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Anyone else been throttled already?

2.5 weeks into my month i get texted that phone basically just became worse than my BB speeds because i use my phone too much. Anyone else enjoying the awesome speeds of .06mbs with me?
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i am still 2 weeks in but speed is still 6-9 mbps
but as i read somewhere , t mobile slows down your speed when you reach 2.5 gb

wizardslovak said:
i am still 2 weeks in but speed is still 6-9 mbps
but as i read somewhere , t mobile slows down your speed when you reach 2.5 gb
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You are getting EDGE like me. TMO throttles after 5GB until next bill cycle. But then, We are on the "LARGEST 4G Network" arn't We?

nwpro3 said:
We are on the "LARGEST 4G Network" arn't We?
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Yup, increase coverage and speeds, lower the data cap in half, and use up your data in half the time! I think if I did the math right, I can cap out 5gigs in about 9hours of watching netflix via my playon app alone; which is about 20min a day for a given 30 day month. They should of kept the 10gig at least, considering EVERYTHING this phone does practically uses the internet.

Wow, I didn't know they did that. I thought I used mine a lot, but I just checked and I only use about 500-600 MB a month, lol

flyinbird93 said:
2.5 weeks into my month i get texted that phone basically just became worse than my BB speeds because i use my phone too much. Anyone else enjoying the awesome speeds of .06mbs with me?
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Me, i sure am enjoying 0.04mbs. Took me one week to reach my limit too. I cant wait til the next cycle, this is just terrible.
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icy56 said:
Me, i sure am enjoying 0.04mbs. Took me one week to reach my limit too. I cant wait til the next cycle, this is just terrible.
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https://www.t-mobile.com/shop/plans/cell-phone-plans.aspx?catgroup=mobilebroadband

Do you guys have the unlimited plan? Mine says I have unlimited remaining so I really hope they don't throttle it after 5gb, since I use a TON of internet.

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Do you guys have the unlimited plan? Mine says I have unlimited remaining so I really hope they don't throttle it after 5gb, since I use a TON of internet.
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Yup we are on unlimited.
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Yep, my wife and I have both been throttled and have unlimited. I hate TMO and can't wait to go to Sprint for real unlimited.

I never get close to this.. dont you have real internet, like 99.9% of the world, I believe even remote parts of Africa have internet.. you really dont need to tether your phone for everything.

wow wtf are you guys doing with your phones? tethering to your PC and broadcasting 1080p video on ustream?? My next billing cycle starts in 5 days and I've only used 250mb (I'm in a 4G area). I use my data A LOT too - youtube, surfing the web, market downloads, facebook, twitter, etc. I use an app called Line2 for my incoming/outgoing calls and text msgs which relys on my data and I still don't get close to 1GB.

I will tell you how I consume 5GB quickly.
I am an independent IT consultant where my clients don't allow access to their network with my machine. Therefore, I am tethered 12hrs every business day. Syncing a 3gb IMAP mailbox all day is a lot of data alone!
I consume 1GB every 3 working days.
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beto241 said:
I will tell you how I consume 5GB quickly.
I am an independent IT consultant where my clients don't allow access to their network with my machine. Therefore, I am tethered 12hrs every business day. Syncing a 3gb IMAP mailbox all day is a lot of data alone!
I consume 1GB every 3 working days.
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Then you should have the common sense to have a better internet solution than tethering.
I've never run into the data cap, not because I don't use my data, but because I'm actually wise about it and don't carelessly burn bandwidth. Use Wifi when available, don't try to consume as much data as you can.
How many of these threads do we need about how the OP didn't bother to check usage or ***** about data throttling?
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wazzukirk said:
Yep, my wife and I have both been throttled and have unlimited. I hate TMO and can't wait to go to Sprint for real unlimited.
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buh bye now

Hey, we have no data limits at sprint..
Except you'll be lucky to see more than 300 kbps in most areas during the day with 3g, and ~2-5 Mbps on 4g. We have people in the evo forum *****ing about the extremely slow network, ready to jump ship to vz or elsewhere.
I've come to the conclusion there is no ideal solution. Each provider is a compromise of different elements such as price, service, data, features, etc.

