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Can anyone set up an apk or bring up how to derive the uncap data throttle on the nexus S? that would be so great.
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Can anyone set up an apk or bring up how to derive the uncap data throttle on the nexus S? that would be so great.
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ill try to figure it out when i get throttled this month, its pretty easy on the nexus one.
At what usage limit does T-Mobile starts to throttle? And do they so it on the unlimited plans ?
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clubtech said:
At what usage limit does T-Mobile starts to throttle? And do they so it on the unlimited plans ?
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5gb per month, and yes on "unlimited" plans. Other phone providers(such as AT&T and Verizon) will charge you an overage rate, even on "unlimited" plans. T-Mobile, thankfully, just throttles.
There was a way to completely defeat the throttle on the T-Mobile G2 forums, but it required root and modifying some system files(as well as having drawbacks of it's own) which I'm not sure it would work on the Nexus S.
I did this on my phone, it requires modifying the services.jar. I can post the modified one for you guys if you'd like.
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Yes thanks
I've only been throttled once, and it wasn't until I was at like 6 gigs plus. The throttling wasn't very severe either...I went from 4Mbs avg speed to ~3Mbs. No big deal for me, even while tethered.
Maybe I was just lucky.
Funny thing is that my NS has NEVER reached the speeds I can get with my Nexus One. NS seems to cap out at around 3Mbs, the NS I got as high as 4.3Mbs one day of testing. I'm going to test with the N1 again today at my office and see if the N1 is actually pulling data faster. There's no way I'm throttled this month...most of my data has been on wifi, and I haven't received the dreaded SMS telling me I'm a data hog.
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I've only been throttled once, and it wasn't until I was at like 6 gigs plus. The throttling wasn't very severe either...I went from 4Mbs avg speed to ~3Mbs. No big deal for me, even while tethered.
Maybe I was just lucky.
Funny thing is that my NS has NEVER reached the speeds I can get with my Nexus One. NS seems to cap out at around 3Mbs, the NS I got as high as 4.3Mbs one day of testing. I'm going to test with the N1 again today at my office and see if the N1 is actually pulling data faster. There's no way I'm throttled this month...most of my data has been on wifi, and I haven't received the dreaded SMS telling me I'm a data hog.
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My experience has actually been the opposite of yours. As I've noted in other threads where Nexus vs Nexus has come up, my Nexus One had an exceptionally weak 3G signal. We're talking >1mb on a good day, if I even left the 3G on. If it was an important business day, I often knocked it down to EDGE just so I could reliably receive/send phone calls/texts.
My Nexus S usually pulls down between 3.2-3.8mbs, which is interestingly enough about the same as I was getting on my briefly owned MT4G(though the G2's speed was double them).
very strange man, my nexus one is slow compared to my nexus s. i NEED to send you all snap shots, im such a noob. i have 5.5-5.9mb on my nexus s. never have acheived that on my nexus one, or at least so consistently.
BEST PART
tethered my phone to my pc, downloading movies/music while having my ipade play net flix. not saying my nexus one couldnt do that, i just never did. and it was freaken awesome. went on speednet at shows 4.5-4.8mb on it. incredible hotspot/tethering.
i just really need this uncapp for tmobile to happen. i fear it will be an issue as when the throttling occurs it goes SLOWER THAN 2G.
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My experience has actually been the opposite of yours. As I've noted in other threads where Nexus vs Nexus has come up, my Nexus One had an exceptionally weak 3G signal. We're talking >1mb on a good day, if I even left the 3G on. If it was an important business day, I often knocked it down to EDGE just so I could reliably receive/send phone calls/texts.
My Nexus S usually pulls down between 3.2-3.8mbs, which is interestingly enough about the same as I was getting on my briefly owned MT4G(though the G2's speed was double them).
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very strange man, my nexus one is slow compared to my nexus s. i NEED to send you all snap shots, im such a noob. i have 5.5-5.9mb on my nexus s. never have acheived that on my nexus one, or at least so consistently..
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Our varying experiences prove what I've always said about cellular service, it's just like real estate, the only thing that matters is location, location, location. The browser I am on right now doesn't show me your locations, but I'm assuming we're not all in the suburbs of Los Angeles, so it's just a matter of what the infrastructure for T-Mo is in our particular areas.
