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[Q] Is anyone using this phone on AT&T's media net plan?

I have a GT-9100 galaxy s2 that I use with the media net unlimited data plan and wondered if this phone works with it or not.
I have read that the S3 and HTC one unlocked get pushed to the smart phone plan just wondered if AT&T has done the same to this phone.
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It just depends on the phones imei. Sometimes they will be marked sometimes not. Samebwith EVERY phone out there.
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hyelton said:
It just depends on the phones imei. Sometimes they will be marked sometimes not. Samebwith EVERY phone out there.
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I just wanted to know if any one here has tried it yet. I am guessing LTE won't work under the plan, but H+ still does so for unlimited it works for me, then when T-mobile's LTE/H+ grows a bit I can come over to the pink side. LOL

4ktvs said:
I just wanted to know if any one here has tried it yet. I am guessing LTE won't work under the plan, but H+ still does so for unlimited it works for me, then when T-mobile's LTE/H+ grows a bit I can come over to the pink side. LOL
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Are you using it on at&t? How is the H+ speeds u/d?
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ebaul said:
Are you using it on at&t? How is the H+ speeds u/d?
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Yea I am using it on AT&T. My speeds are on avg 3-5mbs down load and 1 upload. I can get 6-9mbs down load at night some times and in a few places was able to get over 2mbs upload, but that's rare. The highest download speed I ever got was 12mbs download and 2.6mbs upload.
Sadly even with 21mbs H+ built in the phone, AT&T only uses H+ 14/7mbs. So that really sucks. But on the good side I have gone over 100GB two times with out issue. No throttling or any of that.
On avg I really only use 5-20GB a month, I only used the 100GB when my ISP failed me. ( Screw you time warner Cable, will be glad to be rid of you soon.)

4ktvs said:
Yea I am using it on AT&T. My speeds are on avg 3-5mbs down load and 1 upload. I can get 6-9mbs down load at night some times and in a few places was able to get over 2mbs upload, but that's rare. The highest download speed I ever got was 12mbs download and 2.6mbs upload.
Sadly even with 21mbs H+ built in the phone, AT&T only uses H+ 14/7mbs. So that really sucks. But on the good side I have gone over 100GB two times with out issue. No throttling or any of that.
On avg I really only use 5-20GB a month, I only used the 100GB when my ISP failed me. ( Screw you time warner Cable, will be glad to be rid of you soon.)
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Can I by any chance see your APN settings? I just got my zperia ZL and I was on the $15/month unltd. plan. But AT&T switched me over to the expensive plan. Maybe my APN settings can be tweaked to allow me to stay with medianet.
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Any luck with the ZL on Medianet?

I'm Sad. Problem with torrent apps..

So full bars of T-Mobile LTE here at work is a dream to download files with.
I usually use Ttorrent pro with my past devices and I would download files at 1.5-2mb per second on LTE.
After getting my Note 3, it seems like all torrent programs max out at a pathetic 14-20 kb/s and average 3-5 kb/s. Hello dial-up speeds!
I tried downloading all the other popular torrent apps and I would get the same result. Bitcoment, utorrent, atorrent ect.
Tried factory resetting the phone, same results.
Put my sim card in my Note 2 for ****s and giggles and low and behold, downloading at 1.5-2 mb/s. Wow.
Is this an issue with 4.3 Android or did Samsung put up some firewall of some sorts crippling my torrent downloads.
I'm Sad.

I have the same problem idk why.

Dan37tz said:
So full bars of T-Mobile LTE here at work is a dream to download files with.
I usually use Ttorrent pro with my past devices and I would download files at 1.5-2mb per second on LTE.
After getting my Note 3, it seems like all torrent programs max out at a pathetic 14-20 kb/s and average 3-5 kb/s. Hello dial-up speeds!
I tried downloading all the other popular torrent apps and I would get the same result. Bitcoment, utorrent, atorrent ect.
Tried factory resetting the phone, same results.
Put my sim card in my Note 2 for ****s and giggles and low and behold, downloading at 1.5-2 mb/s. Wow.
Is this an issue with 4.3 Android or did Samsung put up some firewall of some sorts crippling my torrent downloads.
I'm Sad.
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xoeldon said:
I have the same problem idk why.
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Count me in as well. Mine does the same thing. Overall, this phone seems to have pretty horrible radios. I know that's not the same problem as you, but it might be something thats causing it. On average this phone gets 20-30db less than any other phone I've used.

