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Im sure most peeps know this but tmobile does in if fact throttle your 3g service if you go over 10mb here is the text I got today.
(Free T-Mobile msg: Your usage has reached the data threshold for your rate plan this month. Your speed has been reduced for the rest of this billing cycle.)
Anyway just FYI in case people didnt know.i called and argued about paying 30 bucks a month to be throttled down.they said when u go over you switch from 3g to edge.thanks ping33tx
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Take it you ment 10gigs.
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ping33tx said:
Im sure most peeps know this but tmobile does if fact throttle your 3g service if you go over 10mb here is the text I got today.
(Free T-Mobile msg: Your usage has reached the data threshold for your rate plan this month. Your speed has been reduced for the rest of this billing cycle.)
Anyway just FYI in case people didnt know.i called and argued about paying 30 bucks a month to be throttled down.they said when u go over you switch from 3g to edge.thanks ping33tx
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it's 10gb not 10mb. and that's a reasonable limit before throttling. there are other threads on this as well.

Does this count for downloading 10mb apps and stuff? I have not been throttled down and thought this was only a myth...10gb is a lot to go through a month for me anyway though
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Nope the chat rep said 10mb.now that person might have made a typo im just saying what was typed
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What are you doing on your phone that you need 10GB of data?
This is not new news. It's been like this for months.

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Nope the chat rep said 10mb.now that person might have made a typo im just saying what was typed
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lol. then everyone on this forum would be throttled on their first day of their billing cycle every month....
it's 10gb. been that way for a long time.

Well being a shift worker at a refinery n working nite,netflix comes in handy to make 12hrs go by been doing it for months n months n never got this text until today
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Well being a shift worker at a refinery n working nite,netflix comes in handy to make 12hrs go by been doing it for months n months n never got this text until today
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There you go!

As I am new to android/smartphones, can anyone tell me if there is any easy way to check your current data usage to see where you stand?

Yeah that might be,but the way I see it if your paying 30 bucks a month for unlimited then it should be just that.Hell my dsl is faster n cheaper lol and use ten times what I use on the mobile..Oh well just passing along,some peeps might not know.just trying to help
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Yeah that might be,but the way I see it if your paying 30 bucks a month for unlimited then it should be just that.Hell my dsl is faster n cheaper lol and use ten times what I use on the mobile..Oh well just passing along,some peeps might not know.just trying to help
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Hell your DSL is not the same as wireless. 10GB on a cellular network is a lot.

Yep ur correct on that.despite that moral of the story is if ur paying for a product you should be able to get that product.Right?
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ping33tx said:
Yep ur correct on that.despite that moral of the story is if ur paying for a product you should be able to get that product.Right?
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this has been discussed thoroughly in other threads....
but, basically, you are still receiving the product (unlimited web access, which is the same cost even if there isn't 3g in your area), just at a slower speed. a lot of cable and dsl companies do the same thing and their networks aren't as impacted by heavy bandwidth usage.

The dumb part is 10gig's isn't much anymore, some apps/games download 80-100 megs worth of stuff.
Not only that but last I checked the Samsung Vibrant comes with mobile TV app does it not?
So whats the point of having apps that are going to eat up data, are only good when they have 3g and we only have 10gigs or use or that?
It makes me sick every time I see ATT's dumb as use our internet commercial and don't state it's a 250 meg and 2.5 gig plans.
Tmobile isn't very far from being in the same boat because they give you a phone with mobitv and advertise the screen and playing movies and then expect you to not use it (and the data cell line to it) to stream videos/movies/shows?
Same thing for Win7, etc..
ALL these phones now are capable of pulling 100's of gigs of data in a month, yet they want us to accept a neutered phone with only 10 gigs of worthy access at descent speeds.
And no edge isn't worthy, might as well not have a data connection for anything other than checking email or getting tweets because it's way to slow.
So either go back to selling just dumb phones, or they need to expect people to be using more data.
I just don't see the point in living in this internet data based world and having all these damn cell phone companies refuse to allow us to enjoy it by not offering a true unlimited internet 3g connection to our phones.
And it's not the data pipe, or the usage thats a bull**** argument because the following companies offer unlimited internet through cell towers for laptops/home computers verizon/virgin mobile/sprint and sprint offers unlimited 3g to their 4g phones.
So no it's not about them "coping" with us the evil eaters of all the bandwith. If that was the case nobody, not one company could offer true unlimited 3g/4g but it is out there just not for the vast majority of the companies/options and you have zero options if you are GSM only like me which sucks.

