Hi all I'm currently on Sprint with an Epic 4G phone and considering switching to T-Mobile with the LG g2x
In your experience what does tmobile throttle you down to?
Is the higher 5GB option plan still available?
Thanks!
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After you hit 5GB they will throttle the speed down to dial up speed.
If you get the 2GB plan then youll get throttled to dial up sped after you hit 2GB.
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hypersonicx said:
After you hit 5GB they will throttle the speed down to dial up speed.
If you get the 2GB plan then youll get throttled to dial up sped after you hit 2GB.
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Throttled for how long? Just the remainder of that billing cycle?
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Throttled for how long? Just the remainder of that billing cycle?
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Spyvie said:
Throttled for how long? Just the remainder of that billing cycle?
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yes just that billing cycle...
Thanks again! I'm surprised at how much they throttle you down by. Yikes dialup speed...
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or you can apply the cheat and remove the throttle
or you can apply the cheat and remove the throttle
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Not forever...you used to be able to remove the throttle in the G2 but as far as I know you are no longer able to do it. No one knows how long the fix will last untill t-mobile gets smart.
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Not forever...you used to be able to remove the throttle in the G2 but as far as I know you are no longer able to do it. No one knows how long the fix will last untill t-mobile gets smart.
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Shhhh......Lets never mention it again and maybe they will forget about it.
This sucks I got tgrottled this morning
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Will T-mo not sell you additional bandwidth when you hit your unlimit? I was just trying to figure this out on their website, but to no avail.
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What was the throttled speed that you got?
In other words you were getting 4g/3g speeds (don.t really know what the speed in MB/sec)
After throttling you now get how many MB/sec?
I just switched from a grandfathered t-zones plan to the android $10/month 200MB cap then throttle down "unlimited" plan. I just want to know how slow my internet speed will be after I hit the 200MB mark and if I will be able to use S*l*i*n*g* M*o*b*i*l*e or not. I used it for a minute and saw that I used 8 MB according the the usage chart on the TMo website. That's about 25 minutes at 4g speeds until I hit my 200 MB cap!!
After throttling you'll be on EDGE / 2G which is anywhere from 5KB/sec to 100KB/sec in my experience.
Ugh. Thats terrible.
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Here's what I get when I'm throttled.
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Thats about right and what I get to right now. Sucks none if these tricks works
Essentially you get EDGE speed which is like 20kbs
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From about 1030 am to about 130Pm the data on my phone would not work. It showed a g for gprs. Once I finally got 3g and 4g service back I ran speestest several times hitting over 7Mb down and 1.3 up...on the download front that's usually double what I normally get. Has anyone else experience this?
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I wouldn't be surprised, the tower I normally hit near my house is now giving me a consistent 5.4mb down when it has been around three starting last night.
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I'm usually right at 3.5-4 but now they are almost double that and its more consistant now and not all over the place
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No love here in my area.
The highest I've seen is 1.9
I have yet to see 4G speeds in my area.
You guys on stock? and where are you located?
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If they can double my Download speed, I may just go ahead and cancel my DSL and just Tether everything.
I already get 4-5 MB Dwn and 3-4 Up .. 10MB Down and 8mb Up would be awsome lol.
Whatever provider I have for DSL is giving me 13 MB Down and 7 MB Up.
I just wish I had my works internet. 48Mb Down and 38 MB Up
I find it surprising that indy has speeds like this. You would think it would be the bigger areas
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...I may just go ahead and cancel my DSL and just Tether everything.
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Please don't do that. While I agree that an Unlimited plan should truly be unlimited, folks who do this are the very reason they've implemented capped allocated rate plans.
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If they can double my Download speed, I may just go ahead and cancel my DSL and just Tether everything.
I already get 4-5 MB Dwn and 3-4 Up .. 10MB Down and 8mb Up would be awsome lol.
Whatever provider I have for DSL is giving me 13 MB Down and 7 MB Up.
I just wish I had my works internet. 48Mb Down and 38 MB Up
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Ive seen a few people on here saying they get a few mbs up...never have I gotten above 1.3
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Are any of you guys located in socal?
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I'm located in the suburbs outside of chicago. I've also noticed my speeds starting to get better. My uploads seems to be a stable 1-1.3 mbps and my downloads are now at least 3 mbps with spikes to 5 mbps down with full bars.
So even though my download speeds have doubled coming from the Vibrant! My upload speeds are the same!
Does this sound right!
I get around 6 to 9mb downloads and only 1mb uploads!
G2X
Better than me. I get around 5-6 down and 1 up
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I get about 2 meg uploads on 4G and 10 megs on Wifi.
