<p>Ok, so I understand how the data usage and rates per tier work. What I don't get is if you have to pay the fee for whatever tier you get weekly? Monthly? One time payment? I feel like I'm asking a dumb question.</p>
<p>It is part of the housing bill. My son paid for it one time for the whole year.</p>
<p>Kinda dumber question but, what do the GBs per week mean? Are they all the same speed?</p>
<p>Just as files have a certain amount of “space” that they can take up on your computer or flash drive, the GBs per week are basically measured in the same unit. It means that you can download as many files as you want up to that cap. So say you downloaded a movie or some other file that was 2.5 GB big, and then another file that was 3 GB big… You would be .5 GB over. So at the point you reached 5 GB, you’d have lower priority speed until the weekly reset. </p>
<p>Now, this isn’t limited to what you might perceive as files. The network will count streaming (a “temporary file” if I had to describe it) as using a part of your bandwidth as well. Believe me though… Streaming can take quite a bit of bandwidth up as well, especially in higher quality.</p>
<p>I would post links but I don’t think I can do that here, but if you have access to the UT 2017 facebook page, someone within 24 hours from now had asked:
“What Internet tier should I get? I use Internet for homework about 2 hours or so a day, and then Netflix quite a bit haha… is level 2 or 3 ideal? Anybody who might know I would really appreciate the feedback!”
And there are some helpful comments/links as to gauging your bandwidth use per week. The most important thing to know is that you can always upgrade your tier later if you constantly hit your weekly cap.</p>