I am slowly becoming a fan of sprint's internet speeds. Please check out my signature line for the speed I got on my laptop computer. I am thoroughly impress with the speed I am getting. I was knocking sprint because I was getting faster internet speeds from my home internet but now I am getting faster speeds from my phone internet. If sprint can duplicate this standard everywhere they my have a chance of being the number one cell phone provider one day.
ill continue knocking them for a lack of LTE and unusable speeds on 3G
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and thats 3x faster than what i usually pull in NYC
Dude thats horrible
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Best speed I've gotten over the last month was a 422/308 kbps in jersey
I've gotten as low as 20kbps and my highest speed was 800, on average I get 200-300kbps on one phone and 500kbps on the other (samsung sph-a900 and apple iPhone respectively), and ~6months+ ago (for 6 years) I was getting ~1.2mbps with spikes upto 1.5mbps. (And at Lunch/dinner time the speed drops to about half of the average) Have not had a chance to try LTE yet because it's not available here.
I am finally starting to pull some decent speeds. My 3G speeds have been increasing and I get LTE around my area. My prior Wimax phones got no love. Soon as I took the GNII to work, 4G popped up.
Highest I have gotten in my area is 8mbps, slowest about 1.3mbps. On 3G I routinely stay over 500kbps and sometimes in the 1.5mbps around town. All far better than what I used to get.
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Screw u guys. Half the time my speed test app cant even find the server. Thats why we get unlimited data cause they know its impossible to pull a gig a month. We r suckers. All I do is ***** about sprint and im on my 5th 4g phone. Oh well
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Screw u guys. Half the time my speed test app cant even find the server. Thats why we get unlimited data cause they know its impossible to pull a gig a month. We r suckers. All I do is ***** about sprint and im on my 5th 4g phone. Oh well
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I was pulling upto 20gb/month a few years ago when I was getting 1.2mbps and avoiding slow WiFi (most of the hotspots around here are 300-600kbps) now that my data speed is 400-600 dep on time and phone I try to use hotspots more and I only pull a couple gb/month at max (though to be fair I use less mobile data overall, for a month I test-drove AT&T and was pulling upto 5mbps on HSPA+ and upto 27mbps on LTE and I still stayed WELL within my 3gb limit (and even really pushing hard to burn though the data at the end of the month by streaming HD videos I barely got to 2.5gb)
Also, just for the record, it's "100gb/month" of data (as per reports on androidforums) for 3G - no idea what the cap is on LTE
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Screw u guys. Half the time my speed test app cant even find the server. Thats why we get unlimited data cause they know its impossible to pull a gig a month. We r suckers. All I do is ***** about sprint and im on my 5th 4g phone. Oh well
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I've used 23gigs thank-you
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ill continue knocking them for a lack of LTE and unusable speeds on 3G
and thats 3x faster than what i usually pull in NYC
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I think I can shed some light ther pm me ur zip and city and I can see whats going on when I get back to work tomorrow
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Read an article today how boost mobile or virgin mobile is throttling their speed after the user consumes a certain amount of bandwidth.
The speed would be throttled down to 256kbps.
I LOLd. I wish I get 256kbps from sprint.
As an aside, both those networks run atop the sprint network...So they get the same speeds as sprint users.
swyped all these spelling errors from my galaxy note 2
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I've used 23gigs thank-you
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Ive never passed 2gigs and im on my phone constantly. Mostly watching fb or YouTube trying to load then telling me to try again.
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will do
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I think I can shed some light ther pm me ur zip and city and I can see whats going on when I get back to work tomorrow
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I have two note 2 phones.
One on sprint the other on solavei. Which is tmobile really.
The solavei phone kills sprint in data speed. Constantly getting 10-15 mbps all day.
Lately my sprint note is to slow for decent test.
I love unlimited data but is it truly unlimited if your connection is piss poor slow?
The solavei plan is Unlimited 4g
Talk text web $60.00 per month taxes included.
No $10.00 per month smartphone fee. I have been a sprint customer for 14 years but for the first time considering leaving.
Even when the lte gets worked out . The data plans will most assuredly change. I just hope they get it together soon.
Bought the fiancé an note 2 also unlocked it threw in solavei sim card and shazam
Look at those internets fly lol.
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Good news!! there's 3g upgrades going on a few miles away about 1.8 to be exact bad news........ The tower closes top you have afew more weeks to go.. If everything goes as plan
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I have no g's in my area,0g
Actually saw my phone pick up 4g for the first time today on the freeway but by the time I pulled up speedtest I had lost connection.
This is my average speed at home.
humdrum2009 said:
I have two note 2 phones.
One on sprint the other on solavei. Which is tmobile really.
The solavei phone kills sprint in data speed. Constantly getting 10-15 mbps all day.
Lately my sprint note is to slow for decent test.
I love unlimited data but is it truly unlimited if your connection is piss poor slow?
The solavei plan is Unlimited 4g
Talk text web $60.00 per month taxes included.
No $10.00 per month smartphone fee. I have been a sprint customer for 14 years but for the first time considering leaving.
Even when the lte gets worked out . The data plans will most assuredly change. I just hope they get it together soon.
Bought the fiancé an note 2 also unlocked it threw in solavei sim card and shazam
Look at those internets fly lol.
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I hear you on that. I tested out the internet on my ATT iPad3 (HSPA+ and LTE) and I gotta say it's very tempting to switch (Pulled 4-5mbps on HSPA+ and 20-25mbps on LTE) if ATT would offer me a bit more data, like T-Mo does @ 5gb/month (T-Mo reception is **** here) I'd probably switch. There comes a point when you say "if I cant really physically use more than 5gb/month of data, why am I paying for it?" I'm really hoping LTE is as big of a game-changer as Sprint claims (I've seen some impressive speeds posted on HoFo) but given what happened with Sprint's implimentation of WiMAX, I'm not holding my breath...
Lte speeds here in nyc.
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I'm coming from HSPA+ speeds on T-Mobile, so I was wondering if EVDO speeds on Sprint are supposed to be this slow? EVDO should be capable of at least 1 Mbps.
