So in the past week whenever I download my podcasts to listen in my car, the download speeds are basically on Edge, which means It takes about an hour for one download..which is my total commute.
So the thing is I just flashed bionix 1.3 and it had ka5 modem, I thought it might be the modem so I got ka7... After doing a speed test which was around 1mg down I stuck with it...but never the less my download speeds for my podcasts are still at around .1megabits.... I then tried kb1 but still no luck... My speed tests are great but actual download speed in the native browser is horrific... The thing is websites load very fast, I can stream the exact same podcasts through flash player and they work flawlessly.. I even downloaded the same podcasts with opera mini browser and they go at around 1.5 megabits per secound...it seems that only downloading through the native browser does this...any one have an idea of what is going on? Have you heard of anything like this? Am I being throttled on downloads? Btw the websites were I listen to these podcasts are revision3,twit.tv and cnet, if that helps ...
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Check your account on the web you may be throttled. Also you may want to try Dolphin browser. It works very well
If you reached your 10Gb cap then you would throttled to roughly Edge speeds.
10Gb is a lot of data to chew through in a month but if you tether a bunch for long periods thata your culprit.
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If you reached your 10Gb cap then you would throttled to roughly Edge speeds.
10Gb is a lot of data to chew through in a month but if you tether a bunch for long periods thata your culprit.
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I thought the cap was 5 gb. Or is it on the older plan?
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Have you tried using a podacast app like google listen or podcatcher to d/l instead of using the browser? I usually listen to twit live using the twit app, I don't d/l anymore it just takes too long.
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So in the past week whenever I download my podcasts to listen in my car, the download speeds are basically on Edge, which means It takes about an hour for one download..which is my total commute.
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Well, you could always download the podcasts before (previous night, etc if available) your commute until your new billing cycle begins.
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I thought the cap was 5 gb.
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5 GB is the current plan. 10 GB is the old grandfathered one.
i thought they throttle you at 5gb. i reach that limit just about every month. either way, t-mobile will text you if you are being throttled due to limit cap, so if they haven't done that, that's probably not it. I can't really help you other than to tell you to go buy "doggcatcher". It's pretty much the best podcast tool out on android. it's a few bucks but if your'e the type of person that listens to podcasts a lot it's definitely worth it.
1. you can set a schedule so that your phone will automatically update and download your podcast feed with the most recent episode and you can set how many episodes it will save at one time.
2. set it to only download podcasts onto your phone if your on wifi only and or if your phone is plugged into a power source.
3. you can long press podcasts and stream it over 3g if the podcast rss updated but your not on wifi to download it.
4. does audio and video. you can even choose the video player of your choice.
5. very nice clean interface.
6. you can add podcast feeds by searching, recommendations, rss, and popular podcasts are ready to add easily and instantly (twit network, revision3, youtube, npr, bbc)
that's just a few useful things off the top of my head that this program can do. trust me. just buy the program let it work it's magic when your on wifi while you sleep and when you're on your commute you will have a bunch of content ready for you to listen to without worrying about being throttled or being cut off in the middle of a podcast.
It takes some time to setup doggcatcher just the way you want it to fit to your schedule but once you got it down, i'm sure you'll be happy with this program.
sorry i couldn't answer your throttle question but this thing will definitely help keep your 3g data traffic low.
cheers,
dan
Thanks to everyone for the quick replies.. Before posting this I checked my data usage and I als checked it this morning as well, it states that I am at 1gig... also a side note, the tmobile my account app, has a reminder setting that lets you know when your reaching your limit, but it won't let me activate it because i am on the "unlimited" plan.. i thought that was wierd, since i know i have a 5 gig cap... but anyways back to my original post, thanks dan and badaphook for your suggestion on apps, I will look into them.
My post is more regarding the fact that it seem that my downloads are being throttled.When viewing websites and doing speed tests Im getting anywhere from 1-2.5mgbits but downloading doesnt come close.. only then does my connection seem to be throttled. Has anyone heard of this or experienced it? I would call tmobile to see if they have anything to do with it, but I'm not sure if it might be a side effect of my rom? any ideas anyone?
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Just got the invite! I'll load some albums up tonight and let you guys know how it goes on the transformer.
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Just got the invite! I'll load some albums up tonight and let you guys know how it goes on the transformer.
