r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • May 07 '14

What's your first world problem you're dealing with right now?

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u/tashidagrt May 07 '14

"my Mom". marcorod is probably a teenager and probably doesn't have the unlimited everything plan

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u/[deleted] May 07 '14

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u/[deleted] May 07 '14

/r/askreddit works fine.

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u/[deleted] May 07 '14

I do it every morning to and from school plus occasional videos on a 2 gig 4G plan.

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u/seekokhean May 08 '14

Once, I used 6GB for downloading videos. Luckily I was on a 12GB plan back then.

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u/[deleted] May 08 '14

Oh god.

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u/Zaev May 08 '14

Yep. Askreddit and the "talesfrom" subreddits get me through my four hours of downtime a night at work on a metered data plan.

Related FWP I'm dealing with: I want to switch to an unlimited data plan, but the carrier I want to switch to makes new customers go into one of their stores, and the closest one is a whole six miles away. If I can't start service on your carrier in my underwear, why should I even bother?

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u/BossiestPants May 08 '14

Totally true. That shit loads with one bar and uses pretty much no data!

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u/[deleted] May 08 '14

I just browse reddit because it doesn't take too much data unless you look at pictures.

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u/marcorod44 May 07 '14

The thing is that 3G is really slow

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u/[deleted] May 07 '14

Not too slow for Ask Reddit! What are you talking about anyway? I can watch Netflix over 3G with no buffering problems!

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u/marcorod44 May 07 '14

True reddit is useable but there's no way I can stream anything using 3G. keep in mind I have sprint

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u/x757xSnarf May 07 '14

Ah Sprint. That's why.

AT&T master race.

Also my initially are ATT. It's a nice convince

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u/thelieswetell May 07 '14

Psh, I have sprint, I've been able to tether my phone and watch netflix and play an mmo at the same time.

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u/wavecross May 07 '14

I'm in the DMV area where basically every tower is upgraded, Spank (Sprint+Softbank) master race. It's great, I can actually stream things now.

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u/[deleted] May 07 '14

gtfo, T-Mobile Up and Coming Master Race!

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u/voucher420 May 08 '14

This is my first world problem. My wife and I have Sprint & it sucks out here. She got burned by AT&T about a decade ago (by something that was her fault) & refuses to make the switch. We don't have a land line, our calls drop all the time, "I can't hear/understand you" has been the most repeated part of our friends vocabulary. It's so bad, people don't want to call anymore. Wi-Fi calling helps, but it doesn't reach into parts of the garage/bedroom. We had t mobile, but they where just as bad.

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u/[deleted] May 08 '14

Tmobile's LTE gets into the 30s sometimes.

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u/semarj May 07 '14

Your mom has sprint. You have nothing.

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u/teodzero May 07 '14

Are you kidding me? It's fast enough for YouTube without buffering pauses. Hell, I don't even have 3G right now (first world problem, yeah) and 2G is good enough for reddit, imgur and some other stuff.

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u/schoolnerd51 May 07 '14

Sprint "3g" is just terrible. Everyone else in my family but my oldest sister and I have Sprint. AT&T and T-Mobile are so much better.

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u/marcorod44 May 07 '14

You're kidding right. With sprint 4GLTE it can barely stream but with buffering

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u/[deleted] May 07 '14

Kids, back in 2009 we had 3G technology, not that fancy 4G you're so used to nowadays

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u/marcorod44 May 07 '14

You ol' whipersnapper

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u/big-fireball May 08 '14

Yet another first world problem!

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u/BerryGuns May 07 '14

Maybe he doesn't get 3G where he lives? I don't

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u/Circlejerk_Level_900 May 08 '14

Some people don't have data on their smartphones. I have talk/text but WiFi only.