I think I might have been permanently throttled on my 4g speeds. I was getting 15-18mbps in speedtest.net for the last couple weeks and I've used 12GB of bandwidth on my last monthly statement with my unlimited data plan. Starting Monday I have not been able to get anything above 4mbps. My month plan reset so my bandwidth usage is back to below 1GB but still not getting above 4mbps.
I'm not sure if I am permanently throttled or if something else on the phone went wonky and is preventing me from getting the 15-18mbps speeds again. Is there a way to check if throttled or to check phone to make sure the settings are correct?
Mik0r said:
I think I might have been permanently throttled on my 4g speeds. I was getting 15-18mbps in speedtest.net for the last couple weeks and I've used 12GB of bandwidth on my last monthly statement with my unlimited data plan. Starting Monday I have not been able to get anything above 4mbps. My month plan reset so my bandwidth usage is back to below 1GB but still not getting above 4mbps.
I'm not sure if I am permanently throttled or if something else on the phone went wonky and is preventing me from getting the 15-18mbps speeds again. Is there a way to check if throttled or to check phone to make sure the settings are correct?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Verizon cannot throttle 4G. It is part of their acquisition of the Spectrum C block they won.
Related
DSLReports.com has a new article: AT&T HSPA+ Quietly Pops Up In Several Cities At Least According To A New, More Honest Coverage Map (LINK). Going to the AT&T map and zooming on Boston, shows I should have HSPA+ in the area I'm in, but I don't . Any one in Boston getting AT&T's approximately 6 Mbps speeds? If so, what radio are you using? I am using 12.39.60.19U_26.06.04.06_M with Android Revolution 4G 2.1.
6? That's funny. Granted I'm in Burlington-MA and not downtown proper, but I'm lucky to see 0.6 during the day. At 6:00am I can sometimes see 2mb, but it chokes down pretty quick when people start their workday.
car_nut said:
6? That's funny. Granted I'm in Burlington-MA and not downtown proper, but I'm lucky to see 0.6 during the day. At 6:00am I can sometimes see 2mb, but it chokes down pretty quick when people start their workday.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I'm in the same area, speeds are a joke. Without WiFi, it would almost be a paper weight.
Up to 6 is all HSPA+ is supposed to give us? I've already seen over 5 in Atlanta where HSPA+ isn't even turned on yet. Usually I get around 3 though.
I've seen almost 5 here in STL and thats no HSPA+.... also i get about 2 up
directorfer said:
DSLReports.com has a new article: AT&T HSPA+ Quietly Pops Up In Several Cities At Least According To A New, More Honest Coverage Map (LINK). Going to the AT&T map and zooming on Boston, shows I should have HSPA+ in the area I'm in, but I don't . Any one in Boston getting AT&T's approximately 6 Mbps speeds? If so, what radio are you using? I am using 12.39.60.19U_26.06.04.06_M with Android Revolution 4G 2.1.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
hahah i got mine today and i've been around the boston/brighton/alston area all day. only got above 1 Mbps once and everything else was pretty low...
I work in Braintree and average over 3mbps down, but that's what my other phones generally saw between 2-3.
Northborough 3.3 down 1.3 up
In S. Boston I get: .4 Down and .15 up
At home in Salem: 2.5 Down .8 up
Extremely pathetic... if this doesn't change I will be getting the thunderbolt on VZW. Standing in Boston and not even getting Edge speeds... AT&T Sucks!
So I looked at the map and my office is supposedly in the "4g" area(Burlington, ma). I'm showing the "H+" and running the rooted stock ROM. 0.43 down and 0.65 up at 1:45pm. I know the phone is capable of more since I've seen up to 3mb down during off hours. The ~0.5 down is pretty typical during normal working hours though. I'm also thinking about jumping ship before my 30 days is up.
i feel bad for some of you guys, i dont understand it. (i do understand the upload speed is disabled on the stock ROM).
but on ATT, my nexus one gets 3Mbps down, 1.6Mbps up, for the last year straight. even during daytime and peak hours, those speeds are relatively consistent.
ping is consistently 180 ms. cant complain about that. but certainly that's not HSPA+ yet. leave it to ATT to be slow at expanding network...
In Salt Lake City, I average .6 down and .16 up. With my Samsung Captivate, I got faster speeds on 3G. I happen to also own a T-Mobile MyTouch 4G which has average speeds that are almost 2.5 times faster. I test both the Inspire and MyTouch several times daily.
What this tells me that the download speeds as well as the upload speeds are being artificially slowed down.