I'm consistently getting less than 300 kbps download, so are Sprint's EVDO speeds really closer to EDGE than 3G?
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I'm coming from HSPA+ speeds on T-Mobile, so I was wondering if EVDO speeds on Sprint are supposed to be this slow? EVDO should be capable of at least 1 Mbps.
I'm consistently getting <300 kbps download, so are Sprint's EVDO speeds really closer to EDGE than 3G?
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I would say it depends on the time + place your using 3G at. I sometimes get as low as your saying but sometimes can get over 1MB but only at certain times and certain places.
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They are usually pretty good. Id suggest trying the 3g turbocharger. Its never disappointed me. I usually can only get around .60mbps.
This is with it :
This is with out it :
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Honestly, sprint is just awful in some areas. I'm okay with it because I pay a lot less and usually have wifi anyway, but yea, the service is just pathetic.
In LA, I regularly get 5-50 kb/s download and upload with 3g. If I'm lucky, I'll get around 300--this happens maybe 1/10 days. This is in a flat, well populated area of Los Angeles, not a boonie by any means. It's really disappointing.
4g, when it (rarely) works, is also way slower than I had hoped for... maybe 1.8 down, 200 up.
Funny thing about unlimited data is that with crap speeds like this, I could probably download all month long and not reach the limit of other providers...
I am occasionally able to hit 1000 kbps up and down but at my house it's normally about 300 kbps each. I had 4G today and it was a pitiful 500 kbps down and 50 kbps up with a ping of 500. Be glad you have data at all...
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Honestly, sprint is just awful in some areas. I'm okay with it because I pay a lot less and usually have wifi anyway, but yea, the service is just pathetic.
In LA, I regularly get 5-50 kb/s download and upload with 3g. If I'm lucky, I'll get around 300--this happens maybe 1/10 days. This is in a flat, well populated area of Los Angeles, not a boonie by any means. It's really disappointing.
4g, when it (rarely) works, is also way slower than I had hoped for... maybe 1.8 down, 200 up.
Funny thing about unlimited data is that with crap speeds like this, I could probably download all month long and not reach the limit of other providers...
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You would think that in LA we'd get better service?! I usually get 0.5 mbs up and down on 3g and 4-5mbs down and 1-2 mbs up in my area though...
Sprint putting up lte... that's been the cause of all the crappy data... I'm almost certain somebody had a picture of them putting stuff up in los Angeles and their 3g was down and 4g was pitiful.
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You would think that in LA we'd get better service?! I usually get 0.5 mbs up and down on 3g and 4-5mbs down and 1-2 mbs up in my area though...
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No kidding. The population density here seems like it would be a good cost-value job to throw in more towers...
Network vision is underway in LA, which will affect certain areas and connectivity
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It's official. Sprint has the worst 3G and 4G speeds among major carriers. :thumbdown: I'm not surprised at all.
http://m.gizmodo.com/5902947/which-carriers-have-the-fastest-3g-and-4g-connections/gallery/
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Not compared to ****ty ATT Hspa! Absolute crap in Daytona area. Barely get Sprint 3G speeds out of it. ATT has barely started their LTE rollout.
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I'm coming from HSPA+ speeds on T-Mobile, so I was wondering if EVDO speeds on Sprint are supposed to be this slow? EVDO should be capable of at least 1 Mbps.
I'm consistently getting <300 kbps download, so are Sprint's EVDO speeds really closer to EDGE than 3G?
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It's true. Sprint really is just that awful. Sprint's "3G" is slower than AT&T's 2G. I'm still happier than I was with AT&T, though, since I always have some kind of data signal on Sprint. I might be roaming, and I might get only 5kbps down, but at least I have something. On AT&T I would frequently have ZERO signal and my phone was a worthless oversized paperweight.
Sitting in my own living room, where I have 5 full bars of Sprint 3G signal, I have similar speed to what you posted. Yours might be a bit faster, actually. This is completely normal average speed -- I am fairly certain that Sprint is NOT doing these "network vision" upgrades in east Texas anytime soon, if ever. Contrast that with Verizon -- my buddy was sitting right next to me with maxed out LTE signal, pulling 30mbps on the same speed test. That's faster than my Roadrunner Elite. He then dropped to Verizon 3G and got about 5mbps down. On both tests, his ping was <100ms and mine was >500ms.
I firmly believe that the only reason Sprint still offers "unlimited" data is that there is no need for a cap -- you are limited directly by the speed of your connection and you cannot reasonably even come close to 5GB of data usage in a month. Unless you have consistent Wimax signal, which I estimate maybe 1% of their subscribers have.
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It's official. Sprint has the worst 3G and 4G speeds among major carriers. :thumbdown: I'm not surprised at all.
http://m.gizmodo.com/5902947/which-carriers-have-the-fastest-3g-and-4g-connections/gallery/
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tmobile seems to want to have it both ways. they call their hspa+ 4g, but then throw it in to comparisons against other carriers 3g.
le boo.
from the article... T-Mobile's HSPA+ 21 service won in the 3G bracket of our study, and the company's high-end HSPA+ 42 service competed reasonably well with other providers' 4G service.
3g speeds are poor in some areas but recently have seen a slight improvement in my area. I'm hoping the network vision upgrades will help like they say it will.
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Obviously there is no credibility to that article. There are several places around Daytona that I get over 1Mbs on 3G. I can just as easily measure ATT's 4G in my area to show it slower than Sprint's 3G. Most of the time I have to toggle airplane mode on the stupid ATT phone from work just to get it to load my work screen.
Different areas have different speeds... I get 1.5-2 mbps on 3g.... of course about 2 months ago I was only getting .30 mbps on 3g... 4g is super fast though. Lol
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I had been using the EL30 modem for quite some time and 3G speeds were horrid around the Chicago suburbs. Like bad bad. If I wasn't on 4G, I didn't even want to use my phone for anything data related.
