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How much data will i be able to use without getting booted from sprint ?
Since my internet will be down for like another 2 weeks ...
I have already used 2GB ... i normally never touch 1Gig ...
... and i kinda been using my phone to play some black ops ...
want to know if i should stop or if it's safe to keep using it ...
Theoretically Sprint has unlimited data but if you abuse it enough they may care.
Probably hold off on torrents and similar and you should be ok. There are plenty of people who use 20GB of data with out trouble.
sk63 said:
Theoretically Sprint has unlimited data but if you abuse it enough they may care.
Probably hold off on torrents and similar and you should be ok. There are plenty of people who use 20GB of data with out trouble.
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Thanks ... anyone got anymore stats . ... just to be sure ...
if u use more than 2gb on roaming its an auto boot i beleve but other than that idk
iSaint said:
How much data will i be able to use without getting booted from sprint ?
Since my internet will be down for like another 2 weeks ...
I have already used 2GB ... i normally never touch 1Gig ...
... and i kinda been using my phone to play some black ops ...
want to know if i should stop or if it's safe to keep using it ...
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If you are using 4g then they don't care. If you are using 3g they may notice after around 5gb
As long as you're not excessively roaming on data and you're not doing anything illegal you're fine.
We've had users post usages far exceeding 5GB / month for multiple months in a row with no problems.
Just be smart and responsible.
There's no need to torrent on your mobile connection.
And really, to be honest, there's not much of an excuse to go over 20GB in a month for any reason.
Abuse leads to locking down and limiting for all.
I use 7-8GB a month every month for the past 2+ years. Never heard a complaint or anything from sprint. You will be fine...
I done from 2-4gb for the last 3 months with no problems. As mattykinsx said just be smart about it
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Abuse leads to locking down and limiting for all.
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Thanks for noting this mattykinxs.... I think folks tend to forget, in their quest to max out their mobile data, that they run the risk of "achieving" limited data for all. (Not suggesting this is the OP's goal, just something to remember.)
We pay a $10 monthly premium for truely unlimited data from Sprint. This is why I didn't go with Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, etc. Verizon has a better network but I'm not going to pay $100 a month to be throttled after 2GB.
However I agree, just don't abuse it and ruin it for everyone by downloading 100GB of data in a month via bittorrent or streaming HD porn 24/7
I'm at about 25gb of data this month. Never had issues with sprint wanting to boot me
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I thought true unlimited data is why we are all on sprint, and I hit between 8 and 20 gb with no issues
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How can someone use 25gb of data on such a slow network? I'm glad I have wifi at home. Lol
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simosezj said:
I thought true unlimited data is why we are all on sprint, and I hit between 8 and 20 gb with no issues
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We have the right to free speech, doesn't make it right to yell the n word in a public place.
Like all things that are "free", "unlimited", "open" they all come with responsibility, with the understanding that abuse will force restriction.
Unlimited data is intended to allow you to use what you need and not have to sit there and say "what's my usage, do I have any left for this month?"
NOT so a person can download 500GB in torrents.
Think like this. Sprint is the third largest carrier. [Verizon has double the customers]
Yet the largest internet home provider has only a third of the users. [Comcast]
Simply put, with excessive abuse Sprint won't be able to continue to afford giving us unlimited data.
Any way to work around this data cap?
What a freaking scam, makes me rage. 60kbps download speed is a freaking joke
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We had a work-around. But it has since been patched by Tmobile.
So the answer is, no.
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The workaround is to pay them more money or use wifi at starbucks or something.
60kbs? You're in luck then because most of us get 6-10kbs
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I wouldn't consider it a scam as they have several different plans to choose from depending upon your data needs. I myself have the 5GB plan and usually come in just over 2 GB's and that is with constant syncing, surfing and downloading of ROMS (200+ Mb's apiece) and apps while at work and at play. Granted, while at home I am using wifi.
My question is, what is everyone doing to use so much data so quickly? Are you streaming a ton of high def content? Are you using this as your home internet connection?
At the end of the day, T-mobile has to manage their bandwidth consumption and given the option of throttling versus paying for data overage, I choose throttling every time. Plus, if you realize you use too much data you can always upgrade to the next higher plan. If price is an issue, the retention department has always worked wonders for me.
I always run out of my 5gb cap every month by surfing online, constant background sync for emails and Facebook. I also listen to internet radio and YouTube.
