What is this garbage? I've been noticing a speed decrease in my LTE and I'm starting to wonder... My plan restarts the 19th of every month.
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considering you only have 2 bars you should probably try the test again when you have full bars
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considering you only have 2 bars you should probably try the test again when you have full bars
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Even if I had 2 bars I dont think it'd have this much of an impact. A while back I tested speeds with a buddy who had an iPhone 5 and we were hitting 40mbps and I had usually 3 bars in that class.
Look at it with 4g..
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Yeah. Running Venom XL
So low signal and low speed? Have you tried flashing other radios?
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So low signal and low speed? Have you tried flashing other radios?
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Yeah, I'm not running the stock Radio.
I honestly think it's something to do with your service at the moment. I was throttled recently and my LTE speeds wouldn't even hit close to 1Mbps, but my ping was its normal speed. Your ping is over 3 times what mine is. Granted not everyone is the same but your ping seems awful high to me. Do you remember what your ping normally is when your speeds are fast? Also, when being throttled my speed test would shoot up real fast like normal for just a second before the throttle kicked in. Does yours do that?
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So low signal and low speed? Have you tried flashing other radios?
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I have 2 bars on LTE and still pull over 20Mbps easy. I don't think bars mean as much with LTE.
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pside15 said:
I honestly think it's something to do with your service at the moment. I was throttled recently and my LTE speeds wouldn't even hit close to 1Mbps, but my ping was its normal speed. Your ping is over 3 times what mine is. Granted not everyone is the same but your ping seems awful high to me. Do you remember what your ping normally is when your speeds are fast? Also, when being throttled my speed test would shoot up real fast like normal for just a second before the throttle kicked in. Does yours do that?
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I have 2 bars on LTE and still pull over 20Mbps easy. I don't think bars mean as much with LTE.
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Yeah, it was actually doing that with upload earlier.
I'm about to say screw it and go for the nexus 4, the One XL has given too much problems.
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I honestly think it's something to do with your service at the moment. I was throttled recently and my LTE speeds wouldn't even hit close to 1Mbps, but my ping was its normal speed. Your ping is over 3 times what mine is. Granted not everyone is the same but your ping seems awful high to me. Do you remember what your ping normally is when your speeds are fast? Also, when being throttled my speed test would shoot up real fast like normal for just a second before the throttle kicked in. Does yours do that?
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I have 2 bars on LTE and still pull over 20Mbps easy. I don't think bars mean as much with LTE.
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and I'm not really sure what my ping was. Maybe in the 50's I don't remember
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I'm about to say screw it and go for the nexus 4, the One XL has given too much problems.
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Well that doesn't make any sense, if data speeds are your concern. The Nexus 4 doesn't even get LTE.
But these aren't even close to throttling speeds. Those are more on the order of 100-200 kbps from what others have posted on here. Are you on a custom ROM, and if so which one?
If this is a spontaneous change, could just be a network issue.
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Yeah, it was actually doing that with upload earlier.
I'm about to say screw it and go for the nexus 4, the One XL has given too much problems.
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My upload almost always does that. I was talking about the download portion. I don't even think my upload speeds were affected at all when I was being throttled.
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and I'm not really sure what my ping was. Maybe in the 50's I don't remember
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Your ping should be in the 50ms, or under, range but in both of your screenshots it was over 160. That's why I don't think you were being throttled. Are you on one of the old unlimited plans still? Those are the only plans you will get throttled on, I believe. I lost my unlimited data when my company changed how they did company phones so now I'm on a mobile share plan which I know they won't throttle me on. Why throttle customers that go over their data when they can just charge them more.
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Beerad875 said:
What is this garbage? I've been noticing a speed decrease in my LTE and I'm starting to wonder... My plan restarts the 19th of every month.
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These are the same speeds i was getting when i got throttled too. I in fact called AT&T to ask what was happening and they warned me about throttling, and did something to bring me back to 45mbps. :fingers-crossed: Good luck
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My upload almost always does that. I was talking about the download portion. I don't even think my upload speeds were affected at all when I was being throttled.
Your ping should be in the 50ms, or under, range but in both of your screenshots it was over 160. That's why I don't think you were being throttled. Are you on one of the old unlimited plans still? Those are the only plans you will get throttled on, I believe. I lost my unlimited data when my company changed how they did company phones so now I'm on a mobile share plan which I know they won't throttle me on. Why throttle customers that go over their data when they can just charge them more.