Common Sense? I was answering a question as to how one can get the to 5gb limit, period.
Common sense says Tmobile should have told me about the 5gb threshold when I agreed to a contract, and fine print is not acceptable.
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beto241 said:
Common Sense? I was answering a question as to how one can get the to 5gb limit, period.
Common sense says Tmobile should have told me about the 5gb threshold when I agreed to a contract, and fine print is not acceptable.
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Common Sense? You are expecting a Corporation sales person to be honest with you? They are interested in one thing and that is selling a product. They don't care if you get screwed in the end. They will just take your $200 ETF when you find out how much they lied to you... Well didn't disclose the TRUTH to you and you move on to the next corporation that does it to you in another way. That's what business has come to in America.

A warning would have been nice around 4gigs. TBH, if you say you use the web all the time and only have 4-500megs usage your lying. My biggest data drain went into streaming TV and music from my home server. I was unaware t-mobile even had a limit until i got the message saying I was cut off, because when i had my BB i would usually only average about 20megs a month usage. Hell, I ALMOST went with a 200meg connection, but didn't want to feel restricted so I went with unlimited.
These phones are beast, as they should be with a 4+meg connection! It just doesn't seem fair to offer us all these gadgets and offer us their TV packages and crap then take it away just barely into the month because we actually use what they advertised to sell the product!
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one more thing...
Toshinobu said:
I've only used 250mb-----market downloads
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On average my apps have been between 2-3megs each...
So at ~87 custom apps, that I have actually kept and not just downloaded to try, at 2.5megs each that's 217.5megs; a total which almost meets your usage so far alone.

Well, I'm in my first month with TMO and already got my 5GB notice. Isn't it nice. I get a ripping 20 KB/SEC on my best download but, usually around 10 to 12KB/SEC on AMERICAS LARGEST 4G NETWORK. That happened right in the middle of a SW update and their CRAPPY network could not even handle a text message and the download at the same time. They cut me down to 5KB/SEC and it took close to 2 hrs to DL 50MB. What a deal they are giving us. The big problem is the only company that I have ever been happy with is no longer doing business in my area. Lots to look forward to.

Data Usage

I Have the unlimited data plan with ATT. I started streaming tv and downloading files more often. Close to a week after I got an email saying I have reached the top 5%. I turned data off as soon as I got the message and it turns out the top 5% is 10gb.
I also never got these notices they speak about.
"Before you are affected, we will provide multiple notices, including a grace period."
My previous data usage was around 500mb a billing cycle. I'm not the typical data hog most cycles.
Now I'm wondering how the define the top 5%.

10 flipping gigs...
E3D

I hit way more than that for a few consecutive months last year. It sucks that "unlimited" is anything but.

@OP: 10 gigs is pretty huge, considering I hit around 1-1.5 gigs a month doing everything, even occasional GPS, excepting streaming audio and video.
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Now I'm wondering how the define the top 5%.
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100 users in your area, of which 70 use less than 500 MB, and 25 are within the 2 GB mark. Remaining 5 are over, say, 8 GB. These 5 fall into the top 5%. But I don't think they send alerts to all 5. It should be hitting those guys across a normalized top usage level. I may be wrong here, but this is what is my thinking.
Let me put it this way, none of my colleagues (over 20-30 of them have an android 4G device and everyone gets atleast 3-6 emails account synched, apart from others activities), even cross a 1GB mark. I am kinda the only one who even crosses this mark. I don't want any comments on their competency at usage and such, but just stating facts.

