Really? Provide proof please. Because it's all over their site.
http://www.verizonwireless.com/support/information/data_disclosure.html
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AT&T UDP: Been Throttled After 5gb Recently??
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Really? Provide proof please. Because it's all over their site.
http://www.verizonwireless.com/support/information/data_disclosure.html
Dude, you really should read the news. Keep in touch with the rest of the world, you know?
http://money.cnn.com/2014/10/02/technology/mobile/verizon-throttle/
They shouldn't.
You probably need to call them to switch you to the lte unlimited data. The 3G unlimited data gets throttled at 3GB of data.
I get throttled when I hit 5gb and usually get speeds around 0.2 mbps. Unthrottled speeds upon checking hit around 2 mbps so it's anything but blazing fast. Considering a move to T-Mobile but trying to get more user experiences first to see if it's any better.
Go over 5gb usually in first week and a half. Got throttled this time instantly. Last time it happened I was over 8gb.
Can you even check email or check Facebook with the throttled speeds?
For comparison, would the throttled speeds were slower or quicker than Edge or 3G?
For comparison, would the throttled speeds were slower or quicker than Edge or 3G?
Even if I am throttled I am not leaving or letting go the unlimited data plan. I should never have to worry about busting a data cap.
I'm pretty sure I got throttled for the first time this month, when speeds fell to around 300kbps. At first I thought I was in a dead zone, but then reading around I think this is consistent with getting throttled. But even at these speeds, you can do those tasks just fine. I could even watch YouTube videos, albeit at very low resolution. Based on anecdotes of people who have been throttled, you'd think the phone had become unusable.
I think EDGE is sub-100kbps, and 3G (before HSDPA+) is probably around the same as the AT&T throttled speeds.
Throttled speeds are still good for everything. You can easily listen to internet radio, view your facebook feed.
What you think is slow is actually the high pings... the higher the ping the slower something will load. However, AT&T does not affect your pings.
What you think is slow is actually the high pings... the higher the ping the slower something will load. However, AT&T does not affect your pings.
That's simply not true. 500kbits is pretty slow and will cause certain things to load slowly even with extremely fast pings. Text-based websites will be okay. Everything else will be quite slow
Both ping and bandwidth are important.
Yea forgot about that. Maybe I'll rephrase the email to say why is AT&T doubling data plans to such high limits but why ul customers getting throttled at a low data limit. I would be happy with 7 to 10 gb a month on my own.
Kind of a pointless email, don't you think? You already know the answer!
It's the same reason when AT&T started throttling a few years back because the top 2% were using "too much" (over 3GB on 4G), yet at the same time they were happy to take money from another 2% of their customers who were willing to PAY for the larger data plans.
The reason hasn't changed...AT&T just wants everyone to PAY for the data they use.
Kind of a pointless email, don't you think? You already know the answer!
It's the same reason when AT&T started throttling a few years back because the top 2% were using "too much" (over 3GB on 4G), yet at the same time they were happy to take money from another 2% of their customers who were willing to PAY for the larger data plans.
The reason hasn't changed...AT&T just wants everyone to PAY for the data they use.
Yea I know it won't change anything but worth a shot as a consumer. I definitely don't abuse the network but I do use the network. That's what it's there for.
Show me one experience where the things I mentioned are "ruined" due to 500kb/s to 1Mb/s speeds at 65ms pings?
Go on... I can hardly see something in the iPhone requiring so much bandwidth. There are two things perhaps, if you have YouTube and want 720p video, or watching a live video feed.
Not sure why you are so adamant about this. Earlier you wrote that you didn't want to have to worry about going over your allotted 30GB (like, you would really go over that?), but in this case, you may have unlimited data, but now you get to worry that you your speeds are so slow that you are limited on what you can do! Doesn't sound unlimited anymore to me.
If all you do is listen to internet radio and manage your Facebook, then I say you're only using about 1% of the phone. To the REST OF US, 0.5Mbps is not fast enough to be usable.