Hey gang, new TB owner here, previously a AT&T customer for 7+ years. With my Inspire it was nearly impossible to get to 5GB of data because my data speeds were dreadful so I mostly stayed on WiFi. With the TB I get insane speeds and I use 4G a "decent" amount but switch to WiFi when I'm home. I'm on day 19 of my billing cycle and have already used 6GB, WTF!!! I didn't see that coming. What are you guys averaging a month? I know we have unlimted data but don't want to draw any attention to myself.
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I'm on a revolution, got it on day 1. In the 11 days I had it for that billing cycle that ended the 6th I used 12gb with generous 4g and upto now now I've used 14gb so far with the same usage, I know what you mean lol
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I'm on a revolution, got it on day 1. In the 11 days I had it for that billing cycle that ended the 6th I used 12gb with generous 4g and upto now now I've used 14gb so far with the same usage, I know what you mean lol
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I used 21 gigs and I am 24 days in my bill cycle...the only reason its that high is because I was running netflix on the wii for two day straight non stop
ISP's need to understand that data caps will cripple online services like netflix, dropbox, etc.
I hope VZW comes to their senses and lifts data caps.
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Am at 1.8 GB on day 7 of billing cycle. Runrate for about 8 GB in 30 days. With LTE being faster than most people's WIFI, I don't think you are alone...
6gb isn't too much actually compared to others. No worry Verizon isn't really into throttling everyones service contrary to the belief of some Verizon really is interested in keeping their costumers happy.
I hit 5gb before the billing rolled over. Iy happens when you download 10 Roms a month and stream music and video.
Cool. Glad to I'm not alone, when average over 20mb dl its easy to rip through data. LTE is the truth!
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I envy you all. No LTE here in Wahiawa, Hawaii. I'd like to take advantage of the hotspot feature with LTE one day. 3g hotspot doesn't make any sense due to have cable internet.
With the 3g I do about 2gb/month.
Absolutely! Last month I had somewhere about 80gb of usage for the cycle. It's easy on 4G. Too easy.
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I did over 35 gigabytes the other day when I was downloading and installing The Old Republic beta...
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Damn, I use about 7GB/month and I thought that was a lot. Guess I don't need to worry about being throttled.....
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michaelkahl said:
ISP's need to understand that data caps will cripple online services like netflix, dropbox, etc.
I hope VZW comes to their senses and lifts data caps.
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That's exactly what they want, so they can sell their own services. ISPs are scared of being nothing but "dumb pipes."
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I envy you all. No LTE here in Wahiawa, Hawaii. I'd like to take advantage of the hotspot feature with LTE one day. 3g hotspot doesn't make any sense due to have cable internet.
With the 3g I do about 2gb/month.
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We envy you being in Hawaii!!!
I use on average about 12 gb a month, and that was with my Eris. I got my bolt the last week of may so I'm sure it will be around 15 gb a month or so
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Thanks to you guys, I will probably never be in the top 5%.
I'm at 4 GB
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Thanks to you guys, I will probably never be in the top 5%.
I'm at 4 GB
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The most I use is just around 1GB of traffic. What are you guys d/ling??
I'm at 15GB on day 27 of my billing cycle with only 3G where I live. All of Battlestar Gallactica on Netflix for Android and a good chunk of Farscape will do that I guess
im 7 days into my billing cycle and im at 2.5GBs............................. just got 4G going 3 days ago so i've been going nuts
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I just got the dreaded text from t-mo and was immediately throttled to .006mbps. Seriously, FML. I have like 20 days left in my cycle. ARRRRGGHHHH
I even was desperate enough to try the (now defunct) alternative APN internet1.voicestream.com. I even tried internets 2 and 3!!!
God forbid I run into any feral cats on my walk home, because I am going to punt something and I prefer pine cones, but homeless cats fly further.
Happened to me last month. It sucks balls bug time. Sorry dude, calling tmo wont help either trust me....
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Does anyone know if buying tmos tethering plan increases the cap?
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Does anyone know if buying tmos tethering plan increases the cap?
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It does not.
I get throttled every month. I make good use of my phones browsing. Its starting to annoy me. My cycle ends on the 21st and I been throttled for 2 weeks now.
