4g speed - Thunderbolt General

Ok don't flame or anything . Does radio have anything to do with data speed? After I changed to the newest radio I've notied slower 4g speeds.
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which radio?
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I too have noticed that my speeds have dropped since switching to the MR2 radio.

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My data speeds starting slowing on the stock ROM unrooted, it seemed almost right after the tiered data plans came out I would rarely get more then 10mb down at any given time. I rooted and ROM my phone hoping that my data speeds would go back to 20+ but it is still the same. I'm starting to think that VzW is capping the speeds now that they have gone tiered. If this keeps up I may switch to another carrier. TMo in my area avgs 7-8mb down and I won't have to worry about battery life.

uniqueflips said:
My data speeds starting slowing on the stock ROM unrooted, it seemed almost right after the tiered data plans came out I would rarely get more then 10mb down at any given time. I rooted and ROM my phone hoping that my data speeds would go back to 20+ but it is still the same. I'm starting to think that VzW is capping the speeds now that they have gone tiered. If this keeps up I may switch to another carrier. TMo in my area avgs 7-8mb down and I won't have to worry about battery life.
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You'd switch based on a couple of MB?
Do you realize that once you surpass 5GB on TMo they can throttle you....and you'd probably be in worse shape speed wise than you are now?
Don't get me wrong, I love the HTC Sensation...I've had one as a test for a month.
I too used to get 15 or more and in the last month or so I average 10 to 12.
I simply chalk that up to more people using the network...

dajogejr said:
You'd switch based on a couple of MB?
Do you realize that once you surpass 5GB on TMo they can throttle you....and you'd probably be in worse shape speed wise than you are now?
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2GB on their cheapest plan ($40/mo)

kierandill said:
2GB on their cheapest plan ($40/mo)
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correct.
However...if the user is concerned with a few MB download speeds, my money would be he's blowing by 2GB.....

Verizon would really have to tick me off for me to leave. I get a 25% discount on all plans and 20% on all hardware through my employer.

I routinly get about 20 mbps. In orbit on PC I get at least 2.0 megabytes per second. I have even hit 3.0 a few times
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Schedonnardus said:
Verizon would really have to tick me off for me to leave. I get a 25% discount on all plans and 20% on all hardware through my employer.
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50% here on unlimited data and unlimited tethering plan and $10 far 1500mins and unlimited texting. So $40 a month for 50+mbps speeds on my phone and any device I may have with me. I'm not going anywhere

dajogejr said:
You'd switch based on a couple of MB?
Do you realize that once you surpass 5GB on TMo they can throttle you....and you'd probably be in worse shape speed wise than you are now?
Don't get me wrong, I love the HTC Sensation...I've had one as a test for a month.
I too used to get 15 or more and in the last month or so I average 10 to 12.
I simply chalk that up to more people using the network...
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the problem is that t mobile is going to overages after you reach your limit starting aug 13 instead of throttling...
Probably at at&t's request.
milan03 said:
50% here on unlimited data and unlimited tethering plan and $10 far 1500mins and unlimited texting. So $40 a month for 50+mbps speeds on my phone and any device I may have with me. I'm not going anywhere
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yeah, when you where the only one on the network back in march. Seriously doubt you get that now.
Used to get 12-15 down on clear wimax, then the evo 4g came out and I started getting 1-3. Went back to cable where, no matter when I use it, I always get 30 down and 5 up.

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Captive to Infuse w/Infused ROM and Infusion Kernel = HAPPY CAMPER