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Just got my transformer and already had the music beta so it loaded automatically. Trying now.
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Just got my transformer and already had the music beta so it loaded automatically. Trying now.
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Works fine.
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got mine too but it takes an eternity to upload songs
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got mine too but it takes an eternity to upload songs
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Inherently, browsers aren't built to be upload tools...so I'd imagine it would take weeks to upload ones library. I anticipate that but man the convenience afterwards will be so great.
How long did you guys have to wait for yours, out of interest? I requested an invite some time last week.
Google Music doesn't offer any kind of FTP/SSH support?
I got mine today too, started my library upload about 30 minutes ago (up to 115 songs out of 3.5k)
I've tried it out on my phone via 3G and on my Transformer on wifi, and the audio quality is great.
I got my invite this afternoon, and I registered within two hours after it was announced at Google IO.
I thought perhaps getting my Transfomer yesterday might have triggered the invite, but perhaps it was just a coincidence.
BTW, the audio on this tablet is shockingly good! I always felt like the audio on my G-Tablet was too low. I did not think I would ever listen to music on a tablet, but I really enjoyed listening to some free Cab Calloway today.
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I got mine today too, started my library upload about 30 minutes ago (up to 115 songs out of 3.5k)
I've tried it out on my phone via 3G and on my Transformer on wifi, and the audio quality is great.
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I got my invite this on the morning of the 25th. I put my request in an hour before it was announced before Google IO.
They give you an app that you can link to your my music folder or itunes. The app will upload automatically whenever you add songs as well, or manually or at certain times depending on how you set it.
ISP's generally also limit the hell out of upload speeds as generally upload is more for their business plans that need to serve content and they don't want people misusing the consumer plans for the same purpose
shame for uk fanboys!
Finally got mine! WOOHOO! Can't wait to go home to try it out now!
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ISP's generally also limit the hell out of upload speeds as generally upload is more for their business plans that need to serve content and they don't want people misusing the consumer plans for the same purpose
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This is when I wish I lived in a FIOS area and could take advantage of 20-50 mbps upload speeds. Uverse only gets me 1.5
In keeping with this being a Transformer forum:
It works flawless on the Transformer. Sound quality is top notch and streaming is very fast. I even tethered the tablet to 3g and it was still fast with no audible loss in quality.
I uploaded about 10 or so albums in an hour or 2 so it wasn't bad...but my music library is about 120 gigs so I'll need to pick and choose what to load.
Overall, it's a MAJOR convenience not having to load music on my tablet or phone anymore!
So i'm working a long, boring 11 hour shift today and to help pass the time i'v been tethering my laptop to my EVO and watching netflix (dexter ) over 3g. Netflix is running surprisingly well considering my 3g speeds are crap my only concern is that I may be using too much data.
Is it reasonable for me to stream netflix for such an extended period of time or should I lay off for a little? Sprint is supposed to be the last phone company offering "truly unlimited" data so I personally don't see a problem with it, but I also don't want any trouble with sprint.
What do you guys think?
P.S I'm not feeling Dexter that much, seems a little over-hyped. Any recommended netflix streams to help me maintain sanity?
You don't need to worry about. You will be good.
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So i'm working a long, boring 11 hour shift today and to help pass the time i'v been tethering my laptop to my EVO and watching netflix (dexter ) over 3g. Netflix is running surprisingly well considering my 3g speeds are crap my only concern is that I may be using too much data.
Is it reasonable for me to stream netflix for such an extended period of time or should I lay off for a little? Sprint is supposed to be the last phone company offering "truly unlimited" data so I personally don't see a problem with it, but I also don't want any trouble with sprint.
What do you guys think?
P.S I'm not feeling Dexter that much, seems a little over-hyped. Any recommended netflix streams to help me maintain sanity?
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Spartacus, that show rocks
Pocket posted...
Wow I'm surprised it runs that well over 3g. I've tethered stuff when I have 4g before since I get it in certain areas where I live, but whenever I'm browsing the internet and going to places like youtube my 3g usually loads slower the the speed of the video.
My 3g doesn't seem terribly bad either, like 1mb down or so.
I was very surprised also of how well it streams over 3g. Pretty clear too.
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Check out Trailer Park Boys....