I know NV is being deployed around this area right now, but I recently switched to the FC09 modem, and it's a night and day difference. I used to get around 0.1Mbps if I was luckly. Lately, since the switch, I've been getting more closer to 0.8-1.0Mbps which I'm quite happy with considering it's 3G.
4G I usually pull around 5-7Mbps down (but have hit 10 a few times; that's a full 1MBps down) and I usually cap it at the 1.5MBps up. That's faster than my wifi at home through AT&T UVerse.
Average Sprint 3G data speeds decreased from 2011 to 2012. Maybe because of the influx of iPhone customers?
Welcome to Sprint. Where the 3G is 2G, and the 4G is 3G.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2538...peed_showdown_which_networks_are_fastest.html
So my question to you is; why'd you leave T-mobile? If they were so great for you, you should have stayed with Big Magenta.
I'm not being flippant here. Carriers are like organized religion. What works for one person offends someone else. In the end, all of us get through to The Supreme Being.
I, personally, always find myself on Wi-Fi so I don't give a crap.
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So my question to you is; why'd you leave T-mobile? If they were so great for you, you should have stayed with Big Magenta.
I'm not being flippant here. Carriers are like organized religion. What works for one person offends someone else. In the end, all of us get through to The Supreme Being.
I, personally, always find myself on Wi-Fi so I don't give a crap.
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You're right. I should have stayed.
With my corporate discount, my equivalent plan on Sprint is cheaper, so I switched. It's too bad that article showing crappy Sprint data speeds didn't come out earlier, I probably would have stuck with T.
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Does anyone else have similar feelings?
http://community.sprint.com/baw/message/499256
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Ah I remember the exact moment I decided to leave Sprint. They released a list of 100 cities that would be getting 4G LTE a few months ago.
I saw that Columbus, Indiana and Cleveland, Tennessee were on that list...but Columbus, OH and Cleveland, OH were not. I live in Columbus, OH. I read that article and went to tweet about it and Sprint's 3G connection timed out and I couldn't update my Twitter to complain.
I'm on T-Mobile now. HSPA+ may not be the 30mbps that everyone wants, but I gotta tell ya, the 15mbps that I'm getting is a hell of a lot better than the .125mbps i was getting on Sprint's 3G. If I had Sprint, the XDA app wouldn't have even opened and I wouldn't have been able to see this.
Just my experience. The ETF sucks, but I'm still much happier than I was 2 weeks ago.
Yeah... and its kind of sad that even if we were to get Wimax that it would still be slower than HSPA+ (3g faster than 4g!?!?)
The nexus 4 on T-Mobile or straight talk is sounding pretty nice right now.
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Complaining won't fix anything, you have the choice to wait for the network upgrades to be completed or pay the etf and leave. I have no issues with sprints service, I get consitantly over 1mbps dl and 700+kbps up on 3g, and cdma 3g is limited to 3mbps anyways. There's no other carrier that would let me use 100-250gb of data a month with no penalties. I have 5 lines and we all use a ton of data a month, hell one of my lines is all data every month since its only use is a hotspot for our house, that line sees easily 80+ gb every month no calls and no texts. Honestly if you don't like the service pay the etf and move to a capped plan that costs more, or wait til the NV rollout is completed.
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There's no other carrier that would let me use 100-250gb of data a month with no penalties.Honestly if you don't like the service pay the etf and move to a capped plan that costs more.d.
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I think you may have missed some breaking news here or there, because pretty much anyone can get that on T-Mobile now (VZW and AT&T don't have it yet, though)
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Yeah, T-Mobile doesn't work in my area, and after 10gbs they throttle your speeds to 2g not to mention t-mo and vzw have terrible customer service. I had t-mo a few years ago and had 1000sms/mo and they switched it to include incoming SMS in the 1000 and not just the outgoing with no notice and stuck me with a 200 overage so I dropped em like a hot potato. They don't even have coverage within 20 miles of my house anyways
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all carriers have terrible customer service that's aimed to funnel your money into your bank accounts. to say that a mobile carrier has good customer service is to say that you've never really dealt with their customer service. both t-mobile and sprint have kept me on the phone for hours only to have no answers to my problems.
As for the throttling, dude, they stopped that too.
http://www.theverge.com/2012/8/22/3258573/t-mobile-unthrottled-unlimited-data-plans
like I said, there have been some new stuffs released, gotta keep up with it. otherwise you may end up sounding uninformed. I have to use 9000GB of data before I get throttled to 2G, that's what the picture above is supposed to show. In the old days, that would be "1.6GB out of 10GB", telling me how much I have to go before I get throttled. Now, I don't get throttled unless I provide internet service to my entire block for a month. Different times.
PoorCollegeGuy said:
all carriers have terrible customer service that's aimed to funnel your money into your bank accounts. to say that a mobile carrier has good customer service is to say that you've never really dealt with their customer service. both t-mobile and sprint have kept me on the phone for hours only to have no answers to my problems.
As for the throttling, dude, they stopped that too.
http://www.theverge.com/2012/8/22/3258573/t-mobile-unthrottled-unlimited-data-plans
like I said, there have been some new stuffs released, gotta keep up with it. otherwise you may end up sounding uninformed. I have to use 9000GB of data before I get throttled to 2G, that's what the picture above is supposed to show. In the old days, that would be "1.6GB out of 10GB", telling me how much I have to go before I get throttled. Now, I don't get throttled unless I provide internet service to my entire block for a month. Different times.
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They never stopped throttling, it says right in your screen cap u get 10gbs high-speed internet dude, that means after 10gb your speeds are throttled. I've never had an issue with sprints customer service in 15+ years. Everytime I call it takes maybe a minute to get a rep on the line and they have my issue resolved as fast as it takes to do whatever is wrong, it took less than 10mins from dial to hang up to activate a new phone and switch 2 others around when I activated my sgs3 Monday night. Now vzw everytime I have to call them for my mom its 2hrs of yelling back and forth with some rude ass moron on the other end, and tmo it was like pulling teeth to get anything fixed usually they'd say they corrected whatever it was but really didn't do sh!t they'd just lie to get you off the phone.
