SpaceKitty
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Or jailbreak, install 3G unrestrictor and download any size file on 3G anytime. I've downloaded 65MB music videos over 3G before. 🙂
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Apple Increases iPhone's Cellular Download Cap to 20 MB in Advance of iPad Launch
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Or jailbreak, install 3G unrestrictor and download any size file on 3G anytime. I've downloaded 65MB music videos over 3G before. 🙂
Eminemdrdre00
macrumors 6502a
Its not good news & I'll tell you the problem with it.
There shouldnt be a cap at all! I still cant download podcasts from iTunes with this 20mb limit...yet I can go to the podcasts website, and stream the 100mb .mp3 file in safari/quicktime. I can live stream all day on Ustream or Qik & eat up well over 20mb.
So why is there a limit in the first place?!
macduke
macrumors G5
Because it's a contract! iTunes / App Store all make money for Apple. They're basically using AT&T's precious bandwidth to distribute their content. It's sales related. Just like how iTunes, at first, required WIFI. Though that was partially the music industry's fault.
Yes! 3G unrestrictor is where its at. Wifi quality video and unlimited download size is essential when you're on the go and wifi isnt an option.
CrackedButter
macrumors 68040
Have you tried to do this? I did this right at the start of owning an iPhone when I didn't have the internet at home, their wifi networks are not that fast. I could easily sit inside those places for 40 minutes. I'd rather walk and have it download in the background thank you.
Do you honestly believe this "bandwidth" nonsense? What's the difference between me downloading five 20mb apps vs downloading one 100mb app? The real problem is that AT&T is just the worst provider I've ever had the misfortune of using in the USA. Downtown Seattle is just appalling for dropped calls, with full 3G signal. I can switch to EDGE and talk all day without a drop. Their data over 3G is no better. Sometimes, with full 3G, nothing happens when I open a webpage or try to check my mail. The day the iPhone is opened to other networks is the day my wife and I leave AT&T. Can't wait.
boss1
macrumors 6502a
Not just contract reasons. It's because the network type is still in it's infancy for major internet use.
think back to when internet was phone line 28k and 56k modems. AOL used to charge you a monthly fee for internet use with a 200 MB limit per month.
Then when internet went mainstream over cable , some cable companies had MB limits also .
Today the infrastructure exists that charging insane rates and capping the consumer is unreasonable .
Cell phone providers as ISP's is the next investment frontier and will reach that point soon. Keep complaining ( no sarcasm ) seriously, keep complaining, it helps the process .
SteveSparks
macrumors 6502a
patrickdunn
macrumors 6502a
HiRez
macrumors 603
This is better than nothing, but here's the problem I have with it. Most of an application's space (at least larger ones like games) will be taken up by graphics, specifically images and/or movies. The iPad's screen contains about 5x the amount of pixels as the iPhone's screen. That would imply that iPad app binaries would be about 5x larger than an iPhone app binary, and even bigger if they implement this universal binary scheme. So doubling the limit helps, but it's not nearly enough to cover the difference, really.
Airforcekid
macrumors 68000
Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 3_1_2 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/528.18 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile/7D11 Safari/528.16)
Worked on 3.1.2 so it been there a while then activated.
Worked on 3.1.2 so it been there a while then activated.
Friscohoya
macrumors 6502a
Hooray! Now I can download my Outkast album. Oh I already did that. I am sure there will be something else.
I don't think so, wasn't that just something someone found in the iPad SDK that looked like they'd remove the restriction, but it's not released (yet)? I could be wrong there...
nagromme
macrumors G5
I dont think most universal apps will be 5x-6x the size of the originals: pixel area does not equate to app size. Some PARTS of the app will increase in size, but others (including big things like music and sound effects, and even much of the code perhaps) will not. And game graphics arent just made of full-screen images, theyre a combination of techniques, some of which are resolution-independent without any data penalty. Other are textures with compression applied, so that increasing the area doesnt mean a 1:1 increase in data.
Of course, many games are over 20MB already, with or without the iPad.
+1.
Maximum download size shouldn't be limited at all. I'm sure the reason it was done in the first place is because Apple agreed to do it in order to appease AT&T, who offer "unlimited" use of their 3G data network, but try to reneg on their obligations by limiting your downloads to small files. So let's all thank Apple for how they put the wishes of AT&T ahead of their own customers'.
nagromme
macrumors G5
The Skype blog recently posted that 3G VOIP is coming to Skype soon, thanks to the latest 3.2 SDK—but it’s not out just yet. (I sure hope it gets Push as well! They said some time ago to expect that.)
I wish AT&T had more bandwidth (and in my city it seems fine) but bandwidth IS a limited resource and DOES cost them money. So AT&T’s desire to reduce usage of their bandwidth is real.
And the difference isn’t between you downloading downloading five 20mb apps vs downloading one 100mb app. The difference is between you downloading five 20mb apps vs downloading one 100mb app PLUS five 20mb apps. If the 100MB app you want can’t be downloaded right now, you’re not truly going to replace it by getting five 20MB apps instead. And if you CAN get the 100MB app, it won’t stop you from getting the five 20MB apps that you wanted for other reasons.
Some apps are big, some are small. If you can’t download the big ones until you get to WiFi, that truly IS less AT&T bandwidth being used than if you could download them all via 3G.
Friscohoya
macrumors 6502a
Uhhhh?
Don't you mean AT&T allows you to download 20MB over 3G? Apple doesn't give two ***** how much you download over 3G. I think this is AT&T's decision.
Don't you mean AT&T allows you to download 20MB over 3G? Apple doesn't give two ***** how much you download over 3G. I think this is AT&T's decision.
lazyrighteye
Contributor
I too noticed this when attempting to DL MyTP SNowboarding while on the light rail (commute). Requiring the WiFi to proceed, I forgot to do so when I got home. Missed the "free for one day (yesterday)" deal. Kind of annoying.
If we are paying for unlimited internet, then why can't we download anything. It would seem Apple would want my money. $2 for a TV show, get it. Because podcasts will stream in any size, but you can only download if under 20 mb.
There is a defect in the App Store, when you enter your iTunes account to get a program, like this MyTP Snowboarding, and it's too big for 3G download (what a joke!) it should AUTOMATICALLY be queued up for download when you get in range of Wifi and/or when you check for downloads on iTunes!!!
I CANNOT believe that I have to go click it to download AGAIN! Computers are supposed to make your life EASIER! By the time I got back to WiFi MyTP Snowboarding was no longer free, and did not start downloading even though I entered my account PW when it was! 😱
DUMB Apple, DUMB!!! 😡
I CANNOT believe that I have to go click it to download AGAIN! Computers are supposed to make your life EASIER! By the time I got back to WiFi MyTP Snowboarding was no longer free, and did not start downloading even though I entered my account PW when it was! 😱
DUMB Apple, DUMB!!! 😡
