I hadn't been with them that long, since January, but my speeds went from 100ms latency 4Mbps/2Mbps to 235ms 1.5Mbps/1Mbps
Now I've gotta decide where I wanna jump ship too...
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I hadn't been with them that long, since January, but my speeds went from 100ms latency 4Mbps/2Mbps to 235ms 1.5Mbps/1Mbps
Now I've gotta decide where I wanna jump ship too...
I might get a new contract and pay ETF after 2 months. WIll have to work out the numbers but currently there is a 3-4 week delay anyway so. Might talk to my friend and ask him if i can be put on his family plan.
That'd be an excellent idea, that way you don't have to pay a minimum of $90/month until you cancel like I will >_<
MMS stopped working
As I thought my mms stopped working after I updated to IOS 6. I have iphone 4 and its not jailbroken. I used the link that I found on wiki whatever website to update the settings and stuff and than restored it and mms was working until I updated to IOS 6. So now I have to change those settings again. Problem now is that the link to the website is broken and I cant find it anywhere. Can anyone help me plz
As I thought my mms stopped working after I updated to IOS 6. I have iphone 4 and its not jailbroken. I used the link that I found on wiki whatever website to update the settings and stuff and than restored it and mms was working until I updated to IOS 6. So now I have to change those settings again. Problem now is that the link to the website is broken and I cant find it anywhere. Can anyone help me plz
Nope thats only for data. I have data working, for MMS we have to manually configure settings and than restore. With that unlock.co.nz you can't change the mms settings.
nvm I fixed it. The website where we all found the article is broken now. But I found this pdf by some guy on here, Hope this helps for anyone in my boat
Oh Thanks for this. You are right, what I don't get is why STraighttalk does not post this information on their site or have it in their forum.
I'm in a similar boat with everyone. There were severe data issues with my phone, or about a month and a half I couldn't connect. Constantly turning Airplane Mode on and off, rebooting just to get it working for a few minutes and then stop again. It was such a pian.
But now it's working, I feel like I'm getting HSPA+ speeds (even though they are no where close to LTE).
I did have AT&T before but they were killing me with the bills. I'd often pay $200+ and I had a huge FAN discount of 23%. It was unbearable.
What got me to switch was the throttling, I had the unlimited data plan and after 3G it would just go to Edge speeds pretty much.
My question is, why wouldn't ST have LTE? They use the AT&T network.
But now it's working, I feel like I'm getting HSPA+ speeds (even though they are no where close to LTE).
I did have AT&T before but they were killing me with the bills. I'd often pay $200+ and I had a huge FAN discount of 23%. It was unbearable.
What got me to switch was the throttling, I had the unlimited data plan and after 3G it would just go to Edge speeds pretty much.
My question is, why wouldn't ST have LTE? They use the AT&T network.
Can this be used for those who have AT&T gophones and can't get mms? My iMessage works and 4G works. I can even FaceTime over the cellular network which is awesome. I up just can't get MMS to work. I know it would need to change the settings because att is not the same as straight talk, but wondering if this would work for me.
DO you have speediest app installed? what is your DL speed? My problem is it was fine about about 1 or 2 months ago. Then I notice slow speeds. The speediest app gives me 0 download and maybe .7MB upload. I can surf the internet fine but I can't verify my speeds and it does seems much slower. This seems to be a common problem and others also get the 0 download speed. Something is causing this I suspect it is AT&T doing something to their strighttalk. I read somewhere they stated AT&T customers get priority over their wholeseller's customers.
For the same reason a Verizon MVNO like Page Plus Cellular can't offer LTE access (3G only)...Big Red & Big Blue have to save something to keep a reason for entering long-term, expensive cellular contracts. That and family plans are really the only 2 things they have (OK, corporate discounts?).
Straight Talk and other MVNOs will get access to the LTE network *eventually* but not in the foreseeable future.
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Nope.
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The proxy causes the Speedtest issues, it blocks/interferes with them. It's a known thing.
As for contract (postpaid) AT&T customers receiving network priority...of course they do. As expected, as they are paying more (much more in many cases) than you are for service. Pretty logical.
Bummer.
What about using a different apn to avoid the proxy? Or I guess they can see all traffic coming from ST and just throttle it.
Just use "att.mvno" as the APN and leave the proxy field blank. Works fine with Straight Talk, and your Speed Test app will work properly again. You can just use the plain "AT&T MVNO" profile from unlockit.co.nz if that's easier for you than creating a profile manually.
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Straight talk is, i guess famous....?, for unlimited international texting that is included in their unlimited BYOP plan...
but it is an ATT mvno...
do you guys know if ATT data share plan, with the unlimited calling and texting, now also has international texting included?
but it is an ATT mvno...
do you guys know if ATT data share plan, with the unlimited calling and texting, now also has international texting included?
Nano Sim - Straight Talk Cutting
I just finished cutting a test ST sim, and then the working activated one from my 4s. The first cut was perfect. The second (working unit) did not recognize because I overcut it.
