Using Sprint network instead of wifi out of spite

Meltz014 · Jul 4, 2010

I sometimes go so far as to plug my phone in my PC via usb (charge only mode), then ftp my pictures from my phone over Sprint to my PC.

Thefoodman52 · Jul 4, 2010

asaberan said:
...looked at my bill from last month, and even with work email, I only used 240mb. Much lower than I expected.

CHIIIAAA. That's low, brah. By the first quarter of this MONTH, I'll be at that. If not more; I stream music all day and chat with people (IOWA, lol) on Gtalk. I'm not bashful with my data use, but I use w/e is fastest to where I am. At work, there's Wi-Fi from the restaurant next door, but it's hooked up to baseline DSL, so it's SLOW as a donkey with a fat man on it's back. My music always skips and stops streaming off them, so I say screw it and use 3G.

IOWA · Jul 4, 2010

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...looked at my bill from last month, and even with work email, I only used 240mb. Much lower than I expected.

Click to expand...

CHIIIAAA. That's low, brah. By the first quarter of this MONTH, I'll be at that. If not more; I stream music all day and chat with people (IOWA, lol) on Gtalk. I'm not bashful with my data use, but I use w/e is fastest to where I am. At work, there's Wi-Fi from the restaurant next door, but it's hooked up to baseline DSL, so it's SLOW as a donkey with a fat man on it's back. My music always skips and stops streaming off them, so I say screw it and use 3G.

Talking to who o.o >.>

I sometimes go so far as to plug my phone in my PC via usb (charge only mode), then ftp my pictures from my phone over Sprint to my PC.

Yeah wasting precious seconds of your life is really "stickin' it to the man" :rolleyes:

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freeza · Jul 4, 2010

Dreamliner said:
WiFi > $10 grudge.

Seriously!

jiggy79 · Jul 4, 2010

I'm with you all, let's get our $10 worth. Downloading music, browsing the web and on slingbox at the sometime!!!

sweteg · Jul 4, 2010

I don't care what you guys are doing, but you are bitching about a phone and fee that no one forced you to buy. Obviously you have the money if you're already willing to pay $70 a month. Just because you decided to buy the Evo and pay the premium fee, don't act like they owe you something. I thought the macrumors forum had a bunch of immature sounding kids, but damn.

rockky · Jul 4, 2010

Such an idiotic thread...on a number of levels..ah well..

Deleted User · Jul 4, 2010

Shortsightedness is still a pervasive condition in this world. Everyone who bought this phone knew exactly what they wee getting yet still made the choice and now are using the 10 buck charge as some rationalization for immature and spiteful behavior.

The best way to get back at Sprint is to voice your concern to them, cancel your contract and get something else like an iPhone. Then you can cry on the Apple forums about how you wee getting more data, more reliably and for less money when you were on Sprint.

Some folks are just not happy unless they have something to complain about.

Deleted User · Jul 4, 2010

Sorry...double post.

raqball · Jul 4, 2010

This has got to be one of the DUMBEST posts / threads I have ever read...

You are hurting nobody but yourself... Slower speeds to *show* Sprint? Wow, just wow.... Epic FAIL...

Not to mention keep running the data up on Sprint and they WILL cap it like ATT or throttle you... Again, epic FAIL..

Lastly... ANOTHER $10 thread... Epic FAIL...

3 epic fails all in one post / thread.. Nice job....

:rolleyes:

carmendiva · Jul 4, 2010

idk what i find more amusing

the people who are using sprint network out of spite although technically you are paying for it so its not really being spiteful

or the fact that people are chastising those using sprint network "out of spite"

Festo said it best that people knew exactly what they were getting into by getting the phone

Personally 10 bucks more is really not that big of a deal. Why because you are still paying far less than the top 2 companies and maybe less or slightly more then Tmobile's wack ass network.

I am paying close to a 130 for my plan with Verizon and we don't even have 4g(and apparently from what i understand sprints 4g really isnt 4g...but another topic for later) or anything close to it.

I could understand Verizon/At & t customers being upset but 10 more dollars for an already cheap plan shouldn't be an issue because it wasn't like you didnt know prior to getting the phone

But I really picture people "fighting the power" but it is not spiteful. If anything you are just using what you pay for.

On the flipside, those who are annoyed by said immature posts knew exactly what you were getting into when you read the title.

Yet you felt the need to complain

Again voicing what Festo said "Some folks are just not happy unless they have something to complain about."

Its the american way

bvbull200 · Jul 4, 2010

x081967 said:
Because of that extra $10 charge, I find myself intentionally using Sprint's data network to stream / download music instead of using available wifi just so I can use up Sprint's bandwidth.

Just wondering if I'm the only one.

I didn't do this when I had my Pre.

Tyzing said:
I disconnected my home internet service...activated my old tour on my account (for free b/c they deducted the add on) now use that constantly connected using Tether for home internet and dont feel guilty one bit

BrianJB said:
LOL...I do the same thing man. When im at work I download a bunch of podcasts (40mbs+) per each podcast...and sometimes ill even download some movies, I just let my phone sit all day at work on the charger and let it d/l off of sprint network.

And its for the same reason you said...just out of spite...if they wanna charge 10 bucks extra a month, thats fine. Im gonna use the hell outta your 3g.

Shift.Evolve · Jul 4, 2010

I dont really mind the $10. I bought the phonebknowing of the fee. If you dont kike it why get the phone. The only way to make a point is to put you money where your mouth is. I think its dumb but its still cheaper than all the other carriers in my area.

Sent from my EVO using Tapatalk

EarlyMon · Jul 4, 2010

carmendiva said:
... mr my plan with Verizon and we don't even have 4g(and apparently from what i understand sprints 4g really isnt 4g...but another topic for later) or anything close to it.