I use 5-8gigs a month, I'd be surprised if they ever notify until my plan unlocks.
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10gb in the first 10 days of a billing cycle is a ridiculous amount of data. That is 30gb in a cycle if I kept up this rate. I don't plan on keeping it up though.
I never got the warnings that att mentioned in their memo. The only one I got was that I had reached the top 5% an my data will be slowed for the duration of the billing cycle.
Its understandable why they have a sort of soft cap.
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currently im at 11 gigs. and i got the text and the email too.

You people are ridiculous, to use that much.
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yea im on my phone ALL the time i mean ALL the time for work family etc etc and only break a gig
10 + gigs a month and stupid and people want to know why there are caps

It shouldn't matter what you do if you pay for unlimited data you should get unlimited data it shouldn't be oh you have high usage they should assume you are going to use the most possible and hope for less. So why are you all ranting on this Guy for using 10+ if he is paying for unlimited?
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Hm... yeah. I hardly break a gig. But I must ask.. do you ever go on wifi? One month for two weeks I was on vacation outwest and I streamed a ton of my favorite show the mentalist. Hardly cracked 6 gigs. Also, went on wifi about twice all trip... so do you use wifi at home? Or are you in a city and you are always connected or something?

What I don't get is that last month I had 10 gigs and i asked the guy if i was in the top 5 percent. He said no. Now this cycle I barely hit 6.1 gigs and i got a text saying im in the top 5 percent. How in the heck can i have 10 gigs and not be in the top 5 and then use 6 gigs and be in it.. I live in the middle of bum-f**k nowhere. And I have not gotten ANY warning text or been notified of even a grace period. A bunch of bull I say.
Froggys go ribbet

[rant]Unlimited was set on at a time when network speeds weren't this high, plus there were lot lot less phones with data connectivity. [/rant]

Not ranting but I remember a member using his phone as his solo internet for his house using over 50gigs a month and that as example ridiculous which is how unlimited ended.
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Not ranting but I remember a member using his phone as his solo internet for his house using over 50gigs a month and that as example ridiculous which is how unlimited ended.
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I recall a post about that he even thought it was fine /funny that he used that much.. Was bragging about it
E3D

And it is still labled Unlimited and should not be crippled in anyway.. if he wants to use 50GB then let him they should of thought of that before selling these phones with those possibilities and saying all you pay is $30 for unlimited which more users use less which level each other out but don't sell a car and say you can only drive 10,000 miles a year or we will slow your car down... etc... its not right its not what its advertised as and its wrong.
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And it is still labled Unlimited and should not be crippled in anyway.. if he wants to use 50GB then let him they should of thought of that before selling these phones with those possibilities and saying all you pay is $30 for unlimited which more users use less which level each other out but don't sell a car and say you can only drive 10,000 miles a year or we will slow your car down... etc... its not right its not what its advertised as and its wrong.
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And that is why they are doing what ever it takes to get people off the unlimited plan lol.
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No what they are doing is bull****, wether ur are or are not an AT&T fanboy, unlimited means unlimited I have the unlimited and I was capped last month by usin my Sirius/XM internet radio app, not tethering so thats bs.... Its bad custormer service to limit in anyway an unlimited plan not to mention if they upgraded their damn network like they were supposed to not just on paper..... Im in an HSPA+ area but the H+ network is running HSPDA for some reason even after upgrading the towers last year!!!!! Orland, FL
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It seems like bad customer service, but the intention of it is to keep the network from being over crowded. You will be limited by the network if enough users used this amount of data. ATT says the merger is part of their strategy to alleviate the strain on the network. I'm ok with the speed reduction. Just sort of suppried I was able to reach it.
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The issue with abusing a network is when genuine users (as in people who use less data, and use it for official work like connecting to vpn, etc) find it slow, and complain to AT&T. Incidentally, these kind of users are normally less, but pay a lot of money to AT&T. And when they complain of low speeds, AT&T does all it can to keep them happy.
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This is again becoming one of those posts that pop up once in a while for data issues. So, to cut it short, don't abuse the network. Unlimited is unlimited, just that at lower speeds so others can too share the network. 1 person who uses 20 gigs can be overlooked when 100 others using 200 MB can be serviced.