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Yeah, I've been grandfathered into unlimited.
Eh. The phone in general is a pain to even mod. My comment was really irrelevant to everything Lol.
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Eh. The phone in general is a pain to even mod. My comment was really irrelevant to everything Lol.
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Really? I think this phone is extremely easy to mod. Sure, we had to wait to get the bootloader unlocked and s-off but the methods are simple enough to do. Once you have a custom recovery it's exactly the same as any other phone out there.
Back to the throttling thing. Do you know how much data you've used this billing cycle? I used to go over 5GB a month when I was unlimited and never got throttled. The only time I was ever throttled was when I had used a little over 8GB of data with a week left in my billing cycle. I've heard of people getting throttled for less though.
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Eh. The phone in general is a pain to even mod. My comment was really irrelevant to everything Lol.
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That's part of the fun of rooting... the learning process, understanding how things work and what your doing. These phones are released locked with security flags and whatnot for a reason. You've got countless noobs who can't even understand why a ROM designed for a phone won't work on a phone with completely different hardware. Making things easier is the problem. If anything I think devs should stop dumbing things down. I agree things should be easy to run and use and work as it should when you're stock but if you make the choice to mess with your software it's up to you to diagnose and fix any bugs that may arise.
I wanna be a doctor so I started cutting people open but then realized man this **** is hard! D: They should make it easier!
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Really? I think this phone is extremely easy to mod. Sure, we had to wait to get the bootloader unlocked and s-off but the methods are simple enough to do. Once you have a custom recovery it's exactly the same as any other phone out there.
Back to the throttling thing. Do you know how much data you've used this billing cycle? I used to go over 5GB a month when I was unlimited and never got throttled. The only time I was ever throttled was when I had used a little over 8GB of data with a week left in my billing cycle. I've heard of people getting throttled for less though.
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Well my bill renewed the 19th... but I was in the woodlands and I ran it again and I was getting 20mpbs down and about 9 up. Still not as fast as it was.
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That's part of the fun of rooting... the learning process, understanding how things work and what your doing. These phones are released locked with security flags and whatnot for a reason. You've got countless noobs who can't even understand why a ROM designed for a phone won't work on a phone with completely different hardware. Making things easier is the problem. If anything I think devs should stop dumbing things down. I agree things should be easy to run and use and work as it should when you're stock but if you make the choice to mess with your software it's up to you to diagnose and fix any bugs that may arise.
I wanna be a doctor so I started cutting people open but then realized man this **** is hard! D: They should make it easier!
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Only problem is I ALWAYS get a bootloop when trying to flash a kernel. boot img and all. I have to reflash the stock kernel from the viper xl aroma installer. Terrifies me when I come across that garbage.
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Well my bill renewed the 19th... but I was in the woodlands and I ran it again and I was getting 20mpbs down and about 9 up. Still not as fast as it was.
Only problem is I ALWAYS get a bootloop when trying to flash a kernel. boot img and all. I have to reflash the stock kernel from the viper xl aroma installer. Terrifies me when I come across that garbage.
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If you want to narrow the cause down, the first thing I would do is RUU to stock (make sure you're S-OFF first) and test speeds. Then you'll know it's either the phone(hardware) or the network. And you can call/visit your carrier to find the cause between the two. If it works fine after RUUing, you know it's something you flashed and can work from there or stay stock if you so decide.
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Well my bill renewed the 19th... but I was in the woodlands and I ran it again and I was getting 20mpbs down and about 9 up. Still not as fast as it was.
Only problem is I ALWAYS get a bootloop when trying to flash a kernel. boot img and all. I have to reflash the stock kernel from the viper xl aroma installer. Terrifies me when I come across that garbage.
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20 down and 9 up are good LTE speeds. What exactly are you expecting? That speed is faster than the most people's home internet. Sure it's not the best I've seen but no where near being throttled. That is a good bit faster than all of my friends that use Verizon LTE. When you are throttled it is basically unusable. I had slower than edge speeds when being throttled.
Some kernels you have to flash in recovery and the boot.img for them to work because they load modules and stuff in recovery that just flashing the boot.img doesn't do. I suggest doing the method to get s-off. It's very simple and makes everything much easier.
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Is it possible to edit the build.prop file like the on the Inspire 4G to achieve better speeds?
Lol this should be in general... And inspire? This is the infuse forums
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Lol this should be in general... And inspire? This is the infuse forums
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He said "like" on the inspire...
