Re: [luv-talk] Any practical way to improve glacial page downloads?
Tim Connors wrote:
(I was just looking at smart phone prepaid plans. None are suitable for me. I want to pay less than $20 per month, which I can do with a non smartphone by virtue of having some credit that can last 365 days, as long as I don't use it. Which I don't. Very few providers seem to realise that not everyone wants to talk and text on their phone all day every day. Sometimes we only want something for emergencies because we're unsociable bastards).
Already got a pager? ;-) (Hmm, since pagers are now a niche market for emergency services like SES and sysadmins, they're probably MORE expensive...)
On Fri, 23 Mar 2012, "Trent W. Buck" <trentbuck@gmail.com> wrote:
Tim Connors wrote:
(I was just looking at smart phone prepaid plans. None are suitable for me. I want to pay less than $20 per month, which I can do with a non smartphone by virtue of having some credit that can last 365 days, as long as I don't use it. Which I don't. Very few providers seem to realise that not everyone wants to talk and text on their phone all day every day. Sometimes we only want something for emergencies because we're unsociable bastards).
Already got a pager? ;-)
If you get a yearly pre-paid data SIM you can receive calls and SMS and you get 10G+ of data to use over the year. That costs about $120-$150 per annum depending on which provider you choose, well below $20 per month and 10G per annum is quite a lot of data to transfer over a mobile phone. For reference my phone is on a 1.5G/month plan, my phone supports Wifi tethering which I use to update Android apps for my wife's phone (which is on a smaller plan) and I also provided Wifi at this month's LUV meeting (something I plan to do at future meetings). I occasionally have a month where I get close to 1.5G, but I could easily survive on 10G for a year. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/
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