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
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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!!!!!
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At least we can all agree that it's OVER 9000!!!!!
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I see what you did there, lol.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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?
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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
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
So, I bought the Thuderbolt on launch day and in half a billing cycle with the 4G I racked up 1.3 GB of usage.
Looking at this past month's bill, my first full billing cycle with the Thunderbolt, I was shocked to find that I used 4.725 GB of data last month.
I was averaging 758 MB of data per month on my Droid Incredible. So, in the name of science, pull up your last bill and let everyone know how much data you blew through last month.
What do you think? Is 5 GB/month enough to get your speeds throttled due to being in the top 5% of data users?
Last month I was around 11gb.
i use between 2 and 3 GB. I'd be ok with a 5 GB cap right now. Though, if I use netflix or skype...
You signed an agreement for unlimited. There is no cap. They may cap you speed wise at some point, but you can still use the data.
I used 16gb last month and I was never capped. Capping LTE is like using Yahoo as your search engine... stupid.
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What do you think? Is 5 GB/month enough to get your speeds throttled due to being in the top 5% of data users?
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No way (at least IMO.) They're offering 10GB plans to LTE users on all devices except the Bolt (all non-phone devices.) I think you'd have to blast pretty far over that to hit that top 5 percent.
I'm at 7.5gb with 3g only but just got 4G in my area this morning so I expect that to up big time.
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... but just got 4G in my area this morning ...
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congrats. you're going to be stoked.
A little over 10.5GB gigs last month.
Also, in regards to the cap question, I'd think one would have to use like 50 or 100 gigs a month to be throttled. I have read claims of people using more than 120gigs, which seems like landline cable or dsl usage stats.
7.48 GB last cycle.
WTF @ the person who voted 1 GB? Honestly, if you're using less than 1 GB of data a month, why do you even need a 4G phone then?
0 gb, there's no 4g here yet but I average about 6 gb of 3g and 16 gb (no tethering) was my highest usage for a month.
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I have it everywhere except for my house so I know the speeds and absolutely LOVE them just glad I can now tether at home for new rom releases!
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Well, I used 72gb last month and had no issues.
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~5GB here.
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Well, I used 72gb last month and had no issues.
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72 GB!? Jesus christ. Are you torrenting or something?
I am at 6 gb and my billing period doesn't end until 5/22
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When I had 4G working on my phone, I installed CM7 and haven't gotten LTE since, I downloaded about 7GBs in a month, the second month I nearly hit 11GBs.
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When I had 4G working on my phone, I installed CM7 and haven't gotten LTE since, I downloaded about 7GBs in a month, the second month I nearly hit 11GBs.
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Try the "get 4g working on cm7" thread. I can get 4g pretty reliably on the 4/20 leaked ruu radio by playing with the bands settings as described in the thread.
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680MB ... almost no tethering, no streaming music, and i'm on wifi @ home and @ work and i live 1.5mi from work so no commute...
all my data is probably from maps/navigator or youtube/radio streams when im out for a weekend.
no 4G @ home/work but it's available within 30 minutes driving so i have used it. it's not very fast in this area tho...max like 8mbps with usually 5-7
im not entirely convinced that thunderbolt usage is being reported correctly. It says I have used 12gb and that pretty much impossible for me to believe. My normal usage on my Droid x was around 5gb and Im nkt doing anything different . Most of the time my thunderbolt is on wifi.
Just shy of 11 gigs last month. My wife's is probably more typical at just around 3.5 gigs.
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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.
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[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
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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 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.
Is there a way to bypass AT&T throttling? I am at around 15days into my billing cycle and have used close to 13gigs and they throttled me to slow speeds. Now some of my apps do not work. I know it is from not having tv and watching hours of Veetle a day.
Yeah, don't use so much data.
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You could bypass by using wifi. Maybe hijacking your neighbors signal?
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Find a new hobby...
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13 gigs? No wonder I never hit "4g" speeds
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lol in Alaska it is ATT or mostly nothing. I expected to be throttled using this much data but not down to 2g speeds. maybe 3g speeds or something
13 gig in 15 days yea no wonder we have caps ......
Does the phone show H still or E?
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At 13 gigs, I think you are lucky enough to even make it to that data usage! 13 gigs is something that would take me close to 6-10 months to hit.
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lol in Alaska it is ATT or mostly nothing. I expected to be throttled using this much data but not down to 2g speeds. maybe 3g speeds or something
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Lol yeah I understand. I used to live in Alaska too. But still, 13gb?! Lol
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how much tv do you watch a day? 3 hours? That is me but since I have no tv it is on veetle on my phone. That is about all I do on my phone.
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13 gig in 15 days yea no wonder we have caps ......