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I'm in Miami and LTE for sprint is around the corner but **** sprint been a customer for 11 years bill has gone up now I pay 200 plus a month for 4 lines. Moving to T-Mobile once I can buy four nexus 4 phones. Done with sprint and slow data been playing the waiting game for years. My 3g on gal nexus is horrible and on the epic touch my max 4g is 1.5 Mbps
T-Mobile has unlimited 4g no throttle and my bill will be less. And most important will have a current phone and real 3g speed and 4g. If you think sprint LTE will be fast your smoking something. Down the street on Flagler LTE gets 3mbps. Maybe its not up but I doubt it will go to 30mbps.
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I'm in Miami and LTE for sprint is around the corner but **** sprint been a customer for 11 years bill has gone up now I pay 200 plus a month for 4 lines. Moving to T-Mobile once I can buy four nexus 4 phones. Done with sprint and slow data been playing the waiting game for years. My 3g on gal nexus is horrible and on the epic touch my max 4g is 1.5 Mbps
T-Mobile has unlimited 4g no throttle and my bill will be less. And most important will have a current phone and real 3g speed and 4g. If you think sprint LTE will be fast your smoking something. Down the street on Flagler LTE gets 3mbps. Maybe its not up but I doubt it will go to 30mbps.
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Funny my lte hits 27mbps on sprint and the damn rollout is only at 25% of the towers complete. It averages about 22mbps but will hit 27 later at night.
Edit: look at the t-mo screen cap up the thread there it says right under the 1.6gb used that the data is throttled after 10gb. 10gb high-speed data means after 10gb its no longer high speed which means it's throttled and they throttle u to edge 2g speeds which is equivalent of sprints 3g
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I also heard from other folks that tmobile prepaid does throttle but heck idk since I really dont trust any other carriers besides sprint. I have no issues with them just the lack of slow 3g around my home area but so far when I get to the corner of my house and at work I get 4g lte since they already started working on the towers here in miami.
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I'm in Miami and LTE for sprint is around the corner but **** sprint been a customer for 11 years bill has gone up now I pay 200 plus a month for 4 lines. Moving to T-Mobile once I can buy four nexus 4 phones. Done with sprint and slow data been playing the waiting game for years. My 3g on gal nexus is horrible and on the epic touch my max 4g is 1.5 Mbps
T-Mobile has unlimited 4g no throttle and my bill will be less. And most important will have a current phone and real 3g speed and 4g. If you think sprint LTE will be fast your smoking something. Down the street on Flagler LTE gets 3mbps. Maybe its not up but I doubt it will go to 30mbps.
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Dude you have to understand that we are only on 3% and its early. At the corner of my house and at work im getting an average of 12-15 mbps and a peak of 19mbps now for this early stage at 3% thats damn good I know for sure its only going to get better soon.
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Funny my lte hits 27mbps on sprint and the damn rollout is only at 25% of the towers complete. It averages about 22mbps but will hit 27 later at night.
Edit: look at the t-mo screen cap up the thread there it says right under the 1.6gb used that the data is throttled after 10gb. 10gb high-speed data means after 10gb its no longer high speed which means it's throttled and they throttle u to edge 2g speeds which is equivalent of sprints 3g
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Where do you get these speeds? Also in my area I doubt it could ever reach these speeds because there is no cable internet and the fastest ISP is att with 1.5mb. Also don't trust the speedtest.net it shows fast speed but your real world speed is probably half that. Like when I go near a tower with 4g I get like 18down but that's not real world.
And T-Mobile confirmed there is a new data plan unlimited 4g no throttle. I don't have the service yet so I can't tell for sure but I have checked many times. And I doubt sprint 3g will ever be good it has been bad for so long. Tired of waiting with sprint. Need a nexus 4 and T-Mobile will do even of it is 10gbs which they swear its not.
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Fataldesain said:
Where do you get these speeds? Also in my area I doubt it could ever reach these speeds because there is no cable internet and the fastest ISP is att with 1.5mb. Also don't trust the speedtest.net it shows fast speed but your real world speed is probably half that. Like when I go near a tower with 4g I get like 18down but that's not real world.
And T-Mobile confirmed there is a new data plan unlimited 4g no throttle. I don't have the service yet so I can't tell for sure but I have checked many times. And I doubt sprint 3g will ever be good it has been bad for so long. Tired of waiting with sprint. Need a nexus 4 and T-Mobile will do even of it is 10gbs which they swear its not.
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I get it in a few spots in town(bradenton FL) but not at my house yet I can get it solid at my friends house right off of i75 and SR 64. Will get it at home between now and march when its complete right now there's a total of 16 towers live in the 5counties that are in my rollout, sw Florida from bradenton to Naples well manatee county to Naples area most of the live towers are down the i75 corridor. Ericcson is the subcontractor handling our rollout, and they are just barely ahead of schedule it was supposed to be testing now and live towards the end of Nov but they've turned on a few towers already. I know its not roaming on lte cuz sprints roaming agreement for lte doesn't start until 50% of the rollout is complete nationwide
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Where do you get these speeds? Also in my area I doubt it could ever reach these speeds because there is no cable internet and the fastest ISP is att with 1.5mb. Also don't trust the speedtest.net it shows fast speed but your real world speed is probably half that. Like when I go near a tower with 4g I get like 18down but that's not real world.
And T-Mobile confirmed there is a new data plan unlimited 4g no throttle. I don't have the service yet so I can't tell for sure but I have checked many times. And I doubt sprint 3g will ever be good it has been bad for so long. Tired of waiting with sprint. Need a nexus 4 and T-Mobile will do even of it is 10gbs which they swear its not.
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Look at the time I just went to the corner of my house and just ran a test and took the screenie.
Edit if your patient enough to wait a bit I say go for it but you you aint well you have your reasons to move on forward and leave sprint.
