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Would you turn off wifi at school to make use of 3G?

katyoshi

katyoshi

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Oct 11, 2009
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Just wondering if people would turn off their wifi to utilize 3G and make it worth your money? I'm on a university campus. I know wifi is faster than 3G. Would you rather use 3G also to get the most out of what you're paying for? The 3G?

Just wondering btw! :)
 
You're in school? Have you taken any economic courses? (Microeconomics, especially.) Maye some kind of personal finances course?

Take extra care to write down whatever the professor says when they start talking about sunk costs. It sounds like that's the area you'll need to study the most.
 
Nope. I RARELY use 3G on my phone. WiFi when possible and edge when im doing minimal browsing. I only turn on 3G if I need to download an app or something is loading too slow for me.
 
Well most kids at my school with iPhones think 3G is infinite god mode 9999999gigabytes a second so yeah they would. However I realize that my schools 500MB/s connection shouldn't go to waste :). There is a 3G tower next to my school/house though but you loose 3G if your half way in the school....
 
I have to turn off WiFi at University as the Uni's network does not let apps like facebook, ping or my twitter client to make connections to the internet. Its strange because if I use my macbook all things like Adium still work.
 
Small White Car said:
Well, I hope it brings you joy! :)

As for me, my wifi is 6x faster than my 3G connection. I'll stick with the wifi!
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Oh, don't misunderstand me: I, too, am using my 15 Mbps WiFi connection rather than my 172 Kbps Edge connection. I just recognize that the OP may have personal measures of utility that I do not share. ;-)
 
To be fair, I don't even use my school's Wi-Fi connection.

Every other kid has an iPod Touch and uses that to do random crap along the day, and it just bogs down the speed by a TON. To the point where it's faster to use 3G.

Plus, I can get on Facebook! :p
 
fireshot91 said:
To be fair, I don't even use my school's Wi-Fi connection.

Every other kid has an iPod Touch and uses that to do random crap along the day, and it just bogs down the speed by a TON. To the point where it's faster to use 3G.

Plus, I can get on Facebook! :p
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Would an iPod touch hog up the network if everyone had one?
 
Small White Car said:
You're in school? Have you taken any economic courses? (Microeconomics, especially.) Maye some kind of personal finances course?

Take extra care to write down whatever the professor says when they start talking about sunk costs. It sounds like that's the area you'll need to study the most.
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If you're talking to me, I did take micro and macro economics during my undergrad days when I didn't know what to major in. Now I'm a RN getting my masters :).
 
hell to the effing NO! 3G drains the battery way faster than wifi, and not to mention i dont have that stupid restriction of downloading apps over 10MB on the app store thing.

however, if the wifi was a LOT slower than using 3G, i would consider it...even still, the battery drain is a huge issue, and i always tend to go to wifi rather than 3G.
 
Most of the kids at my old high school actually had iPhones rather than iPod Touches. I had the latter. But they mostly used the WiFi unless doing something on Facebook or FML or some other thing that the school network blocked. But the school wireless was such that it was not all that much faster or more reliable than 3g, just a marked improvement with some drawbacks.
 
fireshot91 said:
To be fair, I don't even use my school's Wi-Fi connection.

Every other kid has an iPod Touch and uses that to do random crap along the day, and it just bogs down the speed by a TON. To the point where it's faster to use 3G.

Plus, I can get on Facebook! :p
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Literally every kid in my school has a iPod touch hooked to my schools network streaming music and video non stop and I still get 30 down.....idk wtf kind of network your school has but my school has like a 500MB/s backhaul conneection.
 
fireshot91 said:
Yes, if they're all on the network at the same time. (Since everybody likes to be signed into AIM 24/7, and to other Messaging services:rolleyes:).
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Must be really crap internet if people using social networks cause the internet to crawl..
 
think about it this way.

$30 a month for 3G

10's of thousands of dollars a year to go to college. I think you'd be getting more moneys worth by using the Wi-Fi at school

;)
 
katyoshi said:
Just wondering if people would turn off their wifi to utilize 3G and make it worth your money? I'm on a university campus. I know wifi is faster than 3G. Would you rather use 3G also to get the most out of what you're paying for? The 3G?

Just wondering btw! :)
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if you get data? why not get the fastes you can? i would never utilize 3g if i had wifi lol
 
secretanchitman said:
hell to the effing NO! 3G drains the battery way faster than wifi, and not to mention i dont have that stupid restriction of downloading apps over 10MB on the app store thing.

however, if the wifi was a LOT slower than using 3G, i would consider it...even still, the battery drain is a huge issue, and i always tend to go to wifi rather than 3G.
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I turn my wifi off because it drains the battery so fast, with wifi off and 3G on I get about double the battery life. That's on a 3GS. And I find generally the 3G connection is fast enough for internet use.
 
Moi un Mouton said:
I turn my wifi off because it drains the battery so fast, with wifi off and 3G on I get about double the battery life. That's on a 3GS. And I find generally the 3G connection is fast enough for internet use.
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That's really weird, Wi-Fi is supposed to drain the battery a lot less than than 3G.
 
katyoshi said:
Just wondering if people would turn off their wifi to utilize 3G and make it worth your money? I'm on a university campus. I know wifi is faster than 3G. Would you rather use 3G also to get the most out of what you're paying for? The 3G?

Just wondering btw! :)
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I never even considered doing this to get my money's worth or anything, but a practical reason that I don't is because I often don't get cellular signal in certain buildings and/or classrooms at my university. Our wi-fi, on the other hand, is ubiquitous.
 
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