Its shot in the same style as The Office and Parks&Recreation but its super vulgar
I too am very surprised at streaming over 3G..... epicness!
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Should be fine. Especially considering u could also use the Netflix app. Imo I pay for unlimited, not "unlimited".
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Should be fine. Especially considering u could also use the Netflix app. Imo I pay for unlimited, not "unlimited".
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agreed...
Yeah, netflix did a great job with their live streaming service.
I'm checking out some of the shows you guys recommended, thanks!
Now if I could just get Netflix working my BOS Kingdom rom, I'll be set!!
its should be ok spring is really lax on things like this
Watch an old B/W movie. Requires less bandwidth. ;-)
Can anyone tell me how many gigs a 90 minute movie would be? Or if its megabytes that too.
My small-sized city was fortunate enough to recently get WiMax, (I'm not sure how long we've had it!) With a speed test I scored a 7142kbps download without being in the "best coverage" area. Impressive!
Everything worked great until I tried to stream music from Google Music beta. All my cloud based music was grayed out and when I'd select a song it said "you have to be connected to the internet to play this." (I'm paraphrasing) As soon as I switched off 4G and went back to 3G everything played fine.
Anyone else have this issue?
Yep just tried it. No go on WIMAX
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Thanks for the reply. 4G really isn't needed to stream music anyway but it seems like a hassle to toggle off WiMAX every time I want to listen to music. Maybe Google will fix this soon.
Don't know why we're not seeing the same behavior, but I can stream Music Beta downloads over WiMAX on CM7 nightlies.
Same issue on deck's 2.3.3 (1.0) in LA on wi-max. No google music! So, I guess it's not an ASOP vesus sense thing.
hm. interesting. I got my beta invite two days ago, still uploading music.
so I tried playing some stuff over 4G, and... it sorta worked, stutter city, until it buffered. but it made my phone act Really Weird. unresponsive (even when I had closed the app), restarts, total Sense FC, etc. and yes, I mean ETC. had to totally reboot the phone to get good function back.
that was yesterday, I'll try again today perhaps over 3G only...
(i am on sprint lovers currently...)
OMGB 1.1.2 ROM, aosp here. Seems unlikely it would be a rom issue, no?
I am running 2.3.4 (Deck's latest) and I can stream with no issues on 4g.
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When I turn 4G on, I get this error on my EVO: "You must be online to play this song"
Everything else works with 4G on though, web browsing, emails, etc.
I'm still waiting on my invite to install on my pc
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My small-sized city was fortunate enough to recently get WiMax, (I'm not sure how long we've had it!) With a speed test I scored a 7142kbps download without being in the "best coverage" area. Impressive!
Everything worked great until I tried to stream music from Google Music beta. All my cloud based music was grayed out and when I'd select a song it said "you have to be connected to the internet to play this." (I'm paraphrasing) As soon as I switched off 4G and went back to 3G everything played fine.
Anyone else have this issue?
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I use it every day in the car using 4g, I live in a big city and our 4g coverage is pretty good, works great. Ive used it on stock as well as a few roms.
I'm in San Antonio, and have no issue playing music over a 4G connection. I'm using a stock EVO.
How long did it take your guys' music to be uploaded into the cloud. I have a little over 1000 songs and its taking FOREVER. I have a slow internet connection, but this just seems ridiculous.
It takes very long to upload.
From engadget:
engadget.com/2011/05/11/google-music-beta-walkthrough-what-it-is-and-how-it-works-vide/
The bandwidth problem
And this, folks, is the elephant in the room, and it's the same one seen in Amazon's closet. A near-limitless cloud of music sounds stellar -- particularly while it's still priced at $0.00 -- but the toll it'll take on your broadband limits cannot be ignored. 20,000 songs is a ton of information, even if every last one is encoded at a measly 128kbps. Let's say each of your tunes is 3MB -- that's most likely a conservative figure, but we'll use it for the sake of this example. 20,000 of those lands you at around 60GB. For the average broadband user, it'll take days -- if not a full week or so -- to upload that much material, and if you're using a vanilla Time Warner Cable connection, it'll paralyze your web surfing all the while. Granted, you can manually throttle your Music uploads within Music Manager, but doing so will greatly increase the time it takes to get your library in the cloud.