One of the initial disappointments I had for the Nexus S when first announced was that it wasn't a "4G" (okay HSPA+ device), but when I thought about it more, I realized that even though T-Mo says I am in an HSPA+ area now, that I'm not even getting the full regular HSPA potential from any of my phones, so no point in worrying about HSPA+ until the service actually delivers HSPA+ speeds in my area. My "friend" in Newport Beach (Orange County) is only getting about 5Mbs on his MT4G as well.
More on topic, I wonder if the throttling is impacted at all by your usage patterns, and if the throttling becomes more severe the more times they throttle you. I always thought of myself as a heavy data user by watching a lot of youtube videos, some netflix, streaming Sirius radio stations, tons of web browsing, but have only gone over the 5gb monthly once. Maybe that's the reason they weren't so harsh(?).
Does anybody have a modified services.jar they could share with me? My home internet is down due to the giant blizzard and I've hit the "cap."
I've tried modifying it myself but I can't get classes.dex out of services.jar. All I have when I unpack it is MANIFEST.MF.
i have never really considered myself a heavy data user until i cut off my internet and exclusively used tethering. i got a txt from tmobile the minute i hit 5 gig. and after that my internet on the phone was so slow my browser would time on on requests. So now i mostly use my neighbors non passworded wifi
schizopunk said:
I did this on my phone, it requires modifying the services.jar. I can post the modified one for you guys if you'd like.
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:O Did you jump ship on the Epic Schizo? Glad to have you here, Epic Experience was a great rom
On topic: Are there any negative side-effects of modifying this file? And would there be issues depending on which rom we're using?
just a heads up...
According to T-mobile I hit or went over the 5GB throttle cap last week. My speeds have been down to 50 kb/s the past 7 days.
The crappy part is that I'm actually UNDER the 5GB cap. T-mobiles website reports I'm around 3GB TOTAL yet they can't seem to fix out why I'm being capped (or they aren't telling me).
My billing cycle will reset tomorrow, but I'm not counting on this resetting and I bet this happens again.
50 kb/s sucks because most apps are not even tested for speeds probably under 56k...so I notice more time outs and FC on some apps now.
At least it would be ok if it was edge speeds, but it is below that.
mortzz said:
Does anybody have a modified services.jar they could share with me? My home internet is down due to the giant blizzard and I've hit the "cap."
I've tried modifying it myself but I can't get classes.dex out of services.jar. All I have when I unpack it is MANIFEST.MF.
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I edited mine, been getting up there in the GB'z... taken from nightly 28, edited the services.jar but there's no 'one fits all' so I advise you take your services.jar from the ROM your running and edit the classes.dex -->Baksmali/Smali<-- and push it back into your phone after editing.
I kept the 7 throttleservices smaili's in the classes.dex as placeholders rather than deleting them, I just kept the headers and deleted the rest... seems to be working good, had a couple weird issues.
Keep in mind your mobile networks settings will become unusable (force close) but then again who uses those settings after they are set anyway? So make sure your roaming and apn and everything is all set before pushing the services.jar back in. So if u like to go into the settings and switch to 2G you'll have to go the *#*#4636#*#* route, or maybe a widget will do?
Anyhow, I guess you can always just push back your original services.jar....
Good write up here: http://www.greatereader.org/?p=5397
PM me if u need some help
so!
got the samsung galaxy 4g the day it came out. i had actually gotten the g2 originally, and 13 days later, this phone came out and after holding it in my hands i had to have it. it was just... sexy.
so the day i got it i was so happy. i ended up paying nothing for it through a weird fluke situation on tmobiles part, which made it even better.
then the troubles started.
in getting the new phone i knew that although this phone boasts the speeds that it does there was no way i was going to get those speeds. i do a speed test. at the tmobile store (1/4 a mile away from a tower on a tuesday afternoon around 2 pm) i get ..... 0.03 down and 0 up.
