I have a Municipal isp with no data cap, so I haven't had to consider such questions. If you don't mind me asking though, what do you get charged a month for such service?

Q. 1 Depending on which sites your several tabs are open to, the answer could possibly be yes. If these are ad-supported sites with the ad content changing periodically it would count against your usage. On the other hand, if the content is only fixed text/images then it probably wouldn't. Q. 2 ...it depends. An occasional 4 minute song wouldn't be a huge burden but frequent pod casts could be.

Data use is measured by millions of bytes (megabytes) and billions of bytes (a gigabyte, 1000 megabytes)

On like a Sat internet system, a limit might be 5 gigabytes per month. One podcast file could be 50 megabytes or more. Look in the folder where saved, you can see the file size. Twenty of that size world be one Gigabyte. 20% of a 5 Gigabyte allowance.

Streamed music can be one megabyte per minute. 60 MIN =60 megabytes, 8 hours= one half a gigabyte.

For tabs, just close them. Bookmark the page for later reference.

Thanks everyone. Rgreen, we pay $80/mo for 12 Gig plus $10 lease fee. It sucks. Folks I know in the city get unlimited for a way lot less cash!

Wow that is high! I sure hope that includes cable/satellite tv or at least a telephone bundle.

I've always been a fan of municipal networks and was extremely glad when our city chose to build ours. Internet alone, without a bundle, our lowest speeds are 50 mbps download, and 50 mbps upload for $34.95... and no data limits.

A number of communities have made the investment in a municipal system, but unfortunately for it to be worthwhile there needs to be enough costumer saturation. Some munies haven't done as well as others, but most seem to be doing quite well. If nothing else, it forces the major companies to offer competitive packages.

Hang in there.

No, that is just internet! Dish is supposedly coming eventually but via our telephone company which currently does not have a tower. It cost me an extra $20 to go from 10 to 12 Gig!! Ten just wasn't doing it since we have a laptop, a pc, a smart phone and a kindle all doing their updates etc.

Ouch! At those rates, I think I would go to a fast food place, or another hot spot and download everything I could and save it to the laptop and listen to it later at home lol. I hope you get more options, I think those prices are the highest I've ever heard!

I would love to live in the country, but I think I will stay in the city. I pay $28. a month with no limit to my usage.

Long time members will recall I live in rural America with no no cable or DSL.

Years ago I went from an antique 28800 DUN to a local cellphone provider's 3G Internet network, About 5 years ago the Internet network was upgraded to 4G with no operational complaints from me as it reliable and fast.

The cost however is a little steep. I was grandfathered into the 4G network so I still pay the 3G rate of $60.00 a month for 20GB. New customers are $60,00 a month for 10GB, and $80.00 a month for 20GB. No Netflix or such in this house.

DA

What does your telephone company have to do with Dish? You should be able to get an independent stand-alone satellite data service (without TV).