What Xfinity Internet Data Usage Plans will Comcast be Launching?

Re:What Xfinity Internet Data Usage Plans will Comcast be La... by kalleboo on Friday November 21, 2014 @04:44AM (#8640534)

> I wonder how my day-to-day activities would change if I knew I was constantly eating away at my monthly limit

I've been spending the past 2 weeks at my parent's house in Australia, they live an hour from the nearest village and 2 hours from the nearest city. The only internet options are dialup, satellite or 3G. The 3G is surprisingly fast (6 MBps), but it's $60 for 4 GB.

I've been watching my usage, installed Little Snitch to disable all kinds of background activity like auto-updating. Most of my online time has been browsing HN, Reddit, IMing,, Facebook, Twitter, email, a couple Skype calls. Have watched a grand total of 2 YouTube videos.

I've still burned through 5 GB in 2.5 weeks. I don't even know how, aside from things when OS X spent 100 MB attempting to download the certificate revocation list, and Mail.app continually redownloading all my spam from Gmail.

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Re:What Xfinity Internet Data Usage Plans will Comcast be La... by al_bundling on Friday November 21, 2014 @05:02AM (#8640584)

> The 3G is surprisingly fast (6 MBps), but it's $60 for 4 GB

Switch to Optus prepaid. It's $2 per day for 0.5 GB per day. $2 more for 0.5 GB if you run out of you daily 0.5 GB.

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Re:What Xfinity Internet Data Usage Plans will Comcast be La... by kalleboo on Friday November 21, 2014 @05:45AM (#8640695)

Only Telstra has any coverage within 20 km

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Re:What Xfinity Internet Data Usage Plans will Comcast be La... by al_bundling on Friday November 21, 2014 @05:55AM (#8640721)

That's too bad. You could check out the Google spreadsheet at Whirlpool with all Australian mobile plans to see if you can find a better Telstra plan or one from another provider that uses Telstra's network.

http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=1572741

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