We won!!!

Not sure if this was the same as the thread lower but hey... we won.. so get your money before att takes that away!
AT&T loses data throttling case - http://pulse.me/s/6kpUr
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No he won. I didn't get a check for 850
. However all jokes aside. I feel like streaming Netflix for a few days straight and filing a small claims case when I get the throttled message.
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Hahah go for it!
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Yay!! We won.. Now everyone should start constantly streaming netflix, pandora, and etc. Pretty soon our network will be as slow and useless as Sprints network. Yay!!!!
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This gives the right to top 5% of the users to ruin the network for 95% of the people. Probably by running Netflix and leaving the room.
Yeah, total win.

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This gives the right to top 5% of the users to ruin the network for 95% of the people. Probably by running Netflix and leaving the room.
Yeah, total win.
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Well said throttling is not evil.
It is not like they say 1 or 2 Gig you are throttled, you really need to abuse the network.
FYI Maximum I ever used in a Month is 2 Gig and with that I was tethering my laptop.

I think the above posters are missing a huge point.. if the top 5% of the users were actually abusing the network, then fine, throttle reasonably away..
However, ATT was arbitrarily applying any user using 2G as a top 5% using some seriously fuzzy math and throttling them to a point where a dialup modem was faster.
My understanding is that the 5% value came about in some bull**** research paper payed for by ATT that stated 2G is the avg amount of data all users are using (some use 300 meg, some use 5G, etc), just an avg amount, but rather then taking the actual value of the top data users (some use close to 20 to 30 gig a month), they chose to take the avg amount, 2G, and apply that to every user that hit to 2G mark, and label them a top 5% user and throttle them..
That is evil, and unreasonable, they are using the fuzzy math in the same way they butchered the dictionary meaning of unlimited.

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That is evil, and unreasonable, they are using the fuzzy math in the same way they butchered the dictionary meaning of unlimited.
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As I understand it, the average 2GB of use was done in a survey about 4 years ago, when the smart phone market wasn't as big as it is today.
So AT&T should back off and stop saying that the average users ONLY uses 2GB or less because that is totally bs.
I myself have always used between 30 to 50GB on average per month for the last 6+ years

Its stupid you should at least get 3 or so gigs to equate the amount you pay to the price equivalent tiered plan IMHO I'm not unlimited but am on your guys side on this that the way they are conducting business is wrong
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Lucidmike said:
This gives the right to top 5% of the users to ruin the network for 95% of the people. Probably by running Netflix and leaving the room.
Yeah, total win.
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This guy doesn't get it.
(and sounds like the annoying, ignorant ranting from the OWS crowd)
AstroDigital said:
Well said throttling is not evil.
It is not like they say 1 or 2 Gig you are throttled, you really need to abuse the network.
FYI Maximum I ever used in a Month is 2 Gig and with that I was tethering my laptop.
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This guy doesn't get it.
jvanbrecht said:
I think the above posters are missing a huge point.. if the top 5% of the users were actually abusing the network, then fine, throttle reasonably away..
However, ATT was arbitrarily applying any user using 2G as a top 5% using some seriously fuzzy math and throttling them to a point where a dialup modem was faster.
My understanding is that the 5% value came about in some bull**** research paper payed for by ATT that stated 2G is the avg amount of data all users are using (some use 300 meg, some use 5G, etc), just an avg amount, but rather then taking the actual value of the top data users (some use close to 20 to 30 gig a month), they chose to take the avg amount, 2G, and apply that to every user that hit to 2G mark, and label them a top 5% user and throttle them..
That is evil, and unreasonable, they are using the fuzzy math in the same way they butchered the dictionary meaning of unlimited.
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This guy gets it.