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When NV is complete sprints network will be as good or better than vzw. From what I've seen already its just as good as vzw in the areas it's up. The main thing is anywhere sprint has 3g now they will have LTE which means they will have more LTE saturation than any other carrier in the US. Plus NV is a complete backhaul and upgrade to the 3g network as well for improved capacity as well as bandwidth so 3g will be consistent in speeds over 1.5mbps instead of slowing as towers get crowded
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When NV is complete sprints network will be as good or better than vzw. From what I've seen already its just as good as vzw in the areas it's up. The main thing is anywhere sprint has 3g now they will have LTE which means they will have more LTE saturation than any other carrier in the US. Plus NV is a complete backhaul and upgrade to the 3g network as well for improved capacity as well as bandwidth so 3g will be consistent in speeds over 1.5mbps instead of slowing as towers get crowded
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That's great news thats why im just being patient and enjoying my note 2 lol I see alot of good things coming ahead for sprint thats why im sticking with them but I can understand some folks frustration and such with the 3g service at the moment
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They never stopped throttling, it says right in your screen cap u get 10gbs high-speed internet dude, that means after 10gb your speeds are throttled. I've never had an issue with sprints customer service in 15+ years. Everytime I call it takes maybe a minute to get a rep on the line and they have my issue resolved as fast as it takes to do whatever is wrong, it took less than 10mins from dial to hang up to activate a new phone and switch 2 others around when I activated my sgs3 Monday night. Now vzw everytime I have to call them for my mom its 2hrs of yelling back and forth with some rude ass moron on the other end, and tmo it was like pulling teeth to get anything fixed usually they'd say they corrected whatever it was but really didn't do sh!t they'd just lie to get you off the phone.
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That isn't 10GB in the screen cap, it is 10000GB or roughly 10TB. T-Mobile doesn't throttle anymore. Just saying.
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Evil and yellow what you have to understand is your one of the lucky few. Even when LTE is up it is going to get slammed because for the past year they have been selling late phones so once it up sprint is going to have to change the unlimited data. And sprint every quarter for years is losing Money so that does not make me feel good. Makes me think they can't wait to raise the price.
Sprint gave me 100 to stat today but honestly tired of them not getting phones first, slow data, and no more perks. I get the same treatment as if I just walked in the door. What T-Mobile told me today would be cheaper and I can buy a nexus 4 for 300 bucks. If I get even 5mbs down I'm more than happy because that has hardly even happened on sprint and that is when I'm next to a tower. Tired of the pipe dreams. If sprint has fast data it won't last unlimited.
At T-Mobile they told me today 4 lines 1000 min 2 lines 2gig 4g (parents) and 2 lines unlimited 4g no throttle for 160 a month two year agree meant and I bring my own phones so I get a credit each month since not buying phones. Sprint can't beat that.
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That's great news thats why im just being patient and enjoying my note 2 lol I see alot of good things coming ahead for sprint thats why im sticking with them but I can understand some folks frustration and such with the 3g service at the moment
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I've rarely had slow 3g on sprint, at home its always over 1mbps 2mbps later at night. The only times its ever slower than 1mbps is when we get bad storms and a tower goes down and everyone is pushed onto the other tower. But I live in a sparsely populated area east of bradenton and basically share my main tower with about 50 or 60 houses. The only 2 carriers with coverage at my house are sprint and at&t. At&t constantly drops calls here, vzw only has 1 to no bars of 1x and T-Mobile doesnt have any service at all, you have to roam on at&t. Even when I'm in Tampa or Hollywood I still get between 700kbps and over 1mbps down, it maybe because I'm on a business account with a corporate prl tho
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When NV is complete sprints network will be as good or better than vzw. From what I've seen already its just as good as vzw in the areas it's up. The main thing is anywhere sprint has 3g now they will have LTE which means they will have more LTE saturation than any other carrier in the US. Plus NV is a complete backhaul and upgrade to the 3g network as well for improved capacity as well as bandwidth so 3g will be consistent in speeds over 1.5mbps instead of slowing as towers get crowded
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of course NV will be a savior for sprint. but the problem is that it should already have a network thats able to compete. Sprint cant say come join us because we are better then prepaid and then get ****tier speeds then cricket. Also people still have a bad taste in their mouths over the wimax screw up. Honestly, they should of focused on getting their 3g up to snuff before ever considering rolling out 4g.
i for one will tell sprint to go screw themselfs if i dont see my city on the lte rollout list within the next 6 months or if i dont see significant increase in 3g performance.
I have sprint right now and basically it sucks at work. At home I get 4g some times and at work I get 3g or just no data. I'm thinking ing about switching to tmobile or a prepaid carrier. I use about 100 mins a month in talk but I use like 5-7 gb in data a month because i'm on netflix and pandora all day at work. I have a job where i'm at a desk so i'm just sitting 6am to 7pm monday through wednesday. anyone know if any carriers?
I heard simple mobile is ok but I also heard they throttle or just cancel people
Heard straight talk cancels after 2gb.
I'm in the Baltimore MD area.
Well I have simple mobile and I have not had any problems with them at all. But based in your number of minutes, ill suggest t mobile unlimited 4g text and 100 minutes for 30 bucks a month. Check that plan out. And I believe you will have the Wi-Fi calling benefit at well. Having simple mobile, Wi-Fi calling and descent support is what I don't have, oh and insurance, but I'm not complaining for 50 bucks a month
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The plan mentioned above sounds great for you but be aware T-Mobile coverage (more or less the deepness that it can go into buildings) T-Mobile has an online only 30 dollars a month for unlimited data (5gigs of 4g service then the rest 2g) with 100 minutes and unlimited text.
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Ok. but what is athe 2g speed? because if I go over the 5gig its capped. so how would it be if I get 2 chips for the phone.
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The plan mentioned above sounds great for you but be aware T-Mobile coverage (more or less the deepness that it can go into buildings) T-Mobile has an online only 30 dollars a month for unlimited data (5gigs of 4g service then the rest 2g) with 100 minutes and unlimited text.
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The plan mentioned above sounds great for you but be aware T-Mobile coverage (more or less the deepness that it can go into buildings) T-Mobile has an online only 30 dollars a month for unlimited data (5gigs of 4g service then the rest 2g) with 100 minutes and unlimited text.
