T-Mobile data plan gone screwy? - T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII

My brother has used his phone this month and wracked up 25 gigabytes. Twenty five, you heard me right on his mobile data. Mobile. Not WiFi. We have the plan to where it throttles at 5 gigabytes. He's been streaming HD YouTube videos supposedly every day!
Please tell me this is just them not catching it and my mom won't be charged 250$ in overage fees.
25 gigs. Yes I'm positive it's for this month only, I just got throttled last month for going over 5gb barely so what's the deal? I'm scared.
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ShernDog said:
My brother has used his phone this month and wracked up 25 gigabytes. Twenty five, you heard me right on his mobile data. Mobile. Not WiFi. We have the plan to where it throttles at 5 gigabytes. He's been streaming HD YouTube videos supposedly every day!
Please tell me this is just them not catching it and my mom won't be charged 250$ in overage fees.
25 gigs. Yes I'm positive it's for this month only, I just got throttled last month for going over 5gb barely so what's the deal? I'm scared.
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You don't get charged for going over your limit, just throttled, as far as I know. That being said, after the 5GB cap was hit, he should have been throttled back to 2G/Edge, how he managed to rack up that extra 20GB on 2G speeds is beyond me... unless he's rooted, in which case I think there's a way to bypass the throttling.

ShernDog said:
My brother has used his phone this month and wracked up 25 gigabytes. Twenty five, you heard me right on his mobile data. Mobile. Not WiFi. We have the plan to where it throttles at 5 gigabytes. He's been streaming HD YouTube videos supposedly every day!
Please tell me this is just them not catching it and my mom won't be charged 250$ in overage fees.
25 gigs. Yes I'm positive it's for this month only, I just got throttled last month for going over 5gb barely so what's the deal? I'm scared.
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You don't get charged with their new plans .. Its literally unlimited everything except hotspot
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The thing is he hasn't been throttled. He has autism, all he does on his phone is watch minecraft videos, it isn't rooted or anything. The gigs have been racking up every day and he's still watching HD videos. Its supposed to be throttled.
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ShernDog said:
The thing is he hasn't been throttled. He has autism, all he does on his phone is watch minecraft videos, it isn't rooted or anything. The gigs have been racking up every day and he's still watching HD videos. Its supposed to be throttled.
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If you have the unlimited plan don't worry about it . throttling and going over usage doesn't matter they won't charge you for continuing to go over your 5gbs that's just for full speed. If they don't throttle its on their end they won't charge you.
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Okay thanks.
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How much data do you guys use in one month... I use about 11gb on my data plan because I do not have wifi... I can't wait for Tmobile unlimited data coming in september
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ktetreault14 said:
How much data do you guys use in one month... I use about 11gb on my data plan because I do not have wifi... I can't wait for Tmobile unlimited data coming in september
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That's what worries me about the unlimited tmobile plan. People using network data as their main internet connection. Tmobile data will probably slow down quite a bit even though they are saying they have the capacity. I doubt it.
To answer the op's question. I use about 2gb/month.
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I use about 2 1/2 GBs . But when I try to use it I can't get up to 5.
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I have WiFi everywhere work home, friends, and the bars I go to lol... I use maybe 1.2 GB.
I do between 3 and 8 per month. Usually just under 5 because I don't want to get throttled.
Hi everyone,
I would like to ask if anyone could tell me how slow will the internet speed become when the data usage limit is over. I have 2gigs on T-Mobile and it is almost up. Is it really really slow? Thanks
Maximum speed is about 56 kilobits per second.
dan_nny said:
Hi everyone,
I would like to ask if anyone could tell me how slow will the internet speed become when the data usage limit is over. I have 2gigs on T-Mobile and it is almost up. Is it really really slow? Thanks
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It completely sucks man really do I did two days I was sick so I didn't care much about my phone, but it really sucked
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It completely sucks man really do I did two days I was sick so I didn't care much about my phone, but it really sucked
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Oh thats sucks. Actually my friend has an iphone running on T-mobile but since iphone doesnt support their bandwitch, the internet is reallyyyyy slow. It's edge from the old ages so I'm just afraid it will become the same on my galaxy s3.
1.97 GB so far - around 22 days to go in the cycle. Yeah, I'm gonna need unlimited.
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dan_nny said:
Oh thats sucks. Actually my friend has an iphone running on T-mobile but since iphone doesnt support their bandwitch, the internet is reallyyyyy slow. It's edge from the old ages so I'm just afraid it will become the same on my galaxy s3.
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It'll be about the same, probably a bit slower.
The last 3 months I have hit my 2GB cap with about 2-4 days left in the billing cycle. Luckily someone clued me in on calling customer retention and asking for the 5GB plan for the same price as the 2GB plan, which worked! So starting 3 days ago I have the 5GB plan for $20/month, which is plenty for me.
I use about 5GB or so. I have AT&T and use the medianet plan. $10 for unlimited data love loopholes
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sn0warmy said:
The last 3 months I have hit my 2GB cap with about 2-4 days left in the billing cycle. Luckily someone clued me in on calling customer retention and asking for the 5GB plan for the same price as the 2GB plan, which worked! So starting 3 days ago I have the 5GB plan for $20/month, which is plenty for me.
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Can you tell me how to do that because it sounds awesome!
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The last 3 months I have hit my 2GB cap with about 2-4 days left in the billing cycle. Luckily someone clued me in on calling customer retention and asking for the 5GB plan for the same price as the 2GB plan, which worked! So starting 3 days ago I have the 5GB plan for $20/month, which is plenty for me.
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Don't bet your pants yet, wait a bill cycle and see what shows up, most likely you got a credit for so many months that brings it down to 20. Not that I don't believe you, but I don't believe you it was that simple , post proof!
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I use about 1.2 gb and the rest is on wifi
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Use about 2gigs out of my 5 gigs
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I use about 2GB - 3GB out of 5GB plan. I actually went over 5GB last month and throttling is unbearable. all I could so is send tiny emails, no app would work and I had to call them to disable throttling after my cycle ended. In fact when I called I was told they no longer throttle which was not true. in about 2 days they restored the speed.