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I get about 2 meg uploads on 4G and 10 megs on Wifi.
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Wow, those are uploads correct!
I still get 1mb uploads with wifi, but up to almost 11mb on downloads!
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i get 5-6 down and 1.67 up. wifi 16 down
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I'm speechless! Lol!
G2X
So is there a way to improve my upload speeds?
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What are you uploading? Do you really need to upload from your phone
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What are you uploading? Do you really need to upload from your phone
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When I uploaded almost 100 pictures to Picasa this past Saturday it did it pretty quick.
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What are you uploading? Do you really need to upload from your phone
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Not really! Lol! Rarely do it, just curious why mine are so low compare to others! But I can live with it!
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I used to get on mytouch3g 3-4mb down and 1mb up, on the G2X I'm getting 1-2mb down and 1 up... I dont even know bout to call T-Mobile to make sure I'm on a 4g plan or something. yes I have the new sim in the phone.
Ive never bothered to test my mobile speeds. what is everyone using to test?
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Ive never bothered to test my mobile speeds. what is everyone using to test?
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I use speed test
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mt3g said:
I used to get on mytouch3g 3-4mb down and 1mb up, on the G2X I'm getting 1-2mb down and 1 up... I dont even know bout to call T-Mobile to make sure I'm on a 4g plan or something. yes I have the new sim in the phone.
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They told me they had to switch me over to the 4G plan.
There is no 4G plan or sim card! There are newer sim cards which they call 3rd and 4rth Generation!
I did switch my sim card and I did get better speeds, but I'm still using the same plan as my Vibrant!
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Link http://www.noticeorange.com/StoryBo...RpY2VvcmFuZ2VyDQsSBFNpdGUY2pTyFww&font_size=9
Wow what will they do next?
Edit: UPDATE (another page found)
http://myona.com/2011/08/01/att-will-throttle-your-unlimited-data-plan/
by the looks of my data usage im guessing that i will be one of the few that gets throttled
anyone else?
I'd be all in favor of this under the following stipulations:
1. You don't go from full speed to EDGE in one shot. 25% increments or something.
2. You are given fair and ample warning at all stages and before each tier drop
3. They bring back the $30 unlimited plan
Well I'm in the 30 dollar unlimited plan.and I say no. I payed for it, and I should have it all not some of it.
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Mines not as bad but its definietly getting worst, esp since I started to watch netflix heavily on my phone this month and very end of last month.
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I'd be all in favor of this under the following stipulations:
1. You don't go from full speed to EDGE in one shot. 25% increments or something.
2. You are given fair and ample warning at all stages and before each tier drop
3. They bring back the $30 unlimited plan
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Wow! You sure have changed your mind on data, power users, and unlimited. Haha welcome to the dark side.
-Figured i needed a signature for my phone. This is it......
I think this is just AT&T wanting you to change data plans so they don't have to have unlimited stuff anymore. Just another way to gouge us with fees.
Yeah well at that rate I prolly will have to.I can't stand any slower speeds than I have now, and then they wanna make it slower...well good job att.guess you win again.I know that 30 unlimited is prolly overpriced...but then you say " hey I got unlimited so its worth it" not the case anymore.
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Mines not as bad but its definietly getting worst, esp since I started to watch netflix heavily on my phone this month and very end of last month.
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This month is gonna be close (6 more days and at 1800MB). After that I'll loophole myself into unlimited and stop caring.
Where do you get those charts from?
Hell Yeah I love having my bandwidth throttled, yes!
I wouldn't mind a throttle if it was getting throttled faster.
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I think they are doing this so we don't rape their LTE network when it's launched. Regardless it's still lame on att's part. It would also be nice if they at least gave us a ballpark of what the top 5 percent are consuming.
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Ooops!
I think I read the ballpark is anything over an average of 5 gb
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Used 5.7gb the first month I had unlimited, with 5 days left in this billing cycle, I'm up to 7.5gb! Netflixin a movie right now!
Is att unlimited or "unlimited"? My first att phone was an iPhone 2nd Gen. I got grandfathered into the unlimited plan when I got my captivate.
I was not worried about it before but now I have Netflix on the go. Its starting to guzzle bandwidth.
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I don't think people really understand how big of a deal this is...
For someone that only has a 2 gb its prolly not, but to the people that pay good money. And have payed good money for a long time for unlimited, it just makes me mad at att.
I understand the whole thing. Just curious is this in the new contract that we signed.
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I don't think people really understand how big of a deal this is...
For someone that only has a 2 gb its prolly not, but to the people that pay good money. And have payed good money for a long time for unlimited, it just makes me mad at att.