I used a cheese grader, to shave down the thickness, but realized i didn't have to. The AT&T microsims are 18% thicker. The ST microsims are actually a hair thicker. SUPER Excited!
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I was getting .25 mb down and 2mb up with no help from straight talk. I figured out that if you download the ATT MVNO rather then the ST mvno from unlock.nz and then *VERY IMPORTANT* clear your safari cache and history, it shot up to 8mbps!!!
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Not legit and not accurate. I activated ST and got 6MBps consistently for two days. Did a port, and got a new sim, and got .25-.30 mbps for the next two months until I isolated the issue. It is a cacheing issue with the stored profile for the unlock.nz website. Clear cache, history, and website data in safari settings, cycle airplain mode, and restart the phone. Then send me a thank you and pass it on.
I just finished cutting a test ST sim, and then the working activated one from my 4s. The first cut was perfect. The second (working unit) did not recognize because I overcut it.
I used a cheese grader, to shave down the thickness, but realized i didn't have to. The AT&T microsims are 18% thicker. The ST microsims are actually a hair thicker. SUPER Excited!
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I was getting .25 mb down and 2mb up with no help from straight talk. I figured out that if you download the ATT MVNO rather then the ST mvno from unlock.nz and then *VERY IMPORTANT* clear your safari cache and history, it shot up to 8mbps!!!
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Not legit and not accurate. I activated ST and got 6MBps consistently for two days. Did a port, and got a new sim, and got .25-.30 mbps for the next two months until I isolated the issue. It is a cacheing issue with the stored profile for the unlock.nz website. Clear cache, history, and website data in safari settings, cycle airplain mode, and restart the phone. Then send me a thank you and pass it on.
Is this legit?It would explain the crappy data speeds
Where on the internet has this been verified Speedtest and proxy settings for Straighttalk is known? Funny thing, the first 2 months of ST I had NO issues with getting reliable connection speeds being shown on the speedtest app. If you read the ST forum and HERE, in the past 2 months something funny has been going on where a lot of people have noticed a change in the data connection speeds. Proxy settings is not it.
Regarding your second statement? Pretty logical? Not really! Actually the opposite. AT&T wholesale their service to ST, they are taking revenue and should not be giving their own customers when they are charging their wholesaler's customers. By publicly stating this only raises red flags on 'traffic' management initiatives which could affect ST customers in a biased and favorable terms for AT&T.
In Canada and other countries it is a a governmental compliance for large companies to let small companies compete in a equal plane. This is in the interests of not having a monopoly or oligopoly. What AT&T controlling the traffic that is sold to wholesalers goes against that.
All of the settings for Straight Talk are well known and publicly available. You can Google around. The proxy thing is also well known. It makes many of the speed test sites fail or return abysmal results.
They're (ST) buying excess wholesale capacity at a bargain. I'm quite confident in the contract AT&T specifies they have the right to manage the network as they see fit...which provides for allowing their own (contract) customers priority over MVNOs. It really isn't rocket science. While it isn't always true, you often get exactly what you pay (or don't pay) for.
Well here in the US things are a bit different. The big monopolies pour millions upon millions of dollars in to DC for lobbyists and other officials who influence legislation (read: kill it, if detrimental to their business) and protect and expand their influences. Money talks...everything else walks.
Settings are well known YES and proxy settings are well know YES but you said The proxy settings causes Speedtest to give poor readings IS NOT well known or even correct. Google search net no results with anyone with ST talking about such issue other than you making this up with no supporting data other than a blanket statement saying it is well known. Maybe for other phones/carriers but one one on other forums or here have direct support saying this.
Speedtest used to work for me fine and along with many people who have posted on ST forums. It is something off that has effected the data speeds which a lot of people have taken notice. ST moderators are well unhelpful but this has been occurring for 2 months. Using your logic if this is the case then Speedtest would not work period for everyone not intermittently for some while not others.
Your second reply is just based on stupid assumptions on the terms and condition of AT&T selling to StraightTalk with nothing supporting it. If you actually think StraightTalk would be ok buying service from AT&T but be told that "oh btw we will traffic shape your customers in the interest to put our customers first" is insane. Now AT&T doing it and blaming network congestion is different. This is a simple way to maintain their user base while giving lower service for their competitor's customers. As is them not offering LTE even though it is the same network.
I can't recall at the moment where I read it (either XDA or HowardForum), but there was an article regarding MVNO's and leased spectrum... In summary the article read that if a wireless provider (i.e. AT&T, Spring, Verizon) leased their network to an MVNO (i.e. StraightTalk, PagePlus, etc) then it was illegal to throttle or provide "second rate" service to the mvno and allow for "priority queuing" with post paid customers.
The article clearly indicated that service you receive on an MVNO as opposed to a post paid provider would be exactly the same - there would be no difference, period. Services and features would differentiate the two; visual voicemail, LTE, international MMS, etc, etc.
As far as I know, yes. I've been traveling from PA to WA and back through the south for the last 4 weeks and coverage has been pretty good.