What people don't understand is AT&T knew this was going to happen and they did nothing at the time because they wanted subscribers. Now could they have forseen that netflix and hulu and things like that were going to be apps and eat up huge chunks of bandwidth(most likely not)
With the new 3GB and 5GB thresholds they announced for the unlimited users, I think we will see more of these kind of suits.
Now, imo, AT&T needs to get people OFF of the unlimted plans. Why?
1) the network is too congested and they need to get people to understand this
2) we already know unlimited is not "unlimited"
So, to save face, what they should do is make a small offering to the top 5% to try and get them away from the unlimted data plan(really just offer it to all unlimted people)
For those grandfathered in, offer 3GB of HASPA+ for $10 and 5GB of LTE for $10. This will #1 get those abusers of the system to watch their downloads a little more closely, and 2, if they go over they still have a little give in the terms of $$.
Now will AT&T ever do this, seriously doubt it.

Wrong. m4570d0n doesn't get it and sounds like the people who abuse bandwidth slowing it down for the rest of us. If you don't like the bandwidth cap, leave AT&T.

awesome that im not on att. There are people abusing the network and top 5 or 3 percent sounds about right. For the mathematically challenged its 1 in 20 or 33 data users.

Att changed their throttling policy or 'clarified' it according to news blogs
It's now at 5gigs for LTE, 3 FOR '4G', AFAICR
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robor007 said:
Wrong. m4570d0n doesn't get it and sounds like the people who abuse bandwidth slowing it down for the rest of us. If you don't like the bandwidth cap, leave AT&T.
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Given that you joined in 2007, yet this is one of only 3 posts you've ever made (none of which carry any meaningful content), please enlighten me. I'll make some popcorn.

Really T-Mobile?

So yeah my "unlimited" plan was slowed down because I exceeded the 2 GB limit on the plan I had. My question is, how much do they cut off in the "unlimited" plan when you reach your maximum 4G bandwidth?
I noticed that my speed is so sluggish that when I download something it goes by the kilo bytes, and I can't stand it!
Also it has nothing to do with the reception, I live in the tri-state area so obviously T-Mobile has full coverage of where I live.

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So yeah my "unlimited" plan was slowed down because I exceeded the 2 GB limit on the plan I had. My question is, how much do they cut off in the "unlimited" plan when you reach your maximum 4G bandwidth?
I noticed that my speed is so sluggish that when I download something it goes by the kilo bytes, and I can't stand it!
Also it has nothing to do with the reception, I live in the tri-state area so obviously T-Mobile has full coverage of where I live.
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its probably because you have the 2gb high speed unlimited plan and not the unlimited nationwide 4g plan (I have that and I love it!! No throttling at all!!

You should have truly unlimited data but only 2 gigs of 4g then they cap your bandwith to about 26k.
Im on simple mobile now but when on tmobile i managed to get 7 gb of data one month with a torrent app.
Never heard of a 4gig limit but ive been on simple for about a year. Maybe diff now.
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my record low before I switched was 4 bits

I have a 4G plan but it's capped at 2 GB. But hey better than Metro-Piece-Of-S**t.

With the new unlimited plan it shows a cap of 10,000 gigs a month.
If i reach that cap.....ill let you know whether or not i get throttled.
My old 2 yr contract was 4gig cap

Being capped sucks. I called and complained and said i can't even check my e-mail and i use my phone for business this is unacceptable im gonna leave yadda yadda and they gave me a "free" gig of data. I suggest you do the same

Shortbus-Driver said:
With the new unlimited plan it shows a cap of 10,000 gigs a month.
If i reach that cap.....ill let you know whether or not i get throttled.
My old 2 yr contract was 4gig cap
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10,000 gigs. Assuming the month has 30 days:
Around 333 gigs per day
13 gigs per hour
.23 gigs (230 megabytes) per minute
3.85 megabytes per second
It's definitely doable if you have a really good phone and something to download 24/7 for a month.