Got my Infuse yesterday and in under an hour added the Infused ROM and Infusion Kernel (1400 OC).
The phone is excellent:
1. The GPS is 100% better than the Captivate (even after the GPS mods); still not a iphone GPS, but close.
2. It is faster than the Cappy at the same clock speed (1400 OC); I know it's the same hardware, but it's faster with the same programs and launcher.
3.HSPA+ is noticeably faster download and upload speeds.
4. Phone reception is better, reception in previous Cappy dead spots.
5. Camera is 100% better; same as the S2.
My wish list:
1. Gingerbread- to enable Netflix streaming and enhance text selection function.
2. Four slider unlocker; standard android bottom slider, top slider open straight to phone and a chosen program.
Tips:
1. AT&T changed their unlimited calls plan 3-months ago to lower pricing: I dropped our two phone monthly bill by $80+/month, and got a credit of $220. this with the same unlimited minuted and data plans.
2. If you are upgrading from the Cappy. Pull the SIM card from the Infuse then set it up until you are 100% happy using wifi and a computer.Then move the SIM from the cappy to the Infuse. Then call ATnT so they can change the data code for the data network to work on the Infuse.
I have a feeling I'm going to switch to Verizon instead of wait out my 30 day period here
The 2 gb of data is just not enough, not by any stretch of the imagination
I barely go out of wifi range and in a few days already have 100 mb, I just can't see myself regularly going under 2 gb
I've usually averaged 3 gig a month
hydrogenman said:
I have a feeling I'm going to switch to Verizon instead of wait out my 30 day period here
The 2 gb of data is just not enough, not by any stretch of the imagination
I barely go out of wifi range and in a few days already have 100 mb, I just can't see myself regularly going under 2 gb
I've usually averaged 3 gig a month
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Without being grandfathered in the unlimited data plan, I would move around as well.
I heard that Verizon is ending the unlimited data plans the month. Going to tiered plans and family data plans eventually. Hurry up and switch.
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bryanb86 said:
I heard that Verizon is ending the unlimited data plans the month. Going to tiered plans and family data plans eventually. Hurry up and switch.
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Yes you are right. They are getting rid of them soon. Hurry!!!
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If you get your hands on an a 2g iphone, pop ur sim in there, you can add unlimited data online, and then get 'grandfathered' in to an unlimited data plan on ATT. There are more detailed threads, just search for them
"in under an hour added Infused ROM and Infusion Kernel (1400 OC)"
@terra-starr : how did you do that? could you please give me a starting point to do the same?
Thank you in advance
Cheers!
Follow the directions in the infused ROM posting in the dev section.
With the hyper links they are easy to follow.
hydrogenman said:
I have a feeling I'm going to switch to Verizon instead of wait out my 30 day period here
The 2 gb of data is just not enough, not by any stretch of the imagination
I barely go out of wifi range and in a few days already have 100 mb, I just can't see myself regularly going under 2 gb
I've usually averaged 3 gig a month
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Verizon is going to significantly more expensive data plans than AT&T.
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[Q] 4g with G1 data plan.

I just got a sensation. Currently I still have the G1unlimited data plan. Do I need to pay more to get the 4g speeds? I think my data speeds were better with my nexus one. I don't want to call tmo because I would expect them to say "oh, you have a 4g phone, you need the 4g plan to go with it. Would you like the 2 TB plan or the 5 TB plan? That'll be $40/month"
