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After the 30 GB, your speed will be throttled to 256 kbps. These are 2G speeds, painfully slow. So, as long as you're sure you're not going over the cap.
That's a lot of data...
Its not really, I just checked and mine is 23gb usage a month and I work from home.
That's not an unlimited amount of data.
Is it technically unlimited, just very very slow?
Assuming you somehow use up your original data cap in... Let's say one incredibly data intensive day somehow. That leaves you with (30 days * 24 hrs/day) * 3600 seconds/hr * 256,000 bps = roughly 660 gigabytes. So I guess that's probably the limit? Plus your original cap.
Limited to 256 kbps aka unlimited
80 GB per month if you max it out. Seems pretty limited to me..
Correct. But it's a lot of data.
Modern websites are excessively bloated. That data goes fast.
I highly doubt random websites are eating your data, it's much more likely your videos and whatnot. I browse a lot on my phone and I generally use 1-2GB in a month. If I watch video, that's gone in an hour.
It's not uncommon for a single web page to use 5-10MB. Shopping and social media sites are the some of the worst since they have lots of javascript libraries and pictures. It's not hard to use a couple GB in a day without streaming anything.