Also, HTC or AT&T also brilliantly decided to leave out the 2100 Mhz radio so no 3 or 4G in Europe and many other counties. This and the fact there is no front facing camera, make this phone much less desirable.
Sent from my HTC Glacier using XDA App
For my local and ROM, the throttling isn't artificial but a lack of bandwidth. During off hours I get respectable speeds but the network becomes bogged down once everyone gets to work.
The lack of front facing camera I'm guessing was intentional. Their network is obviously greatly lacking in capacity in many areas. Giving people hardware to allow video calling isn't going to work well with that.
I am also in the Boston area. I got 2M up 2M down yesterday by leaning out my window at home (I only get 1 bar inside my house when I am lucky). I will say this though, I was talking to an ATT rep in a local store and he said that the towers had been updated but much of the backhaul was still in progress around Boston. He was talking about the Worburn towner specifically being a 4G tower but that the backhaul still meant he only got about .6M.
Is there a way that actually works to defeat data throttling? Or has this petty much been given up? I just got throttled and now I'm only getting 56 kbps :O
I don't think so...
Hello Everyone, just recieved my Tmobile bill and on a slip of paper about 1/4 of a page in size is a Notice of changes due to take effect April 5 2012
Begining April 5 there will be a limit on the data that can be used while a T mobile customer's device is connected to another providers network (off network or domestic roaming). If the roaming data limit is exceeded for a rate plan then data service will be suspended from off network roaming until the next billing cycle. This will not impact voice usage or data usage on T mobile network
Rate plans data up to 200mb new roaming allotment 5 mb
2gb 10mb
4gb 50mb
10gb 100mb
over 10gb 200mb
mobile pay per use 10mb
As i live in a rual area there is only edge data for me, and my network service constantly roams between At t and T mobile. Most of the time i use wifi, but i have the 2gb data plan, and i think my highest data usage has been in the 500 mb range (hard to tolerate edge speeds) So the way i read this policy change, I'm getting bent over hard. Could this be related to the failure of the At t + T mobile buyout, Att is having a very difficult time handling the data flow on its network right now. Other than myself not sure how this might impact many other T mobile users around the country, but it cant be good. How much data roaming really goes on between carriers? Any info and others thoughts are welcomed, thanks.
are you in the uk how does this affect the t mobile orange tie in where i can roam on to orange and orange can roam on to t mobile
SENT FROM MY TRANSFORMER and its on KRAKD
I m in USA Michigan
I noticed that Play Music was using a large amount of data. In about a week it used up just under 2 gb of data. I would say total stream time was only around 3 hours. I do have unlimited data with my t-mobile plan so I'm not too worried unless I get throttled after 5 gb or something. I was just wondering if anyone else had the same experience. I know you can regulate the quality to reduce data usage, but I still don't think high quality should use up that much.
Do you have the "highest quality" option chosen, that will increase your data usage. If you are streaming 3 hours worth of music that was not on your phone assuming that a song was around 2.5-3mb it seems possible. It also could've been downloading album art.
This is my biggest complaint with Google Music. It uses too much data regardless of whether I change the streaming bandwidth. It consistently uses more data than Spotify even on the lowest quality. I never had to worry about this when I was on Sprint but I have since switched to Straight Talk and don't want to be throttled either.
Google needs to fix this issue. It's the biggest issue keeping me from switching.
PsychDrummer said:
I noticed that Play Music was using a large amount of data. In about a week it used up just under 2 gb of data. I would say total stream time was only around 3 hours. I do have unlimited data with my t-mobile plan so I'm not too worried unless I get throttled after 5 gb or something. I was just wondering if anyone else had the same experience. I know you can regulate the quality to reduce data usage, but I still don't think high quality should use up that much.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
lol, seriously? how many mb is each song that you are listening? and then you chose high quality. 2gb is very normal. throw in a little more into your data plan and you can have completely unlimited high speed data, without throttling. its not an issue here, i have the completely unlimited high speed data with tmo, no throttling. now data usage isnt a factor, and i completely enjoy my device because of it.
---------- Post added at 05:17 PM ---------- Previous post was at 05:13 PM ----------
laestrella said:
This is my biggest complaint with Google Music. It uses too much data regardless of whether I change the streaming bandwidth. It consistently uses more data than Spotify even on the lowest quality. I never had to worry about this when I was on Sprint but I have since switched to Straight Talk and don't want to be throttled either.