No, you dont
I still have my data plan from my touch pro 2 and im getting 4g so i guess no
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The same as they said. No you don't need another plan to get 4g speeds. I'm on an old android plan and getting great speeds.
I called T-mobile and got the 4g data plan and it was the same price as the mytouch 3g plan I had before. I have the 5gb unlimited plan.
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Still rock'in the G1 Dataplan here, worked great with my Nexus One, and now with my Sensations.
+1 to the G1 Unlimited Data.
I was thinking of asking the same question. Nice to see positive responses.
I'm on a G1 unlimited data 400txt or$25. It transferred no problems. I ordered my Sensation over the phone and discussed the data/txt package and data caps openly with the representative. They will let you keep it, with a 5gb cap.
SykesAT said:
I'm on a G1 unlimited data 400txt or$25. It transferred no problems. I ordered my Sensation over the phone and discussed the data/txt package and data caps openly with the representative. They will let you keep it, with a 5gb cap.
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That means that they're not letting you keep it. A 5gb cap is not unlimited. You're paying for 5gb of data per month, not unlimited.
armoguy94 said:
That means that they're not letting you keep it. A 5gb cap is not unlimited. You're paying for 5gb of data per month, not unlimited.
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T-mo has given all plans a 5gb cap. Even the G1 plans. I know they started out as truly unlimited but... T-mo has changed this. Feel free to search around and revert.
SykesAT said:
T-mo has given all plans a 5gb cap. Even the G1 plans. I know they started out as truly unlimited but... T-mo has changed this. Feel free to search around and revert.
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Yeah I grandfathered my em+plan with unlimited web, bt what they did is they changed this to 4g web in the system so I now get 4g speeds bt now its capped at 5gb which I ain't tripping much about..haven't used that much data yet bt I'm planning on doin it this bill cycle to c if I will actually get throttled since my friend got to that cap n they sent him a notice, by even after goin over his speeds didn't change
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Thanks for the replies. I don't have a data cap on my and I'm not wanting to take the step unless it is absolutely necessary.
Last month I used 6GB of data and that was pretty hard to do. When I decided to do it I had 5 days left on my billing cycle and was just under a gig. It was pretty dificult to use that much data in such a short time.
SykesAT said:
I'm on a G1 unlimited data 400txt or$25. It transferred no problems. I ordered my Sensation over the phone and discussed the data/txt package and data caps openly with the representative. They will let you keep it, with a 5gb cap.
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I have this same plan w/txt...what 4G speeds are you getting?
I'm the OP. The best I've been able to get is .84 Mbps down, .71Mbps up.
I'm getting 2.80 Mbps down and 1.68 Mbps up at last look...but I expect more from 4G!
Yeah, it's pretty lame. I'd be happy with 1Mbps down and .5up.
Where are you located with such slow speeds? Is anybody else there getting better results?
Home is worthless for 4g for me. Im constantly on my wifi. But at work I get 4-5 bars and get around 5mpbs up and 1.5 down. Driving home, I get constant full 5 bars and get 6-8mpbs.
Same for me, those speed I mentioned earlier were from home pretty slow. I tried it from work and was able to get 2 up and 1.5 down so I'm ok with those speeds. I'm still not blown away but it's a little better than I had.
no because android data plans are all the same, now they just limit your plan to 5gb.