Question for you all: truly unlimited throttle

So about mud day yesterday, I was watching YouTube, all of a sudden everything started buffering no matter what video I watched. Downloaded a couple files and speeds were only 30kB/s. Didn't think anything of it. Thought it was the host. Didn't do much else but use tapatalk and noticed things were a but slow. Did a speed test and it shot up to like 300kB/s then hovered around 30-50kB/s felt that awfully strange.. as that's what would happen on my old throttle plan.
So I went to bed not thinking of it.
Got up this morning and speeds were the same. Stayed the same for the entire day til I got fed up and called T-Mobile. They "said" I wasn't being throttled. And after I *****ed they "reset" my phone on their network and things were back to normal.
Has anyone else experienced like symptoms? I'd hate to think they went this low to throttle us..
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Are you sure you have the truly unlimited 4G plan... Or the unlimited data with let's say 2gb, 5gb or 10gb of 4G data.
If you have the truly unlimited data then you shouldn't be throttled. But if you have one of the other three plans where they cap the 4G data then they throttle you after that certain point.
Or maybe t mobile was having issues with your tower and had to reset the connection?
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It wasn't just my area though, both s2 and s3 showed same speeds. And yes I have the truly unlimited.
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How much data have you used this period?
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This had to be all of tmobile last light because me and 3 buddies at work were all stuck on edge till 8 am
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Why is this posted in general? Not to sound an a$$ but yeah..
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You weren't being throttled. I'm in southern cali and had horrible speeds this morning.
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agtitan said:
How much data have you used this period?
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17gigs but that doesn't matter.
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This had to be all of tmobile last light because me and 3 buddies at work were all stuck on edge till 8 am
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well that reassures me that they weren't throttling me.
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Why is this posted in general? Not to sound an a$$ but yeah..
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And because I had general open in tapatalk and didn't realize it. Lol sorry I'm human.
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Lol no worries i just hate cluterred forums :/
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17 gigs? I really don't see how most people can go over 5 without tethering. I use my phone constantly and I've never gone over 2. Even with what I use on wifi, which might be another 2gb, is still not even 5gb's. So, I can only ASSUME you have been tethering, and they figured it out. That would explain the throttle.
tony yayo said:
17 gigs? I really don't see how most people can go over 5 without tethering. I use my phone constantly and I've never gone over 2. Even with what I use on wifi, which might be another 2gb, is still not even 5gb's. So, I can only ASSUME you have been tethering, and they figured it out. That would explain the throttle.
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Get Netflix.....
tony yayo said:
17 gigs? I really don't see how most people can go over 5 without tethering. I use my phone constantly and I've never gone over 2. Even with what I use on wifi, which might be another 2gb, is still not even 5gb's. So, I can only ASSUME you have been tethering, and they figured it out. That would explain the throttle.
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You get 100 uses of tethering anyhow. Then they block you. But as psykhotic said get Netflix and watch HD movies and then tell me how much data you use. Not to mention you can download torrents via your phone. And I never use WiFi except for when transferring files to my phone.
But irregardless, it's unlimited, there shouldn't be a throttle period.
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Get Netflix.....
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Yes. This and gogoanime plus a movie streaming website.
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elesbb said:
You get 100 uses of tethering anyhow. Then they block you. But as psykhotic said get Netflix and watch HD movies and then tell me how much data you use. Not to mention you can download torrents via your phone. And I never use WiFi except for when transferring files to my phone.
But irregardless, it's unlimited, there shouldn't be a throttle period.
Yes. This and gogoanime plus a movie streaming website.
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What do you mean you get 100 uses of tethering?
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.....irregardless
I could certainly reach well above twenty gig with Tune in radio, Hulu, Jetflicks, and Netflix.
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I just streamed music to and from work and I used up 5gb in 2 weeks... now if you don't have a full time job and don't commute in traffic m-f then you won't understand
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No not 100 uses of tethering.
You can use 100 MB before the block you if you already used the work around on the software they have on the phone.
The program by default on the phone though will actually block you right away.
Unless you use a custom APN then you get blocked after 100 MB.
If you change your User Agent on your browser the the User agent of the phone and you won't get blocked.
tony yayo said:
17 gigs? I really don't see how most people can go over 5 without tethering. I use my phone constantly and I've never gone over 2. Even with what I use on wifi, which might be another 2gb, is still not even 5gb's. So, I can only ASSUME you have been tethering, and they figured it out. That would explain the throttle.
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Just syncing my phone after a factory reset uses over 5.
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Just syncing my phone after a factory reset uses over 5.
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Soooo.... why not factory reset while on wifi? I don't understand why people treat the network as a substitute for a home network?
And streaming music doesn't use that much data, you'd have to watch 8 or 10 movies on Netflix to hit a gig. Don't tell me you watch 10 movies a week on your phone. I feel sorry for your eyes.
It is the abuse of the system that will do nothing but raise data rates for all of us. Thanks alot people, enjoy your rerun's of Charles in Charge.
Netflix even on the phone does use more then that. A 2 hour movie would be about 600 mb for that one move.
I use around 25gigs lol
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For those with truly unlimited data..

