[ale] OT: unlimited plans !?!

[Neal Rhodes]

I have on several occasions found some Verizon towers have great voice,
but awful data. 

I remember one weekend several years back having to do a major Linux DB
upgrade while camping in SC at a state park up in the mountains.   Had a
4 bar 3G signal.   Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand, negligible data.
Like .1kbps either way.   VPN just wouldn't fire up, or if it did, SSH
sessions wouldn't work.    After some quality time with Verizon support,
and gave up and took my notebook to the Ranger's station.     Had to
share the campground wireless with 7 teenage girls who hovered around it
apparently so they could send chat messages to each other on their
iPhones.    (because, LIKE, what ELSE could you do camping in the
mountains) 

So we tend to run a DSL speed check when we stop for the night, and
sometimes throughput is so bad it's not worth starting the VPN.   It
seems to happen more at campgrounds.   One suspects Verizon can set
voice versus data priority. 

Ergo, unlimited could be a suspect assumption. 

On Wed, 2017-02-15 at 15:57 +0000, Lightner, Jeffrey wrote:
> I love Verizon’s new advertising which in essence says “We’re not
> offering unlimited without a high fee because most people don’t use
> it.”  
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> If they really don’t use it why put a limit on it?  Clearly they’ve
> realized there are people already using it.   The history of computing
> also tells us that even if you’re not using it yet, over time you will
> be and if you were dumb enough to buy their premise now you’ll pay a
> lot more for it then.
> 
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> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
> Charles Shapiro
> Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2017 10:48 AM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [ale] OT: unlimited plans !?!
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> Verizon's phones typically feature locked bootloaders and obstacles to
> rooting tools.  T-Mobile is marginally better. I don't know if that's
> just negligence or the result of a hideous political fight in the
> technical departments.  I do, however, want control of my own devices
> with a minimum of hassle.
> 
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> 
> -- CHS
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