....k.
so i give it some time to get used to my sim card and my usage. that's when i notice the battery. i had to charge my phone two times a day on light usage. i turn off all synching, including my google calendar and contacts to see if that helps the battery. meh, a little. but i'm still charging it at least halfway through the day, and i am not able to use my phone at work. that means from the time i unplug it ten minutes before i leave for work until 6 pm (11 hours later) my battery is at roughly 20% ... and i've done nothing on the phone whatsoever. i'm super sad about the battery life and still getting sad speed tests on my "4g".
then about a week after purchase more problems kick in.
pretty soon my picture messages aren't coming through. it's giving me messages i'm used to seeing on my iphone, something about the message size being too big to download (sorry, the wording has left my mind now that i am trying to document it all for you guys).
then i start getting no texts. and sending them is a joke. if i have less than three bars (i usually have two at home and my work building) i am not able to send. it will try and give me a failed message. pulling out the battery will usually fix it, but after a couple of weeks of that it gets used to that fix and doesn't work at all.
i go into the tmobile store.
they switch out my sim (which we had done once before) and at this point my phone doesn't recognize the new sim. the rep tells me i broke my phone (even though my phone at least recognized the previous sim) and tells me that i'll need a new phone, offering to sell me one for cheap. i leave, pretty irritated at the dude.
i go to work, call 611, they tell me my IMEI has never been active on my account. we activate it and lo and behold, my phone recognizes the sim (mmhmm). but still sending messages is still a joke. out of 10 messages i can usually get one to send. it's a sad ratio of sent to failed.
in addition, i am still charging my battery at least once to twice a day with hardly any usage whatsoever (what good is using a phone that never has service anyway?). i've turned off wifi at all times, 4g is off, everything synching is off. i'll take out the sim and put it in my iphone so that it's not constantly searching for service (which texting worked just fine on my iphone) and it STILL dies by the end of my work day - i am lucky if i get 12 hours of standby before having to charge it. i condition my battery with no luck.. it still sucks. i root it and set SetCPU to underclock down to 200mhz when idle just to see if that will help the battery. i get about 14 hours of standby on that.
so, after all of this and about two months later, i finally got a replacement phone today. after looking at the back of the new phone and the old one i discover something interesting...
my sim contacts have been broken this whole time! sad!
( i was going to link to the pic but can't since i'm a new user. )
now, has this new phone fixed my issue? well, for one i'm getting 4g speeds at my place (i live in downtown SLC, i should be getting them here!) for the first time ever and have yet to come across a "failed" message when sending texts. only time will tell but mostly i want to post this to let you know.. if you are having this issue this is NOT normal. talk to tmobile. troubleshoot what you need to and get that mother replaced!
(i'll report back on battery life tomorrow.)
Consider yourself lucky. I live in Murray, phone says 4G but my Vibrant pulls faster speeds on 3g. Lol
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Honestly man I was in SLC a couple weeks ago with my 4g and the speed sucked compaired to here in Reno... I get 7mb up and 1.8 up avg with much higher peaks in Reno. Even at the gateway downtown SLC the 4g sucked at about 3mb upload and 750k up.
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i need a new city
Vegas here. Even though they say we are one of the new turned up cities I'm still only getting 7mb down and 1.5 up on a typical day.
Here's something interesting though, when I upgraded from my G1 to my SGS4G they were supposed to update my data plan.
Logged into my TMO account and it still shows the G1 Unlimited data. Paying $25 instead of the $30.
My wife has a MT4G and her account did get upgraded to the 4G Unlimited data plan for $30 a month.
Possible my phone isn't going to get higher speeds based on the data plan still in my account? I'm doubting it, but I guess it's possible.
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Vegas here. Even though they say we are one of the new turned up cities I'm still only getting 7mb down and 1.5 up on a typical day.
Here's something interesting though, when I upgraded from my G1 to my SGS4G they were supposed to update my data plan.
Logged into my TMO account and it still shows the G1 Unlimited data. Paying $25 instead of the $30.
My wife has a MT4G and her account did get upgraded to the 4G Unlimited data plan for $30 a month.
Possible my phone isn't going to get higher speeds based on the data plan still in my account? I'm doubting it, but I guess it's possible.
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i still have the g1 data plan as well, i wonder if that does have anything to do with it. i kinda don't want to ask though, the 5 bucks a month is small but nice to not pay
p.s. for all interested, my battery is at 48% with pretty consistent usage and synching on all day. schweet!
I would have callers t mobile right away and gotten a new phone overnight. I am not too trusting of in store employees. Most don't know how to troubleshoot a phone.
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i need a new city
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You can have my city.... except I don't have a city.... it's just a trailer park in the middle of nowhere. But then I get better speed here than I can in the nearest two cities, a ripping 16KB/SEC on a good day, on "AMERICAS LARGEST 4G NETWORK" I spend almost as much time downloading as I do talking to tech support. Then that's another story.
