G+_Elizabeth Whitmire Posted April 29, 2015 Share Posted April 29, 2015 Arrrgh I'm watching last night's episode again and I can't hear that about the Google Fi "money back" without chiming in. I think, if you look at the Google Fi FAQ, you'll see that you don't get money back when you use less than your planned amount of data. You instead get credit toward your next bill. That is why this is so cool. Jason Howell Myriam Joire Tony Hannides Oh yeah forgot to say: Thanks for a great show! As always. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Jason Howell (raygun01) Posted April 29, 2015 Share Posted April 29, 2015 Good point, we obviously missed that. That makes it a bit easier then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Ted Cannelongo Posted April 29, 2015 Share Posted April 29, 2015 I still don't understand then why you'd want to set a data budget above the minimum. It looks like 1 GB is the lowest you can select, so why not just pick that and pay the actual overage instead of giving Google an interest-free loan? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Midwest Concert Video Posted April 30, 2015 Share Posted April 30, 2015 Another thing AAA missed about Fi is that all communication over WiFi is via a VPN. Nobody is going to sniff your WiFi stream unless they have some NSA hardware with them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Dino D Fantozzi Posted April 30, 2015 Share Posted April 30, 2015 Midwest Concert Video I think they mainly had issue with commercial Wi-Fi throttling Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Ted Cannelongo Posted April 30, 2015 Share Posted April 30, 2015 Yeah, I really don't see them "hopping" to WiFi as you pass by so much as connecting if you're stationary near a hotspot. They'll need to both establish the VPN connection but also check the quality of the Internet access to which the access point is connected before trying to switch a call or your data over to it. I suspect there will be many times where using the 4G data will be superior to a local WiFi network in terms of available bandwidth, so I wonder how they will optimize cost vs. performance in those scenarios. Lots of questions here. Hopefully Jason Howell will be able to try it soon and get a good idea of how it operates in practice. I'm definitely intrigued by the offering. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Elizabeth Whitmire Posted April 30, 2015 Author Share Posted April 30, 2015 Dino D Fantozzi? They were just speculating about that though, right? We don't know yet to expect any throttling? ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Jason Howell (raygun01) Posted April 30, 2015 Share Posted April 30, 2015 Midwest Concert Video I remember talking about the encrypted tunnel for your data. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Jason Howell (raygun01) Posted April 30, 2015 Share Posted April 30, 2015 Elizabeth Whitmire right, we know very little at this point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Dino D Fantozzi Posted April 30, 2015 Share Posted April 30, 2015 What I am saying is, most commercial Wi-Fi I bump into doesn't feel full speed - it's the commercial free Wi-Fi provider that seems to throttle their output.? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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