May 14, 2007 10:03 PM

Get Cingular or Sprint. You won't get shut down and have to pay $150-$200 early term fee when they shut you down.

Sling Tuner. Hava Gold. Sprint EVDO A laptop card. Moto Q EVDO

May 15, 2007 10:01 AM

UGH! First of all, DO NOT DO NOT DO NOT DO NOT EVER EVER EVER EVER tell Verizon you want to stream anything. WHY DO PEOPLE DO THIS???? UGH! Second, Verizon's policies suck. Cingular's does too. Sprint doesn't have any Terms of Service regarding what you can do on your data connection. So go with Sprint if you don't have a phone yet. If you already have Verizon, then just be careful. If you keep your streaming to under 3 to 5 Gb per month you won't have a problem. Just turn your bit rate down and watch sparingly and you'll be fine. I've never had a problem with Verizon on my Treo 700W. But I will say that when I got a data card, I went with Sprint.

Slinging with a SlingCatcher, a ProHD, a Pro, a Solo, an AV, and a Slingbox Classic. 3 Replay TV units, a Roku Photobridge and a Roku M2000 Soundbridge, an AppleTV, a Vudu, and digital cable. www.na9d.net

May 15, 2007 9:57 PM

That's the first I've heard about Sprint. There is literally no TOS when you sign up for a Sprint data card other than what is normal for a cell phone. Believe me - I read the entire thing. If you go to Verizon and sign up for a card, you see the TOS first - trust me - it's BAAAAD! So anyhow, Sprint seems to be the safest carrier. Jon

Slinging with a SlingCatcher, a ProHD, a Pro, a Solo, an AV, and a Slingbox Classic. 3 Replay TV units, a Roku Photobridge and a Roku M2000 Soundbridge, an AppleTV, a Vudu, and digital cable. www.na9d.net

May 17, 2007 1:51 PM

Sprint used to shut people down who were using "too much" data and weren't paying for "phone as modem" service, figuring a phone had no use for whatever the limit was so they had to be tethering without paying for it. I haven't heard of that happening in some time, however, nor have I heard of them kicking people off the network for any other reason. When I finally ditched T-Mobile because of their unusably slow network, I went with Sprint for exactly that reason.

May 23, 2007 8:40 PM

Yeah, those messages on howardforums are ancient. I guess once upon a time Sprint was able to track data usage but they either haven't been able to or haven't cared in a long time. Considering my average speed is 6 or 7 times the best I ever got out of T-Mobile for half the price, I'm pretty pleased with Sprint.  :-)

June 28, 2007 5:32 PM

I have AT&T, but honestly their downloads just are not fast enough to really watch sling.  But, when I use the built in WiFi I have no problem at all.  I know that doesn't really help you out with getting banned, but having watched both ways I can't say Cing/ATT at this time really has a fast enough network to make watching TV on my phone enjoyable.

Slingbox Pro Slinging Comcast cable and HD via Comcast HSI using AirLink Powerline adapters; Slingbox Classic Slinging Sunddenlink Cable and D* HR21 via Sunddenlink HSI, using Linksys Gaming adapter. 2 Slingcatchers set up to use both Slings.

June 28, 2007 5:51 PM

I have Verizon. The sales guy said dont ever go over 5GB/month. I only ever really use about a 100MB. Don't watch it much anymore. And I have my bandwidth set really low.

Jake

October 23, 2007 7:07 AM

I have VzW unlimited data plan.  How does one check what the monthly usage is so that one doesn't go over 5GB/month?  I read on one of these threads, but now can't find it, that you dial #DATA.  On my Moto Q, you can't dial outside the number pad, such as the T and A (No joke intended!)

October 24, 2007 7:00 PM

I have Sprint, a SERO plan to be specific.  So it's unlimited EVDO and technically no tethering is allowed.  Of course there are ways around that.

October 24, 2007 9:27 PM

NA9D said: DATA = 3282

It's not the letters D A T A but the numbers 2=ABC, 3=DEF, 4=GHI, 5=JKL, 6=MNO, 7=PQRS, 8=TUV, 9=WXYZ

You can't dial outside the number pad on any smart phone or pocket PC...

So the answer is #3282

NA9D:  So you're the guy who put that #DATA info on another post.  Thanks for doing it again here and explaining that it is, after all, a phone dial!  Duh.  But you know, it's interesting:  I was able to get through with that, but when Verizon's computer asked for my password, I entered it (It's all letters.) with a landline phone in front of me so I would get it right (MY Moto Q is all numbers.), and it wouldn't go through -- several times --  I asked for VzW support, and they couldn't make it work either!  Anyway, they were able to help me anyway.  The on-line data report was something I coudn't figure out looking at it on the computer.  But VzW support was able to tell me that it's in megabytes, then divide by ~1000 for kilobytes and again by ~1000 for gigabytes.  Based on that, he told me I was at about a half a gig.  Now, I don't know how many hours I have been slinging, but it isn't much -- a little each day for last 12 days to exercise the WOW factor.  But, the point is that whoever wrote you have about 40 hours per month (and it might have been you) was probably pretty much on the money.  Many thanks for your patience!  As you may have figured out, I am a typical computer user who DON'T KNOW NUTTIN'!