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He said "like" on the inspire...
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actually, he said, "like the on". LOL!
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actually, he said, "like the on". LOL!
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My bad... It still should be in general
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I apologize if I put it in the wrong forum, but I didn't think that editing the build.prop file or regulating 4G speeds that AT&T hasn't "given" us access to yet was a general question.
Aside from that, is it possible?
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I apologize if I put it in the wrong forum, but I didn't think that editing the build.prop file or regulating 4G speeds that AT&T hasn't "given" us access to yet was a general question.
Aside from that, is it possible?
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So, you want to post in development? Ask yourself this:
Is what I am going to post a question?
If so, this is not the right place to post a new thread. Instead, use the SEARCH function to find a thread about your question. If that's not available, post your question in General.
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Just sayin...
Point taken.
Well no offense to anyone, but changing the build.prop of any phone to alter the dynamics of how to phone runs or behaves sounds like development to me...
Can it be done? Do you know how exactly it's done on the inspire?
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SSJ_Gomike said:
Well no offense to anyone, but changing the build.prop of any phone to alter the dynamics of how to phone runs or behaves sounds like development to me...
Can it be done? Do you know how exactly it's done on the inspire?
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Your missing what the dev section is for.
If someone had a custom Build.prop they wanted to share, that is a Dev post. Asking a question about development is not.
no, from what I've been tinkering with in the test settings (accessed with *#0011#) and pressing menu, back, selecting "network control", then "hspa cat control", I'm able to get better speeds on CAT 10 than CAT 14, but other's speeds may vary. (I know I'm a heavy user that uses over 15 to 20 GB per month too, so it may just be going through a CAT that I'm not throttled on too.... )
But with all above, I agree that this should be in General....
the inspire has hsupa disabled foe the att version with a line in build.prop. hsupa has been disabled on all att phone cept the iphone and the infuse. tere have been different meathods to disable it but is irrelevant because the infuse has it enabled. ther may be other settings to change but not to get even better speeds but I don't think it will be in build.prop or yield the same results.
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no, from what I've been tinkering with in the test settings (accessed with *#0011#) and pressing menu, back, selecting "network control", then "hspa cat control", I'm able to get better speeds on CAT 10 than CAT 14, but other's speeds may vary. (I know I'm a heavy user that uses over 15 to 20 GB per month too, so it may just be going through a CAT that I'm not throttled on too.... )
But with all above, I agree that this should be in General....
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wow i started messing with the diffrent CAT settings on my infuse and now i have gotten up to 5250 down on my speed test! before the most ive gotten was low 3000's. a friend of mine has a infuse 4g also but he has gotten up to 10,000 down! he usually averages 7-8k on speed tests. WHY????? he has had his phone since it came out i think.
Someone needs to build a CAT setting tester/optimizer!
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no, from what I've been tinkering with in the test settings (accessed with *#0011#) and pressing menu, back, selecting "network control", then "hspa cat control", I'm able to get better speeds on CAT 10 than CAT 14, but other's speeds may vary. (I know I'm a heavy user that uses over 15 to 20 GB per month too, so it may just be going through a CAT that I'm not throttled on too.... )
But with all above, I agree that this should be in General....
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So i just followed what you said and the first screen that comes up, the general service mode screen says im running on 3g even though up in my task bar it shows the H+ symbol. Has my infuse been lying to me this whole time?
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So i just followed what you said and the first screen that comes up, the general service mode screen says im running on 3g even though up in my task bar it shows the H+ symbol. Has my infuse been lying to me this whole time?
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No, AT&T has. HSPA+ is still 3G, even though AT&T calls it 4g. They may re-brand all the user-facing stuff to say 4G, but the phone's technical information that you aren't supposed to see will refer to it by its technical term, 3G.
if its not LTE , its not 4g Sorry to burst your bubble. I truely miss Tmobile when it comes to data. I would get around 6megs down all the time on "3g". I dont even get 3 most times with at&t and the upload is such horrible ****.
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if its not LTE , its not 4g Sorry to burst your bubble. I truely miss Tmobile when it comes to data. I would get around 6megs down all the time on "3g". I dont even get 3 most times with at&t and the upload is such horrible ****.
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LTE isn't 4G either, if you want to lump HSPA+ into ' it's not 4G' category. LTE currently offers nothing remotely close to the original ITU specs.
