Newbie Cell Phone Questions...

[TerryMiller]

While I don't use it much, I'll go along with G-mail. For decades, the wife and I have had our primary e-mail at AOL, but there have been a few occasions that their e-mail is limited. I once had a guy want me to send him the full sized jpg file of one of my photos. As huge as those files are, AOL wouldn't allow it, so I sent it via G-mail.

While this might not be critical to you, were you to need to attach a number of documents or pictures to an e-mail, it would be then.

 

[MacFromOK]

I got an ATT Premier business account. Costs me $135 a month but I get 100gb phone data AND 100gb hotspot data, all at 5G speeds. I am on the road 28 days a month.

I think you'll find that 10gb will not last as long as you think. I had a 10gb account with Straight talk and tethered my laptop to it before I knew better. Theres a LOT of background communications going on... especially in W10. EVERYTHING on there wants to "report home". My 10gb was blasted through in 3 weeks. No heavy streaming. YT or music. First thing I'd do is turn off windows update. That alone will take at least a couple gig a month. I dare say! Keep an eye on your data usage!

Hehe... did you notice I had only used 204 MB in 5 days? At this rate I won't use 2G a month.

I'm running Windows XP, and am use to DIALUP data speeds.

Updates on EVERYTHING are turned off. Javascript is turned off, unless I turn it on temporarily for something specific (this was/is for virus protection as much as speed increase though).

I do appreciate your input, they're all good ideas.

 

[Truckdriver]

Hehe... did you notice I had only used 204 MB in 5 days? At this rate I won't use 2G a month.

I'm running Windows XP, and am use to DIALUP data speeds.

Updates on EVERYTHING are turned off. Javascript is turned off, unless I turn it on temporarily for something specific (this was/is for virus protection as much as speed increase though).

I do appreciate your input, they're all good ideas.

I noticed. Didn't know you were running dinosaur bones for an OS either...lol. I dont think MS has ANY updates available for XP anymore anyway!

 

[MacFromOK]

Heya @dennishoddy...

Just curious, what email service do you recommend?

I presume it ain't gmail...

 

[dancer4life]

We use Cox internet for our business and get 10 email addresses with it.
Also I have 3 Gmail email addresses as well that's associated with various websites that we own.
They all work very well.

 

[dennishoddy]

Heya @dennishoddy...

Just curious, what email service do you recommend?

I presume it ain't gmail...

I've been using hotmail since the XT days. It's owned by Outlook now. Not sure if you can still sign on to hotmail. Seems I remember something about being grandfathered in and get to keep the internet address. I get very little spam, and have the ability to block those that do spam. Outlook is used by a lot of commercial businesses. My last employer, OG&E used outlook for their email service.
I do have a gmail account that I use for a burner. Say for instance I want to enter a contest to win a thousand rounds of 9mm from an internet gun site. I know its just an application that will be sold to advertisers but I don't care . I might win, and don't get their spam emails on my primary email.

 

[MacFromOK]

I've had some yahoo emails for the same reason, to protect my ISP email.

Thanks.

 

[MacFromOK]

Do you guys have any idea how to tell which tower your phone uses at home?

A while back, @blake711 sent me an aerial photo showing 3 towers in a rough triangle around us, but they're all 3rd party towers and I have no clue how (or whether) I can tell which one my phone is using.

Any ideas? Thanks.

 

[O4L]

Do you guys have any idea how to tell which tower your phone uses at home?

A while back, @blake711 sent me an aerial photo showing 3 towers in a rough triangle around us, but they're all 3rd party towers and I have no clue how (or whether) I can tell which one my phone is using.

Any ideas? Thanks.

There's an app for that. [emoji16]


I think the one I have is Open Signal.

 

[MacFromOK]

There's an app for that. [emoji16]


I think the one I have is Open Signal.

Cool, thanks!