{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
Torrent downloaders will be throttled. VPN or TOR should combat that
halftonehero said:
Torrent downloaders will be throttled. VPN or TOR should combat that
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Thanks dude for clarifying that
Technically you'll still have unlimited data, just at a much slower speed.
You would be surprised how many company s are doing this already. There are actually many cable company's that are doing this also. This is unfair for those that use peer-to-peer networking to transfer non illegal stuff.
Honestly t-mobile is the only company that offers truly I unlimited at a reasonable price. Att for 2 lines I would have to pay 60 and he 5gb of data to SPLIT between the 2 lines.
sent from a Galaxy Note 3 Far far away
MajorTux said:
You would be surprised how many company s are doing this already. There are actually many cable company's that are doing this also. This is unfair for those that use peer-to-peer networking to transfer non illegal stuff.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I can honestly say, I've never met anyone who uses torrents for legal stuff.
Sent from my SM-N900T using Tapatalk
mrbkkt1 said:
I can honestly say, I've never met anyone who uses torrents for legal stuff.
Sent from my SM-N900T using Tapatalk
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I use them to download Linux distros. You would be surprised how many artist and movies actually release there work on bit torrent sites for free.
https://bundles.bittorrent.com/#!/
https://www.jamendo.com/en/welcome
http://linuxtracker.org/
https://archive.org/details/bittorrent
http://www.mininova.org/featured/cat/
..
I could go on.
A lot of movie studios, record company, and independent artist will do this to hype there movie or even get people to donate to them and lets the consumer pay what they want for the movie. A good example of this would be a small mom and pop store may practically give things away to get people in the door and away from the big business. So in Turn if people can down load the torrents the company will not make money.....But the fact is the portion of people that are doing this is pretty small, but some people still do it. Again just like the amount of people that will shop at a mom and pop store opposed to Walmart,Target,Whole Foods,Ex...
I just ditched att after 6 years because they were throttling my data at 5gs. I unlocked the sim, bought a tmo sim for $10.75 and now I pay 80per month for unlimited data, phone, tx, with zero throttling and no contract. I get extremely fast 20-30 mbps download speeds and have ditched the $45 per month att wifi. I am at almost 100gs this month by running my n3, laptop, and kids ipads. I do not go to torrent download sites at all, am I in jeopardy of being throttled by tmo ???
yep; if you continue to use 100 gigs per month, eventually you will be throttled..
XiPhoneUzer, I did the exact same. I paid more than necessary for YEARS to hold on to my "Grandfathered Unlimited Plan" despite generally using wifi and using (sometimes well) under 2 gigs of mobile data every month for the prior year (not to mention crippled, locked-down bootloader phones). It was the "just in case" mentality, ya know? Well, about a year ago now, "just in case happened"... I lost power in my apartment for like a week (obviously no modem / router / computers...) Man, I sure was glad I held on to that Unlimited plan! Immediately started watching some Netflix and... taking care of business (such as downloading a couple new Linux ISOs). Well, I hit 5 gigs mobile data that night. Got a warning message at like 4990 MB, then 5 mins later, my connection was immediately throtled down to completely "can't load a webpage" unusable. ATT reps were super helpful, like, "Man, that's too bad." and "At least you only have to wait until next Wednesday." Wouldn't even "let" me pay for more data with a usable connection! ... I no longer make use of their services.
On topic... my concern is: Is this going affect people who use clearly legitimate apps / services like BT Sync? That is, am I going to need to keep my KeePass database synced across devices via USB otg every time I update it on my computer, or some multi-step LAN upload? No, I'm not cool with keeping that kind of thing on GDrive or whatever.
You guys need to research and chill. They are only interested in the very top downloaders. These are people moving Terrabytes/month. Your 100GB is probably not even on the radar. They are also only applying the throttle to those users when the network is crowded and those people are causing problems for other users on the network. This is not the time to freak out about it. Watch, and call them on their BS, should it be called for, but for now, it's really not. This isn't a comcast style "kill all connections that look like bittorrent" deal.
