Need wireless internet

V-PV-P State College, PA Member
edited August 2009 in Science & Tech
I'm getting ready to go to Penn State for college and as some of you may know, they have a bandwidth cap of 4 GB per week. I don't think this will be enough for me so I'm thinking of getting some type of ISP that will provide us with a wifi router for two. It can't be ethernet connections since they don't allow those in the dorms. It has to be something that works off of the mobile networks like Sprint or something. Any suggestions on devices/plans?

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  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited August 2009
    The mobile services cap at 5GB/month, so your only option is satellite, or settling for Penn's barbaric throttling.
  • SnarkasmSnarkasm Madison, WI Icrontian
    edited August 2009
    4 gigs a week is not a serious handicap - certainly not serious enough to warrant paying out for another internet connection.

    You'll learn to deal with it, and then you'll get DC++ and connect to the LAN in the dorms. Parse out who downloads what every week and everybody shares the fun.

    These are all legal downloads, right? Linux ISOs, yes? :p
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited August 2009
    I'd go through 4GB in 3 days with legit content. Christ.
  • SnarkasmSnarkasm Madison, WI Icrontian
    edited August 2009
    With what, Thrax? TV downloads?
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited August 2009
    Youtube, Hulu, browsing, and a whoooole lot of streaming (320Kbps) music.
  • shwaipshwaip bluffin' with my muffin Icrontian
    edited August 2009
    most things you would download from off campus will be available on the local network.
  • SnarkasmSnarkasm Madison, WI Icrontian
    edited August 2009
    I don't think I'd call you representative, but you may be for V|P. In college, I was rarely interested in TV, my music was all my own (i.e. not streamed), and browsing certainly never landed me in the multi-gigabyte zone. Only game downloads pushed me to the limit.

    Do they have different tiers available to you? At Texas, we had something like choices from 10, 25, or 40GB plans (for the month) for different costs.
  • V-PV-P State College, PA Member
    edited August 2009
    No tiers Snarkism. Me and my roommate are both slightly above the norm as far as knowing computers goes and we like to do a lot of tinkering. Most of it would be LAN I guess but I would blow through 4 GB easily since I youtube a lot, plus I have Mozy running 24/7 and I have lots of files to upload and backup. I've heard bad things about satellite internet, what are your experiences?

    Haha scratch that. I just looked at prices for Hughesnet and it is not even close to a range that I want to be paying or can afford to pay for 1 mbps. I'll get a hamsterwheel, that'll be faster.
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