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Throttled/shortest rant ever

No one in my life cares except for my XDA family..
I just got the dreaded text from t-mo and was immediately throttled to .006mbps. Seriously, FML. I have like 20 days left in my cycle. ARRRRGGHHHH
I even was desperate enough to try the (now defunct) alternative APN internet1.voicestream.com. I even tried internets 2 and 3!!!
God forbid I run into any feral cats on my walk home, because I am going to punt something and I prefer pine cones, but homeless cats fly further.

Happened to me last month. It sucks balls bug time. Sorry dude, calling tmo wont help either trust me....
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Does anyone know if buying tmos tethering plan increases the cap?
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TJBunch1228 said:
Does anyone know if buying tmos tethering plan increases the cap?
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It does not.

I get throttled every month. I make good use of my phones browsing. Its starting to annoy me. My cycle ends on the 21st and I been throttled for 2 weeks now.
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The way to get around data throttling is to have a friend that works at TMO and use their unused $5 employee data only plan. I now effectively have 5 more GB on a spare SIM card. Once I get throttled on my MT4G I start tethering on my MT3G.

Chadastrophic said:
The way to get around data throttling is to have a friend that works at TMO and use their unused $5 employee data only plan. I now effectively have 5 more GB on a spare SIM card. Once I get throttled on my MT4G I start tethering on my MT3G.
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That's pretty nifty. Now only if I knew any tmo employees...

TJBunch1228 said:
That's pretty nifty. Now only if I knew any tmo employees...
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Your only 4 hours from TMO 's headquarters. Take a road trip, find a bar close to HQ, and find a group of ppl w TMO phones.

6GB Already! - Tell Me Im Not Alone...

Hey gang, new TB owner here, previously a AT&T customer for 7+ years. With my Inspire it was nearly impossible to get to 5GB of data because my data speeds were dreadful so I mostly stayed on WiFi. With the TB I get insane speeds and I use 4G a "decent" amount but switch to WiFi when I'm home. I'm on day 19 of my billing cycle and have already used 6GB, WTF!!! I didn't see that coming. What are you guys averaging a month? I know we have unlimted data but don't want to draw any attention to myself.
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I'm on a revolution, got it on day 1. In the 11 days I had it for that billing cycle that ended the 6th I used 12gb with generous 4g and upto now now I've used 14gb so far with the same usage, I know what you mean lol
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Networkgamer said:
I'm on a revolution, got it on day 1. In the 11 days I had it for that billing cycle that ended the 6th I used 12gb with generous 4g and upto now now I've used 14gb so far with the same usage, I know what you mean lol
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I used 21 gigs and I am 24 days in my bill cycle...the only reason its that high is because I was running netflix on the wii for two day straight non stop

ISP's need to understand that data caps will cripple online services like netflix, dropbox, etc.
I hope VZW comes to their senses and lifts data caps.
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Am at 1.8 GB on day 7 of billing cycle. Runrate for about 8 GB in 30 days. With LTE being faster than most people's WIFI, I don't think you are alone...

6gb isn't too much actually compared to others. No worry Verizon isn't really into throttling everyones service contrary to the belief of some Verizon really is interested in keeping their costumers happy.

I hit 5gb before the billing rolled over. Iy happens when you download 10 Roms a month and stream music and video.

Cool. Glad to I'm not alone, when average over 20mb dl its easy to rip through data. LTE is the truth!
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I envy you all. No LTE here in Wahiawa, Hawaii. I'd like to take advantage of the hotspot feature with LTE one day. 3g hotspot doesn't make any sense due to have cable internet.
With the 3g I do about 2gb/month.

Absolutely! Last month I had somewhere about 80gb of usage for the cycle. It's easy on 4G. Too easy.
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I did over 35 gigabytes the other day when I was downloading and installing The Old Republic beta...
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Damn, I use about 7GB/month and I thought that was a lot. Guess I don't need to worry about being throttled.....
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michaelkahl said:
ISP's need to understand that data caps will cripple online services like netflix, dropbox, etc.
I hope VZW comes to their senses and lifts data caps.
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That's exactly what they want, so they can sell their own services. ISPs are scared of being nothing but "dumb pipes."