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It's not a scam. It's what you agreed to in your contract.
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Not true. I remember when they didnt data cap or throttle. It just happened out of no where for me and i never agreed to it in any contract. You dont think its a scam to reduce your speed to 60kbps where you cant even stream pandora or it takes like 3 minutes to load a webpage? /joke
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Not true. I remember when they didnt data cap or throttle. It just happened out of no where for me and i never agreed to it in any contract. You dont think its a scam to reduce your speed to 60kbps where you cant even stream pandora or it takes like 3 minutes to load a webpage? /joke
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I too remember when they didn't cap or throttle, but I don't believe for a second that you didn't agree to it. First of all, are you under contract? If so, then yes you did as part of the TOS.
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Not true. I remember when they didnt data cap or throttle. It just happened out of no where for me and i never agreed to it in any contract. You dont think its a scam to reduce your speed to 60kbps where you cant even stream pandora or it takes like 3 minutes to load a webpage? /joke
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mobile has had a 5GB limit on data since June 2008 before throttling. They just started enforcing
it in the last year or so.
2. Protective Measures
To provide a good experience for the majority of our customers and minimize capacity issues and degradation in network performance, we may take measures including temporarily reducing data throughput for a subset of customers who use a disproportionate amount of bandwidth; if your total usage exceeds 5GB (amount is subject to change; please periodically check T-Mobile.com for updates) during a billing cycle, we may reduce your data speed for the remainder of that billing cycle. We may also suspend, terminate, or restrict your data session, Plan, or service if you use your Data Plan in a manner that interferes with other customers’ service, our ability to allocate network capacity among customers, or that otherwise may degrade service quality for other customers.
I do remember there being a point at which you had 30 days (or some other amount of time) to opt out of your contract if you no longer agreed to the tos. This was pushed to subscribers when the cap came out.
I dont mean to go off on a rant, but im really getting sick and tired of people crying like babies because there data is capped. Honestly, whatever your doing on your phone that is using 5 gb a month you most likely need to find a different way to consume that data. A lot of people have some misguided representation of what there needs are leading to these crazy feelings of entitlement. "They're scamming me, i need to be able to watch my youtube/redtube/netflix" I tried hard to go over my limit last month and i was 800mb shy.
To the OP, your pissing in the wind.
I went through my 5GB of data in a little over two weeks. I use Pandora all day at work (stupid network restrictions) and I also use it for Youtube. I have noticed that my web browsing has slowed a little bit, but where it really effects me is trying to watch videos either on Youtube or ESPN, kinda of reminds me of the dial-up internet days.
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I wouldn't consider it a scam as they have several different plans to choose from depending upon your data needs. I myself have the 5GB plan and usually come in just over 2 GB's and that is with constant syncing, surfing and downloading of ROMS (200+ Mb's apiece) and apps while at work and at play. Granted, while at home I am using wifi.
My question is, what is everyone doing to use so much data so quickly? Are you streaming a ton of high def content? Are you using this as your home internet connection?
At the end of the day, T-mobile has to manage their bandwidth consumption and given the option of throttling versus paying for data overage, I choose throttling every time. Plus, if you realize you use too much data you can always upgrade to the next higher plan. If price is an issue, the retention department has always worked wonders for me.
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this is my sole internet connection for home. im at work almost every day, and with the 5gig plan i can get away without having a deadicated internet line.
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I pay the xtra 30 bucks and I get 10 gigs and free hotspot! So worth it. I called and they gave me 10$ off my bill for 24 months bcuz I been with tmobile for more than 8 years. Call and ask for customer loyalty. Tell them your fed up and ready to leave tmobile due to data caps and prices on the plans they will do something to keep u happy. Then put data up. Also could be in my head maybe I'm crazy but I feel it way faster 4g since I upped from 5 to 10 lol.
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I know they say it's unlimited, but is there a point which they will boot you?
I have never approached the 2gb warning before but I just moved and have had my computer tethered and gone over 8 gb in 7 days. (A lot of video streaming)
Will Sprint give the boot if this continues?
I only know of them booting people who are using Verizon PRLs and roaming over like 50gb a day. And I've been watching for years.
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ideseth said:
I know they say it's unlimited, but is there a point which they will boot you?
I have never approached the 2gb warning before but I just moved and have had my computer tethered and gone over 8 gb in 7 days. (A lot of video streaming)
Will Sprint give the boot if this continues?