I think 10gb is very far considering at&t gives you 2gb for 25 and then charges you more if you go over that

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I think 10gb is very far considering at&t gives you 2gb for 25 and then charges you more if you go over that
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Yes and I could offer to chop off only a pinky instead of your whole hand so thats better as well right?
Don't think so, if the cell companies want to make use of the airwaves that are limited, they should be forced to offer a unlimited internet package on all their services.
Same for home phone companies, if they want to offer phone service they need to offer dsl to all their customers, and have a unlimited package.
It's just tiring to see commercial after commercial showing this and that on the internet and you have to go to virgin mobile to be able to get unlimited 3g for a home connection. And they only charge me 10 bucks more than the cost for the internet on my phone.
So no I don't think it's to unreasonable to ask for unlimited 3g on my vibrant when you consider I pay about 80 bucks a month, and I use about less than 1 hour of talk time, only a few hundred text so the only real thing they are providing me in quantity for 80 bucks is internet and they can't even do that "right".
Honestly it hardly effects me because I don't have 3g where I live, but I do travel to 3g areas so I don't want to have that slow down.

I got a message telling me my connection was throttled as well. Problem is I haven't been using my phone. I checked my usage on the t-mobile website and it claimed my phone used a gigabyte while I was sleeping. At various points my phone seems to do a few hundred megabytes at random. This has been happening the last few days, which corresponds to the time that the gmail application stopped syncing on my phone. Is this a common problem?

Virgin Mobile/Sprint is giving unlimited 3G away for a few reasons
- Subscriber additions
- Underused EV-DO network (soon to be overloaded with unlimited usage+Evo/Epic; it's already happening) There isn't enough bandwidth to go around. Two people streaming YouTube constantly is enough to bring your overall data through put below 1Mbps where it was probably 2Mbps before.
- Subscriber additions, Sprint is hurting for them.

Very well spoken thats been my whole point to start with
I think 10gb is very far considering at&t gives you 2gb for 25 and then charges you more if you go over that
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Yes and I could offer to chop off only a pinky instead of your whole hand so thats better as well right?
Don't think so, if the cell companies want to make use of the airwaves that are limited, they should be forced to offer a unlimited internet package on all their services.
Same for home phone companies, if they want to offer phone service they need to offer dsl to all their customers, and have a unlimited package.
It's just tiring to see commercial after commercial showing this and that on the internet and you have to go to virgin mobile to be able to get unlimited 3g for a home connection. And they only charge me 10 bucks more than the cost for the internet on my phone.
So no I don't think it's to unreasonable to ask for unlimited 3g on my vibrant when you consider I pay about 80 bucks a month, and I use about less than 1 hour of talk time, only a few hundred text so the only real thing they are providing me in quantity for 80 bucks is internet and they can't even do that "right".
Honestly it hardly effects me because I don't have 3g where I live, but I do travel to 3g areas so I don't want to have that slow down.
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5gb cap true or not?

Okay so ive read topics where tmobile will slow down your speed if you go above 5gb in data usage. Well i went above that (im at 5.3gb) 2 nights ago and its only my 2nd week into my billing cycle. This is because i tether my xbox to play live, i give people wifi for their laptops etc. So my question is, do they really slow you down? My speeds are H connections and havent slowed down at all. And why give people phones and they pay for unlimited data only to have it slowed down if they exceed an x amount and have them pay an EXTRA $15 for an added tether feature?
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Id say consider yourself lucky your speed hasn't been "choked" down a little. Its all part of TS you agreed to when you signed up.
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hawaiian.monzta said:
Okay so ive read topics where tmobile will slow down your speed if you go above 5gb in data usage. Well i went above that (im at 5.3gb) 2 nights ago and its only my 2nd week into my billing cycle. This is because i tether my xbox to play live, i give people wifi for their laptops etc. So my question is, do they really slow you down? My speeds are H connections and havent slowed down at all. And why give people phones and they pay for unlimited data only to have it slowed down if they exceed an x amount and have them pay an EXTRA $15 for an added tether feature?
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First of all, XBL through your cell? Seems odd...
Back on topic...
the 5GB cap will roll out in the next month or so it isn't effective immediately.