[email protected]@ge said:
I envy you all. No LTE here in Wahiawa, Hawaii. I'd like to take advantage of the hotspot feature with LTE one day. 3g hotspot doesn't make any sense due to have cable internet.
With the 3g I do about 2gb/month.
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We envy you being in Hawaii!!!

I use on average about 12 gb a month, and that was with my Eris. I got my bolt the last week of may so I'm sure it will be around 15 gb a month or so
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Thanks to you guys, I will probably never be in the top 5%.
I'm at 4 GB

jamesfrom818 said:
Thanks to you guys, I will probably never be in the top 5%.
I'm at 4 GB
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+1
Sent by draining my Thunderbolt's battery.

The most I use is just around 1GB of traffic. What are you guys d/ling??

I'm at 15GB on day 27 of my billing cycle with only 3G where I live. All of Battlestar Gallactica on Netflix for Android and a good chunk of Farscape will do that I guess

im 7 days into my billing cycle and im at 2.5GBs............................. just got 4G going 3 days ago so i've been going nuts

Are there any ways to work around the data cap/throttle?

Just wondering if anyone can help me out with any tweaks to beat this damn 60kbps throttle from tmobile. I have tried the patch that was created for the froyo roms but it didn't work for me. Any information would be greatly appreciated please PM me. Its best the information isn't posted publicly due to the brown nosing tmobile turds that troll these forums. Thanks in advance.
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pm me too! im at day 2 of my billing cycle and am already at 1.5GB/ month out of the 5GB i get capped every month! i dont believe there is a way around it though!!

Stop being cheap and buy the 10gb plan lol
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There is no way around the cap. It is done of T-Mobiles servers and linked to your SIM card. Many people have tried to get around it without any luck.

crx4xharder said:
Stop being cheap and buy the 10gb plan lol
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I can dig what you're saying but I'd like to think of it as being resourceful rather than cheap. After all it is android, several exploits and loopholes exist for other devices already. Ill keep fishing and maybe I can figure it out. Maybe IP/MAC spoofing would work to avoid the asshats at T-Mobile.
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crx4xharder said:
Stop being cheap and buy the 10gb plan lol
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thats what i did lol theres your throttle fix.

It's not a work-around to the T-Mobile cap exactly. But by fine tuning when and how your installed apps use data, can keep you under the cap. For example instead of streaming podcast with Mediafly I installed DogCatcher. I set the download permissions for the application to only update when connected to WiFi and plugged in.
That alone has cut my data usage in half. Fine tuning other settings in apps like email, facebook and twitter have also cut down my data usage. I went from always bumping the data cap to moving to the next lowest data rate plan.
Something to consider!

crx4xharder said:
Stop being cheap and buy the 10gb plan lol
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im not being cheap at all!! but is it possible i can up to the 10GB/ month? i just started a 2 yr contract 2 months ago and i get capped everymonth so far to 56k speeds...i pay 100 dollars a month and i think thats alot already! thats no fun when i dont get access to wifi everywhete like most of you.

If you change your phone number & get a new SIM chip it resets yer data usage. Setup google voice, get 5GIG plan - wait 2 weeks & spend $15 to have phone number changed and get another 5Gig. Two more weeks, billing cycle starts over, another 5GIG. Wait 2 more weeks and change phone number again - 5 more gig. Repeat every month. If you use google voice then everyone will still have your phone number. I think to get the 10gig plan it's 30 bucks so this saves you 15 bucks a month. Of course its also a huge pain in the ass for 15 bucks.