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wow i started messing with the diffrent CAT settings on my infuse and now i have gotten up to 5250 down on my speed test! before the most ive gotten was low 3000's. a friend of mine has a infuse 4g also but he has gotten up to 10,000 down! he usually averages 7-8k on speed tests. WHY????? he has had his phone since it came out i think.
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I typically get 3-4 Mbps at work/home. Last week I was about 4 miles away, got 8.9Mbps. Another day I was about 5 miles further, got 5.5 Mbps. Depends on which tower you're on.
Yeah, I've noticed that too. I switched the CAT and got improvement at my office... Now just to check at home.
I almost feel like my Captivate was faster somehow....
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Had this phone about a week. Rooted with coredroid rom. I'm doing regular speed tests and im getting 1.2-2 mbps on average. Tonight i tried the 2nd apn and after a while i hit around 3. Am i missing something? Is att that lame? I'm coming from a captivate and i was getting those kind of speeds on it. I live in the philadelphia area so its not like i'm out in the woods.
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Tonight i tried the 2nd apn and after a while i hit around 3. Am i missing something? Is att that lame?
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In one word: yes. Some people can get 6-8. Normal is 2-3 for me, sometimes 4-6 really late at night.
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In one word: yes. Some people can get 6-8. Normal is 2-3 for me, sometimes 4-6 really late at night.
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and people are supposed to rush out and upgrade phones for this? FAIL
I do love the phone.
On the upside the GPS actually works haha I also came from the Captivate.
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so is there any way to get past throttling? i tether to my computer and run out of data in less then a day of a new billing cycle. (yes i run thru 5 gigs in less then a day! hahaha) so is there any way shape or form to get rid of this horrible throttling issue?!?!?!
Nope. Not anymore.
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Real quick brother don't know if this will work for ya but I got throttled a few days ago and but chance was running speed test to see how slow it really had gotten and I managed to lose my data connection when it restablished I had my 4g speeds again.... I lost it again the next morning but attempted to recreate the event by running speed test and. Then cutting my data connection from the top bar and it worked give it a shot if you want and get back to me
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I just cant stop, i feel like im walking on sunshineee.
haha for real though as of now i havent heard of a way to beat the throttle, its more provider side then phone side. I heard there is a plan that has the 5gb cap but never throttles, you have to ask for it specifically and its given to most long time customers (or people who threaten to cancel). Give it a search.
Okay so they are planning on slowing you down once you reach a certain limit they set with their biggest package 4GB I would guess its around that point, how are they going to trottle everyone's speed down to a crawl? Is it going to be like they trottled everyone's speed up in the past VIA software updates? Anyway just curious what you all think and hopefully there's away to not be stuck in a rut on this one, I do a lot of streaming, and multiplayer gaming on my phone...
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Okay so they are planning on slowing you down once you reach a certain limit they set with their biggest package 4GB I would guess its around that point, how are they going to trottle everyone's speed down to a crawl? Is it going to be like they trottled everyone's speed up in the past VIA software updates? Anyway just curious what you all think and hopefully there's away to not be stuck in a rut on this one, I do a lot of streaming, and multiplayer gaming on my phone...
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I have the 30 dollar unlimited plan and i'm using 5-6GB a month and i seem to be fine. But i cant imagine what other people are using.
It's not in effect yet, I do between 6 and 16 depending on if I'm downloading new roms and stuff too, but its suppose to be effective soon.
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According to the post on ATT Website, they are putting it into effect on October 1st.
Secondaly, they are only capping the extreme few that are using CRAZY amounts of data, and taht number was WAY WAY above 4g data.
I spoke to a friend at ATT and he stated that currently the cap was at 10gigs. Now, that could change but who knows.
The data throttling is not being done VIA software and such but instead a change to your plan. All ATT phones are tracked via IMEI numbers and thus the way they know who has what number and what data/messaging packages. All they are doing is making a change to your plan that will only allow you to access the EDGE network.
I can see this possibly being bypassed but will have to wait till the change hits to see what can be done to bypass this.
What dept does your friend work in? Mine read about what's going on when and stuff but they didn't give him exact info like how or what the limit was. Edge don't even work when I try so that wouldnt be right because it takes 5 minutes to load a Facebook status.. anyway whatever happens I hope the limit is a bit higher then 10 sometimes I hit 16 and I don't do mobile hotspots, and i connect to WiFi at home. Let's hope for a work around if so!
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I miss having wifi at my work. I use my wireless at home. My '4G' is pretty fast at my house though (4-5mbps).