How much data do you use per cycle? I have the plan and I can easily reach maybe 50GB through tethering. Kinda worried though if tmobile might catch on.
I just got on the plan yesterday so we will see how it goes.. when they first came out with it for contract the first month i used like 86gigabytes
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I usually hit like 20gb or so.
Do you guys tether? I'm on day 3 and I have used like 3GB already.
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AttachedSilver said:
Do you guys tether? I'm on day 3 and I have used like 3GB already.
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Yes.
Not tethering i run down about 20GB a month. If it's truly unlimited then why not?
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I don't tether but always download ROMs and stream music and video
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I use around 1 gig, lol.
Monthly, I use about 20-30gb on internet, I can't live without unlimited.. I remember when I used to have AT&T I'd always go over the 5gb that I had.. I got so pissed that was the reason why I switch from AT&T to T-mobile..
I have used over 30gb each month for the last couple months and haven't heard a thing. It is truly unlimited after all.
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I just got started on friday abd im at almost 3gb
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I usually use about 60 to 70 gigs but this month I some how left my hotspot on and it was open and I got to 324 gigs aparently 7 people where using my internet tmobile never called me or txt or nothing
sexyddamn said:
I usually use about 60 to 70 gigs but this month I some how left my hotspot on and it was open and I got to 324 gigs aparently 7 people where using my internet tmobile never called me or txt or nothing
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Do u have the hotspot plan? How much more is it on ur bill?
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Do u have the hotspot plan? How much more is it on ur bill?
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No I don't have hotspot on my plan using synegry rom with it backed in
sexyddamn said:
I usually use about 60 to 70 gigs but this month I some how left my hotspot on and it was open and I got to 324 gigs aparently 7 people where using my internet tmobile never called me or txt or nothing
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Lol
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I use 12 - 30gb depending on how much work I get weekly. If I get a full 40 hours or more I hit 30 and maybe more. I stream movies and watch YouTube all day at work to kill time.
I had to upgrade to this plan because I remember I started working and it was day 2 of my cycle and I passed the 5gb mark. That was the longest night ever at work lol.
I use anywhere between 20-30 gigs. I call customer service once to check something and the rep freaked when she saw i had used like 32gigs of data. Lol.
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Wow thats alot of data lol.
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I usually use about 60 to 70 gigs but this month I some how left my hotspot on and it was open and I got to 324 gigs aparently 7 people where using my internet tmobile never called me or txt or nothing
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and your provider said nothing about that??? thats a lot of dara.. lol
Honestly I torrent so I'll download like 10 gig games in day or 1080 movies that r 3 or 4 gigs
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So here is a screenshot of how much data I used so far