Add me to that list. I actually got 40 kbps and I was in shock
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Idk how helpful this is, but are the apn settings the same on your old phone as they are on the note 3?

systoxity said:
Idk how helpful this is, but are the apn settings the same on your old phone as they are on the note 3?
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Yes sir, both connected to the same "fast" apn.

aooga said:
Count me in as well. Mine does the same thing. Overall, this phone seems to have pretty horrible radios. I know that's not the same problem as you, but it might be something thats causing it. On average this phone gets 20-30db less than any other phone I've used.
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Yeah I noticed the radio was much stronger on my LG G2. I would get a very good LTE signal at my home on the G2, (which also seemed to have the most bad ass radio on any phone I've used), I thought I was on Verizon for a minute lol.
On my Note 3 I would get 1 to zero bars and it would jump between H+ and LTE at home.
Well if anybody finds a solution to this torrent issue, please do post it. I want to go back to using 40-50GB of T-Mobile unlimited data a month.
Attached is my average download speeds at work.

use torguard and also try ipv4 apn

Me too man. Using t torrent pro and get horrible speeds but have Lte 25 down
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I'm using a Bell one in Canada on bell. Ttorent at great speeds. I'm responding cause I'm getting a T-Mobile note 3 to use in Canada. Once I get it, I'll let you guys know (order gets here Monday).

I'm using aTorrent with PIA VPN and getting above 1 MB/s speeds. Perhaps adding "admin" to the APN type would help, but I haven't tested it for torrents, only for vpn.

would be nice to get to the bottom of this definitely making unlimited high speed data less cool.
Then there is the crappy lte reception at my house..

Do you get significantly better speeds downloading over wifi? I have the same horrid download speeds whether I use wifi or lte.

thompsos said:
Do you get significantly better speeds downloading over wifi? I have the same horrid download speeds whether I use wifi or lte.
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At first I thought it was only with lte but it's the same terrible speeds on wifi also. I'm thinking it has something to do with Knox.

At least it's not just me... Unfortunately this is a dealbreaker for me. My trusty Note II never had this problem...
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I just downloaded at 1MBps using ttorrent
I even used a proxy, which might be why

Im having problems with the connections also, even my skype doesnt stay connected and every time I download an app from playstore it takes forever. Had the g2 before and had no problems. Still have the s4 I put the sim card there and use it and no problems. This is only with the note 3.
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I play some online games (esp. Bloons TD Battles) and am unable to connect over mobile data. Works ok over wifi. Hmmmm
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FYI using bittorent not having any issue ls on wifi or lte. I'm rooted and on darthstalker v2.
Downloaded the lone ranger 1.25gb files on wifi in my girls house she has like 50th down and 25 up and my phone took advantage downloading at about 7mb/s faster than what my computer at home downloads it. I was so surprised I went ahead and streamed it to her x box straight from my phone just to show off some more.
Not sure why everyone else is having issues. Also downloaded a 45min episode of a show on lte from her house where speeds are 20mbps down and 2 up. This was slower but more on the standards of what my pc at home does.
Haven't modified any apn or vpn or abc xyz
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Stock unrooted here. I have been hoping to be satisfied with the phone as is, but am not hsppy with it at this point. I have always rooted and run custom ROMs before and msy go that route now, but this has soured my opinion of this otherwise great device.
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WiFi Speed Slow

I have 45 Mbps WiFi service here at the house and can verify this over and over with speed tests on my computer and they continually report 40-45 Mbps consistently. On my HTC One I only see like 12-20 Mbps at most when connected to the same WiFi and the same distance to the router. My buddies iPhone sees the full bandwidth of the wireless connection. Has anyone else experienced this? Fixes? I am not rooted and completely stock other than apps.