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If Sprint determines that you are tethering without a tethering plan, there is a chance you might get the boot.
There a morons that have posted here that they tethered their Xboxes and played games over the network and used dozens of gigs of data (without even paying for the 5GB tethering plan), and then were offended when Sprint called them on it.
Although you are probably safe as long as you aren't roaming or downloading torrents.
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Roam a lot on verizon PRLs and or tether to consoles and streaming HD quality videos. Usually happens when u get > 10 gigs of tethering using obvious tools (aforementioned).
You could easily use 8gb in 7 days on just your phone streaming music and watching videos for part of each day. If you start using 8gb a day for extended time periods then you might be suspect.
Ok, so from what you have said, I could be ok.
I am tethering without a tethering plan however...and 5gb of tethering isn't going to work, because most of the data goes to Netflix...
I'm not trying to get the boot, I have no problem with Sprint or their service.
Do they give a warning or just tell me I have no service anymore?
My buddy who works for Time Warner told me that ISP/carriers cant monitor individual data legally so they don't know where it is going just that a the amount being used. At this point I wouldn't worry about it. Sometimes they call or send a warning letter but that would be months down the road. The call would be along the lines of Mr. ideseth I see you have been using a lot of data lately. And your reply would be yes I am really enjoying this unlimited package thanks for checking in with me.
Although tethering without a sprint package IS against the terms of use as long as you are not roaming you shouldnt have anything to worry about. Sprint knows customers use their phone to use netflix, there is an android application, its the same amount of data usage either way, thats expected usage. ENJOY YOUR TRULY UNLIMITED DATA WITH SPRINT!
p.s. I am switching from sprint to t-mobile due to poor service LOL :silly:
They my not know what the hell you're doing but they sure as hell know what ports are being used. Phones do not connect to the ports that consoles / high def streaming services connect to. Using the info on where you're connecting to; they can make a very accurate educated guess on what you're doing and give you the "warning letter" before they boot you.
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I know they say it's unlimited, but is there a point which they will boot you?
I have never approached the 2gb warning before but I just moved and have had my computer tethered and gone over 8 gb in 7 days. (A lot of video streaming)
Will Sprint give the boot if this continues?
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The 2gb warning that you see on your phone i believe is just a stock warning for data usage regardless of your carrier.
your good I've gotten up to about 15gb in one month, although i wasn't tethering just using a lot of data. But i don't think they'll watch you that much because I've had several months upwards of 10gbs. never any warnings or letters..
ideseth said:
I know they say it's unlimited, but is there a point which they will boot you?
I have never approached the 2gb warning before but I just moved and have had my computer tethered and gone over 8 gb in 7 days. (A lot of video streaming)
Will Sprint give the boot if this continues?
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You'll be fine I tether for work everyday, andbhave been for over 2 years. The only choices for internet at my house are dial-up, satellite or 3g, we don't have cable or fios out here in the sticks and dial-up and satellite are both too slow, and satellite is unreliable during storms, and in Florida we get alot of storms in the summer months. Between my 4 lines on my account we use anywhere between 150-250gbs of data a month. The line I tether from averages 80+GB a month and I make maybe 2 calls and a handful of texts from it occasionally, its line is almost entirely data use and I've never gotten a call or letter, but I very rarely use any roaming unless a tower is down. I've been with sprint for almost 15 years or so and have been eating their data for breakfast, lunch and dinner as well as all my snacks in between for as long as I can remember. As the phones have gotten better my data use has increased. Right now on my personal line I'm at ~73gb and just a little past halfway thru my billing cycle this month. My wife's line is at ~41gb, my work line which is the one I tether my whole house from is at ~97gb and the 4th line which my dad uses is around 60gb so far this month. Sprint only really cares about roaming data cuz they pay a pretty penny to whoever's tower you're roaming on vs. their own network which costs them a few tenths of a cent per GB for you to use. They make a few thousand percent profit on in network data. If you used 10 GB of data a month their cost to profit ratio would be a $1.50 cost to $8.50 profit just from your premium data charge, plus the over and above profit they make off of your actual plan. Its surprisingly cheap for them to provide in network data, but roaming data they pay whoever the tower is leased from around 15¢ per GB versus about .15 of a cent per gb of in network data
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Damn, that's a ****not o' data.