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Yup, we have people like the OP to thank for why AT&T no longer offers anything beyond a 2GB plan.
Too many people abused the system.
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Yup, we have people like the OP to thank for why AT&T no longer offers anything beyond a 2GB plan.
Too many people abused the system.
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How exactly is using any amount of data "abusing the system" when you have an unlimited plan? It certainly isn't difficult to put up 13 GB. I decided to try MOG the other day and put up a couple gig in about as many hours. I ended up with around 7 GB or so last month. Granted that's more than I usually use, but I don't see how any amount of data use is abusing the system when you have an unlimited plan. Sounds like AT&T is brainwashing you into thinking you should pay for something unlimited, but still not use much of it.
Meanwhile, for every person who used 13 GB on their "unlimited" plan, there were probably 100 people who used only a couple hundred MB on any plan. While 13 GB may be a lot to us, 2-5 GB isn't. And when you talk about the average person, 1 GB is a lot, and the average people outnumber us by a very large amount.
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And when you talk about the average person, 1 GB is a lot, and the average people outnumber us by a very large amount.
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Exactly! This is exactly why at&t is throttling you minority bandwidth hoggers so you may not choke the networks for us average people. Sorry if that sounded rude, but its the truth.
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Need to close this stupid thread really...
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Lol it's becoming like the other thread that was made a while back. Everybody has their own opinions.
Mod should close this
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How exactly is using any amount of data "abusing the system" when you have an unlimited plan? It certainly isn't difficult to put up 13 GB. I decided to try MOG the other day and put up a couple gig in about as many hours. I ended up with around 7 GB or so last month. Granted that's more than I usually use, but I don't see how any amount of data use is abusing the system when you have an unlimited plan. Sounds like AT&T is brainwashing you into thinking you should pay for something unlimited, but still not use much of it.
Meanwhile, for every person who used 13 GB on their "unlimited" plan, there were probably 100 people who used only a couple hundred MB on any plan. While 13 GB may be a lot to us, 2-5 GB isn't. And when you talk about the average person, 1 GB is a lot, and the average people outnumber us by a very large amount.
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please when i was on sprint i had "unlimited" and still never used 13 gigs on 15 freaking days ... that is simply abuse and nothing more
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please when i was on sprint i had "unlimited" and still never used 13 gigs on 15 freaking days ... that is simply abuse and nothing more
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As if any amount out of unlimited is abuse. I kept my unlimited plan for the reason I originally paid for it, so don't let att tell you its OUR fault.
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This morning I got a txt from att I am in the top 5% of data users witch is odd since my billing cycle is to the 15th how i get that high in one day. Unless they where referring to the previous month but i checked and that peak at 1.8GBs so im confused.....I know that means throttling im just wonder what the line is anyone know??
just ran test for 3244/741kbs I guess my last month got throttled.....lame 1.8 shound not put me at top 5% if they offer 2gb plans >_>
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This morning I got a txt from att I am in the top 5% of data users witch is odd since my billing cycle is to the 15th how i get that high in one day. Unless they where referring to the previous month but i checked and that peak at 1.8GBs so im confused.....I know that means throttling im just wonder what the line is anyone know??
just ran test for 3244/741kbs I guess my last month got throttled.....lame 1.8 shound not put me at top 5% if they offer 2gb plans >_>
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They won't throttle people with a tiered plan. If they go over, ATT makes money off them. So what they are saying is, you are in the top 5% of unlimited users in your area.
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Yea same here north San Diego 2.5 g
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Top 5%
I have to agree. If they are pinging you for 1.8 then I would definitely complain. They offer 2 and 4 Gb plans. Unless you exceeded the 2 then I do not know why they would say something. As it stands, you are already paying $5 extra a month for the "unlimited" and if you are not exceeding 2Gb by much then they are still making money off of you. This is pure greed. They are so worried about losing some money that they are now finding ways to force people to a limited plan. This top 5% of the area is a load of crap. Surely they can make it where once a person exceeds 2Gb AND they fall in the top 5% then send the message. I would think this would be a basic programming of rules.
I always wonder if they have "exceptions" to this rule. I can guarantee that if the top 5% only uses around 1 to 1.3 Gb, then they say absolutely nothing. After all, if a user has never exceeded the 2Gb in years, then making them pay $25 vice $30 would be draining their own pockets.
I got my notice at 2, which I think is total bs
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I guess I'm lucky to live in the area I do, because I've been over 2gb more than a few times and have never been notified.
pazzo02 said:
I guess I'm lucky to live in the area I do, because I've been over 2gb more than a few times and have never been notified.