Comcast(cable) has a suggested limit of 300g. What could you do with 10k?
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My guess is...they had to enter a number for the computer...and 10,000 was a good number

Here's ss ....I know it's not quite 10,000 but it might as well be lol

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Here's ss ....I know it's not quite 10,000 but it might as well be lol
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OMG you lied to us and said it was 10,000 you are a untrusty person. Lying to us like that...ok enough sarcasim.
That is actually pretty awesome. Like fb said its possible to use that much if you are downloading 24/7 but that would be a lot of stuff. Not sure you could off-load it fast enough to a computer/stand alone hard-drive.
On topic many have said it you still have unlimited data only at a 2/G speed. /shrug

It might be 10,000 lol if you add what got used of it.

At least we can all agree that it's OVER 9000!!!!!

FBis251 said:
At least we can all agree that it's OVER 9000!!!!!
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I see what you did there, lol.

vopezy said:
Comcast(cable) has a suggested limit of 300g. What could you do with 10k?
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Anything you want.
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10,000 gigs. Assuming the month has 30 days:
Around 333 gigs per day
13 gigs per hour
.23 gigs (230 megabytes) per minute
3.85 megabytes per second
It's definitely doable if you have a really good phone and something to download 24/7 for a month.
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Speed test with my previous SII with 42Mbps+ capability, it only does 25Mbps+ max download, but practically it probably will probably download 20Mbps by average, so I doubt one can reach the limit even downloading 24/7. Would have to wait till next year when LTE is out for T-Mobile.

AT&T Rant

I understand but don't agree with AT&T's throttle policy. But this is just ridiculous (see screenshot below).
.01 Mbps!!! Ridiculous... speeds this slow make my phone practically unusable!! And this is "unlimited" data... haha.
I know there is nothing I can do except grind my teeth and take it or go elsewhere.. I hope AT&T loses a lot of business because of this.
I understand throttling to an extent... but to throttle at 3gb with technology today. HD videos, Netflix, YouTube, internet radio, posting pictures with the phones 8mp camera.. of course data usage is getting bigger and limits are getting smaller.
I don't go far over 3gb, its hard to with these speeds.. but its normally the last week of the month that I get throttled. So I would most likely use 4gb, maybe 5gb. I read that 4g phone plans have a 5gb limit... and honestly I thought the Infuse was a "4g" phone... any way for an enormous and very profitable company to stick it to the little guys.
I also noticed that I get throttled at different usage. I use data monitor to track my usage and I've been throttled as low as roughly 2.5gb and at max I'll get to maybe 4gb.
Does anyone know how exactly we are throttled? It can't be automatic if it varies this much, can it? I imagine some well paid old man in a suit counting his stack of money, laughing and randomly hitting a big throttle button. Haha.
I apologize for a semi useless post and ranting away.. it's just been one of those days and needed to blow some steam.
Thank you for listening and everyone who contributes to this forum.
Now I'll sit here while I wait for this post and screenshot to upload on my ATT throttled BS. I wonder if a dial up connection would be faster.. haha. Do they still have dial up internet available? Remember all those AOL CDs? Haha.. sorry... I'm done...
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I feel your pain, but from a different direction.
We only have the 200MB per month AT&T plan for each of our 5 Infuse phones and don't go over that.
Most of our internet activities occur at home where we use our Wifi router.
But that single Wifi router feeds up to 5 phones, a pc, and three laptops.
After somewhere around 5GB in a month and our ISP (Clear) starts throttling us slower.
It definitely kills the experience when you can't watch a video from start to finish without waiting for it to buffer a few times.

Unlimited Text, Talk, and Data, only $45/mo: Prepaid Straight Talk SIM Port your number over, and tell ATT to go fornicate themselves.

