Works for me too. Never got over 6MB/s on LTE in Pompano, now nearly doubled up to 12MB/s. Not bad.
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Developer Claims Three Major Carriers Throttle iPhone and iPad Data Speeds
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I for one am shocked. SHOCKED I tell you that a telecom would falsely advertise the speeds you can get.
I guess Apple or the carrier might also not even know what they are doing but this is pretty damning.
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I ran it several times. (Installed at 6:05)
I for one am shocked. SHOCKED I tell you that a telecom would falsely advertise the speeds you can get.
I guess Apple or the carrier might also not even know what they are doing but this is pretty damning.
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While I wouldn't trust any of the networks any further than I could throw them. I don't believe they would put themselves in a place that would lead to a very expensive class action lawsuit. Of course they manage their networks. No one has said otherwise. Limiting data speeds of their most profitable segment of phones makes no sense. It would only lead to disaster. I have a hard time believing they are that dumb. I do have to admit this IRS disaster is pretty dumb, but that's government and not the private sector.
Ok, so you prefer a system where the first 50% to reach the tower gets full speed and the second 50% gets totally screwed?
I'd prefer a "everybody gets half speed" system. Seems more useful to me.
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Yeah that's normal that verizon sold me lte premium price and i get 3g bandwidth instead. Common practice... Of thiefs.
Should get a class action in their a$$
You'll have to forgive my ignorance, I don't use cellular. I use VOIP. Does "Flat Rate" mean they can use as much data as they want and not be charged extra for it? Or does it mean something else? I seriously don't know. Hopefully you can explain this to me. Also, can you explain why so many people are posting screenshots of higher data speeds?
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Funny how many people desperately want this to be true, when simple logic says it doesn't make any sense.
My simple logic is:
- first two months lte verizon: i burnt 2 GB in two weeks.
- 6 months later, i can't manage to burn 2 GB anymore during an entire month even wifi disabled and the network feels like 3G
I just lowered my dataplan from 5 GB to 2Gb and will probably lower it to 1 GB next month if my data speed is not as fast as before...
Ah, makes sense... I don't claim to be a celular engineer or know the fine details of how it works. Guess I was hoping for some darker conspiracy theory!
HA! You must be a fellow Conspiracy Theorists United member!What if we all wear tin foil hats to stop them from "throttling" our brains? Sounds good to me.
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't higher data speeds mean more data consumed? More data consumed means more money for the provider. Why would they want less money? Sounds a little fishy. What am I missing? I personally use VOIP and a MiFi device for phone and internet so am not real familiar with cellular billing.
You would think, but by that logic they shouldn't throttle you when you go over your data limit. It'll mean more money to them. In fact, for the people who chronically go over their limit, on the surface it would make more sense to speed up their data speeds. There must be another, more substantial, financial reason for carriers to throttle.
I would like to see someone do road tests with T-Mobile. To tourist areas and fly over states. In the past they were total dog **** for me in those areas while last Easter week in Disney World my AT&T data and phone service worked pretty damn good even in the park. Verizon users in the family had ****** service though. Their only advantage was rides with lines deep inside a building worked better for data. Still couldn't make a call though but I could.
Huh?
Don't carriers have the right to manage networks as they see fit? Not everything can run full speed, all the time.
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Anyone managing a high-capacity network likely limits speeds like this. I don't see the problem.
Don't carriers have the right to manage networks as they see fit? Not everything can run full speed, all the time.
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Anyone managing a high-capacity network likely limits speeds like this. I don't see the problem.
It is one thing to manage the network. It is a whole another thing to hard cap the speed in a configuration file and then advertise otherwise. Traffic shaping is done on the fly and as needed. These hard caps in the carrier file are a blatant lie from what you are told when you buy it.
Basically one is sensible and dynamic while one is static and in conflict what promised. They told you get the best but in reality you don't. Ever.
okay...
This whining is getting really, really old. All carriers do it, deal with it.
This whining is getting really, really old. All carriers do it, deal with it.
Interesting. On brown's blog he mentioned US and Canadian networks. Not sure if this also applies to other countries but would be interesting to find out.
Why is no one addressing the root of how ridiculous this article is?
That's not throttling. They just don't use DC-HSPA+, and many areas are running at 14.4. And that's not an iPhone thing, that's the whole network.
That guy is an idiot, and that article doesn't even make any sense. He says, after saying they use 14.4 HSDPA not 21, that they throttle LTE. WTF? LTE has nothing to do with HSPA+. Two separate networks.
That's not throttling. They just don't use DC-HSPA+, and many areas are running at 14.4. And that's not an iPhone thing, that's the whole network.
That guy is an idiot, and that article doesn't even make any sense. He says, after saying they use 14.4 HSDPA not 21, that they throttle LTE. WTF? LTE has nothing to do with HSPA+. Two separate networks.
Yeah, that's why there is a tower with signal beside the date and time the speed was captured. People can be dumb...