Lol that's actually pretty damn clever. A huge undertaking, but still clever. Well done.
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Well I found the best solution. Screw T-Mobile and every lie they represent. I switched to sprints true unlimited with no datacap or throttle. Thanks for all of yalls feedback.
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Goose0121 said:
Well I found the best solution. Screw T-Mobile and every lie they represent. I switched to sprints true unlimited with no datacap or throttle. Thanks for all of yalls feedback.
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Well those of us who like data speed don't have the option of Sprint.
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Switchbg to sprint would = same speed as capd speed for tmo that's why I swtch from sprint
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Well u guess your service area for Sprint kinda sucks, the data speeds are way faster on this phone than they ever were on my g2x
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Goose0121 said:
Well u guess your service area for Sprint kinda sucks, the data speeds are way faster on this phone than they ever were on my g2x
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Sprint is unlimited and true they don't throttle - HOWEVER what they do is kick you off the network and cancel your contract if you use "too much" data. Happened to me a year or two ago.

Well regardless, I'm satisfied with the new beast. And still have the G2X on the side to play around with.
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HAHA i still have the old $25 unlimited NO throttle plan

zero86ea said:
im not being cheap at all!! but is it possible i can up to the 10GB/ month? i just started a 2 yr contract 2 months ago and i get capped everymonth so far to 56k speeds...i pay 100 dollars a month and i think thats alot already! thats no fun when i dont get access to wifi everywhete like most of you.
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$10 more and u will have 5g. Just call the customer service and ask them. I did and I'm on 5g. $87.08 a month for me. But I got a 15% discount cause I'm a firefighter or it would be 102.98
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how much data have you used?

I am on grandfathered unlimited and used 10gb last month. Is that using too much? Will verizon notice Im tethering? Also for ppl that use wifi tether, is it the download or upload it shows in the app how much data im using?

I used 15 without tethering. I don't know when the alarm goes off or if it even does.

I use about 20gb a month watching netflix

I'm always using more than 7Gb,and sometimes more a month
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I'm around 10
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Look at my widget at the bottom left
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I doubt they would notice... For the past year and a half since I had my thunderbolt and then DROID razr I was using wifi tether heavily since I didn't have home internet service. And since my 4G speed was great I was playing battlefield online. I was averaging between 120gb and 140gb a month and they never said nothing... So I think your safe... 10 gb is nothing...
this is one of my online bills
131985743 kb = 125.871 gb
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Thx for the replies. I been streaming football and just didnt want them to notice and cut me off
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I usually download a 25 gig file from my dropbox at night just to eat up data and stick it to Verizon for over charging my wife on her shared data plan. I think I'm about 175 gig for the month.
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AndroidGraphix said:
I usually download a 25 gig file from my dropbox at night just to eat up data and stick it to Verizon for over charging my wife on her shared data plan. I think I'm about 175 gig for the month.
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LMAO... Ya that is how I feel now... I really don't care if they boot me off of their network cause I am really getting tired of their ****!! I called in the other day and the cs rep said that I was averaging 12gb per month and I have been with Verizon for about a year now so your def alright... He said that the average user uses 2-3gb per month and I laughed (silently) cause when all these Apple fanboys and gals get the LTE iphone we will see what the average is then! :laugh:

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LMAO... Ya that is how I feel now... I really don't care if they boot me off of their network cause I am really getting tired of their ****!! I called in the other day and the cs rep said that I was averaging 12gb per month and I have been with Verizon for about a year now so your def alright... He said that the average user uses 2-3gb per month and I laughed (silently) cause when all these Apple fanboys and gals get the LTE iphone we will see what the average is then! :laugh:
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Lol yeah. When i had my iphone i barely used 3g. Only wifi at home or buddies homes. 4g is so fast im always wondering what to look up just to use it
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Lmao!!!!
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Wow...
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Went to a talk by a big shot at sprint last week who told a story about cracking down on a guy who used 540 GB one month. So I think you're okay
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Not being Throttled anymore At&t?

After At&t started Throttling my data a few months ago at 5 gb my speed dropped To about 500k immediately but this month I am at about 9 g and no limit Has kicked. Am I just lucky or big blue finally came to its senses?
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9 gigs .......