I've used 30gb non roaming regularly nothing here
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A friend is being told they blew through his data to the tune of $2500 (300g I think he said?). He's been a customer since 2002 and gave up unlimited data unwittingly through a phone upgrade. Is there anything anyone knows of to help this poor guy out?
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A friend is being told they blew through his data to the tune of $2500 (300g I think he said?). He's been a customer since 2002 and gave up unlimited data unwittingly through a phone upgrade. Is there anything anyone knows of to help this poor guy out?
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Other than contacting customer service there probably isn't much more than can be done. If I were him I would restrict data usage on as many apps that I could in the data usage settings. 300gb is an awful lot to go unnoticed. I'm on a 4 gig plan with three shared lines and we only use around 500mb a month combined. 300gb is about as insane as the $2500.00 bill. Hopefully customer service will help.
300gb everyone most go to sleep at night streaming music that's unreal I'm on 15 gb plan with 5 line and we use close to 11gb every month but never exceed the 15g and I go hard with YouTube ,Beats Music, streaming Movies ,etc
Yea, I thought it was a ton too, he says no mobile hot spot was used or anything like that. He says Customer service isn't budging so I don't know what his history with them has been either?
Beyond the fact that 300gb seems like an unbelievably high amount, didn't he notice when he upgraded the the new phone that his plan was completely changed as well in the ordering process? Also, Verizon emails and texts me when I am at half of my data for the billing period and I don't recall ever having to voluntarily sign up for such notifications. Did he miss those too? I think it may be hard to get out of those charges. Tell him to lawyer up to see if they can at least lower the amount and pay it off over time.
I'm going to be honest I don't know how that possible... I think Verizon screwed up some how. The wife and I both have unlimited plans, the most I've ever seen in one month is 46gb on her line and I had 23gb on my line. My wife watches Netflix all day 40hrs a week at work, uses spotify for her tunes while driving, and watches uverse movies at home using her phone. Here best so far is 46gb so I don't even see how it's possible to get there. We are in excellent 4g lte areas, and we I say my wife watches 40hrs a week at work, I mean 40hrs. She got through breaking bad all seasons in one week.
Yeah that's crazy...I had T-Mobile unlimited (god I miss T-Mobile) and I was switching ROMs at least once or twice a day clean flashing at that..plus ShowBox and Milk Music on HD...talking TW ROMs and CM based stuff...any time there was an update to anything I updated...still the max I ever used was 50gb...
Hmm, ok thanks for the input, I'll relay all this!
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Hmm, ok thanks for the input, I'll relay all this!
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Verizon won't budge on lowering the bill since it's not a mistake or guilt that happened on their end. If you can prove that it was a false count of data charges or find someone higher than just a customer service rep through the phone like a district manager or higher than a DM. Those are you only choices...
Pornhub HD is a mother f'er!
Really though he should be able to have them check records for other use. Emailing executive escalations will also help. Not hard to find VzW board or director and three letter job title people to carpet bomb them.
300GB isn't normal but when you have dip****s running around forums bragging about how they used X amount of terabytes and crap.... Well it takes ammo away for these types of cases.
Best of luck to him.
Oh and something to tell the friend. Never except a no from someone who can't say yes. Standard customer service reps have something like 100 dollar OCC (credit) limit. So they really can't tell him yes. That high will have to go to the director or higher. Ask to get their supervisor, AD, and Director info and escalate accordingly.
300gb? Lol. I haven't racked up that much since downloading a 2gb file over and over on Sprint's roaming network a long time ago after they pissed me off.
Anyway... 300gb? Lol...
I've used 98gb trying to use data. 300 gb would seem like tether was running while a computer had utorrent, etc running. :
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Also just a fyi. If he did come from an unlimited plan he can get what's called a legacy data package. Which is 6 gigs a month instead of 2 for the same price. He just needs to tell the Verizon rep
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300gb, wow! I had a buddy move into a new apartment which had free internet, yet it sucked. He also bought a new computer, so he had to redownload several games(WoW maybe, and other), plus their updates, plus all the time he spends playing them. This was all done via tethering. I think he hit like 230gb for the month, and I thought that was insane.
What does your friends screenshot of his "data usage" show? it breaks it down by app. Unless he was tethering which is probably what he isnt telling you then it wouldnt show up.
It's really not that unreal. My friend on T-mobile uses like 80GB a month and he just "uses" his phone, nothing crazy. If I was on T-Mobile I'd probably be pushing a TB a month as a power user.