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its not just online its at walmart too
if you go over 5gig a month there is something wrong
Net flix and crunchyroll uses a lot, lol
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its not just online its at walmart too
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its not just online its at walmart too
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Yes but you cant buy JUST a SIM card at walmart. So that doesnt help the OP since they already have a phone.
But OP, if you go over 5gigs. 2g is okay for streaming pandora just gotta give it a good while before it starts playing. Also, browsing the xda app or tapatalk is possible as well as mobile facebook website (not sure about the facebook app) it was alright for what i used it for but once i got my s2 i started using a lot more data with netflix and youtube and streaming anime on xScope pro browser. And going over 5gigs is really easy pltctytc.
yeah thats where i'm at. i'm thinking about trying different carriers to see which one won't just block me or cut me off when I use there service. I have a S3 from sprint trying to get out of the contract now. but was going to sell it to get a used S3 on tmobile but might have to flash it to boost if I can't find a carrier prepaid that will do 5-9 gb of data.
You are not gonna get a prepaid that will give you 5-9 gb a month.
Don't know why you would go to Boost. They are the prepaid network of Sprint.
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because its will give me the 5-9gb. and I atleast get 3g which sucks.
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You are not gonna get a prepaid that will give you 5-9 gb a month.
Don't know why you would go to Boost. They are the prepaid network of Sprint.
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You said that Sprint sucks but yet you want to go to Boost, when Boost uses the same Sprint network?
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It's unlimited and from what I'm seeing won't cut me if I go over 5gig a month.
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Boost explicitly "reserves the right" to throttle you past 2.5 Gb and has in their terms that they can cancel you if they deem you to be in violation of reasonable use.
T-Mobile states that they will throttle you to 50kb/s >5Gb.
At work, can you possibly use wifi instead of mobile data ? Instead of streaming movies/music, put them on an external SD card ? I guess it comes down to how badly you need to stream over mobile networks and how much you're willing to pay.
You can get 10Gb from Verizon for $140/month total. I mean, it exists even if you probably have no interest in signing up for it. It would cost $70/month to hook a compatible tablet up with 10Gb/month - so I guess if they get much better coverage in your area, you could switch to them and use a cheap pre-paid phone for voice calling if calling over data work-arounds are not reliable enough for you - since it's not like you'd be paying any more.
Just ideas. I don't think you're going to find what you're looking for when it comes to a pre-paid that will let you go over 5Gb/mo so you'll either have to deal with Sprint's limitations or make some kind of compromise (paying more, data-only tablet, using an SD card instead of streaming, et cetera), or perhaps look at other post-paid.
I had boost before I signed up for sprint. And i had a flashed epic 4g on it and was doing Netflix all day and was never canceled. Went to sprint to get the s3 and they said 4g lte was in my area which it wasn't.
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Get tmobile you're not going to regret it. Especially if you live in a +42 area. 23.5GB and still going strong!
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I say go to Tmobile, I was with Sprint for 12 yrs and had all of their top smartphones for the most part. This recent LTE fail in an LTE city (DFW) made me switch to Tmobile which is saving me $40 per month now after Sprint went up $13 per month for each 4G line and I get up to 25Mbps down compared to the horrible 3G I was getting in the summer while in the DFW and DC area. You can get on their unlimited 4G plan with no throttle or the 5GB with hotspot and throttle. Get a GS3 on Tmobile for a low contract price and then sell the Sprint one for $300+ on ebay to pay the ETF. I sold my EvoLTE, and 2 Evos to pay what was left on my ETFs. I have great coverage on the East Coast and DFW.
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I'm in Clarksville md, Lutherville md, and Baltimore md everyday. And only place I get good service is Clarksville and no 4G. Near bwi i don't even get Internet on my phone.
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I just moved from sprint to t mobile and am super happy with the move.
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I say go to Tmobile, I was with Sprint for 12 yrs and had all of their top smartphones for the most part. This recent LTE fail in an LTE city (DFW) made me switch to Tmobile which is saving me $40 per month now after Sprint went up $13 per month for each 4G line and I get up to 25Mbps down compared to the horrible 3G I was getting in the summer while in the DFW and DC area. You can get on their unlimited 4G plan with no throttle or the 5GB with hotspot and throttle. Get a GS3 on Tmobile for a low contract price and then sell the Sprint one for $300+ on ebay to pay the ETF. I sold my EvoLTE, and 2 Evos to pay what was left on my ETFs. I have great coverage on the East Coast and DFW.
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I used to be on Boost but switched to T-Mobile because not only has Sprint not rolled out LTE yet in my city (Birmingham), they never even rolled out WiMax here.
The unlimited 4G is a great value -- Boost was cheaper, of course, but the data was sooooo slow.
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I'm in Clarksville md, Lutherville md, and Baltimore md everyday. And only place I get good service is Clarksville and no 4G. Near bwi i don't even get Internet on my phone.
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I lived in the DC-Bmore area for 11 yrs so I am familiar with all of those places. My friends in Bowie, Upper Marlboro, and DC with their Sprint LTE devices are still waiting for the LTE to be turned on. Baltimore was supposed to have it by now from what I have read. Everytime I read stories like these, it makes me feel even better about my decision to move all of my lines to TMO.
Here are some dl speeds:
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Hey, I just moved to US and bought a T-mobile Galaxy S III with Unlimited 4G.
I rooted the phone and used the APN trick (From WarlockW)
Everything went fine, and I was using the User Agent on Google Chrome (As a Android browser)
The speed was like 5-15 mbps , and now it is like 0.02-0.1 mbps. I know that I used alot of data (something around 14,5gb I guess)
The 4G signal is quite good, and still the same at it was when I got 5-15mbps
Does anybody else have this problem, and what should I do?
Thanks guys, looking forward to some feedbacks
I, too, have been getting "throttled" 4G speeds as of late.
I'm a heavy user (~20-40GB/mo), and I see my 4G get "throttled speed" where my 4G icon shows FULL 1/2 of the month.
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I, too, have been getting "throttled" 4G speeds as of late.