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The way to get around data throttling is to have a friend that works at TMO and use their unused $5 employee data only plan. I now effectively have 5 more GB on a spare SIM card. Once I get throttled on my MT4G I start tethering on my MT3G.
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The way to get around data throttling is to have a friend that works at TMO and use their unused $5 employee data only plan. I now effectively have 5 more GB on a spare SIM card. Once I get throttled on my MT4G I start tethering on my MT3G.
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That's pretty nifty. Now only if I knew any tmo employees...
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That's pretty nifty. Now only if I knew any tmo employees...
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Your only 4 hours from TMO 's headquarters. Take a road trip, find a bar close to HQ, and find a group of ppl w TMO phones.
Just wondering if anyone can help me out with any tweaks to beat this damn 60kbps throttle from tmobile. I have tried the patch that was created for the froyo roms but it didn't work for me. Any information would be greatly appreciated please PM me. Its best the information isn't posted publicly due to the brown nosing tmobile turds that troll these forums. Thanks in advance.
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pm me too! im at day 2 of my billing cycle and am already at 1.5GB/ month out of the 5GB i get capped every month! i dont believe there is a way around it though!!
Stop being cheap and buy the 10gb plan lol
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There is no way around the cap. It is done of T-Mobiles servers and linked to your SIM card. Many people have tried to get around it without any luck.
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Stop being cheap and buy the 10gb plan lol
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I can dig what you're saying but I'd like to think of it as being resourceful rather than cheap. After all it is android, several exploits and loopholes exist for other devices already. Ill keep fishing and maybe I can figure it out. Maybe IP/MAC spoofing would work to avoid the asshats at T-Mobile.
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Stop being cheap and buy the 10gb plan lol
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thats what i did lol theres your throttle fix.
It's not a work-around to the T-Mobile cap exactly. But by fine tuning when and how your installed apps use data, can keep you under the cap. For example instead of streaming podcast with Mediafly I installed DogCatcher. I set the download permissions for the application to only update when connected to WiFi and plugged in.
That alone has cut my data usage in half. Fine tuning other settings in apps like email, facebook and twitter have also cut down my data usage. I went from always bumping the data cap to moving to the next lowest data rate plan.
Something to consider!
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Stop being cheap and buy the 10gb plan lol
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im not being cheap at all!! but is it possible i can up to the 10GB/ month? i just started a 2 yr contract 2 months ago and i get capped everymonth so far to 56k speeds...i pay 100 dollars a month and i think thats alot already! thats no fun when i dont get access to wifi everywhete like most of you.
If you change your phone number & get a new SIM chip it resets yer data usage. Setup google voice, get 5GIG plan - wait 2 weeks & spend $15 to have phone number changed and get another 5Gig. Two more weeks, billing cycle starts over, another 5GIG. Wait 2 more weeks and change phone number again - 5 more gig. Repeat every month. If you use google voice then everyone will still have your phone number. I think to get the 10gig plan it's 30 bucks so this saves you 15 bucks a month. Of course its also a huge pain in the ass for 15 bucks.
Lol that's actually pretty damn clever. A huge undertaking, but still clever. Well done.
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Well I found the best solution. Screw T-Mobile and every lie they represent. I switched to sprints true unlimited with no datacap or throttle. Thanks for all of yalls feedback.
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Well I found the best solution. Screw T-Mobile and every lie they represent. I switched to sprints true unlimited with no datacap or throttle. Thanks for all of yalls feedback.
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Well those of us who like data speed don't have the option of Sprint.
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Switchbg to sprint would = same speed as capd speed for tmo that's why I swtch from sprint
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Well u guess your service area for Sprint kinda sucks, the data speeds are way faster on this phone than they ever were on my g2x
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Well u guess your service area for Sprint kinda sucks, the data speeds are way faster on this phone than they ever were on my g2x
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Sprint is unlimited and true they don't throttle - HOWEVER what they do is kick you off the network and cancel your contract if you use "too much" data. Happened to me a year or two ago.
Well regardless, I'm satisfied with the new beast. And still have the G2X on the side to play around with.