Verizon limiting data or slowing speed down.

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
SevenSe7enSeven said:
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.

[Q] AT&T new throttle policy

I'm just trying to figure out Att's new throttle policy.
Someone started the rumor that while talking to att's throttle department, they were told that it would be based on a person's last month's usage.
Each one of us was interpreting this differently. Some say you will only be throttled when you hit your last month usage. meaning if you used 30 gb then you can use up to 30 gb the following month. I thought it would be if your previous month's usage was in the top 5% then you are screwed this month. It seems counter productive for att to follow this policy. Everyone will be using as much data to have more speed the following month.
I did some research and could only find that att's policy was always to base the top 5% users on the previous month's statistics of their whole consumer base.
Can you guys confirm this? Especially for those who have been unthrottled. what is your previous months stat compared to this month?
Here
PC Mag article from today with some good information.
I don't see how they could fairly base it on how much you personally/individually used the prior month/billing period. That could be even worse for some that don't use that much data even though they have an unlimited plan, as they could conceivably get throttled at 500 MB - maybe less. And furthermore, it flies in the face of their supposed concern which is the alleged "data hogs" on the network. Plus, if that were the case, wouldn't you just stream Pandora or something every night while you sleep and eventually get your "allowed" GB limit way up after a few months?
To me, if you are going to go with the ambiguous top 5% (as opposed to a sort of soft "cap" like T-Mobile's 5 GB throttle threshhold) the only fair way to do it is to base the 5% from the previous month/billing cycle on a nationwide standard of all UNLIMITED plan users (those on tiered plans should not be used in the calculation). A nationwide standard seems more equitable than punishing or rewarding people based on where they live and establishing the 5% "for a person's region." Why should I be punished or rewarded just because I live in Dallas when compared to someone who lives in Atlanta or NY.
To me, if they are going to insist on throttling and claiming it is based on bandwidth/spectrum concerns (which it is clearly not, since I'm sure they would gladly let someone on a 3 GB tiered plan use 20 GB in a billing period and just charge them $170 more that period - and someone using 20 GB of data on a tiered plan uses the same amount of bandwidth/spectrum as someone using 20 GB on an unlimited plan), then a reasonable policy would be something like:
1) If you are unlimited, you get up to 5 GB without having your LTE speeds throttled...ever (similar to T-Mobile's policy)
2) Once you go over 5 GB in a billing period, you can be throttled to 3G speeds if you are on a congested tower, but once you are connected to a non-congested tower (whether because you are on the same tower when you got throttled, but it is no longer congested, or you changed towers because you left the house, got home, etc.) you are back to LTE speeds (similar to Verizon's policy)
No more of this ambiguous, inconsistent 5% nonsense. Put something concrete and transparent in place. And in my opinion, either #1 or #2 above would be better than what they do now.
However, I doubt they would ever put a policy in place that combined #1 and #2 above because it would likely not help achieve AT&T's goal with the throttling, which is clearly to "encourage" people to drop their unlimited plans for tiered plans so AT&T can make more money.
does anyone know the phone number to the throttle department?
AT&T’s policies are broken. First they decide to throttle the top 5% without releasing any information on what that is. Soon after we realize those using
Netflix, hulu, and slingbox were being throttled at around 2GB when others were being throttled much later (probably more closer to the real “top 5%” of the area)
Then AT&T stopped penalizing people using their phones to stream movies and tv shows and started throttling everybody at 2GB or less
Now, there are rumors of a “press release” which hasn’t been seen anywhere yet that says they will base throttling off last month’s data usage.
However things are about to change again, as a judge recently awarded a throttling customer $850 stating “it wasn't fair for the company to purposely slow down his iPhone, when it had sold him an "unlimited data" plan.”
This opens up a whole can of worms for AT&T, one they will feel. If even a fraction of those throttled gets a similar payout this would be very bad for AT&T. lets pretend 800,000x$850= $680,000,000
AT&T’s next move could quite possibly hurt the company more than any scandal it could ever imagine.
My guess is they will do less throttling and even that will be at higher levels then we have seen over the last few months, maybe around 5gb? 10gb? In fact, I wouldn’t be surprised if they stopped throttling all together.
Im sure after dude won his $850, at least 10’s of thousands of people have already filed small claims suits against the company already, when more of those articles come out, you will see that number jump to the hundreds of thousands.
if you haven't read about the small claims suit:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/...data-throttling_n_1300212.html?ref=technology
http://www.examiner.com/technology-in-national/at-t-iphone-user-wins-data-throttling-case-850
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/24/att-throttling-customer/
http://www.forbes.com/sites/mickeym...this-two-big-consumer-small-claims-victories/
I was "unthrottled" earlier this week....still there now.
Curious to see what happens next month