To give some idea of scale, they claimed that they were contacting 20 users for this first time. Seems quite reasonable, right now. If they start to get bad, they have to know they will be called out on it. Save the rage, we might need it later.
Related
Just as the title, is there a way to hide data usage? T-Mobile is starting to really irritate me. I was getting amazing speeds, and was very happy. I advertise for T-Mobile, because I LIKED them a whole lot. I do sell mobile phones for a living, and demo this phone A LOT.
Here was an amazing day
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
And here is a day with a cap on...
Basically, I used 5 gigs in like 18 days, so they capped me. I called and complained, they said "Well we're not limiting your data, we're only slowing it down" which pissed me off. I give this company 2500$+ a year and they are going to cap me for using 5 gigs?
Needless to say, the cap was "magically" removed the next day, so to get my revenge, I used 5 gigs in a day.
So basically, I need to either figure out a way from the network to not see how much data I am using, or I am going to just call an automated system, and let the phone use 34,000+ minutes and try to get kicked off the network.
Theres a thread in the dev section related to this, but your gonna have to perm root your G2 in order to do it,
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=863923&page=40
but I also think they gave an alternet APN setting somewhere in that same thread you can try, gonna have to search the thread for it though.
Here's those APN settings. They work like a charm.
What exactly do those settings do???
They route you to the internet through another one of TMO's internet gateways, through which, apparently, they are not counting how much data is used.
Those settings worked wonders! I was getting 56 down and 40 up when I was throttled. Back to normal speeds now =) but I'm getting throttled when I'm at 4.6gbs of data used should I call up tmobile and see why there throttleing me so early?
Sent from my HTC Vision using XDA App
Technically there's nothing wrong with them throttling you. You pay them $2500/year (that's $208/mo, you may want to have your plan looked at, if you've just got the one phone). If you really want to get down to it, you only pay them $360/year for data ($30/mo times 12 months). The rest of your bill is for other things (minutes, etc.).
Also, the contract that you signed when you started your service very specifically says that on the unlimited plan, they will not charge your overage fees, but any data transfer beyond 5GB is subject to be throttled down. You agreed to that happening when you signed your contract (whether you read it or not).
They're not cheating you out of anything, nor are they ripping you off (and even if they were, you expressly agreed to it, confirmed with your signature).
In any case, as mentioned above, there's a hack to disable the throttling quite easily. I'd say it's their fault for not making it a network-based throttle.
hiko36 said:
Here's those APN settings. They work like a charm.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
i'm not being throttled yet, but will be soon enough, should i only apply this once i'm throttled or should i do it now?
I have 3 phones, so times that data by 3. And I ballparked 2500 I pay over 250 a month for unlimited everything. I'm just saying that for a phone company who is supposed to be the best, that they slow down data. Sprint only does it if you go over 12 gbs.
xKERNALx said:
I have 3 phones, so times that data by 3. And I ballparked 2500 I pay over 250 a month for unlimited everything. I'm just saying that for a phone company who is supposed to be the best, that they slow down data. Sprint only does it if you go over 12 gbs.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
And AT&T, Verizon, and U.S. Cellular (the other 3 out of the top 5 carriers) all charge you extra money (and lots of it) if you go over. I'm just saying I'd *much* prefer being throttled and knowing what my bill is going to be vs being given full data but no clue on what my bill might turn out to be when the dust settles.
Again, either way, there's a pretty easy way to defeat it.
Verizon does not overcharge for data. They might call you after 5gigs and warn you that you're going to be throttled, but even then, it's not dial up speeds.
And sprint, the cheapest of them all, doesn't cut you off until you're at 10gb+
I miss the days when T-mobile wouldn't cap you until 10 gigabytes!
I tried that 'Unthrottle APN' and it doesnt work too well.
I'm still getting throttled down to dialup, sucks.
smthkat789 said:
I tried that 'Unthrottle APN' and it doesnt work too well.
I'm still getting throttled down to dialup, sucks.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Unfortunately, as of today, none of our workarounds are functioning anymore.
