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No clue if I still have my Unlimited Plan. I haven't made any plan changes, just upgraded phones. But the tethering option in settings is nonexistent, so guess I do have it still?
 
No clue if I still have my Unlimited Plan. I haven't made any plan changes, just upgraded phones. But the tethering option in settings is nonexistent, so guess I do have it still?

Could always just put *3282# in your phone dialer and press send to find out...
 
if I'm throttled I'll still have perfectly usable 3G/LTE speeds (around 500kbps - 1mbps), unlike some other carriers that throttle down to a paltry 128kbps :eek:


I was throttled to even less than 3G on ATT. My friend and I ran speed tests from the same location. His old phone is only capable of 3G and he destroyed my speed. I think mine was about 1/4MB.
 
My carrier in Sweden will not turn on the 4g/LTE in my phone unless I give up my old unlimited data plan and change to a limited plan..
So I'm stuck at 15Mbit/s for data..

My unlimited 3G data is about $28/month

If I want LTE data (50Mbit/s) I have to pay about $67/month for 20GB..
Damn robbery for a few extra Mbit/s..

"Safari feels snappier" is not worth _that_ much :)
 
At throttled speeds I'm getting about 0.2 mbps while getting 2mbps unthrottled from 0-5 GB of data. Speeds aren't that blazing fast.

im in los angeles and it's been okay. in all honesty, when it's good, it's great.. ive never experienced lte speeds this fast with att. however, when it's bad, ill go from lte to 4g. sometimes if im down in the basement of my work, there's no signal.. but i am underground.

im not "connected" 24/7. what i mean by that is, if i dont get to surf the net or check my other stuff for a little while, it doesnt bother me too much.

again, im in la and it's pretty well covered for the most part.

Thanks for the info. I'm two hours south in SD so it'll probably be a similar situation over here.
 
Switch to T-Mobile. Fastest 4G LTE in the world. Truly unlimited 4Th LTE data with no throttling. I can't recommend them enough. T-Mobile is the future!
 
Switch to T-Mobile. Fastest 4G LTE in the world. Truly unlimited 4Th LTE data with no throttling. I can't recommend them enough. T-Mobile is the future!

I gave up T-Mobile yesterday after an 8 month trial. Unlimited data was nice but lack of coverage was very painful. I had little or no coverage most of my 3 hour commute to and from work. I'm disappointed in T-Mobile but will miss unlimited.
 
I gave up T-Mobile yesterday after an 8 month trial. Unlimited data was nice but lack of coverage was very painful. I had little or no coverage most of my 3 hour commute to and from work. I'm disappointed in T-Mobile but will miss unlimited.

What carrier / plan did you end up switching to?
 
What carrier / plan did you end up switching to?

I went back to AT&T. I had no problem with them coverage wise. Like most, I wanted unlimited data and thought I'd make it work and settle on the weak spots. With AT&T's double data promo, I have enough shared data for our family. I have to admit I'm not sure I would have gone back without this promo.
 
No way I'm giving up unlimited data with AT&T. Have never been throttled back.
 
My windows phone has an app called data sense. The phone itself records the data it uses. It's pretty damn close to my actual usage (within a couple dozen megs) when I text AT&T to get an update.

iphone has it too the problem is that you pay ATT with there counter.
I will keep my unlimited for ever.
and they better put it back after the iPhone 6 update
 
Throttling on lte with ATT is 500kpbs. That's usable for web browsing.

I don't know what the OP is complaining about. I have been throttled a few months here and there when I was traveling a lot. Sure can't stream videos as well. But can check emails, go to cnn, nbc news, espn etc without any issues.

Just remember Verizon considered "3G" as anything above 300 kpbs on their CDMA network just 4 years ago and bashed ATT coverage for lack of 3G coverage while EDGE (2.5g) usually maxed out around 200kpbs. (Usually real word use of around 128 jobs).

That's to put things in perspective. 500kpbs on mobile devices on LTE is not bad. Totally usable.
 
iphone has it too the problem is that you pay ATT with there counter.

The entire point of my statement was that the data counter on the phone I am using is almost identical to ATT's counter. In my experience, there is no problem with paying AT&T for "their data counter" because the information is the same.

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Throttling on lte with ATT is 500kpbs. That's usable for web browsing.

I don't know what the OP is complaining about.

When I got throttled on my unlimited plan (when I still had it), browsing was painful. Speedtests were well under 200kbps (again, for me).

The fact that some are throttled, some are not, some report usable speeds when throttled, some don't is evidence enough for me that there is no consistency.
 
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