Explain to me how the iphone uses more data than android or windows? Do you have proof to back this up? And how is it fair to iphone users to throttle them while android fanboys, such as yourself, have unlimited network speeds to download/watch all your porn?
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Explain to me how the iphone uses more data than android or windows? Do you have proof to back this up? And how is it fair to iphone users to throttle them while android fanboys, such as yourself, have unlimited network speeds to download/watch all your porn?
Hopefully you were in your car and not at your house when you ran the test and posted results with your lat/long coordinates.
Mine is similar...i dont see any throttling here on verizon!
mbushnell..i see you are in myrtle beach? might want to be careful about posting your lat and lon coordinates.
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Network Vision rollout to LTE is currently underway in your area. You won't have to suffer poor speeds for very long.
Crazy jealous. I'm getting 0.9 Mbps download and 0.13 upload here on Sprint. I hate Sprint. a lot. Price I pay for being a poor medical student still on my parent's plan.
Network Vision rollout to LTE is currently underway in your area. You won't have to suffer poor speeds for very long.
Why limit speed via the phone?
I'm still confused by a technology question here. Are they setting a local, temporary limit in the phone due to limited local bandwidth, or, are they permanently reducing the max bandwidth that will limit the phone on the other side of town, or in a different city?
Do they limit the speed in the phone because the protocols don't work right under heavy load? Anyone know why they would limit usage from the phone side and not just let the protocols handle it dynamically?
I'm still confused by a technology question here. Are they setting a local, temporary limit in the phone due to limited local bandwidth, or, are they permanently reducing the max bandwidth that will limit the phone on the other side of town, or in a different city?
Do they limit the speed in the phone because the protocols don't work right under heavy load? Anyone know why they would limit usage from the phone side and not just let the protocols handle it dynamically?
Depends on the car
When you by a Porsche, it will go as fast as it mechanically can, no artifical limits, a BMW or Mercedes is electronically limited, that's why I never bought one.
When you by a Porsche, it will go as fast as it mechanically can, no artifical limits, a BMW or Mercedes is electronically limited, that's why I never bought one.
United States' population is roughly five times that of the United Kingdom's. I would say this has to be a factor but I could be wrong...
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mbushnell..i see you are in myrtle beach? might want to be careful about posting your lat and lon coordinates.
One test was done while sitting on the beach last week. The other one that I posted was while on my friend's wifi network at his house in the middle of nowhere. As I live >45 minutes away from either of those places, I'm not too worried about it. Thanks for the concern though.
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The iPhone 4S doesn't support LTE, which is the model iPhone I was referring to. Have you tried testing your speed with LTE disabled? I wonder if they throttle the 5 on 3G.
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At the site near my in-laws where they upgraded the backhaul I did a number of speedtests between 8 and 9:10 pm - generally 1.75-2.4 megabits download speed.
At the site near my in-laws where they upgraded the backhaul I did a number of speedtests between 8 and 9:10 pm - generally 1.75-2.4 megabits download speed.
More importantly the land mass is dramatically larger requiring far more coverage.
Calm down people: The code is legit and you're not being throttled
I'm sure the network settings code the developer is referring to is legit, as it is required to be there to throttle your speed once you've hit your data cap and potentially in the event they need to throttle speeds in order to stabilize the network in a heavy use area.
Obviously many users have shown they are not being throttled, and here in Nashville, TN on the iPhone 5 with an unlimited AT&T data plan (5GB before being throttled), I regularly get close to 40Mbps on my speed tests. I've come close to my 5GB data cap for throttling a few times and AT&T has sent me automated text messages letting me know well in advance, so they are even being transparent about when they are going to throttle my speed.
Move along people, nothing to see here.
I'm sure the network settings code the developer is referring to is legit, as it is required to be there to throttle your speed once you've hit your data cap and potentially in the event they need to throttle speeds in order to stabilize the network in a heavy use area.
Obviously many users have shown they are not being throttled, and here in Nashville, TN on the iPhone 5 with an unlimited AT&T data plan (5GB before being throttled), I regularly get close to 40Mbps on my speed tests. I've come close to my 5GB data cap for throttling a few times and AT&T has sent me automated text messages letting me know well in advance, so they are even being transparent about when they are going to throttle my speed.
Move along people, nothing to see here.
Funny how many people desperately want this to be true, when simple logic says it doesn't make any sense.
Whether it make sense or not, there is something to this. I have never had the download/upload speeds that I am getting now.
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Same here...seeing the same type of results.
More anecdotal evidence
Anecdotes are not evidence, but I'm hard pressed to believe this is intentional, if it's real at all.
The last time I took a trip from the Bay Area to Southern California, I stopped at Harris Ranch. While I was there I was curious and did a speed test. The result was a personal best - I believe it was 54 mb/sec (on Verizon LTE). That's better than even the best WiFi result I've ever seen at home (around 45 mb/sec).
But even records are uninteresting compared to day-to-day activities. I almost always get 10+ mb/sec, and it's hard for me to imagine what I might want to do with my phone that would require more. Even 1 mb/sec would be more than enough for video, but I tend to not play video over LTE because I don't want to blow through my plan.
I can maybe see a use for higher bandwidth for tethering, but again, anything that would actually use the bandwidth available would wind up blowing through my plan too quickly for my taste.
If the carriers were going to do anything to improve the experience, I'd like to see broader availability of IPv6 (but my phones on Verizon already have it, so I'm satisfied) and reduced latency (I won't hold my breath for that one).
Anecdotes are not evidence, but I'm hard pressed to believe this is intentional, if it's real at all.
The last time I took a trip from the Bay Area to Southern California, I stopped at Harris Ranch. While I was there I was curious and did a speed test. The result was a personal best - I believe it was 54 mb/sec (on Verizon LTE). That's better than even the best WiFi result I've ever seen at home (around 45 mb/sec).
But even records are uninteresting compared to day-to-day activities. I almost always get 10+ mb/sec, and it's hard for me to imagine what I might want to do with my phone that would require more. Even 1 mb/sec would be more than enough for video, but I tend to not play video over LTE because I don't want to blow through my plan.
I can maybe see a use for higher bandwidth for tethering, but again, anything that would actually use the bandwidth available would wind up blowing through my plan too quickly for my taste.
If the carriers were going to do anything to improve the experience, I'd like to see broader availability of IPv6 (but my phones on Verizon already have it, so I'm satisfied) and reduced latency (I won't hold my breath for that one).
How are you getting faster speeds than i when i live in Clermont? Mascotte is straight sticks.
How are you getting faster speeds than i when i live in Clermont? Mascotte is straight sticks.
Small world... I actually took this at the turnpike near the Minneola exit... The one where you don't get off exit 272 but all the way at exit 285 near leesburg/minneola
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They're upgrading EVERY tower in their system and using three different vendors to do it.
That's thousands and thousands of towers all across the United States. It's not something you can do overnight.
They're upgrading EVERY tower in their system and using three different vendors to do it.
That's thousands and thousands of towers all across the United States. It's not something you can do overnight.
yeah, the exit after you miss the clermont 50 exit and then you must drive another 13 miles just to get back to town. That is still impressible, because there isn't anything but cows and trees out that way.
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I live in the boonies and used to work at the AT&T store in south Clermont near kings ridge but now at the new Publix plaza 4 miles north of 192
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I live in the boonies and used to work at the AT&T store in south Clermont near kings ridge but now at the new Publix plaza 4 miles north of 192
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