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So have I! thats why this is so strange to me, one month I peaked at almost 8gb and nothing and my nov peak was 2.5 so now 1.8 is their new magic number its total crap, I think there is no top 5%, how can only 5% of unlimited users be past 1.7gb in Orange County. ITS A GREEDY CONSPIRACY I SAY!!!! <_<o_o>_>
m0nkeyf00t said:
So have I! thats why this is so strange to me, one month I peaked at almost 8gb and nothing and my nov peak was 2.5 so now 1.8 is their new magic number its total crap, I think there is no top 5%, how can only 5% of unlimited users be past 1.7gb in Orange County. ITS A GREEDY CONSPIRACY I SAY!!!! <_<o_o>_>
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Maybe all the heavy users in your area went out of town for Christmas/New years?
I have no idea, I have not received such message ever. Jan '11-Jan '12 breakdown
01/11-9.1GB
02/11-4.3GB
03/11-3.8GB
04/11-5.6GB
05/11-4.2GB
06/11-1.1GB(lost phone 3 weeks without smartphone)
07/11-3.2GB
07/11-3.2GB
08/11-15.6GB(downloaded OSX 10.7 via WiFi tether)
09/11-4.8GB
10/11-6.8GB
11/11-6.5GB
12/11-2.5GB(didn't have a smartphone half the month)
01/12-5.6GB
Current cycle 14 days in 4.9GB
I got my notice at 2 as well. Real close to leaving my unlimited plan.
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aybarrap1 said:
I have to agree. If they are pinging you for 1.8 then I would definitely complain. They offer 2 and 4 Gb plans. Unless you exceeded the 2 then I do not know why they would say something. As it stands, you are already paying $5 extra a month for the "unlimited" and if you are not exceeding 2Gb by much then they are still making money off of you. This is pure greed. They are so worried about losing some money that they are now finding ways to force people to a limited plan. This top 5% of the area is a load of crap. Surely they can make it where once a person exceeds 2Gb AND they fall in the top 5% then send the message. I would think this would be a basic programming of rules.
I always wonder if they have "exceptions" to this rule. I can guarantee that if the top 5% only uses around 1 to 1.3 Gb, then they say absolutely nothing. After all, if a user has never exceeded the 2Gb in years, then making them pay $25 vice $30 would be draining their own pockets.
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So complain to?...I already tried and csr's are clueless. They'll tell you they arent sure what formula AT&T uses to calculate top 5% etc etc bla bla...
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Maybe all the heavy users in your area went out of town for Christmas/New years?
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hmm you maybe on to something, I didn't even consider that being a poor guy in a mostly white collar area, maybe they all went skying and snowboard for the holidays.....
And in a related news story........
AT&T Introduces New Smartphone Data Plans w/3GB and 5GB Options
What happens when you "get notified" that you are in the top 5% of users?
Once notified your in top 5%, att throttles your data speeds to about .15kbps.
Total conspiracy going on here greedy mofos..let me recap on my experience.
October:12gb
November: 9gb
December:[email protected] 2gb
At end of cycle I still used 9gb(buahaha) Att p!ssed me off so I downloaded mp4's,apps,mp3's as much as I could=]
January:throttled [email protected] >=[
Here we go again...so much for unlimited even though you pay.
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Remember that the unlimited still has a clause built into the TOS of "Fair Usage" THe unlimited plan was made when there were only feature phones and then for the few that got the first smartphones. It was mainly set up for Business users that needed it while out of the office. Now that every kid and their grandmother has a smartphone so they are doing away with it after the unlimited was abused. IT started with the Icrap users always streaming stuff. Now you have every one using the cloud and the data rate from some people are just not acceptable. Mix that with the fact that no one reads the TOS and this is what happens.
Well I've gotten the message for the past 3 months, at the moment my download speed is 131 kbps and upload speed is 1648 kbps I'm gettin screwed I feel, I've been with Att for 11 years now and now this crap. Took 22 minutes to download a 2.99mb app from the market. I'm not switching to a tiered plan gonna download 24/7, tired of getting this message every month at the 1 gig mark.
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Is there a different son that can be used, maybe?
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What about this..... http://www.traemcneely.com/2011/12/...rottle-4g-data-anti-throttling-trick-for-att/
Or something similar
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I average around 3gb a month. My company pays for my phone and I'm grandfathered in the unlimited. Not sure what AT&T totals my usage at since I've never seen the bill but my app usually says around 3gb.
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Well I've gotten the message for the past 3 months, at the moment my download speed is 131 kbps and upload speed is 1648 kbps I'm gettin screwed I feel, I've been with Att for 11 years now and now this crap. Took 22 minutes to download a 2.99mb app from the market. I'm not switching to a tiered plan gonna download 24/7, tired of getting this message every month at the 1 gig mark.
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Downloading is too slow. If you want to eat up as much data as possible, try uploading video to something like drop box 24/7.