You get 5GB per phone, not 5GB across the three. Instead of moaning about being capped a simple search would have given you a solution. I tend to agree that for heavy users (like you and me) 5GB is not enough for a month if using the data connection at all times. I avoid the problem by using wireless at my office and house but at the same time I made the modifications necessary to bypass the cap for when I need to tether or when travelling.
Racking up 5GB in 18 days implies you are doing quite a bit more than "demoing" the phone. Do what you like with your connection (steaming audio eats bandwidth like candy as an example) but that is a bit high for conventional usage even when doing 10-15 demos a day. To exceed 5GB in a day to "get revenge" is childish and abusive.
Just my 2 cents.
Cheers
I used the settings but my internet is still slow
Sent from my HTC Vision using XDA App
I believe the whole apn change is an outdated solution now :/
Thank you is there another way to do it
Sent from my HTC Vision using XDA App
wondering
I was following sino8r thread about hacking the throttling restrictions. I'm a new member so I cannot post in the development section....
Maybe I'm stupid but has anyone tried to implement a script on their phone that would allow them to change the devices MAC Address??? It could be that tmobile is doing something as mac id identification to enforce their throttling policies. I don't have enuff android knowledge to test it but I do have network experience and one the easiest ways to restrict users is to tie it to their mac address.... maybe spoofing it might work to bypass the throttling??
bigpappa said:
I was following sino8r thread about hacking the throttling restrictions. I'm a new member so I cannot post in the development section....
Maybe I'm stupid but has anyone tried to implement a script on their phone that would allow them to change the devices MAC Address??? It could be that tmobile is doing something as mac id identification to enforce their throttling policies. I don't have enuff android knowledge to test it but I do have network experience and one the easiest ways to restrict users is to tie it to their mac address.... maybe spoofing it might work to bypass the throttling??
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I am fairly certain, for reasons I can't discuss, that data usage is tracked by IMSI at the APN level. Changing the MAC won't make a difference if this is correct. If it was somehow possible without switching SIMs, changing IMSI would effectively make you a different customer and invalidate your authority to access T-Mo's data network.... well... unless you imitated another customer (which would be very illegal).
What's the most data you've used in a cycle, and has anyone heard a peep from Verizon? My cycle starts on the 26th and I just cross the 10GB mark. Just curious, and thanks for your response.
Thanks for the reply, I'm wondering if at some point high usage will raise an eyebrow from Verizon. I mean, I'll probably break 15GB this month.
I've never gone over 1GB lol. I'm almost always around Wi-Fi. Most its been was like maybe 600MB.
Sent from my Droid Incredible running CM7.0.3.
Far from my maximum, but I'd say it's about average. When I'm not downloading ROM's over 3G.
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
I use around 18 every month... Lol
Sent from my ADR6300 using XDA Premium App
Since I have internet at home I dont go over 4Gb....
Fergusonfox7 said:
I use around 18 every month... Lol
Sent from my ADR6300 using XDA Premium App
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
18 gigs? See, now that's what I'm talking about. I'll get close to that this month. Once we get internet set up I won't use so much, or maybe I'll just get an LTE phone and run everthing off that.
Wow I feel so much better now Thanks! Wifi at my house is so flaky I've started tethering my phone, but I stopped since I was worried about using too much data. I'm only at about 4 gb with a week and a half left on my billing cycle. Guess I don't have to worry
At school, I'm always on 3g, because the wifi is flaky. So I usually use 3 gbs. At home, I'll stay on wifi and use about a gig for when I'm out and about.
Sent from my HTC Incredible
3GB on average for me never about 3.5GB
setexascustoms said:
Thanks for the reply, I'm wondering if at some point high usage will raise an eyebrow from Verizon. I mean, I'll probably break 15GB this month.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Verizon has openly stated that they (will/have already) cap the top 5% of data users. You *might* fall into that category or maybe will soon.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2379296,00.asp
edit:
oops I mean throttle, not cap
Also it looks they will just be putting your data on lower priority. So if there's not too much 3G data demand in your area, you'll stream just as quickly.
POQbum said:
Verizon has openly stated that they (will/have already) cap the top 5% of data users. You *might* fall into that category or maybe will soon.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2379296,00.asp
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Thanks for the info, no cap yet. If they do I'll be sure to let y'all know.