I'm a heavy user (~20-40GB/mo), and I see my 4G get "throttled speed" where my 4G icon shows FULL 1/2 of the month.
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A few hours ago signed my life away with T-Mo for two S3's, Are you saying 4G icon and your speeds are full speed for 1/2 the month?
Curious on you on a tethered plan or the new unlimited?
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A few hours ago signed my life away with T-Mo for two S3's, Are you saying 4G icon and your speeds are full speed for 1/2 the month?
Curious on you on a tethered plan or the new unlimited?
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Im on TMO's new unlimited (no data cap) 4G plan. I switched over to TMO the month before they announced their new unlimited 4G. So to say, I was VERY excited.
The first month was fine (september). october, was a little sketchy. for a good week, my data dropped in speed significantly. This month, worst. I can't seem to stay on 4G speeds. Maybe its the rain in my area? Or the influx of new customers jumping into the unlimited plan overloading TMO's traffic? Who knows....
Im close to calling in and asking them why my data is so freakishly slow for the past 2 weeks now...
Definitely call them and complain. And tell them to reset it for you.
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I was having the same problem so I called Tmobile. They checked for tickets in my area and within a 10 mile radius, they informed me of the network modernization happening in my area. Go to airportal.de and see if they was any 1900mhz HSPA discovered in your area.
Add me to the list of getting "throttled" watching YouTube on my phone and ran a speed test right before, 220kB/s which is awesome for I don't get 4g here. After about an hour of YouTube it started to buffer like every minute. Ran a speed test and only got 90kB/s and it had to have been me getting throttled. It's happened before and I called and complained they fixed it but now it's starting again. I'm getting really annoyed.
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A few hours ago signed my life away with T-Mo for two S3's, Are you saying 4G icon and your speeds are full speed for 1/2 the month?
Curious on you on a tethered plan or the new unlimited?
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Correct, Tmo offers different plans the tether plan does NOT offer truly unlimited 4G speeds and vice versa if I'm not mistaken: D
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Ran a speed test last night around midnight:
Download: 0.39Mbps
Upload: 0.01Mbps
Ping: 517
Then I ran a few tests a few minutes ago this morning:
Download: 6.98Mbps
Upload:0.28
Ping:902
Im calling them. Im at FULL 4G bars here in San Francisco.
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I would say lately, I have been using my 4G less since it's getting colder outside, and I'm indoors with wifi. I haven't gotten throttled lately, but I feel that the network has been slower than my normal speeds too. I can't compare to what I had before since I didn't think to save a screenshot from before, but I wonder if having too many people using the service simultaneously also is dropping the speeds.
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I would say lately, I have been using my 4G less since it's getting colder outside, and I'm indoors with wifi. I haven't gotten throttled lately, but I feel that the network has been slower than my normal speeds too. I can't compare to what I had before since I didn't think to save a screenshot from before, but I wonder if having too many people using the service simultaneously also is dropping the speeds.
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Hey guys, thought I'd give my input. I'm at 15GB usage this month, both my gf and I are getting 15mbps (par for the course around here).
Maybe they're just temporary dips in service?
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Hey guys, thought I'd give my input. I'm at 15GB usage this month, both my gf and I are getting 15mbps (par for the course around here).
Maybe they're just temporary dips in service?
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I wish they were temporarily dips in service. But I haven't been getting anything CLOSE to 15mbps this month. Just ran a test just now and I got 0.09Mbps. This test was ran after I called customer service and them explaining why:
"Due to your location, it is best to be outside for better data service." [But I have full 4G bars inside the house. I never experienced this for the first month with you guys in my house.] "Im sorry to hear that sir, but like I said, due to the frequencies the towers are giving and the combination of your location being indoors, it is best to be outside for better service." [So to say, I should put my bed OUTSIDE while I browse my data hogging phone?] "I'll fill in a ticket for an engineer to contact you."
Total bee es.
Call and immediately ask to speak to a supervisor, tell them you have full signal but the actual speed is crap and it's not "faster and more dependable" as they claim and ask for a credit on your account for the month. This method landed me $20 off my bill. Good luck!
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I was having the same problem so I called Tmobile. They checked for tickets in my area and within a 10 mile radius, they informed me of the network modernization happening in my area. Go to airportal.de and see if they was any 1900mhz HSPA discovered in your area.
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This is also what happened in my area. They don't throttle the truly unlimited.
For the ones getting throttled do you guys have the true unlimited 30 buck plan?
Also keep in mind during the day and rush hour periods, data will be slow because everyone is getting off work/school
they cannot legally throttle you if they are claiming it and advertising it to be unthrottled, class action law suits up the *** ...... furthermore, it is all coincidence, all of it. if you are on the unlimited 4g, your 4g is exactly that, unlimited, and unthrottled.
i burned through 80 GB of 20 MB/s data last month..... yes, 80......
so yeah, case clossssed
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For the ones getting throttled do you guys have the true unlimited 30 buck plan?
Also keep in mind during the day and rush hour periods, data will be slow because everyone is getting off work/school
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+1, see what plans you have. I just got the cheapest family plan they had which has 2gb of full speed 4g and after that unlimited edge/gprs speed. I really dont need unlimited 4g cause i have wifi at home and at work.
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they cannot legally throttle you if they are claiming it and advertising it to be unthrottled, class action law suits up the *** ...... furthermore, it is all coincidence, all of it. if you are on the unlimited 4g, your 4g is exactly that, unlimited, and unthrottled.
i burned through 80 GB of 20 MB/s data last month..... yes, 80......
so yeah, case clossssed
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Its not actually truly unlimited
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LOL.... well if you are approaching 10 terabytes in usage, you need to put your phone down and just... go outside or something...
awesome post, and i thanked you for it. haha
remember a lot of the apps you use will slow you down ...remember to clean your ram...ive done this i blow my brothers iphone 5 away for speed,also hes selling it for a s3.....
Well I have read and noticed that the data cap is set at 5 gig's. For some people. And after you pass those 5 gigs you get data slowed down (throttled). And in fact this did happen to me once!
