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Go here to access your account, you'll need your email address and password as expected.

You'll see your data usage when you login, I've also been using My Data Manager and have found it pretty accurate. :)

I couldn't find the Honor V10 on willmyphonework.net. Can you confirm if you have the version of the V10 produced for use in China, as opposed to North America? If that is the case, then (according to GSMArena) the China model supports LTE bands 1, 3, 5, 8, 38, 39, 40, and 41. Unfortunately, it is missing bands 2, 4, 7, 12, 13, 17 and 66, which are used extensively in North America. Wind uses bands 4 and 66 extensively, while Public (on the Telus network) uses 2, 4, 5, and 17.

If you do have the North American model, it should support bands 2, 4, 5, 7, 12, and 17, which would allow you to use the Telus network. Freedom uses Band 66 for LTE so you would be missing out on a significant portion of their spectrum.

I'd say it's actually SAFER to be throttled to 3mbps as Public Mobile does - because high bandwidth sites like youtube won't see your great bandwidth and stream you the highest quality video off the bat - it keeps things under control. With unthrottled LTE 1 visit to a speedtest site like fast.com or ookla will burn through 100MB in less than 10 seconds!!

It's also noted that if you force your phone to actual 3G (HSPA / WCDMA) you might actually get higher than 3mbps speed - like 10Mbps plus, but ping time latency might be more variable than on LTE - so LTE will be better for most casual use.

A password manager generates and saves passwords and is useful for securely saving other info too. This is what I use but there are lots of others: https://bitwarden.com/

All web browsers have basic password managers built-in as well.

You get 100mbps even after being on Public for months? I was only getting that for the first few days until they throttled me. Are you on the old 4G LTE plan?

I doubt you'd get the same speeds if you switched over. My speedtest is here with Lucky: https://www.speedtest.net/result/i/3797478510.

There's a distinction between Wi-Fi calling (what carriers use) and calling over Wi-Fi. Even TextNow refers to it as calling over Wi-Fi: https://www.textnow.com/how-it-works

People don't generally refer to WhatsApp or FaceTime audio as Wi-Fi calling either. Also, some texting apps allow for calls to be made over data too (like Burner, for example).

Northwestern Ontario, basically as soon as I get a few KM out of a city centre, I'm on one of the mentioned 700MHz LTE bands. Band 4 is AWS 2100/1700 MHz. Towers typically have a few frequencies on them since the higher the frequency the more bandwidth available but the lower frequency bands go much much farther and penetrate buildings/trees better.

You can use the tower map to determine if the towers in your vicinity have 700MHz antennas on them and that will rule out if you're missing out on connectivity or not. Make sure to check Bell towers in the east as that's what we connect to with Public. Which bands in particular is a bit harder to determine. You can ask a friend with an Android phone on either Bell, Telus, or any of their subsidiaries to run an app like Network Cell Info in various locations around you and it will display which band(s) the device is connected to at the given time.

Tower Map: https://www.ertyu.org/steven_nikkel/cancellsites.html Network Cell Info: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.wilysis.cellinfolite

You can check current band using a tool like Network Cell Info. I'd be curious if you could confirm whether my theory is correct, everything I have read and understand it seems to be the case but no official word yet, also no contradictory information as of yet either.

That's good, and I'm fine with 3G. I want to try data on my wife's phone (I already have some) to see if it's worth upgrading her plan. (I'm playing with a tracking app which uses some data - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.greenalp.realtimetracker2 )

> turning off data doesn't re route if traffic is bad.

Sort of inexcusable. I used this for a while, and it would reroute while gmaps just hung. Not a bad app, either. Has, speed, red light warnings, etc.

You can only call people in Quebec while you stay there. You can't call someone outside of the province your in, even if your home province is different. So if your from Ontario, and you go to Quebec, it will be long distance to call someone with an Ontario number even if they guy is right beside you. Text messages will still be free. If you really do need to call someone and don't want to pay the long distance charge, you can use google hangout to call them if they have a North America number using data or wifi. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.hangoutsdialer&hl=en https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/hangouts/id643496868?mt=8