As for your friend, if I were him I'd tell Verizon to blow me and just never pay the bill and switch carriers.
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As for your friend, if I were him I'd tell Verizon to blow me and just never pay the bill and switch carriers.
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What I've seen when getting a new phone or a phone that has been freshly wiped, data usage alert goes off at 2gb. Did your friend turn this off? If so, did he know he no longer had unlimited data?
As for data usage, I went through 110gb in about 2 weeks not on purpose, Google Music kept trying to sync my music and would stop mid stream and then start over.
He should have received about 5 data usage warnings before he went over.
If he really used all that data, then there's no reason he shouldn't have to pay for it.
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A friend is being told they blew through his data to the tune of $2500 (300g I think he said?). He's been a customer since 2002 and gave up unlimited data unwittingly through a phone upgrade. Is there anything anyone knows of to help this poor guy out?
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It's pretty easy to go to the Verizon Wireless site and put alerts on data usage. It will inform you at 50%, 75%, 90% and 100%. Not doing so is negligent and one probably gets what one deserves.
So as the title says, it seems Tmobile has caught on to very few peoples tethering finally including mine and my brothers phone twice. Anybody else get caught and anybody find a fix please feel free to comment in here and let's help each other with whatever we find
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and what were you doing that you got caught by T-Mobile......which tether method etc.....
Running one of these aosp ROMs that has the built in tethering hack in it. Then one day, it just stopped
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How much data were you using a month?
I reached 113gb
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I'm using hotspot shield on my pc and working perfectly fine.
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VPN slows down the speeds a lot. But from what I've been able to find out, I can tether just fine for laptops and cell phones but whenever I try with my ps4 it won't let me log in
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I reached 113gb
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Dude, just pay up for a real internet connection at home. Don't abuse a good thing from T mobile.
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Dude, just pay up for a real internet connection at home. Don't abuse a good thing from T mobile.
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Thanks pastor. We really needed to hear your sermon -_-
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Dude, just pay up for a real internet connection at home. Don't abuse a good thing from T mobile.
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I agree with the Pastor. 113 GB's? Users like you slow it down for the rest of us and are the reason the carriers restrict tethering in the first place IMHO. Just sayin'.
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I agree with the Pastor. 113 GB's? Users like you slow it down for the rest of us and are the reason the carriers restrict tethering in the first place IMHO. Just sayin'.
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You are quite daft if you believe that 113gb a month slows down tmobiles network. You have absolutely zero idea all that's taken into account to slow down a network but please take your preaching elsewhere. The OP stated a place to talk about tethering not about self righteous people like you to spew inaccurate opinions. Go create your own thread.
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I agree with the Pastor. 113 GB's? Users like you slow it down for the rest of us and are the reason the carriers restrict tethering in the first place IMHO. Just sayin'.
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Uuuuuh no. I used to work for Tmobile and this might be hard for you to comprehend in all your self righteousness but there are actually people who use 1 terabyte or more a month and that's who tmobiles worried about. Don't believe me, that's fine, go do some reading for yourself. Tmobiles not a backyard company who's multi billion dollar network can't handle a measly 113gb. Besides I rack up about 47gb a month just on my phone alone with no tethering. Yes I have a life and job, no I don't live in my moms basement, so keep the childish comments to yourself.
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So as the title says, it seems Tmobile has caught on to very few peoples tethering finally including mine and my brothers phone twice. Anybody else get caught and anybody find a fix please feel free to comment in here and let's help each other with whatever we find
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Yes I ran into this issue with the Note 3 and Note 4, but I started using FoxFi and it's been working fine on my Note 4 for the past week.
I just made my tethering mod for this new lollipop for my wife's Note 3, and yesterday I wound up using her 3gb tethering and then I got blocked by the Tmobile message, and tried it again just a few moments ago, and to my surprise it was working again,
She doesn't like me messing with her phone, so I have to wait till she is asleep to play with it.
So it is working with lollipop with FoxFi. I will keep playing with it and see what happens. It is in testing stages.
I wasn't able to make my rom work with @dsixda kitchen, so i was using @mastergrillo stock rom and edited a few files and its working with @jovy23 turorial, that's how I've been able to make things work. I need permission from @mastergrillo to use his rom before I can post the Tethering Mod Rom.