I have 50+ internet service and have no issues maxing it out with my phone. Have you disabled the "Wifi oltimization" under the advanced settings of wifi? If not, try that, mine is unchecked. Note that having it unchecked does use more power.
Here are my speed test results. http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/a/691833801
I am rooted, but haven't done any tweaking to wifi.

cmlusco said:
I have 50+ internet service and have no issues maxing it out with my phone. Have you disabled the "Wifi oltimization" under the advanced settings of wifi? If not, try that, mine is unchecked. Note that having it unchecked does use more power.
Here are my speed test results. http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/a/691833801
I am rooted, but haven't done any tweaking to wifi.
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I had it enabled on my phone. I disabled it and checked the speed. Started off at 23 Mbps then throttled back to 16 Mbps. My Wife has the same phone and I checked her's. She gets the same results. I checked my work laptop right now (Window 7 machine) and got 42 Mbps. I checked my Macbook Pro and got 40 Mbps. Something with these phones isn't allowing the full speed. What doesn't make sense is the fact iPhones work great.

I have Comcast 50 download speed an all 3 of my HTC ones get 55+ always an my hardline devices get 60.
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jvcjbl said:
I have 45 Mbps WiFi service here at the house and can verify this over and over with speed tests on my computer and they continually report 40-45 Mbps consistently. On my HTC One I only see like 12-20 Mbps at most when connected to the same WiFi and the same distance to the router. My buddies iPhone sees the full bandwidth of the wireless connection. Has anyone else experienced this? Fixes? I am not rooted and completely stock other than apps.
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I don't know if you found a solution, but I stumbled upon one tonight...I was having the same issue. The solution sounds weird, but go to settings>location and turn location services off...I did that and instantly hit the speeds my Comcast service advertises. Haven't played around with the different location services settings yet, though.
Edit: I just toggled it off and back on and I'm still getting much better results.
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brholt6 said:
I don't know if you found a solution, but I stumbled upon one tonight...I was having the same issue. The solution sounds weird, but go to settings>location and turn location services off...I did that and instantly hit the speeds my Comcast service advertises. Haven't played around with the different location services settings yet, though.
Edit: I just toggled it off and back on and I'm still getting much better results.
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Nice! Thanks for the heads up. I will give this a try when I get home.

Went to Settings>Location and then turned off "Access to my location" which disabled everything. Went and did a speed test following this and there was no change. Not sure what is going on.

jvcjbl said:
Went to Settings>Location and then turned off "Access to my location" which disabled everything. Went and did a speed test following this and there was no change. Not sure what is going on.
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Ah dang. I wonder why it worked for me...I'm on a 4.4 Rom so I have the on/off toggle at the top right of the location screen...dunno if that makes a difference.
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brholt6 said:
Ah dang. I wonder why it worked for me...I'm on a 4.4 Rom so I have the on/off toggle at the top right of the location screen...dunno if that makes a difference.
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I just hard reset my phone after taking the update to 4.4.2 the other night. This resolved nothing. I did do a speed test and it went to 28 mbps down then throttled back to 15 mbps. I am not sure what the hell is going on here. Only other thing I will try is hooking up my old Wireless N router and see if that communicates better with the phone. If it does then it is something with this new router from AT&T.

jvcjbl said:
I just hard reset my phone after taking the update to 4.4.2 the other night. This resolved nothing. I did do a speed test and it went to 28 mbps down then throttled back to 15 mbps. I am not sure what the hell is going on here. Only other thing I will try is hooking up my old Wireless N router and see if that communicates better with the phone. If it does then it is something with this new router from AT&T.
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Flashed a new Rom and had the same issue. Location services didn't work either...reset my router (it's a pretty crappy one) and that did the trick. Do you have a gateway for uverse? I would definitely put it in bridge mode and hook your router up to it if it is. That's what our IT guy told me to do with my set up and it seems to have better range etc...it's just that I have a POS router hooked up haha.
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brholt6 said:
Flashed a new Rom and had the same issue. Location services didn't work either...reset my router (it's a pretty crappy one) and that did the trick. Do you have a gateway for uverse? I would definitely put it in bridge mode and hook your router up to it if it is. That's what our IT guy told me to do with my set up and it seems to have better range etc...it's just that I have a POS router hooked up haha.
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I reset my old Router (Belkin N+) and hooked that up (used to have my old Uverse gateway hooked up this way) and did a speed test. Same results as before. From what I gather bridge mode isn't enabled on this gateway. It is the new Bonded Pair Modem for use with their Power (45 Mbps) internet service. This is really frustrating the hell out of me.