Your data plan will not affect your data speeds in any way.
As for the phone showing 4G and having another 3G device pulling better speeds. The cause is that you are not in a true 4G area. The GS4G does not have an icon for 3G, even if it did, the phone cannot distinguish between 3G or 4G due to the fact that HSPA+ is still 3G hardware on the tower, but provides 4G speeds via software in the base station and the backhaul of the network.
I don't see how you are getting such bad speeds. I live in Kaysville, only 20 minutes from SLC and my average DL speed is usually around 5.0mb/s. The fastest I have gotten over 4g so far is 8.8mb/s.
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I don't see how you are getting such bad speeds. I live in Kaysville, only 20 minutes from SLC and my average DL speed is usually around 5.0mb/s. The fastest I have gotten over 4g so far is 8.8mb/s.
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If you are lucky enough to have a 3 or 4G tower in your area you will likely have good download speed. My download speed sucks. TMO's network is full of holes.... DEAD zones. Even in large areas like Los Angeles, CA. They have a long way to go before their network will catch up with the others.
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Your data plan will not affect your data speeds in any way.
As for the phone showing 4G and having another 3G device pulling better speeds. The cause is that you are not in a true 4G area. The GS4G does not have an icon for 3G, even if it did, the phone cannot distinguish between 3G or 4G due to the fact that HSPA+ is still 3G hardware on the tower, but provides 4G speeds via software in the base station and the backhaul of the network.
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I'm confused by this due to my dell streak 7 actually showing 3g and 4g at different times.
DelinQuentisDQ said:
Your data plan will not affect your data speeds in any way.
As for the phone showing 4G and having another 3G device pulling better speeds. The cause is that you are not in a true 4G area. The GS4G does not have an icon for 3G, even if it did, the phone cannot distinguish between 3G or 4G due to the fact that HSPA+ is still 3G hardware on the tower, but provides 4G speeds via software in the base station and the backhaul of the network.
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I actually get 3g , 4g, edge, and g.
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I actually get 3g , 4g, edge, and g.
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The GS4G does not even have an icon to represent 3G.
Please, if you can, provide a screenshot.
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The GS4G does not even have an icon to represent 3G.
Please, if you can, provide a screenshot.
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I will have to do it Monday, cause it only happens when I leave my office building. When I am in my office building I will often go into data roaming through at&t. This may have something to do with why it shows up. But it is there.
If you truly doubt it. Go to the market and download ninja morph. Then use it to make a copy of your framework-res.APK. From there open the COPY that you made. Look in framework-res.apk\res\drawable-hdpi-v4
Do not try and look in the actual phones framework-res.apk. Because it will break a couple things and you will have to re-flash. But if you make the copy it will automatically extract the apk and you can view the files with your computer.
DelinQuentisDQ said:
The GS4G does not even have an icon to represent 3G.
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that my friend, you are wrong on.
I get the 3G icon on my elevator everyday before and after work.
4g
I always get 4g in the missouri area and I get 13mbps
Just curious of the mbps max our phone can handle
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14.4 megs downstream
Thanks but what's this I hear about 42mbps?
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TMobile has upgraded a few cities (and plans to upgrade more) to theoretical speeds of up to 42mbps. Since the radio in the g2x goes up to 14.4 this will have no impact on our phones. That said I've yet to see the phone that even hits 14mbps, so I don't really think having a radio capable of 42mbps would even really matter. I mean I've still yet to see the 14.4 radio that has actually pulled down a real world speed of 14.4mbps. I think all that stuff sounds great on paper but in real life odds are you won't see that speed.
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On wifi at home I get 20+ mbps download
I posted the following at the thread on 3g in the status....more appropiate here,so I duplicate it.
I have to put my two cents in on speeds.
I started (my smarty phone odyssey) on Metropcs in Feb....most speed test ever showed was like 1.6mbps...once. Mostly at 1.4-1.5. I was very unhappy with that. Between these speeds, battery issues, no support (from Samsung), I had enuff and went to Sprint. I saw around1.0 Mbps in the beginning. When I complained, they made an adjustment on their end amd it got worse! My average was .65 up and down. Then I went back to Metro. Seems they are suddenly having speed issues. Couldn't get more than about .80, with the same other issues as before. So I've purchased the G2x.
Got two yesterday!!