My highest was like august last year....13.6 gigs, the same month I rooted it lol
Sent from my Optimized Inc using XDA Premium App
I rarely go over 500MB, but I usually only read news on 3G. I use wi-fi every chance I get, too, though.
Well I'm well over 20 gigs and my cycle ends on the 26th, I'll let y'all know how it turns out. Do you realize if I was on the tiered plan that's supposed to be implemented on July 7th that'd be over $200 worth of data? That's rediculous...
I'm looking at 2.4GB and i'm only in day 3 of my cycle lol
Gotta love Netflix at work
The highest I believe I've gone is ~800-900MB. I think I average ~500MB per month. I'm around wifi a lot and I frequently turn my data off when I'm not using my phone.
setexascustoms said:
Well I'm well over 20 gigs and my cycle ends on the 26th, I'll let y'all know how it turns out. Do you realize if I was on the tiered plan that's supposed to be implemented on July 7th that'd be over $200 worth of data? That's rediculous...
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
yah but since you have unlimited data you can keep that. verizon is goning to let you grandfather it.
werdna87 said:
yah but since you have unlimited data you can keep that. verizon is goning to let you grandfather it.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I know, I'm just using that as an example. The pricing is ridiculous. I'm actually giving my wife the Inc and getting a Thunderbolt so we'll have two grandfathered unlimited plans. And we have LTE here, wonder how much data I'll use then.
Sent from my Optimized Shift using XDA Premium App
I was around 16GB last month. I've only had a data plan for a few months now...the Dinc being my first smartphone. I'll be honest, I'm on a budget and I always get good 3G in my apartment (usually reach around 1Mbps, which is acceptable to me), so I dropped my $40/mo AT&T DSL in favor of using my phone as my main internet via tethering, and I haven't looked back. So glad I'm grandfathered with my unlimited data, but I'm totally prepared if my plans fall through and I have to go back to DSL...I figure it's just a matter of time.
I upgraded my line to the SGS3 yesterday and now I'm noticing that my usage says certain usage out of 4 GB. Not sure what's going on but it appears like Sprint may be removing the unlimited data feature soon? They've been changing a lot of things on their website lately.
Anyways, Overstew sent me this picture of his usage.
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
Anyone know what to think of it or are we just being paranoid?
Very interesting. Can you hop on their support chat and ask why you're showing a 4GB data limit? Mine is still showing unlimited, but I have not made any account changes or upgrades since 9/2011.
Unlimited Data is practically the only thing keeping me on Sprint. Hell, even T-Mobile is better...
Just noticed that's my screenshot lol.
I'll chat with them and see but I don't really see myself getting an accurate answer from Sprint reps.
Overstew said:
Just noticed that's my screenshot lol.
I'll chat with them and see but I don't really see myself getting an accurate answer from Sprint reps.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
That's weird looking/ First is shows there's a 4Gb limit on 3g and then it shows same 3G data being unlimited. Did you photoshop this overstew?
Look at the date. It says from 7/1 to 7/1...
Sent from my SPH-D710 using Tapatalk 2
Lol, I think the more likely scenario is it's a website bug.
Sent from my SPH-D710 using xda premium
might it me an LTE thing since they are bring out their new connections out, its only happening on the SG III?
Sent from my SPH-D710 using xda premium
Looks like they prorated it for some unknown reason. The dates that say 7/1 to current are still unlimited.
Lurking from my SPH-D710 using Tapatalk 2
Maybe it's just a 4GB limit per day.
It might have been a bug with the 1 second Leap Second that happened at the end of last month. Just a guess since the billing cycle for the 4GB above is from 4/1 to 4/1.
For more information on it, click here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_second
It's a website bug, I've had customers come in before showing the same thing.
Good luck trying to get anywhere near 4gigs on 3g
Sent from my SPH-D710 using xda premium
They'll eventually dump unlimited, it's just a matter of time. I'll be switching to Verizon that same day.
mine still says unlimited on 3g/4g. Must be a mistake on ur acct.
Your inlet allowed so much on roaming networks.Sprints still unlimited.
