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Internet only account is a disappointment
I just cancelled my Internet-only account because it's a joke. After the allotted data, it goes to a crawl. It cannot even compete with the 56K modem in the 90's. I switched to Xfinity for now.
I lived with a 200 gig data-cap for 5 months before I was able to switch to TM 5G Unlimited. I have two suggestions for living with a a data-cap that makes life more bearable. The first is to install a good OTA antenna that can receive local channels, and use that (when possible) for TV viewing. Secondly, YouTube TV has a very helpfull feature that allows you to stream at various resolutions (240p all the way to 4K). If you sent the resolution to 480p/30 you will consume about 0.6 Gig per hour of viewing….you can watch quite a large amount of TV at that resolution and the picture quality is still pretty reasonable. By comparison 720P/60 consumes about 1.9 G/hr, and 1080P/60 consumes 3 G/hour. 4K/60 is insane and consumes 16 G/hr. So use OTA when you can, stream mostly at 480p, and save the high-def stuff for special-occasion movies or sports and you can live with a data-cap.