Both have bleed. Doesn't bother me as it is though. Just noticeable when screen is black. It IS bs, but not a dealbreaker, if it doesn't get worse.
I see people talking about speeds of 8 and 9Mbps and I say I'd be happy with a third of that.
Personally I don't think speedtest is accurate. But I never see that discussed.
T Mobile is supposed to activate these tomorrow. I'll post my speeds. If I get anything above 4.0, I'll be in heaven.
I have looked at youtube videos via wifi and am in awe of this device. Really smooth playback. Wow. Better than the Indulge AND the Evo IMO.
My new phone is supposed to activate tommorow. Can't wait
Oh and I'm in the Dallas market. I'm on top of DFW airport. Dallas is Metros home market so system is overall good here, but I'm in a bit of a dip so reception can be an issue in my home.
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On wifi at home I get 20+ mbps download
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I get similar numbers on wifi
highest I've ever actually speed-tested is ~21 Mbps down, ~5Mbps on wifi and ~9Mbps down, ~2Mbps up on H. I don't belive H+ is available in my area at this time (Indianapolis, IN).
This is probably a total noob question, but I'm curious: is there any hardware reason the HSPA+ transceiver on the Sensation can't be made to be compatible with T-mo's HSPA+ 42 network? I mean, are we theoretically only a hacked radio away from doubling our network speed, like the lucky SOBs getting the upcoming Amaze/SGS2 (kinda like how the Android Revolution ROM can unlock 1.5 GHz CPU speeds)?
Not possible my good sir. The radio in the Sensation is only capable of up to 14.4 Mbps.
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Not possible my good sir. The radio in the Sensation is only capable of up to 14.4 Mbps.
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Bah. Oh well, that's still five times faster than my home internet connection (well, 50 times faster than what it is currently; God I wish I could kick ATT to the curb as my DSL provider too! Their wireline customer service is almost as bad as their wireless was!)
Even if the Sensation was capable of 42meg 95% of users wouldnt get anywhere near that speed on that network anyway. Hell, how many of you get over 10 meg now?
The phones limit of 14meg will only become an issue when the networks theoretical max hits highs of well above 50meg.
cheers
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Even if the Sensation was capable of 42meg 95% of users wouldnt get anywhere near that speed on that network anyway. Hell, how many of you get over 10 meg now?
The phones limit of 14meg will only become an issue when the networks theoretical max hits highs of well above 50meg.
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Agreed!
Honestly, anything over 3-4Mb pipe is just extra. It's all you need to stream high quality video to the device with no lag. The only real reason you would need more is for speed test bragging or to run HDMI into your tv, but if you do that you'll use all your data up.
Technically we are lucky T-Mobile has only 3.5 G. My friends here in the U.S. with LTE get 10-20Mb connections (compared to my 6-10Mb) but it completely rapes their battery. We can run 3.5 G all day long but LTE guys need a recharge during the day.
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Technically we are lucky T-Mobile has only 3.5 G. My friends here in the U.S. with LTE get 10-20Mb connections (compared to my 6-10Mb) but it completely rapes their battery. We can run 3.5 G all day long but LTE guys need a recharge during the day.
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Interesting about the battery drain on LTE.
I agree though, the network 'Three' here in the UK has just started rolling out HSPA+ (up to 21meg) recently and like yourself I now average 6-10Mb which is fast enough and my battery last all day easily.
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I have seen up to 8Mb/s in some cities, but I get 1.7Mb/s were I live. I NEVER EVER get to see anything actually DL at that speed though! Whenever I DL an app or something, it does about 200kb/s...So I dont care one bit what the speed it seeing as I never even get to come close to what my speed test can do.
Matt
mrg02d said:
I have seen up to 8Mb/s in some cities, but I get 1.7Mb/s were I live. I NEVER EVER get to see anything actually DL at that speed though! Whenever I DL an app or something, it does about 200kb/s...So I dont care one bit what the speed it seeing as I never even get to come close to what my speed test can do.
Matt
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That actually sounds like some kind of throttling going on, if speed tests and browsing are at much higher speeds than what you get downloading a file.
Thankfully I dont have that problem on the network I use, what you see is what you actually get!
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mrg02d said:
I have seen up to 8Mb/s in some cities, but I get 1.7Mb/s were I live. I NEVER EVER get to see anything actually DL at that speed though! Whenever I DL an app or something, it does about 200kb/s...So I dont care one bit what the speed it seeing as I never even get to come close to what my speed test can do.