Google needs to fix this issue. It's the biggest issue keeping me from switching.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
its not an issue. google does not assume that you have data limiting you. to fix the issue, get a plan with more data.
simms22 said:
lol, seriously? how many mb is each song that you are listening? and then you chose high quality. 2gb is very normal. throw in a little more into your data plan and you can have completely unlimited high speed data, without throttling. its not an issue here, i have the completely unlimited high speed data with tmo, no throttling. now data usage isnt a factor, and i completely enjoy my device because of it.
---------- Post added at 05:17 PM ---------- Previous post was at 05:13 PM ----------
its not an issue. google does not assume that you have data limiting you. to fix the issue, get a plan with more data.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I do have the completely unlimited plan, but I heard that apparently you still start to get throttled after 5 gbs. Maybe not to 2G, but just a bit slower. Could be true could not, since you haven't experienced it. I did think about the size of each song, but I thought since streaming is different from actually downloading it, it wouldn't have to use up 3 mbs or whatever the size is per song. I know Pandora doesn't use nearly as much. Also, I think it might be because I skip songs often. So Play music loads up the song before I skip to the next one.
PsychDrummer said:
I do have the completely unlimited plan, but I heard that apparently you still start to get throttled after 5 gbs. Maybe not to 2G, but just a bit slower. Could be true could not, since you haven't experienced it. I did think about the size of each song, but I thought since streaming is different from actually downloading it, it wouldn't have to use up 3 mbs or whatever the size is per song. I know Pandora doesn't use nearly as much. Also, I think it might be because I skip songs often. So Play music loads up the song before I skip to the next one.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
all tmobile data plans are "unlimited", meaning a certain amount if high speed data then being throttled to edge data speeds. well, all plans but one, and it has completely unlimited high speed data($70 everything completely unlimited). i use on average 25-45gb a month, some use much more.
i spend a day or two of my week listening to music, usually either using google play or pandora. i easily use on average between 1.5-2.5gb with google play music after 2-4 hours, and about the same with pandora, on high quality both. also, in play music settings, there is an option to cache music you stream(until you empty the cache). you might have that enabled. itll download and save to your device this way also(as opposed to saving to device).
simms22 said:
all tmobile data plans are "unlimited", meaning a certain amount if high speed data then being throttled to edge data speeds. well, all plans but one, and it has completely unlimited high speed data($70 everything completely unlimited). i use on average 25-45gb a month, some use much more.
i spend a day or two of my week listening to music, usually either using google play or pandora. i easily use on average between 1.5-2.5gb with google play music after 2-4 hours, and about the same with pandora, on high quality both. also, in play music settings, there is an option to cache music you stream(until you empty the cache). you might have that enabled. itll download and save to your device this way also(as opposed to saving to device).
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Gotcha, yeah I know how it works. I do have the $70 one. Well, I have a family plan, but I pay the $20 extra for the true unlimited that now comes with the 2.5 gbs of tethering. That's good to know that they don't throttle. 45 gbs is pretty insane haha.
simms22 said:
all tmobile data plans are "unlimited", meaning a certain amount if high speed data then being throttled to edge data speeds. well, all plans but one, and it has completely unlimited high speed data($70 everything completely unlimited). i use on average 25-45gb a month, some use much more.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Is this your only means of internet access? That is quite a lot and would make me think t-mobile would shut you down
mistahseller said:
Is this your only means of internet access? That is quite a lot and would make me think t-mobile would shut you down
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
its a lot, yea. but not that much that use 100+ of gigabytes, lol. it is my only internet access,plus i use the device much. and updating 2gb size apps often! i believe the usage number that they used to post on their website(before their recent site change) if you had the completely unlimited was like 99XXgb allowed. anyways, the plan is for completely unlimited high speed data, completely unlimited is a lot more than 25-45gb
If I did that the At&t police in their orange and blue uniforms would find me.
Sent from my Nexus 5
I'm pretty impressed with my speed.
Yea, xlte is quick. Wish I still had my unlimited data.
Agreed. Seeing fast cell data speeds doesn't really impress or excite me anymore. You can't utilize ANY advantage you get from the increased speed without:
1.Paying an absurd price per GB to have enough data that streaming and downloading gigantic files that were too "slow" before is something you do now just because you can. Which if you have WiFi at home or somewhere accessible almost everyday then imo your just being impatient and spoiled by current tech. Remember when none of this stuff even existed?
2.Keep your plan with a **** amount of data and use it all in a 5-10 minute blowout to be able to witness the FASTER speeds you saw on tv that alledgedly justify the ludicrous bill you get every month.
Wow I can't wait for faster speeds to come to my neighborhood!
Unless you are like me and are still holding onto unlimited data