Wow i'm dreading this I drive a truck for a living and use the wifi tether allot to play my x-box. This is going to hurt hope someone finds a work around!
P.M. please lift this 5 minute post restriction!
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Playing xbox? Wow! I have tried before and never get a good connection.
It depends allot on the host I connect to on black ops and where I am
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No offense but its people like you is the reason why tethering has been such a huge issue. Tethering (if you are not paying for it) should only be used for necessity or minor things like checking your email, post a Facebook status message, or upload a photo, so that you are not abusing the feature and bogging down the network/tower you are connected to.
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Wow i'm dreading this I drive a truck for a living and use the wifi tether allot to play my x-box. This is going to hurt hope someone finds a work around!
P.M. please lift this 5 minute post restriction!
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No offense but its people like you is the reason why tethering has been such a huge issue. Tethering (if you are not paying for it) should only be used for necessity or minor things like checking your email, post a Facebook status message, or upload a photo, so that you are not abusing the feature and bogging down the network/tower you are connected to.
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+1 on that one. Won't be long though. All carriers are cracking down and just read something new on the net that google is even getting involved with blocking illegal and/or abusive tethering in the near future.
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+1 on that one. Won't be long though. All carriers are cracking down and just read something new on the net that google is even getting involved with blocking illegal and/or abusive tethering in the near future.
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cavsoldier19d said:
No offense but its people like you is the reason why tethering has been such a huge issue. Tethering (if you are not paying for it) should only be used for necessity or minor things like checking your email, post a Facebook status message, or upload a photo, so that you are not abusing the feature and bogging down the network/tower you are connected to.
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Well no offense but you don't know anything about me. I have maybe time for 2 matches a weak! I don't abuse anything. I have never gone over 5 gigs in a month. And as mentioned I live in a truck i'm exactly the reason tethering is out there!
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Guys how he does his tethering is his business not ours
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It's all funny you guys are panicking. The slowdown is only going to be relevant to the top 5% of users according to my buddy who works in their corporate offices.
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It's all funny you guys are panicking. The slowdown is only going to be relevant to the top 5% of users according to my buddy who works in their corporate offices.
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Ive learned that att lies it will not be 5% it will be to whom ever they wish. My perdition is one people hit the 4g tether plain the brakes will be on.
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why so horrified? if you write a check and there isn't enough cash in the account to cover it, are you surprised when the bank dings your account with a huge fee?
Top 5% users..... yeah right.
We all know how this is going to happened, you hit a certain cap, say about 10GB, then they throttle you to slower then EDGE speeds.
It's all their plan to ruin unlimited data for unlimited data users......
Hopefully though, the cap is high, or they ACTUALLY tell the truth for once and only throttle the top 5%, which I'm probably nowhere near (I use 3-4GB a month), so I really won't have to worry about it, but it sucks for people who use 10-15GB a month without tethering, you must not have wifi around where you normally are. :/
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HEY IM with you. I use tethering and dont pay, but I never never gostreaming and never go about 4 at the most. Most of the time It is2. I have unlimited data. For god sakes it a cell phone not a pc people
If you have the grandfather unlimited plan, are they slowing that down too?
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i did the update att sent me the other day and the first time i tethered after doing it was last night then this morning i get a msg from att to call them. so i did and they informed me they knew i was tethering but could not tell me how they new i was doing it. so now i am thinking about a new rom. i will reroot first and see if it replaced the tethering apk. if anyone has any information on this update please let me know. i was going to copy the msg they sent to me for the update but it conveniently del'd itself on reboot.
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i did the update att sent me the other day and the first time i tethered after doing it was last night then this morning i get a msg from att to call them. so i did and they informed me they knew i was tethering but could not tell me how they new i was doing it. so now i am thinking about a new rom. i will reroot first and see if it replaced the tethering apk. if anyone has any information on this update please let me know. i was going to copy the msg they sent to me for the update but it conveniently del'd itself on reboot.
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People have been getting nailed right and left, seemingly regardless of ROM. I don't think the update has anything to do with it, they're likely doing some packet inspection to determine what OS the packets are originating from.
when i called in regarding the nasty gram. she emphasized to update my phone. so im guess that is where it is coming from. id agree with you.
Yeah, looks like it was the update. It's weird that all of you got caught those,
I tethered a decent amount a few days ago(don't care if anyone knows, even you AT&T spies!) while my home internet was out, not a thing.