Sent from my SPH-D710 using XDA
ydoucare said:
They'll eventually dump unlimited, it's just a matter of time. I'll be switching to Verizon that same day.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
There is no other reason to stick around, especially if you're on a family plan.
Sent from my SPH-D710 using xda premium
Ascertion said:
Maybe it's just a 4GB limit per day.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
To tell you the truth I wouldn't mind if they did something like this. 4GB a day but still have unlimited data so u can use like 120GB in one month or maybe like 3GB or something. This will stop ppl that use wireless tether for free and download torrents all day and hog up all that bandwidth. Lol
Sent from my SPH-L710 using xda premium
Sephirothvfc said:
To tell you the truth I wouldn't mind if they did something like this. 4GB a day but still have unlimited data so u can use like 120GB in one month or maybe like 3GB or something. This will stop ppl that use wireless tether for free and download torrents all day and hog up all that bandwidth. Lol
Sent from my SPH-L710 using xda premium
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
a packet is a packet, doesn't matter if it comes from a phone, a computer, or a leap frog toy that your 2 year old son wiped his boogers on. anyone with a clue would know you can torrent on your phone too. did you also forget that some people have done away with cable and simply stream netflix and hulu via HDMI from their phones to their TVs? what about some of the new games that require hundreds of MB of additional data to be downloaded to your sdcard before you can even play it? should they get charged tethering fees for not tethering even though they're using the same amount of data as someone who is?
cnstarz said:
a packet is a packet, doesn't matter if it comes from a phone, a computer, or a leap frog toy that your 2 year old son wiped his boogers on. anyone with a clue would know you can torrent on your phone too. did you also forget that some people have done away with cable and simply stream netflix and hulu via HDMI from their phones to their TVs? what about some of the new games that require hundreds of MB of additional data to be downloaded to your sdcard before you can even play it? should they get charged tethering fees for not tethering even though they're using the same amount of data as someone who is?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Cellular data was never meant to be a replacement for your home internet connection.
If you're going to stream Netflix or Hulu to your TV from your PHONE connection, then yes, I think you should get charged for that.
Hi all,
I'm running Aero's 7-12 CM9 / 10.5 BFS, and have noticed extremely laggy 3G.
Not laggy in the traditional sense though. It's when I open a program that needs to access the internet, it takes 10+ seconds to pull anything down.
Lets say I open Tapatalk. When I click a forum, it will take 10 seconds just to "connect" to forum - to download any data at all.
Same thing in a browser, Opera Mini for example. The first time I open it up, I'll do a google search, and it will be 10+ seconds before it appears any sort of data has been sent. Then I switch over to Reddit News, open my front page, and it's 10+ seconds before anything appears at all. Once it appears, it's fine and fast.
On Wifi no problems at all. But on 3G, each new program I open that uses the internet will take 10+ seconds to connect, then after that it's responsive and fine.
Has anyone else run into this issue at all? I've tried the V6 / 3G supercharger and it seems to have no effect. I don't remember having this problem before, nor do I recall when it started happening.
I'm guessing a clean wipe / reinstall would fix issues, but am curious to see if there are any other solutions out there.
Any suggestions are appreciated.
Best regards,
-Dirk
Ever since I reformatted my sd card my 3g has been a lot faster. Like it's actually usable now and I don't have to get on wifi as much as I can.
Did you just format to fat32 and restore what you previously had on it (i.e. music, pics, etc.)?
fat32 and 64k and I just copied back music and pix. But after that I was even tethering and getting 2 mbps so who knows.
Thanks for cursing me Dirk. My 3g has been dog slow all day now.
ericsdeadinside said:
Thanks for cursing me Dirk. My 3g has been dog slow all day now.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
lol, my bad
Be carefull talking about your phone having slow 3G.... I'm pretty sure Apple has a patent on that don't they? We don't need to give them anything else to sue other companies over! Lol
OP, have you tried any other roms?
cstone1991 said:
Be carefull talking about your phone having slow 3G.... I'm pretty sure Apple has a patent on that don't they? We don't need to give them anything else to sue other companies over! Lol
OP, have you tried any other roms?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Apple's got nuthin on me! Those dog hating mother flooding harbingers of death and destruction .
