've read the best wireless network in Disney is AT&T, because of some special arrangement they have with the park. It sure doesn't seem fair to the other carriers, and I wonder why there isn't more of an outcry about it from them, considering their loss. Unless of course I'm not getting the whole story about it from what I read.

You can also only drink Coke products... I'm sure it's the same type deal. The Disney app has an AT&T logo as "official wireless provider" branding... I have no idea how much they paid, but in guessing a lot. In sure Verizon, T-Mobile, and Sprint could have nabbed the sponsorship if they had the cash.

[mrknowitall526]

Download your entire music and movie collection from Google Play? Five times... ????

 

It sure is a lot. My wife and I are usually around 5GB each, but some months can be as high as 10GB each. Just depends how much we're out of the house. At home, we mostly use our wifi connection, even though it's dsl and slower than most everyone else has.

 

Sent from my Note 4.

You're not the only one with slow DSL! 3 Mbps here and Verizon doesn't care.

[radem]

I've read the best wireless network in Disney is AT&T, because of some special arrangement they have with the park. It sure doesn't seem fair to the other carriers, and I wonder why there isn't more of an outcry about it from them, considering their loss. Unless of course I'm not getting the whole story about it from what I read.

The best wireless network in Disney World is the Disney WIFI network.  It is available for free at all the hotels and covers nearly all of the outside area in the parks and much of the area inside the buildings.  I had Disney WIFI almost everywhere I went when I was there in April.  That left the macro networks working fine since all they have to cover is people traveling outside of the parks and hotels and the locals who live or work in the area. 

 

LTE usually will not be a decent competitor for corporate or venue WIFI unless they have a well built DAS at that location.  Macro networks cannot handle very large groups of people in the same place very well.  That is true for all carriers.

 

I have Sprint and my Wife has AT&T.  Both networks were just fine since we were on Disney WIFI nearly all the time and when we weren't on WIFI, there was plenty of capacity on the macro network.

[sbolen]

The best wireless network in Disney World is the Disney WIFI network. It is available for free at all the hotels and covers nearly all of the outside area in the parks and much of the area inside the buildings. I had Disney WIFI almost everywhere I went when I was there in April. That left the macro networks working fine since all they have to cover is people traveling outside of the parks and hotels and the locals who live or work in the area.

 

LTE usually will not be a decent competitor for corporate or venue WIFI unless they have a well built DAS at that location. Macro networks cannot handle very large groups of people in the same place very well. That is true for all carriers.

 

I have Sprint and my Wife has AT&T. Both networks were just fine since we were on Disney WIFI nearly all the time and when we weren't on WIFI, there was plenty of capacity on the macro network.

And the reason why there's free wifi at Disney? So you share those memories with everyone you know, so they want to go to Disney.

 

 

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[WiWavelength]

And the reason why there's free wifi at Disney? So you share those memories with everyone you know, so they want to go to Disney.

 

Be our guest,

Be our guest,

Let our Wi-Fi do the rest...

 

Makes every memory divine...

 

AJ

[Arysyn]

The best wireless network in Disney World is the Disney WIFI network. It is available for free at all the hotels and covers nearly all of the outside area in the parks and much of the area inside the buildings. I had Disney WIFI almost everywhere I went when I was there in April. That left the macro networks working fine since all they have to cover is people traveling outside of the parks and hotels and the locals who live or work in the area.

 

LTE usually will not be a decent competitor for corporate or venue WIFI unless they have a well built DAS at that location. Macro networks cannot handle very large groups of people in the same place very well. That is true for all carriers.

 

I have Sprint and my Wife has AT&T. Both networks were just fine since we were on Disney WIFI nearly all the time and when we weren't on WIFI, there was plenty of capacity on the macro network.

I still haven't got use to the idea of large scale public WiFi, particularly with it becoming useful to wireless carriers, as I'm remembering the days when I use to support the idea of towns using mass WiFi. Then I remember reading about it, but that Verizon and AT&T were fighting it. Since then, the idea seems to be making a comeback, though I haven't quite yet readapted it back into my mindset, hence why I forgot about the option at Disney. Sounds great though!

[JimBob]

Updated my vote.  I went from consuming ~3GB/mo in the summer to ~10GB/mo in the autumn; mostly due to now primarily streaming music (Pandora) through my phone instead of my computer.

[stuckinohio1]

i average about 5GB/mo on 3g and when i am lucky enough to have 4G it shoots up to around 7GB. i could assume if i had good 4G everywhere i was at i would be around the 15-20GB range.