I am rated at 7.2mbit up to 360mb. I will grab another test once I'm throttled. This is o2 in Munich Germany. They say throttled speed is 64k. We will see.
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I feel for you, but at the same time all carriers are doing this or will be doing it in the near future.
If you look at the current growth of mobile data usage and consider the spectrum they have to work with it's not sustainable. You can only fit so much information in a certain amount of bandwidth.
I am almost always near wifi, so my monthly data usage rarely excedes 200-300 mb. I'm on the 2gb plan but have never even used half of it.
Personally I wish companies would charge for what you actually use. (at a reasonable rate of course)
That will never happen, because they can't do the legal gymnastics to call it "unlimited" and they would scare off the early adopter and trendsetter types.

I left AT&T for Straight talk and left my 400 Meg twice as expensive plan behind for unlimited talk, text and data and now happily tether my Thrive Tablet to my phone on the back woods farm of my grandparents in Kentucky for Christmas where AT&T couldn't even connect! :good:

The thing you are forgetting is Straight Talk isn't true unlimited either. I have them and I'm talking from experience. I've gotten lucky and used almost 5gb and not been throttled but they are getting worse about it lately. I only used 1.6GB this month and they throttled me. There is no rhyme or reason to how they do it but they do it. 2GB and less you are usually fine on ST but if you goto howardforums.com and goto the Straight Talk section they have a thread on the throttling. Some people use 4-5GB and have no issues but some use a bit over 1GB and get throttled. It's honestly still WELL worth the cost because to even get CLOSE to this on AT&T for a single line will be around $110 a month.

I have 3 GB data plan and I think that's enough for me
If you are on single person plan, I also think that straight talk will be better choice for you
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I hate the fact that they make you have a data plan with any smart phone. But their new family share plan helps a lot.

Going to look into Straight Talk, thx

If you upgrade your phone to LTE phone, you will get 5 GB and get throttled.
You should upgrade your phone to get more and faster data from AT&T
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zpzp96 said:
If you upgrade your phone to LTE phone, you will get 5 GB and get throttled.
You should upgrade your phone to get more and faster data from AT&T
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But then I will have to sign another two year contract if I don't want to pay an arm and a leg for a phone
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Throttling never makes sense just like the family share plan it's an excuse to get more money. I got fed up with ATT and left for t mobile. The plans are cheaper and I get true unlimited. With a rooted phone I tether and sure it's not true Lte but I still average 8-10 Mbps and that's perfect for me.
no 2 yr contract nexus 4 and T-Mobile best option out there

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But then I will have to sign another two year contract if I don't want to pay an arm and a leg for a phone
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Maybe I don't know will enough about AT&T, but I believe you party same amount of money even you are under contract or not right?
Then all you need to pay is phone cost. There are some good phones with LTE and under $100.
Or you have choice of straight talk which gives you pretty good amount of data with super cheap cost.
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tmobile is true unlimited. also has month to month plan no contract. i'm gonna switch over soon when my contract is done with att...

Just wanted to chime in for a second. I had Straight Talk on my Infuse 4G for almost a year and while the service is pretty decent, I noticed that in a crowded AT&T cell I get kicked off. Also, I notice that (very rarely) in some places I don't have access to 3G service whereas other people with contract AT&T do (might be a modem thing, though, not 100% sure). There is supposedly an unspoken limit of 2GB of data per month (and some say even 100MB per day at most), but I have been careful to stay under both of those limits, the maximum I have used in a month on ST was 1.4GB.
Now I'm back on AT&T with 6GB Mobile Data Share and 2 lines (our Skyrocket i727s) and I have to say that the service is more consistent than I had on my time with straight talk (I've witnessed at shopping centers and malls I got kicked off of the data network more than a few times in favor of AT&T customers due to crowded cells), that and the LTE is great and the Skyrocket is just an all around awesome phone. I know the i727 is long in the tooth, but $.97 for a 1.5GHz Qualcomm S3, 1GB of RAM, LTE and that great 8MP camera is too hard to pass up. If you're broke like I was, it's a good deal.
Just my two cents. I know AT&T is a PITA but it could always be worse...you could be stuck on Sprint paying for 4G in an area with no 4G like I used to, lol.