Sent from my Incredible 2 using xda app-developers app
david_hume said:
Apple's got nuthin on me! Those dog hating mother flooding harbingers of death and destruction .
Sent from my Incredible 2 using xda app-developers app
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Lol I meant for HTC's sake. I would rather see their money go towards designing phones or idk maybe updating the ones they already have out to ICS or JB rather than fighting stupid legal battles with crapple.
cstone1991 said:
Lol I meant for HTC's sake. I would rather see their money go towards designing phones or idk maybe updating the ones they already have out to ICS or JB rather than fighting stupid legal battles with crapple.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I wasn't serious either. But we all know that if HTC tries to fix the 3G, Apple will be all over their butts. That's what happened with the One X anyways.
Its all a ridiculous mess really when you think about it. It's not like HTC started the litigation period anyways.
In the end, we the consumers will always lose.
Sent from my Incredible 2 using xda app-developers app
david_hume said:
I wasn't serious either. But we all know that if HTC tries to fix the 3G, Apple will be all over their butts. That's what happened with the One X anyways.
Its all a ridiculous mess really when you think about it. It's not like HTC started the litigation period anyways.
In the end, we the consumers will always lose.
Sent from my Incredible 2 using xda app-developers app
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Yep that's probably apple's next marketing slogan "with iPhone you know it will be available when you want it *fine print* because its the only one we didn't have banned." Honestly I have nothing against the iPhone itself other than the tiny screen, but Apple's business practice is down right pathetic. I would rather wipe my you know what with my money than give a dime to that scumbag, elitist, "your phone is selling so you must have copied us, quick lets buy the patent so we can say that we came up with the idea" company.
Sent from my ICS Dinc2
cstone1991 said:
Be carefull talking about your phone having slow 3G.... I'm pretty sure Apple has a patent on that don't they? We don't need to give them anything else to sue other companies over! Lol
OP, have you tried any other roms?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Lol...
I have tried other roms, but not recently (been on CM9 for a while now). I suppose in the interest of troubleshooting I should load up another rom just to make sure the issue is confined to my current CM9 installation.
Will report back when I've done so!
If you use over 2.5G a month and am on a grandfathered unlimited data plan.... You're affected by Verizon's Network Optimization (AKA throttled).
I know I am and it sucks!
-Truckin-
It is because of the kernel you using!!
Try some other kernels.. CFS based..!!
Truckin'Ain't4Sissies said:
If you use over 5Gb a month and am on a grandfathered unlimited data plan.... You're may be affected by Verizon's Network Optimization (AKA throttled).
I know I am and it sucks!
-Truckin-
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Fixed :thumbup:
Most people never get throttled on grandfathered unlimited plans. I know I don't. I have used 15gb a month for 6 months in a row. No throttling here. If you do get throttled it is only after 5gb unless they changed that extremely recently.
Sent from my ICS Dinc2
cstone1991 said:
Fixed :thumbup:
Most people never get throttled on grandfathered unlimited plans. I know I don't. I have used 15gb a month for 6 months in a row. No throttling here. If you do get throttled it is only after 5gb unless they changed that extremely recently.
Sent from my ICS Dinc2
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
15GB???? Holy crap, I'm on Pandora, YouTube etc all the time and I'm lucky if I hit 3-4gigs
Sent from my Paranoid Android
Triscuit said:
15GB???? Holy crap, I'm on Pandora, YouTube etc all the time and I'm lucky if I hit 3-4gigs
Sent from my Paranoid Android
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I'm a manager at a call center and use groove IP to listen to my reps calls for 8+ hours a day so I don't have to use my minutes. It let's you make calls over 3g and I download a lot of ROMs too.
Sent from my ICS Dinc2
Triscuit said:
15GB???? Holy crap, I'm on Pandora, YouTube etc all the time and I'm lucky if I hit 3-4gigs
Sent from my Paranoid Android
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
This' average use for me
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
Has been for the last ~6 years.