Guess we know not to use any new updates from AT&T until we find out how they detect us without tetheringmanager.apk..
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It's because you're using a stock ROM. I believe there's a service (though I can't for the life of me remember what it's called) that can detect if you're tethering or not. Custom ROMs remove the service so they can't tell.
Im on infused 2.2.3 and I tethered a little bit today and have not gotten anything yet, seems to working fine.
indigox3 said:
Im on infused 2.2.3 and I tethered a little bit today and have not gotten anything yet, seems to working fine.
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I think the majority of people who are getting nailed are using LARGE amounts of data i know one guy posted he has used 8 gig of data just on tethering
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the most ive done is 11gb a month...
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the most ive done is 11gb a month...
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yea but the guy above that i mentioned is on track for using 32 + gigs .. in tethering
CheesyNutz said:
I think the majority of people who are getting nailed are using LARGE amounts of data i know one guy posted he has used 8 gig of data just on tethering
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Yeah, I used that much the other week... I've been running CM7 so I'm pretty sure that AT&T is doing some packet sniffing to see the useragent of the packets coming through. I don't think it has to do with the OS you're running.
I got a nastygram saying to stop by September 30th or they'll charge me. So far this month I've use 18gb so I'm sucking as much as I can before they cut me off!!
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yea but the guy above that i mentioned is on track for using 32 + gigs .. in tethering
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Whammy!!! Double whammy!! Triple whammy!!! I thought I used net a lot cos I use close to 1.5 GB a month at peak times.. with my avg around 1 GB, and no tethering whatsoever. No wonder AT&T is tracking on tethering users.
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Whammy!!! Double whammy!! Triple whammy!!! I thought I used net a lot cos I use close to 1.5 GB a month at peak times.. with my avg around 1 GB, and no tethering whatsoever. No wonder AT&T is tracking on tethering users.
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This month is the most data I've ever used, and that's 4.2GB right now.... I don't get how you suck up so much data.... maybe lots of videos..... you know..... lol.
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Bloat Freeze to block the tethering.apk It won't phone home then ;-)
Works for me and I just updated using the recent 14MB (I think) file the other day. and tethered for a few hours....so far so good anyway.
My wife who has a Streak just got her nasty gram yesterday, now she does tether ALOT, but her phone does not even show a disclaimer for the mobile hotspot like ours does. So, i dont think it has anything to do with the update.
I dont tether alot but I do tether and most months stay around 8-10gigs. (most of that is actually on my phone, I like Netflix)
She is pissed because out where we live we do not have any high speed internet options but we have AWESOME data speeds with ATT but none of the other carriers have anything close. we thought about getting one of those mifi hotspots but ATT only has a 5gig one and that is just a joke to to think 3 teens and 2 adults are going to make that work.
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Longcat14 said:
This month is the most data I've ever used, and that's 4.2GB right now.... I don't get how you suck up so much data.... maybe lots of videos..... you know..... lol.
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Online gaming is another way. While tethering. i used to Play WoW through my cell while tethering with my old Cappy.
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actually i would be paying the same price i am not for an UNLIMITED data plan to go down to a 4gb plan that allows me to tether. But when I got my Unlimited Plan there was nothing said about not being alowed to tether my phone. to my PC actually the rep in the store showed me how to do it with my old tilt.
Lucky bastards... I'm stuck on 2GB, so tethering really isn't a viable replacement option for me.
That being said, I find it absolutely bullsh*t that you have to pay for a certain way to use your data. Why should AT&T give a damn how you use your data? I pay for 2GB, I should be able to use it, however the hell I want.
Got a letter in the mail today dying they're going to add tethering and I haven't done it in 4 months. The hell??????
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Lucky bastards... I'm stuck on 2GB, so tethering really isn't a viable replacement option for me.
That being said, I find it absolutely bullsh*t that you have to pay for a certain way to use your data. Why should AT&T give a damn how you use your data? I pay for 2GB, I should be able to use it, however the hell I want.
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Nothing to do with amount of data.. I get the letter after tethering for 5 mind last week. Actually never got the connection to work.
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EricNagel said:
Lucky bastards... I'm stuck on 2GB, so tethering really isn't a viable replacement option for me.
That being said, I find it absolutely bullsh*t that you have to pay for a certain way to use your data. Why should AT&T give a damn how you use your data? I pay for 2GB, I should be able to use it, however the hell I want.
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You haven't gotten yourself unlimited? I had someone do it for me(don't know their XDA user), and I love it.
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