I was getting the same issue as you are but the only difference is that my fiance's HTC One stock versus mine being rooted stock she was pulling in higher speeds when connected to the same WiFi, when I would start the test it would start out strong and then throttle back down somewhere between 6-9 Mbps when my plan is 50Mbps download and she would be getting 40+ easily ? my has started to catch up now but it's not really consistent. I believe it maybe something to do with my router cause I was at my friends house who also has Comcast and it was pulling faster speeds. But my laptop at home is having no issues with download speeds. This is my most recent speed test I just did about 5 mins ago.
http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/a/744622538
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Ended up getting Verizon to let me dump the HTC One and go back to my Galaxy S4. I initially had them allow me to switch from the S4 to the One but now I got them to go back. OMG what a difference. Data is 10X faster on 4G and WIFI hits the full 45mbps of my IWIFI at home. No changes to the router, no resets, just a new different phone.

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Ended up getting Verizon to let me dump the HTC One and go back to my Galaxy S4. I initially had them allow me to switch from the S4 to the One but now I got them to go back. OMG what a difference. Data is 10X faster on 4G and WIFI hits the full 45mbps of my IWIFI at home. No changes to the router, no resets, just a new different phone.
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That sucks you had to switch back to the S4! Haha I'm just playin. I messed around a bit with mine and I'm able to get my max WiFi speed. My coworkers S4 gets slightly slower (not a relevant difference, though) data speeds.
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brholt6 said:
That sucks you had to switch back to the S4! Haha I'm just playin. I messed around a bit with mine and I'm able to get my max WiFi speed. My coworkers S4 gets slightly slower (not a relevant difference, though) data speeds.
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The fastest 4G data speeds I could get with full signal using the One was about 21mbps. I'm at work with 2 bars of 4G and am cruising with 35mbps down. I forgot how much faster this phone was with data. Downtown Houston I pulled in 55mbps down when I had my other one. I'm traveling out of state tomorrow so I can't wait to see how it fairs.

jvcjbl said:
The fastest 4G data speeds I could get with full signal using the One was about 21mbps. I'm at work with 2 bars of 4G and am cruising with 35mbps down. I forgot how much faster this phone was with data. Downtown Houston I pulled in 55mbps down when I had my other one. I'm traveling out of state tomorrow so I can't wait to see how it fairs.
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Eek, 21 is pretty slow. I have a feeling it was your phone...I've never pulled that slow in KC. I'm always around 45-50. Either way...at least you've got it worked out!
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Question about 4g data

Hey guys,
I just switched from Verizon to t mobile and I have a question about their data connection.
I know they have 4g and 4g lte but are you suppose to get data while on regular 4g?
Whenever I'm on 4g I get no data even with full bar. I am currently on Jedi V5.
Thanks in advance.

Yes. Data should work at all times. Even on 4G.
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bryanthomas007 said:
Yes. Data should work at all times. Even on 4G.
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Any idea why there is no internet with full bar on 4g? Or how I can fix it?

hslayer said:
Any idea why there is no internet with full bar on 4g? Or how I can fix it?
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you need to further explain in detail what is happening on your phone? maybe a video or something.

XxLostSoulxX said:
you need to further explain in detail what is happening on your phone? maybe a video or something.
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I have full bar on 4g and i try to load page on my browser and it doesn't load, same thing with apps that require internet connection, they will not work

hslayer said:
I have full bar on 4g and i try to load page on my browser and it doesn't load, same thing with apps that require internet connection, they will not work
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lawl tmobile sucks....no but seriously, i would recheck your apn settings, make sure theyre all in order...otherwise...thats strange, i know that i have LTE all the time, but if i make a phone call, i drop to 4G because the LTE Radio has to be disabled temporarily when im making calls, which is understandable, the only other thing i can think of is T-Mobile being at fault for some kind of issue on their end. but if you can check your apn settings and try again see what you come up with.