Matt
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200kb/s is the "speed" of your download and equals a 1.6Mb connection "bandwidth". Your bandwidth is listed in bits and your speed is listed in bytes. There are 8 bits in a byte. So multiply the "speed" you see by 8 to get your "bandwidth". Or divide your bandwidth by 8 to determine your download speed potential.
Make sense? Just remember to mult/div by 8.
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200kb/s is the "speed" of your download and equals a 1.6Mb connection "bandwidth". Your bandwidth is listed in bits and your speed is listed in bytes. There are 8 bits in a byte. So multiply the "speed" you see by 8 to get your "bandwidth". Or divide your bandwidth by 8 to determine your download speed potential.
Make sense? Just remember to mult/div by 8.
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Also, don't forget to get the case of you "b" (bits) and "B" (Bytes) correct. ;-)
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HSPA+ 42mbps is actually DC-HSPA. It should operate nearly twice as fast as the current modems in real world conditions, as its operating on double frequency.
This is far different than a bump from 7.2 to 14.4. This will have real world impact in speeds.
Highest I've pulled in my area is 12mbps, which is plenty fast. Im not sure i understand the speed race going on between carriers at the moment since the data is either being capped or throttled. What would you do with 42 mbps and how long would your monthly data last, even with a dongle?
I didn't realize the Sensation was just 14.4mbs but that explains a lot. Highest I've ever gotten on the dl was 8.5mbs in Houston. Average though can be anywhere between 4.5 and 6.5. I'm pretty happy with it though. on the 10gig plan and I've used to to stream HD netflix to the bigscreen while tethered when there wasn't a faster connection available. Even gaming works fine with about 85-100 latency.
all i know it's much much faster than my flip dumb phone i had since like 2005 lmao i'm happy to be up to date finnaly lol
Only TMOUS supports HSPA+?
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Only TMOUS supports HSPA+?
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If you mean specifically in the US, no. AT&T uses HSPA+ too. They are also implementing LTE at this time too. Right now their HSPA+ is only capable of 21mbps while tmous is capable of 42mbps.
These are theoretical speeds of course, but faster the theoretical, faster the real world.
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I have been wondering if verizon can slow down my phones internet speed while I'm using it because hit around 78Gb per month on downloads and it seems like they are always dropping my internet connection or slowing it down all the time do I wanna know what power they have over my phone remotely.
Yes they can throttle your data speed. Att does the same thing
people like you are the reason vzw even has to throtle and you should be throttled if you use that much on a phone. must stay on it all day. I tether everyday at least 5 hours and use about 5gb per month. yes 4G.
You don't use WiFi? Can't download on a pc and transfer? That's an obscene amount of data consumption...
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Thats why they throttle people. Thats beyond excessive. And why the rest of us have to suffer throtteling.
Yeah I sit on buses all day and stream movies because I travel 5 hours; five days a week to go to
school so I have a pretty good excuse and thats why I paid for the unlimited when they had it.
Zinsko said:
I have been wondering if verizon can slow down my phones internet speed while I'm using it because hit around 78Gb per month on downloads and it seems like they are always dropping my internet connection or slowing it down all the time do I wanna know what power they have over my phone remotely.
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Yes, the top 5% of data users are subject to throttling and it's not done on your phone. It's done on the network.
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Yeah id say 78gb a month falls into the top5% lol
When I first had my thunderbolt I was getting speeds that rival my wifi connection at home (about 30mbps)
Now I barely get 2mbps on lte. The highest I ever got on this phone in 1 month was 4.7gb. Every other month my usage has been less than 2gb.
I don't thing being top 5% matters
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When I first had my thunderbolt I was getting speeds that rival my wifi connection at home (about 30mbps)
Now I barely get 2mbps on lte. The highest I ever got on this phone in 1 month was 4.7gb. Every other month my usage has been less than 2gb.
I don't thing being top 5% matters
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Your problem could also be there are way more 4g users now, that also limits usage
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I remember when 3g came out it was really fast until every phone pretty much used it then it was no longer fast. So I'm gonna go ahead and say 4g its gonna suck by the end of three year still be pretty fast but not like it was when it started.
superchilpil said:
Your problem could also be there are way more 4g users now, that also limits usage
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I think you are right.