I stream Pandora 10-11 hours a day and watch movies daily.
I'll notice (while on the road Truckin') my DL speeds float around 2.25-2.75 Mb/s until I get home (Portland, Or.) and it'll hit 2.5 (Mb/s) but immediately drop to .5
-Truckin-
ATT is screwing me by refusing to carry forward my unlimited data plan to LTE and has repeatedly tried to force me onto a capped plan.
I saw a newspaper ad today (archaic - I know!) saying T-Mo has an unlimited everything plan for this phone for $90 and it's tempting. I'm hoping to sell or swap my existing GS3.
Is there anything I should be aware of?
Also, what is T-mo's take on this plan if I try to tether?
Thanks.
I'm pretty sure you can just swap sims? Tethering has been beaten to death on these forums. I'd take a few minutes to search and ask your questions in those threads if they haven't been covered yet.
psykhotic said:
I'm pretty sure you can just swap sims? Tethering has been beaten to death on these forums. I'd take a few minutes to search and ask your questions in those threads if they haven't been covered yet.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
His S3 won't get HSPA on T-Mobile. He needs a T-Mobile S3.
Sent from my SGH-T999
psykhotic said:
I'm pretty sure you can just swap sims? Tethering has been beaten to death on these forums. I'd take a few minutes to search and ask your questions in those threads if they haven't been covered yet.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I think I already made it clear I anticipated getting a new S3. I know that they aren't fully compatible for 3/4G/LTE.
Re: Tethering. I though this was a new plan - it appears to be as much in the advert.
They block tethering on unlimited data plans but rooted tethering might work. I haven't tried it yet.
Sent from my SGH-T999
They are trying to kill teather with updates. I tried T-Mobile with still having my main line on att. Speeds were either really fast or dead slow. I'd rather just stick with att because it's decently fast wherever I go.
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using Tapatalk 2
I just recently re-upped with T-Mobile. They have two types of plans out right now. They have what they call the classic plan and I can't remember what their new plans are called.
Anyway, with the classic plan you get the phone subsidized, but the plan itself is pretty expensive. On the other hand if you get their newer plan, you pay full price for the phone, but the plan itself is dirt cheap (cheapest I can find among the major carriers). While $600 for a phone might seem like a lot, they only require a $200 down payment and since you're starting a new contract you'll probably get $100 or so knocked off. The rest of the price of the phone is spread throughout the first 20 months of your contract.
Applying a little basic finance and assuming you have a decent stock portfolio, I estimated my cost of my Galaxy S3 at around $350 and my monthly fees went down from $230-250 to its current $140-150.
Don't know much about T-Mobile signal in your area, but if you can manage a consistent 3G I'd say it's worth the cost savings.
I would tell you that you will be very happy with t-mobile vs att, I did the switch my self and I couldn't be any happier, my data is very fast and yes it is faster than att and I get 4g 95% of the time in my area, my brother still have att with the s3 and my phone is way faster than his, on a speed test mine gets between 17000-22000 kbs consent vs his the highest he gets is about 5000-8000
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
kbs....I don't care what every one else says..but I drove from Michigan to Florida and I have coverage on t-mobile network 99% of the time....just my own personal experience .....good luck.
I forgot to mention that my phone is bone stock. Stock Rome and no root yet.
Sent from my SGH-T999 using xda premium
galsalah said:
I would tell you that you will be very happy with t-mobile vs att, I did the switch my self and I couldn't be any happier, my data is very fast and yes it is faster than att and I get 4g 95% of the time in my area, my brother still have att with the s3 and my phone is way faster than his, on a speed test mine gets between 17000-22000 kbs consent vs his the highest he gets is about 5000-8000View attachment 1339975kbs....I don't care what every one else says..but I drove from Michigan to Florida and I have coverage on t-mobile network 99% of the time....just my own personal experience .....good luck.
I forgot to mention that my phone is bone stock. Stock Rome and no root yet.
Sent from my SGH-T999 using xda premium
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Outside buildings great. Inside of them not so much. Everyone has a different experience. Hopefully it will be better for you
Sent from my SGH-T999 using Tapatalk 2