Seems like my data consumption is averaging out a bit, last month I used 22.4GB, this month 27.4 so the mid-20GB range seems to be the sweet spot.
I’d still like to break 40GBs in a month, just to stick to AT&T, but I’m not going out of my way to make that happen.
It’s been well over 90 days since I last paid AT&T for voice service on my cell phone and started using an iPad SIM and a SIP solution to make calls from my iPhone. Things have been good, great in fact., that is until I recently ran into a major issue with my setup. A brief recap, I use Google Voice for my phone number, I then have a SIP number setup with IPKall which is connected to my pbxes.com account, which in turn is setup with Acrobits Softphone on my iPhone.
Last week, for whatever reason, IPKall let someone else register the same number as me. So randomly my phone wouldn’t ring through, or if I didn’t pick up when someone called, the caller would ring through to this other guy. Kind of a major issue.
After some back and forth with IPKall, I got a notification from Google Voice that someone using the same number as me had successfully added it to their Google Voice account. Great.
At this point instead of trying to resolve things with the folks at IPKall who were being less than helpful, I called up the guy who had registered my number and explained the situation. Oddly enough he used my own tutorial to setup his account, in the end he was very understanding and we eventually got the number transfered back to me. I should note that the number I registered in the tutorial is not actually the number I’ve been using from IPKall, so this guy had no way of purposely registering the same number as me.
Now I’m looking for a more reliable SIP number provider, even if I have to pay a few bucks a month I think it’d be worth it to ensure that my number doesn’t randomly get handed out to someone else. If anyone has any suggestions, let me know in the comments.
I’m a little late getting this posted, but I’ve been busy painting the new office.
At any rate, my data usage is down quite a bit from last month, only used 22.4GB for July.
I don’t expect to use much data in August either, as I’ll be out of town on vacation for a week and I tend to only use excessive amounts of bandwidth for work related things.
So you’d like to turn that old iPhone into something a little more useful than an iPod touch, right? Well now you can, just order a replacement SIM from AT&T for $15 (which should come pre-scored so you can use it as a full size or micro SIM).
You can order your “replacement” SIM here: http://www.wireless.att.com/cell-phone-service/accessory-details/?q_sku=sku4530230
After you’ve installed your new SIM card in your iPhone, follow these steps. (more…)
Live any where in Nebraska, Kansas or Colorado? Notice a major slow down in your AT&T data service? Yeah… that’s just me passing through.
Last month I used 16GBs, this month I might’ve used a few GBs more.
37.1GBs! Suck it AT&T, you deserved worse considering you ditched the unlimited plans for new iPad 3G owners.