Hmm, interesting. Be curious to see what other people's experiences are.
Could be that you just got lucky, and the system isn't perfect.
I might just test it out (blow past the throttle limit intentionally), to see what happens. My billing period ends tomorrow, anyway.

CheesyNutz said:
9 gigs .......
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great reply...*sarcasm*

When I log into myAT&T, my days limit has been changed from unlimited to 9999 gigs and 0.00 for each additional gig or whatever unit they use to charge now.
Don't know if that's relevant or not, but I noticed it changed a month or two ago.
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Nope, my billing period just reset today and I was throttled after 5GB down to about 0.6mbps for the past week. Still managed to get to 8GB though..

I'm on straight talk and they throttled me to Sprint "3g" speeds close to 4gb.
For those that don't know, sprint 3g is no better than Edge
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I saw an article somewhere I think it was gizmodo, where its bad for you to use data when you have poor signal because....
1. The carrier measures what data they send, not what your phone receives.
2. If you have poor signal, there is definitely a loss of data from the tower to your phone so your getting charged regardless if your phone receives all of what is being sent.
So I may have hit over 4gb but my phone measurements was at 3.7gb
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carlosjcar said:
After At&t started Throttling my data a few months ago at 5 gb my speed dropped To about 500k immediately but this month I am at about 9 g and no limit Has kicked. Am I just lucky or big blue finally came to its senses?
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How do you use 9 gigs? I barely use 2
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danny39 said:
How do you use 9 gigs? I barely use 2
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This!!!!
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Switching apn's still works for me. I'm able to get 5gbs on each APN.
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Netflix works quite well even at throttled speed.
Here's my beef with netflix. When I'm not throttled it streams FULL HD, killing my data.
When I'm throttle, it seems to use LESS data as it probably streams lower quality.
BUT I CAN'T TELL THE DIFFERENCE ON MY PHONE.
Wish I could always stream lower quality to save data.

Netflix - On your phone eatin' all your data.
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danny39 said:
How do you use 9 gigs? I barely use 2
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god i have to try my best not to use 5, i go over 60% of the time, id hate to see what i could use knowing i had unlimited freedom

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This!!!!
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How do you barely use 2? You do realize all the stuff you can do on a smart phone, right?
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You do realize there is such a thing as WiFi.
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You do realize there is such a thing as WiFi.
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Yeah, everyone's situation is different. If you have access to WiFi at home and work, your network data usage can be close to nothing. I have a friend that still has a 1st gen iPhone, has WiFi at home and school, and his network data usage since first buying the phone 5 years ago is only a few gig!
Personally, I'm on WiFi at home, and don't typically have time to be streaming and other data hungry activities while out of the house. Other people don't even have any type of data connection at home, aside from their phone, and use the phone for everything.

I pulled a 60gb month from at&t 4-5 months ago
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n19htmare said:
Netflix works quite well even at throttled speed.
Here's my beef with netflix. When I'm not throttled it streams FULL HD, killing my data.
When I'm throttle, it seems to use LESS data as it probably streams lower quality.
BUT I CAN'T TELL THE DIFFERENCE ON MY PHONE.
Wish I could always stream lower quality to save data.
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Log into Netflix from you PC, you can adjust the stream rate to save data and not affect quality too too much
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bloodrain954 said:
How do you barely use 2? You do realize all the stuff you can do on a smart phone, right?
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yea duh .. NOWAI really i had no idea . im on wifi 90% of the time lol

I'm not sure about everybody else's plans but At&t charges me $10 per every gig I use over my 3 gig limit. I would hate to see you guy's phone bills if your up 8, 9, and 60 gig per month.

I have grandfathered in "unlimited" data like I'm sure a lot of people in this thread do. When you hit 5gb they usually throttle you to .5 mb download.. I'm sure there will be a class action lawsuit before too long about this.
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