GRlevel 3 KB usage.

[Doyle McIntosh]

I am going to purchase a wireless internet card through AT&T for chasing this spring. The one I am looking at is a USBConnect Mercury, its only going to cost me 60 bucks for the two year contract, but its also 48 cents per Kilobyte of information I receive. All I plan on having open while chasing is GRlevel 3 and the spc page. Does anyone have a rough idea of how many KB's grlevel3 takes per download?

 

[Robert Dewey]

Whoa... are you sure it's $0.48 per KB?

One L3 NEXRAD scan will cost you about $9.60, at an average size of 20KB.

 

[Joey Ketcham]

I think Doyle is confused, it's 5GB limit per month and if you somehow go over that you get charged some odd cents per MB I believe it is.. not KB. You aren't going to pay $60/month for the service and on top of that pay 48 cents per kilobyte.

 

[Robert Dewey]

Just looked over their press release:

Pricing and Availability

The AT&T USBConnect Mercury is available today at no cost¹ through AT&T business sales channels, online at wireless.att.com and in company-owned AT&T retail locations for customers who choose a two-year DataConnect plan of $60 or more. AT&T offers a variety of DataConnect rate plans, including a plan for up to 5 gigabytes (GB) of domestic use for $60 a month for customers.


Customers traveling outside the U.S. can choose one of AT&T's DataConnect North America or DataConnect Global plans. The DataConnect North America plan includes 100 megabytes (MB) of monthly data use in Canada and Mexico plus 5 GB of monthly data use in the U.S. for $109.99 per month. DataConnect Global plans offer discounted data rates in 67 popular countries plus 5 GB of data use in the U.S. For $139.99 per month customers receive 100MB of monthly data in those 67 countries, or for $229.99 per month customers receive 200MB of monthly use in those same 67 countries. Visit www.att.com/wirelessinternational for more information.
For the complete array of AT&T offerings, visit www.att.com.

 

[Robert Dewey]

Looks like Joey beat me to it.

 

[J Kinkaid]

Why not buy the card on ebay and be contract free ? I have the exact same card and it's very nice and gets great signal when hooked up to my amp and external Antenna. I just wish AT&T would expand the 3G !!! Now you can only pay $20 a month for that card if you already have a voice plan.

 

[Clarence Bennett]

This is interesting. I have AT&T with the $60 package and my usage is unlimited.

 

[J Kinkaid]

This is interesting. I have AT&T with the $60 package and my usage is unlimited.

They did away with unlimited in October so you are good untill you make any changes to your account

 

[Clarence Bennett]

So they have broken the terms of the agreement then? I may have to pay them a little visit. Quite honestly, I think their service is pathetic compared to Verizon. This may be a good opportunity to switch carriers.

 

[J Kinkaid]

So they have broken the terms of the agreement then? I may have to pay them a little visit. Quite honestly, I think their service is pathetic compared to Verizon. This may be a good opportunity to switch carriers.

You are still under the terms that you agreed too and still have unlimited data. I have both services and the big V is not any better down here on the gulfcoast.

 

[Skip Talbot]

I still have unlimited for $15 a month thanks to the tethering loophole.

 

[J Kinkaid]

I still have unlimited for $15 a month thanks to the tethering loophole.

Just take your sim out and put it in a data card $15 unlimited data