Here is a screenshot of how much data I have used so far and still got 7 more days to go... Do you think att is going to do something or say something? :/
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jaepoori said:
Here is a screenshot of how much data I have used so far and still got 7 more days to go... Do you think att is going to do something or say something? :/
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hope your on a unlimited plan if not your about to pay alot in overages.
Holly crap!
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I used that much a few months ago, didn't have unlimited data and ended up paying over $500.
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If you are tethering: they may threaten to kick you off unlimited.
If you aren't: they probably won't say/do anything, at least based on how they've handled things so far.
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Apparently you get throttled on speed after 5 gBs on LTE soooo but they won't say anything.. Have you noticed a speed hit in the last 46 GB?? (lol )
GOOD GRAVY !!
No wonder my LTE speed sucks so bad...it's your phone sucking all the bandwidth......LOL...g
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I used that much a few months ago, didn't have unlimited data and ended up paying over $500.
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Ouch.....that bites...g
Whatever it is, they're definitely going to do something.. Either throttle you if you're grandfathered on unlimited or $4-500 in overage on a tiered plan.
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Well if they have not throttled him and he only has 7 days left in his cycle, he may get throttled for 7 days.. but it resets when his cycle does so i think hes good to go... (as long as hes Grandfather'd on an unlimited plan that is lol)
Good lord. I'm grandfathered into an unlimited plan and I still get leery when I approach 5GB. Guess I can lighten up a bit and see what the actual limit is.
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And people wonder why providers are tight with data usage?
I think I've approached 5 gb maybe twice.
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On Verizon, and on average, I use about 40gb a month. Been this way for awhile and never had any trouble.
I'm not sure about this guy but I have no choice. My phone is my internet for my whole family. It's this or dial up. Luckily I have great 4g and unlimited data.
I usually keep my data usage hush hush because people react so negativity to it. I pay my bills. I buy all my devices full price. I'm gonna use my data.
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In light of recent events of tech companies giving away my data, I have zero qualms about using the hell out of their data.
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Wow are you running a server from your phone lol
Hahah yea I'm on the grandfathered unlimited. I have been switching my APNs around and found that I got my lte speeds back but recently they throttled me to around 400-500kbs. not a big deal really since I use my phone like a laptop anyways and I still get to do everything I want with those speeds. Just takes some patience for Netflix or videos to load though.
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Hahah yea I'm on the grandfathered unlimited. I have been switching my APNs around and found that I got my lte speeds back but recently they throttled me to around 400-500kbs. not a big deal really since I use my phone like a laptop anyways and I still get to do everything I want with those speeds. Just takes some patience for Netflix or videos to load though.
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Perhaps this is silly to ask but I'm not going to assume anything - have you gone through that much data without tethering? If so, that is quite a feat!
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Perhaps this is silly to ask but I'm not going to assume anything - have you gone through that much data without tethering? If so, that is quite a feat!
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Ya that would be impressive. I never tether and my record is 16 GB.
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Definitely tethering. We don't have internet at our apartment so I tether. Mostly streaming. Heh heh
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I've hit 150~GB without tethering. Constant pirating and/or having something (music, Facebook, Google+ picture uploads, DropBox, Box, etc.) use my data 24/7. My passive aggressive way of telling AT&T that I will not be denied my data usage even when throttled at 5GB.
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I've hit 150~GB without tethering. Constant pirating and/or having something (music, Facebook, Google+ picture uploads, DropBox, Box, etc.) use my data 24/7. My passive aggressive way of telling AT&T that I will not be denied my data usage even when throttled at 5GB.
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Wow. If I were AT&T I wouldn't even be mad. That's amazing.
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Am I being throttled?

Ive been really happy with my t-mobile service up until recently. I usually use 20- 25gb per month. My data speed seem to have slowed dramatically. Even on LTE I can't get thru half of a youtube video without buffering for a half hour. It takes 24 hrs to download a 870mb Rom. Ive ran speed tests and they show 20-25mbps speeds but im definitely not getting that. Am I being throttled?
Do you have a high speed limit? If so, that may be the case.
It sound like you are being throttled but it could be another issue I would definitely investigate it and dont let tmobile reps give you the run around and be very persistent
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25GB per month? God damn.. they should throttle you, lolol.
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25GB per month? God damn.. they should throttle you, lolol.
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That is actually what I also use...haven't been throttled here though.
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Exel said:
25GB per month? God damn.. they should throttle you, lolol.
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That's nothing, Im average around 70-80gb of data per month.
lilaznboi5582 said:
That's nothing, Im average around 70-80gb of data per month.
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My god.
No more HD pr0n for you guys on mobile, please. :silly:
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That's nothing, Im average around 70-80gb of data per month.
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Good god what do you do? I dont use that much data on my phone, tablet, and laptop with mobile data and wifi combined!
And I use Netflix online to download hd programming alot
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