No, it's a pretty good topic for right now - it's only the second time I've seen it mentioned in this forum since the EVO came out.

Strictly speaking, Sprint 4G is a marketing term applied to WiMAX and WiMAX is intermediary between 3G and 4G where G stands for nothing more than "generation."

The real deal 4G is uses packet switching technology. And if anyone liked the old X.25 protocol, they're going to love 4G.

Wait. No one liked that outside of IBM. It essentially is a very efficient cloud-based protocol - and it works by kinda homogenizing all traffic into neat little packets. It was overcome by the routing protocols common to what has become today's internet. (In fact, I'll bet there are very few around here who have even heard of X.25.)

But - mobile faced the same challenges for moving data over the air as over wires in the days of dinosaurs, so 4G was planned.

A different branch was taken by the WiMAX crowd and as soon as working groups starting working on it, it became controversial in the semiconductor industry press as a kinda fragmentation to what everyone else was considering building.

And WiMAX has beaucoup in common with wifi - the biggest differences are in its long-distance capability and the quality of service measures it uses (appropriate to a wide area network as opposed to what wifi employs for a local area network).

I see a lot of people in a lot of forums chortling over dumb Sprint users not getting real 4G, and all I can say, remembering X.25 is: be careful what you wish for.

Yet you felt the need to complain

Again voicing what Festo said "Some folks are just not happy unless they have something to complain about."

Its the american way

I rigorously object to that sort of comment!!! Why, I... Wait. What?

Anyway - thinking of X.25 was way more more fun than thinking that this thread has actually made it into two pages, so I thought I'd help you out.

After all - this thread has no real purpose, so it is unpossible to be off-topic here, now isn't it?

Happy 4th, CD.

MacRyan · Jul 4, 2010

Sprint has commercials out that tout their unlimited data plans against VZW and AT&T. Do you really think they wouldn't be facing a class action lawsuit if within 2 years of the commercial running (the length of a contract), they throttled unlimited data, or cut it altogether?

They would be.

atypical1 · Jul 4, 2010

I agree with the others who have said that you knew what you were getting into when you bought the phone. It's not like you bought the phone and then got hit with additional charges. Sprint was very upfront about the charges and didn't try to hide anything.

So, you bought a phone knowing that you were going to have to pay extra for it and are now mad about the charge. Now if I don't want to pay the charge why didn't you buy another phone or change carriers? Paying extra for a phone then using a lot of bandwidth isn't really "sticking it to them" now it it?

carmendiva · Jul 4, 2010

EarlyMon said:
No, it's a pretty good topic for right now - it's only the second time I've seen it mentioned in this forum since the EVO came out.

Strictly speaking, Sprint 4G is a marketing term applied to WiMAX and WiMAX is intermediary between 3G and 4G where G stands for nothing more than "generation."

The real deal 4G is uses packet switching technology. And if anyone liked the old X.25 protocol, they're going to love 4G.

Wait. No one liked that outside of IBM. It essentially is a very efficient cloud-based protocol - and it works by kinda homogenizing all traffic into neat little packets. It was overcome by the routing protocols common to what has become today's internet. (In fact, I'll bet there are very few around here who have even heard of X.25.)

But - mobile faced the same challenges for moving data over the air as over wires in the days of dinosaurs, so 4G was planned.

A different branch was taken by the WiMAX crowd and as soon as working groups starting working on it, it became controversial in the semiconductor industry press as a kinda fragmentation to what everyone else was considering building.

And WiMAX has beaucoup in common with wifi - the biggest differences are in its long-distance capability and the quality of service measures it uses (appropriate to a wide area network as opposed to what wifi employs for a local area network).

I see a lot of people in a lot of forums chortling over dumb Sprint users not getting real 4G, and all I can say, remembering X.25 is: be careful what you wish for.

I rigorously object to that sort of comment!!! Why, I... Wait. What?

Anyway - thinking of X.25 was way more more fun than thinking that this thread has actually made it into two pages, so I thought I'd help you out.

After all - this thread has no real purpose, so it is unpossible to be off-topic here, now isn't it?

Happy 4th, CD.

lol okay im not going to even try and form a rebuttal because i honestly didn't understand any of that with my limited technology experience lol

give me a rundown on anything dealing with psychology or the mind and I am good

But it doesnt matter to me who has 4g or real 4g or knockoff 4g. Personally i really dont care about 3g or edge or whatever. Because i rarely use the networks web anyway.

It has always been far better to use wi-fi wherever i am. I always download apps on wi-fi on all my android phones.

which is why if i had At & t, i probably wouldn't be bothered by the complaint about data and whatever because i am rarely ever using 3g to actually care.

and happy 4th to you as well hon

Deleted User · Jul 4, 2010

I completely understand the OP because since I pay for public transportation through my taxes, I take the bus everywhere instead of just driving my car, even though it takes me over an hour to get across town via. 2 exchange points vs. driving myself there in about 10 minutes. I'm sticking it to the MAN!!

i.have.droid · Jul 4, 2010

I have a few WiFI questions.

Does it drain your battery a lot more to leave WiFi on with 3g?

Does it improve your phone reception to use Wifi or just your data streaming?

raqball · Jul 4, 2010

Wifi will use less battery and wifi is just for data...

EarlyMon · Jul 4, 2010

Ditto on what racball said - plus you might as well control both radios at the same time.

FWIW - I keep the Power Control widget right next to the Mobile Network (3G) and 4G radio control widgets (they're under Widget->Settings).

Probably everyone knows how to access those widgets, but just in case, here's how mine is set up - when I turn one on, I turn another off just to save juice.

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