Since it has only been 1 week for me since this outtage started I am not really complaining just yet. I fall on the side and tend to agree with the people that think it has to be a throttle, I cant see how a piece of software or hardware can accidentally cap us at 100k without someone at ATT keying in that number somewhere. I CAN see however, having software issues requiring the cell tower techs and crews to impose a technical cap to put less strain on the network during this time in order to have an easier time working on the network.
Here is what I have been going through.
Phone: Iphone 4 16GB
Plan: Unlimited Iphone Package (Grandfather Plan)
Preorder received: June 24th, 2010.
When the phone arrived I was ecstatic after seeing my casual in home throughput. On average I pulled what you see in the screenshot:
June 24th through July 2nd of 2010 averages:
Latency at home in Smithtown, NY (30 miles outside of NYC) = 280 to 420 ms
Upload at home = ALWAYS CONSTANT 1.50 to 1.70 Mbps
Download at home = Between 2.80 and 4.50 Mbps (depending on time of day)
BEFORE:
Now, exactly on the night of July 2nd, 2010 I have not been able to achieve anything higher than .09 Mbps, which is just barely faster than a 56k modem to me. But the reason why I post all of my information here is quite simple: Not only am I being capped or having crappy upload speeds, but the phone is much less responsive, and I am no longer seeing anywhere near 3.0 + Mbps.
AFTER:
Now after this new cap, my maximum over the last 5 days testing all over long island (nassau/suffolk counties) has never been over 2.1 Mbps download including in what was my new favorite 3g spot my home where for the weeks of june 24th till July 2nd I was almost up to 5 Mbps downloads on a nightly basis. So, there is definitely something funky going on with the network because honestly it is a totally different phone from the first week of use until today. The internet lacks the responsiveness the phone initially had and of course as everyone is posting, throughput is much much lower.
In any event, this is life. Things happen. And it is the first couple of weeks of iPhone 4 madness so not only do you have a lot of new iPhone members on the airwaves, but you have many new HSUPA capable devices hitting the towers at the same time. Maybe the load's were unexpected by AT&T and they need some time to work the kinks out. This is definitely hindering my phone usage and experience with the new IP4 but as long as this is not some long drawn out HSUPA cap of more than 1 month I think these lips will remain sealed as far as blabbing to CS or Corporate.
Cheers Fellas,
Dominick
