Is it better to use Wifi or 4G while i'm at home?

I always thought that using wifi would use up alot of my data. But from what i've been reading, when using wifi you don't use your data in your plan.. so if i have a 2GB plan, would this help save me from using so much of my data?  Btw.. right now i have unlimited data.. but i'm curious.  Thanks!

brigetterad wrote:
I always thought that using wifi would use up alot of my data. But from what i've been reading, when using wifi you don't use your data in your plan.. so if i have a 2GB plan, would this help save me from using so much of my data?  Btw.. right now i have unlimited data.. but i'm curious.  Thanks!
  Using wifi will allow your phone to use that rather than the Broadband connection, so your 3G/4G usage would go down the more you use wifi. There have been people that have looked at their usage, and turned on wifi whenever possible, and their usage went from numbers like 3GB to less than 500MB.
  If you wanted to see what your usage would be, start a new billing month, and use wifi as much as possible through the month and see what it is.

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