But when I upgraded to my LTE phone.(skyrocket) The unlimited data cap is 10 gigs b4 they slow you down. Was just pointing that out since I haven't been slowed down at all. Full speed ahead. And now with the NOTE 2. Speeds are excellent on LTE!!. First test was out in San Diego with my girl having dinner!
So for all of you out there that have the grandfather unlimited data plan. Then sit back& enjoy you 10 gigs of full speed ahead.... Keep in mind that when I did those test I was way pass there so called 5 gig mark!!
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This is what I get at home. And this is b4 the custom Rom!! Fully stock right from the store.. Me love me LTE..
Here's the link to all the AT&T APN's. For who ever wants them!!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2172110
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Is that att.? What app are u using that gives u data?
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I passed my 5 gig last month an the moment I do I was throttled to an almost unusable speed. Who said it was 10gb officially?
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I have AT&T's "unlimited" LTE plan for my Note 2. As soon as I approached 5GB in one billing period, I got a warning text, and shortly thereafter, was throttled back from 50Mb/s to 0.5Mb/s--a factor of 100 slower.
I was told by a text message on my Inspire 4G as I approached a cap that it was 3 gigs for non LTE devices and 5 gigs for LTE before they throttled. An AT&T representative confirmed this when I picked up my Note 2. However I have heard that if you have proof of them throttling (I.e. screenshots of speed test) and you call them up and complain and even site a certain court case against throttling (Google it) they will remove the throttle. Though you may have to do this multiple times before they finally give up on throttling toy indefinitely. Now this is all rumors and hearsay so don't take my word for it.
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Hey guys im pretty new ...are these stats good ??
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Is that att.? What app are u using that gives u data?
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Yes I'm on AT&T. The app is AT&T smart Wi-Fi !
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I passed my 5 gig last month an the moment I do I was throttled to an almost unusable speed. Who said it was 10gb officially?
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If you go on the AT&T website sing in and go to your phone and look up data usage. At the bottom it tells you what's your max kb. And what you have used. I'll pull it up, and post 4u!
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I was told by a text message on my Inspire 4G as I approached a cap that it was 3 gigs for non LTE devices and 5 gigs for LTE before they throttled. An AT&T representative confirmed this when I picked up my Note 2. However I have heard that if you have proof of them throttling (I.e. screenshots of speed test) and you call them up and complain and even site a certain court case against throttling (Google it) they will remove the throttle. Though you may have to do this multiple times before they finally give up on throttling toy indefinitely. Now this is all rumors and hearsay so don't take my word for it.
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No I didn't have to call and complain. Maybe we've been very long time customer's, with about 6 devices on there network that are all unlimited. So don't think that they would want to slow me down.
I'm going to go on the website and take a pic of what I'm saying about your total data that they give you. Mine is called LTE basic. Something like that.
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Well my family and I will reach our 20th anniversary in January so idk if its based off that. We also have 3 $30 a month data plans, mine being the only unlimited. I doubt I will reach 5 gigs but if they should I have taken the speed test screenshots to prove it.
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Now this is what I just got, I recieved a TXT that I will be throttled bec. I reached 5 gigs, and then last nigth my wife got a TXT that she will be throttled because she reached 3 gigs. We both have unlimited and on family plan.
I too can confirm that I have been throttled at the 5GB mark using a GN2 on the AT&T network.
bkjerry82 said:
I too can confirm that I have been throttled at the 5GB mark using a GN2 on the AT&T network.
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Non LTE is 3GB
and LTE is 5GB
I have the international note 2 witch is NON LTE BUT I gave them the IMEI from a Note 1 and i dont get throttled til 5GB
hey
Im on Verizon unlimited. I never been throttled. My usage for this month is 300Gigs.
mjlewis0102 said:
Im on Verizon unlimited. I never been throttled. My usage for this month is 300Gigs.
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Wonder why carriers did way with unlimited plans????
mjlewis0102 said:
Im on Verizon unlimited. I never been throttled. My usage for this month is 300Gigs.
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287GB haha
They did away for the Money and such. T-Mobile has unlimated same for sprint and now U.S.Cellular.
They didn't have the foresight to upgrade/update their network to handle the large data load, and for a business, it's much better to make more money by charging your customer more for going over their data limit.
Also, I'm grandfathered in and I have the 5GB throttle down. I'm not sure how the OP managed to not get affected by their mandated limit. It actually should say it in the contract that they'll throttle you down. They discussed it in length with me when I was upgrading to the Note II because I questioned it.
Personally, I don't like having a limit hanging over my head before I'm throttled. The reason I chose unlimited from the very beginning is the convenience that I don't have to worry about going over some data limit and suffering consequences. And believe me, with all the things you can do with the Note II, it's not that hard to hit that limit, accidental or otherwise.
hyelton said:
287GB haha
They did away for the Money and such. T-Mobile has unlimated same for sprint and now U.S.Cellular.
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I understand that they did it for money and i also believe that unlimited means unlimited.
But you cant tell me that 300gb a month isnt crazy. I cant blame them for wanting to shut that down.
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AT&T still throttles at 5GB. Maybe the OP has just gotten LTE in his area. At home I've had LTE for about 4 months, and I get throttled. At work we just got LTE about a month ago and I don't get throttled. I'm at 8GB currently. Not sure how it happens, unless there's something that needs to be updated with the tower?
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mjlewis0102 said:
Im on Verizon unlimited. I never been throttled. My usage for this month is 300Gigs.
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Well a good advice for you would be to never upgrade your phone.
Verizon is killing unlimited data plans for upgraders.
My buddy has a OG note and uses over 20gb a month every month (no home internet). He never uses LTE though. He's under the impression that it's only LTE data that is capped, everything else is unlimited. He's never gotten a warning or anything.
JonBryant said:
My buddy has a OG note and uses over 20gb a month every month (no home internet). He never uses LTE though. He's under the impression that it's only LTE data that is capped, everything else is unlimited. He's never gotten a warning or anything.
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Would love to see a bill or picture of this. I have never heard this before.