I tried it last night and the only thing that wont tether is signing into the ps4 network but Netflix and YouTube works just fine, also tethering to a laptop. So it does look like they're finding a way to block it. But the thing is I never got a message from Tmobile saying that I used up my 5gb of data. Very weird
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I'm willing to try tether mod it you're wife do not let u use her phone
Using a built-in hot-spot to tether is not a big deal as long as you use it accordingly and for the purpose it was meant.
2.5 G of data is plenty for the average user powering a tablet, laptop or media player on the go or outdoors away from a wifi signal.
It comes in handy while on long road trips and the misses wants to watch some Netflix or Amazon prime.
But trying to run your entire household off of T-Mobile's network is kind of lame, I guess that this over tethering abuse is OK with XDA and when you least expect it T-mobile is going to make a case of it and drag somebody into court and the lawyers will have a field day with it.
If you're allowed 2.5gb and you want to use 200+gb, technically it can be called "theft of services" , give yourself peace of mind and buy some Internet service from a provider, 30 or 40 dollars a month isn't such a hardship.
I personally use it sparingly but really appreciate having it to use and not abuse.
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Using a built-in hot-spot to tether is not a big deal as long as you use it accordingly and for the purpose it was meant.
2.5 G of data is plenty for the average user powering a tablet, laptop or media player on the go or outdoors away from a wifi signal.
It comes in handy while on long road trips and the misses wants to watch some Netflix or Amazon prime.
But trying to run your entire household off of T-Mobile's network is kind of lame, I guess that this over tethering abuse is OK with XDA and when you least expect it T-mobile is going to make a case of it and drag somebody into court and the lawyers will have a field day with it.
If you're allowed 2.5gb and you want to use 200+gb, technically it can be called "theft of services" , give yourself peace of mind and buy some Internet service from a provider, 30 or 40 dollars a month isn't such a hardship.
I personally use it sparingly but really appreciate having it to use and not abuse.
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The problem is that for the 2.5GB data users paid for, there is only 500MB allowed for tethering.
Users want to use their paid 2.5gb data, either on the phone or using tethering, because they already pay for the 2.5gb data and they should be able use their paid data the way they want.
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According to the plan comparison chart on t mobile site you can tether all of your data quota except for the unlimited plan where you are capped at 5G, which makes some sense.
I would very much like to have the freedom to learn how to bypass tether restrictions but at the same time running an entire household worth of data off t mobile network isn't right. Just imagine what AT&T would do to you if you used 100G on their LTE plan.
Please don't get me wrong, I'm not giving a moral lecture. I am making a practical point. We all switched from AT&T or Verizon because we like what T Mobile is doing. If we abuse the system T Mobile will fail and we will have to go back to AT&T. I make a living designing telecom electronics for a company you all know so I can tell you with 100 percent confidence that if we all run our entire home Internet on t mobile network it will break and they will have to reduce the data rate for every one. It's a simple application of the available bandwidth, Shannon's theorem, and the number of users in a given cell.
So as a practical issue, let's figure out how to by pass tethering and then use it responsibly.
Pretty much. I'm not saying hey let's just use up tmobiles data and run it as much as we can. Just because some might be OK with using less than 5 GB a month doesn't mean everyone uses it the same amount. And yes its very possible to run up 5gb of data in just a few hours of watching Netflix in one night. I work from 6am -9pm every day. When I get home, I just wanna watch some Netflix, youtube and sleep. Netflix just happens to have the HD feature which runs up data like crazy. I can't justify paying Comcast or others another data fee just to watch TV a few hours of the night. Having said that, I'll make sure to use an extra 5gb next month for each of you in here that want to preach to me.
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Pretty much. I'm not saying hey let's just use up tmobiles data and run it as much as we can. Just because some might be OK with using less than 5 GB a month doesn't mean everyone uses it the same amount. And yes its very possible to run up 5gb of data in just a few hours of watching Netflix in one night. I work from 6am -9pm every day. When I get home, I just wanna watch some Netflix, youtube and sleep. Netflix just happens to have the HD feature which runs up data like crazy. I can't justify paying Comcast or others another data fee just to watch TV a few hours of the night. Having said that, I'll make sure to use an extra 5gb next month for each of you in here that want to preach to me.
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Get a $30 month flip phone and spend the money your saving on some Internet for your home.
I don't subscribe to cable, I just have a middle plan from Cablevision thats $50 month with Netflix, Prime with a smart Tv , a Roku in the bedroom and an antenna, and get board watching TV.
Pp.