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Happy someone did it. I was forced to switch to a tiered plan from my unlimited because I was being throttled at around 2gb. That lasted maybe a week and a half then my new lte skyrocket was pretty much useless data wise. I'm on the 3gb plan for the same price. I hope more people sue att.
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00mred00 said:
I was "unthrottled" earlier this week....still there now.
Curious to see what happens next month
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How much data did you use last month?
How much this month?
I'm more curious about their throttling department, I WOULD love to talk to them, since my last throttling was around 7 gb and now I'm being threatened around 3 gb, total bull****.
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I was warned in December at 4 1/2 gigs and then throttled in January at 2 gigs....BUT I was up in NY with LTE speeds in December but live in a non-LTE area so I think they considered me in the top 5% for where I live NOT where I was using the data. My fastest d/l speed at my house is 4mb. I think 4mb is throttled compared to people that have LTE so I think I shouldn't be throttled at all.
Oddly, AT&T continues to claim that throttling policies are in place to save spectrum, however, it would seem that the very people they try to throttle (unlimited LTE data plans) are using less "spectrum" overall than 2G and 3G users. That being said, people using rediculous amounts of data (abusive) need to be throttled...perhaps similar to Verizon's throttling which is currently a more fair approach. Here is an article about the "spectrum" crisis that could happen...
"LTE, for example, can handle roughly six to eight times the capacity of a 2G network. Some of those savings would be lost to users taking advantage of video and other high-bandwidth services available on LTE, but not so much as to use up all the increased efficiencies.
Graduated or tiered bandwidth pricing, likewise, discourages excessive network use by a few extreme customers, especially at peak times."
Read more: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57...disaster-now-for-the-hard-part/#ixzz1nT31Jb5O
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Oddly, AT&T continues to claim that throttling policies are in place to save spectrum, however, it would seem that the very people they try to throttle (unlimited LTE data plans) are using less "spectrum" overall than 2G and 3G users. That being said, people using rediculous amounts of data (abusive) need to be throttled...perhaps similar to Verizon's throttling which is currently a more fair approach. Here is an article about the "spectrum" crisis that could happen...
"LTE, for example, can handle roughly six to eight times the capacity of a 2G network. Some of those savings would be lost to users taking advantage of video and other high-bandwidth services available on LTE, but not so much as to use up all the increased efficiencies.
Graduated or tiered bandwidth pricing, likewise, discourages excessive network use by a few extreme customers, especially at peak times."
Read more: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57...disaster-now-for-the-hard-part/#ixzz1nT31Jb5O
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While the tiered pricing may theoretically encourage people to use less spectrum, AT&T would happily let someone on a 3 GB tiered plan use 20 GB and change them an extra $170 that period.
The thing is that that tiered user takes up just as much spectrum to get to that 20 GB as an unlimited user who also uses 20 GB - the $10 charged for each additional GB of usage in a tiered plan does does not magically create additional spectrum. The ONLY difference is that the unlimited would essentially be paying $1.50/GB, while the tiered user would be paying $10/GB, and AT&T does not like that because they aren't making as much money as they could.
So while they can say that tiered plans encourage people to use less data (which to some extent it probably does/would) and that is a good thing because spectrum is limited, at the end of the day, the heart of the matter boils down to money...plain and simple. And AT&T wants to get people off unlimited plans, not because of a spectrum issue, but because they want to make more money.
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How much data did you use last month?
How much this month?
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I used 5 and was throttled last month...end total was 7
At 2 i was throttled this month. When unthrottled i was at 9. No clue what i am at now a week later but i will check
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You need to report this. From what I understand it is not supposed to be throttling at that low of usage AND if you are throttled, it should only be down to 3G speeds from LTE speeds.
I wouldn't mind as much if we were just throttled to 3g speeds.
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I wouldn't mind as much if we were just throttled to 3g speeds.
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I wouldn't mind as much if we were just throttled to 3g speeds.
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Yup.. it's gd terrible lol, I think edge is faster than their throttled speeds.
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Yup.. it's gd terrible lol, I think edge is faster than their throttled speeds.
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that's correct. throttle speeds are edge speeds.
00mred00 said:
I used 5 and was throttled last month...end total was 7
At 2 i was throttled this month. When unthrottled i was at 9. No clue what i am at now a week later but i will check
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I wonder if their new policy will begin next month and will be used on this month's use. I'm just debating whether I should raise my usage. I'm still below 2gigs unthrottled with some 10 days left.
btw I remember you were the one who said that this would be their new policy.
do you happen to have the throttle dpt direct #?
BTW i was thinking. should someone start a thread about the lawsuit on the att forums?