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HAHA i still have the old $25 unlimited NO throttle plan
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im not being cheap at all!! but is it possible i can up to the 10GB/ month? i just started a 2 yr contract 2 months ago and i get capped everymonth so far to 56k speeds...i pay 100 dollars a month and i think thats alot already! thats no fun when i dont get access to wifi everywhete like most of you.
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$10 more and u will have 5g. Just call the customer service and ask them. I did and I'm on 5g. $87.08 a month for me. But I got a 15% discount cause I'm a firefighter or it would be 102.98
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I am on grandfathered unlimited and used 10gb last month. Is that using too much? Will verizon notice Im tethering? Also for ppl that use wifi tether, is it the download or upload it shows in the app how much data im using?
I used 15 without tethering. I don't know when the alarm goes off or if it even does.
I use about 20gb a month watching netflix
I'm always using more than 7Gb,and sometimes more a month
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I doubt they would notice... For the past year and a half since I had my thunderbolt and then DROID razr I was using wifi tether heavily since I didn't have home internet service. And since my 4G speed was great I was playing battlefield online. I was averaging between 120gb and 140gb a month and they never said nothing... So I think your safe... 10 gb is nothing...
this is one of my online bills
131985743 kb = 125.871 gb
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Thx for the replies. I been streaming football and just didnt want them to notice and cut me off
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I usually download a 25 gig file from my dropbox at night just to eat up data and stick it to Verizon for over charging my wife on her shared data plan. I think I'm about 175 gig for the month.
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I usually download a 25 gig file from my dropbox at night just to eat up data and stick it to Verizon for over charging my wife on her shared data plan. I think I'm about 175 gig for the month.
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LMAO... Ya that is how I feel now... I really don't care if they boot me off of their network cause I am really getting tired of their ****!! I called in the other day and the cs rep said that I was averaging 12gb per month and I have been with Verizon for about a year now so your def alright... He said that the average user uses 2-3gb per month and I laughed (silently) cause when all these Apple fanboys and gals get the LTE iphone we will see what the average is then! :laugh:
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LMAO... Ya that is how I feel now... I really don't care if they boot me off of their network cause I am really getting tired of their ****!! I called in the other day and the cs rep said that I was averaging 12gb per month and I have been with Verizon for about a year now so your def alright... He said that the average user uses 2-3gb per month and I laughed (silently) cause when all these Apple fanboys and gals get the LTE iphone we will see what the average is then! :laugh:
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Lol yeah. When i had my iphone i barely used 3g. Only wifi at home or buddies homes. 4g is so fast im always wondering what to look up just to use it
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Lmao!!!!
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Wow...
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Went to a talk by a big shot at sprint last week who told a story about cracking down on a guy who used 540 GB one month. So I think you're okay
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How much data is to much? I don't want to send any red flags about my account which already may be to late because I'm at 12gb lol.
None I use 30GB and don't have a problem.
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None I use 30GB and don't have a problem.
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Thats alot of mobile porn.
http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g...flew-over-the-cuckoo.gif#jack off gif 350x200
No I use phone as Wi-Fi hotspot to power whole house which is my iPad Mac Netflix on my tv and app and software updates and app updates. Also I update my nexus to the latest nightly builds at about half a GB done every 2 days it calculates correctly with no porn
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I use 250gb per month...
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Jeez, that's awesome. Take full advantage while you can.
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I have unlimited too, and I use around 5 GB without tethering and haven't heard anything from Verizon.
I also read somewhere that it's unlimited users on 3G phones that get throttled and have issues. Phones with 4G data don't get throttled or taken notice by Verizon. A quick Google search can show some talk supporting the statement, so that's something to think about!
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I use 250gb per month...
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Holy crap! And I thought my record of 113gb was insane! What do you do?
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I generally go through about 12-50gb a month...just depends on how much 4g time I can get my hands on lol.
a close friend of mine uses 60-80 per month streaming HD video (netflix, nhl gamecenter, nfl games, etc) and has never heard anything. Just another point of data for context
Oh yeah lol. I'm thinking about canceling my cable internet because I don't get the speeds advertised. Sad my phone has a better and more consistent connection than my cable internet.
We top 5% 4G users might be "flagged" in the future and be placed on "verizon network optimization."
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We top 5% 4G users might be "flagged" in the future and be placed on "verizon network optimization."
