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Originally Posted by scottjl
well. for what it's worth, i'm a pretty heavy user since i'm on the road quite a bit, but i still have yet to hit 2G, let alone 5G (which was the "unlimited" cap on the iphone plan) on my iphone. sure i can at home downloading over my broadband, but downloading 2G, over the 3g connection? you'd have to stream netflix all day all month. i really wonder what people are doing to get that high.
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Yeah, seems like plenty for an iPad only plan.
If it was a shared 3G plan I could see people going over it as I know some that use the Verizon 3G as their home broadband. They use the little jump drive modem when on the road, and have the MiFi 3G wireless router thing to use at home.
Not sure if they go over the caps or not, but I could see someone that was wanting to use 3G as their only internet could easily go over it.
I would think streaming video could get there relatively quickly though, especially if streaming HD content. So maybe you could hit it on the iPad if video watching was your main use.
I don't know how accurate the numbers are, but this article says that a standard def movie streamed from Netflix on the Xbox 360 involves transferring 1.8 GBs of data and an HD one 3 GB....
http://blog.streamingmedia.com/the_b...am-movies.html
Those sound really high to me, but they are based on the average encoding rates....and it just can't be right or everyone on an iPad would be over their limit with one movie. So something's either fishy with those numbers, or the streaming files are smaller on the iPad or something.