the SAME thing happens to me. I believe it has todo where we live? Anyways in my house when I do loose LTE and get even full bars of 4G its worse then 3G. Half the times it says no connection other times it takes forever to load. I tried going in and out of airplaine mode tried turning ut off and on ect. Also tried to dial##2263## and don't work on my phone. Maybe because of the ROM? But yea my 4G is crapppp.
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I also am in the middle of switching over from Verizon to T-Mobile. This is going to be a really hard decision to stay or not. In terms of Data, T-Mobile is no where near Verizon even if they have faster speeds on SOME of their towers. Verizon is very solid and I just always have Data. It isn't something you ever even think about. T-Mobile on the other hand is very hit and miss. When it is good, it is very good but when it isn't, well it isn't.
So to get to you problem, I am seeing the very same thing with my two completely stock Note 3's. I just took a trip this weekend up the cost (Los Angeles to Pismo Beach up HWY 101) so I got to see the how the network does on a trip. for MUCH of the trip, I had a very strong 4G signal but had EXTREMELY slow data speeds, It was basically unusable. Google Maps for example was completely unusable since the map wouldn't update with this extremely slow or no data connection. What I am seeing with T-Mobile is that the connection type indicator such as 4G has 0 to do with what speeds you are going to get. Many of the 4G towers I was on was only giving me download speeds in the range of 0.1 to 0.01 Mbps.
I am within an excellent range for the tower at my house, I can actually see it from my house with no interference between it and me. My speeds on what shows to be a strong 4G signal is Ping = 644 ms, Download = 0.69 Mbps and upload = 0.85 Mbps.But again, on my trip, there were many times that full bars of 4G gave me no response to anything I tried to do that required Data.
T-Mobile may have the fastest speeds when you can get them but there are WAY to many towers and that have 0 to very slow speeds on major highways! You can't even use Google Maps on US HWY 101?
I really want to stay on T-Mobile but coming from Verizon it is a huge step backwards in terms of data reliability. If I do end up staying, I really hope they start concentrating on making the data network actually usable when you are driving around. I would rather have 4 or 5 Mbps of speed on every tower vs 25+ Mbps on some towers sprinkled around that your lucky if you live next to one.

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the SAME thing happens to me. I believe it has todo where we live? Anyways in my house when I do loose LTE and get even full bars of 4G its worse then 3G. Half the times it says no connection other times it takes forever to load. I tried going in and out of airplaine mode tried turning ut off and on ect. Also tried to dial##2263## and don't work on my phone. Maybe because of the ROM? But yea my 4G is crapppp.
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[Q] T-Mobile 4G (not LTE) speeds issue

Hey guys. I love T-Mobile. But lately I have gotten horrible data speeds on 4G (not LTE). The average for the past three days has been 50 - 70 KB/s
Thats horrible. I remember I used to get 270 KB/s.
I am running my own ROM with the NB4 baseband installed.
My brother has the S3 and his speeds are pretty much the same as mine.
Are there any ROM tweaks to boost my speed or is T-Mobile throttling me? Or does their speeds literally just suck?
When I am in LTE I get AMAZING speeds no issues nothing. Just RAW FAST sweet speeds.
Its just 4G that sucks. And sadly thats all i get at my house (where i use most of my data)
If i were to call T-Mobile, what do you think could be done about it?
What are your 4G (not LTE) data speeds like??
I'm not sure if its my area or their network.
Kinda getting irritated by it. I feel like im back on Sprint.

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If you call ask for a free cellular repeater.
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Already have the cel fi rs1. Thought that was the problem but even outside it's still the same.
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It's possible you're being throttled. What plan do you have with T-Mobile? If you're like me on the $30 text and data plan, they throttle your 4G speeds after 5GB. If you're not past the 5GB limit, then it could just be the tower you're connecting to. Contact T-Mobile and give them your address so they can search for any possible errors. They have a Live Chat option you can use to get a faster response. Let them know of the problem so they can investigate it further.

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It's possible you're being throttled. What plan do you have with T-Mobile? If you're like me on the $30 text and data plan, they throttle your 4G speeds after 5GB. If you're not past the 5GB limit, then it could just be the tower you're connecting to. Contact T-Mobile and give them your address so they can search for any possible errors. They have a Live Chat option you can use to get a faster response. Let them know of the problem so they can investigate it further.
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I have the truly unlimited data plan so thats why i was a little weary about me being throttled. They better not be or i'll flip. Its weird, when i do a speed test, the speed jumps up to the normal 170 - 270 KB/s then goes way down to 50. And my LTE speed is 1 MB/s which is good but i remember getting about 2.3 - 3 MB/s.
I guess i'll just give em a call. May Odin back to MDL stock and check just to make sure its not a ROM issue.
I am still wondering what you guys are getting on 4G speeds. I really do feel like im back on Sprint.