New info on throttling by AT&T

Looks like 3gb cap for 3g and 5gb for LTE
http://www.att.com/esupport/datausage.jsp?source=IZDUel1160000000U
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I'm OK with this cap, I use 2-3gb every month and that's using 2 full batteries a day on my SR for Facebook, XDA, Reddit, and YouTube videos
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So, the big question is
Do we get seperate caps or is it 5GB if we have an LTE device?
I know there are times I am not on LTE(depending on the area) Does the HSPA+ count towards the LTE limit?
Now I never get close to 3GB but still would like to know.
nest75068 said:
So, the big question is
Do we get seperate caps or is it 5GB if we have an LTE device?
I know there are times I am not on LTE(depending on the area) Does the HSPA+ count towards the LTE limit?
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Doesn't seem like it. It just says 4g lte smartphone, so if your not in a LTE area, but have a LTE phone you would have a 5gb cap
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Bummer. I couldn't deal with the throttle any longer so I switched to a tiered plan last month.
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I think for an LTE imei registered smartphone it's 5gb. I can live with this, pretty much like the other carriers. If you don't have an lte, you're more likely going to get one in the future anyways. Now, let's see that data sharing policy in place ;-)
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Finally, and I can live with 5gb. I just wonder now what the throttle speeds are. I wonder if att knew they where going to start getting sued LOL. Also I would like to think when we move to "5G" and such out data limits will increase. I think att knew they couldn't do this so they where super aggressive to make people drop their plans and only the diehards are left. Now that they reached a breaking point they are now being more fair. Yay for that Guy who sued them lol
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When they say they will throttle us LTE users at 5GB, does that mean they are going back to the 2G edge speeds for the rest of the billing cycle, making our phones once again unusable, or is it going to be more of a Verizon type of throttling where it's only if it's during a certain peak-usage time on a congested tower, and even then it's down to 3G speeds?
If it's the latter, I am pleased. 5GB of LTE and then HSPA+ for anything over is fine by me. I must point out that non of the APN bypass things work for me at all anymore, so if after 5GB I'm on HSPA+, well, HSPA+ is still plenty fast for me.
If it's the former, however, then I'll still be just as disappointed. Actually pissed and outraged. Going from 2GB to 5GB to start throttling really is not much of an improvement to me, since if I wanted to, at these insane LTE speeds they are giving me in San Francisco (maxed out around 50Mbs down), I could download 5GB in about 15 minutes on LTE speeds. So hypothetically once my billing cycle reset, if after 15 minutes of heavy LTE usage I was then throttled to EDGE speeds for the rest of the month, I'll be pissed.
So yeah, anyone know? Are they still going to throttle at EDGE speeds for the remainder of the month regardless of peak times/congested towers/etc? If so, then this new 5GB LTE cap is still complete and utter bull****, just like 2GB was. But if it's NOT EDGE speeds, and not necessarily all the time until the next billing cycle, then it's welcomed.
nest75068 said:
So, the big question is
Do we get seperate caps or is it 5GB if we have an LTE device?
I know there are times I am not on LTE(depending on the area) Does the HSPA+ count towards the LTE limit?
Now I never get close to 3GB but still would like to know.
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It is based on you data plan regardless of you are getting LTE is the way I read it. You might travel to an LTE area. If you have a LTE data plan it will be 5GB.
Straight from the web site.
Looks like you will remain throttled for the remainder of the billing cycle.
I understand the throttle speeds are supposed to be more usable and not the 56k modem speed crap they've been doing.
If you have a smartphone that works on our 3G or 4G network and still have an unlimited data plan,
You'll receive a text message when your usage approaches 3GB in one billing cycle.
Each time you use 3GB or more in a billing cycle, your data speeds will be reduced for the rest of that billing cycle and then go back to normal.
The next time you exceed that usage level, your speeds will be reduced without another text message reminder.
If you have a 4G LTE smartphone and still have an unlimited data plan, the same process applies at 5GB of data usage, instead of 3GB.
You'll still be able to use as much data as you want. That won't change. Only your data throughput speed will change if you use 3GB or more in one billing cycle on a 3G or 4G smartphone or 5GB or more on a 4G LTE smartphone.
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Emil9727 said:
Finally, and I can live with 5gb. I just wonder now what the throttle speeds are. I wonder if att knew they where going to start getting sued LOL. Also I would like to think when we move to "5G" and such out data limits will increase. I think att knew they couldn't do this so they where super aggressive to make people drop their plans and only the diehards are left. Now that they reached a breaking point they are now being more fair. Yay for that Guy who sued them lol
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Well the fact that that iPhone user sued over not getting true unlimited and won probably influenced them a bit, not to mention I'm sure they were tired of getting reports from their CSRs of angry customers calling in to ***** about using 2.1 GB and being throttled and threatening to cancel unless they got some perk in response.
I also can live with 5GB. The only time I used excessive data was when I had to stream my SiriusXM all day at work. Now that I figured out how to get a signal with my regular radio I can safely stay below or around 2GB. The fact that I get up to 5GB because I have an LTE phone (although no LTE coverage, boo) and I'm paying $30 instead of $50 AND I just get slow speeds as opposed to $10 charge for going over has me satisfied.
im happy with 5GB.. its not "unlimited" but i think its manageable
the 2GB was BS which is why in my protest i was hitting 80GB a month but my avg is 3.5-4gb so im happy
no more protesting for me =)
rjohnstone said:
Straight from the web site.
Looks like you will remain throttled for the remainder of the billing cycle.
I understand the throttle speeds are supposed to be more usable and not the 56k modem speed crap they've been doing.
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Well what is "more usable"? 3G speeds? Somewhere between EDGE and 3G?
I'm totally satisfied with this, as I never go over 5GB monthly, but I do go over 2GB.
We have won the battle.... but not the war my unlimited data friends. LOLOL
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