I understand the whole thing. Just curious is this in the new contract that we signed.
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It's just TMo, it is unlimited, just slow. But when it does come, we will find a work around just like the guys on TMo have done. I'm not too worried.
Rape that bandwidth whilst you can!
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I really hope so. Of the 5% Im probably in the top 2%, so Ill be throttled within the first couple of weeks, every billing cycle.
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Oh I'll hit it the first couple of days.
-Figured i needed a signature for my phone. This is it......
I know we get unlimited data(2GB), but is there a way to keep track of the usage? I didn't see anything on the phone or VM site.
I use this app called radioOpt ..it is a widget an it tells you how much data youve used with wifi and regular 3g..see in the pic it on the top.
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Another option:
http://lifehacker.com/5822127/my-data-manager-monitors-and-manages-your-androids-data-plan
Nice finds. I've found one too, a little widget counter.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.roysolberg.android.datacounter&feature=related_apps
I like the look of radio opt a lot.
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There is a 2gb cap? What happens after we go over? I use 2gb easy. Figured sense sprint offers true unlimited data vm would too?
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I know we get unlimited data(2GB), but is there a way to keep track of the usage? I didn't see anything on the phone or VM site.
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There is a 2gb cap? What happens after we go over? I use 2gb easy. Figured sense sprint offers true unlimited data vm would too?
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We do get unlimited data. Just after 2.5GB in a month, VM will throttle your speed for the rest of the month.
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Yeah just seen this from sprints website but it says it won't begin till october 2011. Here's the link http://newsroom.sprint.com/article_display.cfm?article_id=1970
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We do get unlimited data. Just after 2.5GB in a month, VM will throttle your speed for the rest of the month.
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So will sprint be the only service provider to offer truly unlimited data now?
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I wonder if current vm customers are going to be grandfathered in? Hmm...
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Most of us probably don't even get 256 kbps anyway
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Most of us probably don't even get 256 kbps anyway
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Sad isn't it? My speed depends on the location. 600's in the city and 300's at home. Uploads seem to be faster every time, wish it was flipped.
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I wonder if current vm customers are going to be grandfathered in? Hmm...
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No, this will be for everyone. According to the press release.
Yeah I didn't think so .
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No, this will be for everyone. According to the press release.
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Lol, I use a Thunderbolt, and my GF has a Triumph. Even when comparing 3G to 3G, My Thunderbolt is twice as fast as her Triumph. 4G on my T-bolt makes her Triumph feel like its running on 1x. I can't imagine how bad "throttling" VM 3G service would be.
I was wondering what's the best deal out their. I want unlimited data and tethering.
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I was wondering what's the best deal out their. I want unlimited data and tethering.
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It would help significantly to say what region you are in.
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I was wondering what's the best deal out their. I want unlimited data and tethering.
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There is no "best" deal, but a popular one I know of and use is with T-Mobile, a non-contract $30 a month plan with unlimited data(first 5gb at 4g speed) unlimited texting and 100 talking minutes. I rooted my phone and can now tether without the fee and I use an app to make free phone calls. 5gb of data is a lot for phone usage, even if you tether it should last you a month. If you're looking for a home internet service though you should still order wifi because 4g speed isn't great on laptops.
i have sprint.. been with them almost 4 years.. i love them.. well service sucked for a while but now i get great 4g lte in my state so im happy.. i get unlimited talk.. text.. data.. and use wifi tether all the time with no issues.. i would hate to have a limit on data..
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i have sprint.. been with them almost 4 years.. i love them.. well service sucked for a while but now i get great 4g lte in my state so im happy.. i get unlimited talk.. text.. data.. and use wifi tether all the time with no issues.. i would hate to have a limit on data..
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Show me a speedtest with your Sprint N5 I wanna compare with T-Mo
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Show me a speedtest with your Sprint N5 I wanna compare with T-Mo
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thats in my house.. If I go outside its better
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thats in my house.. If I go outside its better
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Very nice to see Sprint chugging along
Unfortunately we wont see LTE in Hawaii from Sprint until 2015-2016
I'm in central va , Richmond
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There is no "best" deal, but a popular one I know of and use is with T-Mobile, a non-contract $30 a month plan with unlimited data(first 5gb at 4g speed) unlimited texting and 100 talking minutes. I rooted my phone and can now tether without the fee and I use an app to make free phone calls. 5gb of data is a lot for phone usage, even if you tether it should last you a month. If you're looking for a home internet service though you should still order wifi because 4g speed isn't great on laptops.
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I'm with T-mob and pay much more than you for pretty much the same thing. What apps are you using?
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