About 5 days
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4-5 days for 30GB
I have over 20,000 songs and quite honestly I didn't pay attention to how fast it was going. I just started it and forgot about it.
Can someone pm me for an invite? I'm really interested in this Google music, but I heard its invite only.
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It's invite only from Google directly if I'm not mistaken. I think I put my name on a list that I was interested a long time ago.
Only took me about 14 hours to upload about 1,200 songs. Started it right before bed, woke up, and went to a class and by the time I got back to my house it was done.
I have 24,000 songs.. just started uploading earlier today using my work computer. Our network is pretty fast, so we'll see. It uploaded about 300 songs within the first 10 mins tho.
Is it a google server thing or the limit of user's broadband? I have Verizon FIOS 30MB upload, haven't used the app yet, but was considering it. Maybe I'll pass.
You dont neet a invite just goto
www.music.Google.com and sign up for a account took about a week for my account settings to get emailed to me
As im from australia i had to.register using a proxy but once registed its working fine with no proxy
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Thanks for the responses. My internet speeds with at&t are pathetic right now so it makes sense for it to be taking so long i guess. Im probably going to leave at&t. Also, I dont want to leave my laptop plugged in overnight while uploading the music because i dont want to mess up my battery.
it took me a couple days to upload my library (2500 songs) to the amazon cloud player... it sucked, but eventually got done... I have an invite to Google music, but I'm not sure if I want to go through the pain of uploading all that again... (I'm running plain old at&t DSL)
I dumped AT&T DSL for cable. Its so much faster.
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As im from australia i had to.register using a proxy but once registed its working fine with no proxy
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I did the same thing to get into the Music Beta, but I can't connect my 10.1v to the same network I used to get into the Beta, so I haven't been able to update the app on my tablet.
Is there any way to get the app updated (APK maybe?) short of getting my tablet onto a North American proxy?
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I'm searching for the APK, have found multiple hits but I mainly see APKs that might be a bit out of date.
I simply attach an HDD to my router and stream stuff over wlan / internet.
Here we have the so called fritz.box , it can do that.
no need for google spyware
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I did the same thing to get into the Music Beta, but I can't connect my 10.1v to the same network I used to get into the Beta, so I haven't been able to update the app on my tablet.
Is there any way to get the app updated (APK maybe?) short of getting my tablet onto a North American proxy?
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I'm searching for the APK, have found multiple hits but I mainly see APKs that might be a bit out of date.
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PM your email address and ill send u it
http://www.4shared.com/file/85Gfqef7/comgoogleandroidmusic-1.html
Took my music hard drive to sister's place with 20mbit FIOS upload ;P 30GB in a few hours
If you have crap upload, consider getting iCloud music for $24.99/year. It will mirror your itunes library online without having to upload anything.
So Normal browsing and downloads i get roughly 6kb/s downloading. But When I am downloading something that is used as a torrent (think of a Ubuntu file) i can get up to a constant of 40-80 kb/s.
I found this a little odd to be honest. If anyone can shed light as to why I can download via a p2p network at roughly ten times the speed i normally get would be awesome.
all speed test apps say I get roughly 80kbps or less which would go against me downloading via a torrent at 40-80 KB/s. The app is not reporting a false speed either because there is a few minute to half hour difference if not more when i download things via that and then test it on something else. I tried many different servers to see if they were the clogg and it is all the same speed at roughly 6KB/s but with any torrented file I get at least 40 KB/S..
When I refer to torrent I refer to open source projects that is easier to torrent instead of spend a lot on servers.... So no accusing of illegal torrenting or getting off topic please...
All I can say is, Welcome to Sprint, the Now Network, where 3g speeds are no better than dial-up from 1995.
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All I can say is, Welcome to Sprint, the Now Network, where 3g speeds are no better than dial-up from 1995.
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Its horrible but true. I hope this network vision plan they got going will change it for most of us!
One I coined the " Now DialUp Network".
Two lol I was wondering if anyone had experienced the the same thing or if anyone could explain what I am seeing.
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Two lol I was wondering if anyone had experienced the the same thing or if anyone could explain what I am seeing.
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With speeds this crappy, it's HIGHLY likely if you run a speed test, then run another a few seconds later, you will get very different speeds.