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I've been hearing that forever. Its not going to happen. Due to situations outside of my control I needed to ditch my unlimited. And I miss it ever day
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Why would we get flagged? We have unlimited data. We chose not to buy a phone subsidized by Verizon so that we can keep unlimited data.
I am the IT guy for a church and school and I've upgraded 10 users to 4G phones through eBay and Craigslist. One of our staff members uses 40GB a month, I use about 15 GB. All of us go well over 2 GB, but what does it matter? We have unlimited data!
It would stand to reason that AT&T users with grandfathered unlimited plans are more abundant than us since they can still upgrade through AT&T and keep unlimited data.
I don't see why anyone would get flagged. The number of unlimited data VZW users will only decrease over time. Verizon makes more money than anyone. They add towers practically every week.
I say, sit back, and soak up the data!
I run my entire house off my wifi tether. No cable, no internet only my galaxy s3....I'm a flashaholic... so i switch between roms almost daily. Running three cpu's and two phones off the connection. Grandfathered contact like a mug lol
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I run my entire house off my wifi tether. No cable, no internet only my galaxy s3....I'm a flashaholic... so i switch between roms almost daily. Running three cpu's and two phones off the connection. Grandfathered contact like a mug lol
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Those running there home internet off their Galaxy (or any phone via Wi-Fi tether), how does your family use the internet when you're not around? I often considered this, but doesn't seem practical.
lol you got me beat
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I use 250gb per month...
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Lol you got me beat on that one, i surprised myself had messed around and used 170GB ...still trying to figure that one out though:good:
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I leave the unlimited rooted phone at home. Works great runs my entire server network thanks to root
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I just looked at my data usage for the month and got a major shocker. this is why I love Sprint, the only reason mind you...
1.66TB total
nevermind, brainfart.
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I just looked at my data usage for the month and got a major shocker. this is why I love Sprint, the only reason mind you...
1.66TB total
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That's only 1.6 GB lol. Says KB next to the amount of data, not MB
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I just looked at my data usage for the month and got a major shocker. this is why I love Sprint, the only reason mind you...
1.66TB total
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You're missing the Gigabytes, there....
I have 2GB 3/4G, with speed limit to 64kbps unlimited after that. I'll manage If you don't stream films (yay for microSD) and you don't use Google Maps (yay for mapswithme), then you don't easily get over 1GB
oops, don't know why it multiplied like that in my head. also, though, i looked again, that's only 1 day's worth of data, so still....
my peak seems to have been in February with 14GB
What the hell did you do, watch the entire Youtube database?
Last time I had a peak like that, My TF700 updated to Jelly Bean over my SGS3's 3G network; I had set it up as a router, so my tablet thought it was WiFi.. Oops! :laugh:
That's one reason I love sprint too. Very easy to go over 2GB a month, so nice to not have that worry!!
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I never reach the max data per month on my phone (2GB / 10$)
But on a tablet - it's a mess because I tether it to my iPad every day, so I often reach the cap (6GB / 20$)
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What the hell did you do, watch the entire Youtube database?
Last time I had a peak like that, My TF700 updated to Jelly Bean over my SGS3's 3G network; I had set it up as a router, so my tablet thought it was WiFi.. Oops! :laugh:
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I don't even remember. BUT, I'm thinking this is missing tethering data, as I do run torrents through my connection by WiFi Tether on my laptop. there's just no way my actual data usage is that low for the last few months
edit: nope, definitely not right. see image
I find it hard to use data usage while in the city. Love wifi coverage!
And this is why I love Verizon unlimited 4g Lte that actually works.
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And this is why I love Verizon unlimited 4g Lte that actually works.
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If I may ask, WHAT IN THE HECK DO YOU DO ON YOUR PHONE?!?!
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If I may ask, WHAT IN THE HECK DO YOU DO ON YOUR PHONE?!?!
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Video and tether. Plus my house is right next to a tower so I never get less than 25 mbps download.
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I'm living on 1gb and doibg fine
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I tether and get 150g a month Lol, with vzw unlimited
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If Sprint would deploy a usable data network in my frickin state, I would be SO happy!
And Sprint would be SO sad... Muahahahahahahahahahahhaa