hawaiian.monzta said:
Okay so ive read topics where tmobile will slow down your speed if you go above 5gb in data usage. Well i went above that (im at 5.3gb) 2 nights ago and its only my 2nd week into my billing cycle. This is because i tether my xbox to play live, i give people wifi for their laptops etc. So my question is, do they really slow you down? My speeds are H connections and havent slowed down at all. And why give people phones and they pay for unlimited data only to have it slowed down if they exceed an x amount and have them pay an EXTRA $15 for an added tether feature?
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5GB cap applies to new contracts and customers start with T-Mobile, pre-existing customer have the 10 GB cap with throttling.

hawaiian.monzta said:
i give people wifi for their laptops etc.
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F that. The only time I've done that is when I've been traveling and needed access and someone else needed access as well. Otherwise, pay up.

The people I give wifi to is like my family. I don't give random people wifi.
And believe it or not hspa+ speeds on the g2 is way quicker than my actual internet
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But thanks everyone for your input
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when you get throttled down, you'll know it. every time i hit 5 gigs, i get slowed down. it's been happening to me ever since the nexus one. i haven't heard of the 10 gig thing, but the 5 did happen to me. when it did happen on the nexus one for me, it would still show 3g. but i'll get edge speed only, and it's a pain. but you can surf regular web stuff just fine. it's the videos that'll kill ya. i haven't hit 5 gigs on the g2 yet and not planning to. but hey, at least they throttle you down instead of charging you extra per mb.

I think it has begun. A couple days ago I received a text from tmo saying my speeds would be slowed through the remainder of the billing cycle. I have always been a heavy user and used to tether my Nexus every night at work. I am only at about 6Gbs this billing cycle so I hardly think it is excessive. I hit 14Gbs a couple months ago and never got this message.
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cdreamworld said:
when you get throttled down, you'll know it. every time i hit 5 gigs, i get slowed down. it's been happening to me ever since the nexus one. i haven't heard of the 10 gig thing, but the 5 did happen to me. when it did happen on the nexus one for me, it would still show 3g. but i'll get edge speed only, and it's a pain. but you can surf regular web stuff just fine. it's the videos that'll kill ya. i haven't hit 5 gigs on the g2 yet and not planning to. but hey, at least they throttle you down instead of charging you extra per mb.
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Your right at last they don't charge you extra but if they did, that would be against the law because if we pay for unlimited, we pay to use unlimited. So they can't charge extra for going over a certain amount
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T-Mobile just started recently to throttle the downspeed. However, at least that's what is announced, you should receive a text message informing you about the throttling.
Source: http://www.engadget.com/2010/10/14/warning-heavy-users-t-mobile-just-now-turning-on-data-throttli/

Just received my txt because of tethering on my mytouch slide!
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Just received my txt because of tethering on my mytouch slide!
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What text?
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Oh you don't know? Tmobile send you a nice txt message when you hit your 5 gig limit. My only issue is that I'm pretty sure I didn't hit the limit. I'm going to have to check my usage.
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What text?
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dynamikd said:
Oh you don't know? Tmobile send you a nice txt message when you hit your 5 gig limit. My only issue is that I'm pretty sure I didn't hit the limit. I'm going to have to check my usage.
After you got that text did you notice a slow down in speed?
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In all honesty I did not. I even ran a speed test after I received the txt to verify and I was still pulling the usually speeds for my area.
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dynamikd said:
In all honesty I did not. I even ran a speed test after I received the txt to verify and I was still pulling the usually speeds for my area.
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Nice!
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http://www.tmonews.com/2010/10/t-mobile-data-plans-revamping-november-3rd/
Good read if you want the low down.
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@ddgarcia05 That was a good read indeed.
@mftek That txt through me off because I have tethered on my device before and never once received any sort of notification from Tmobile about it.
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Data throttles on T-mobile

Hello fellow xda members! I think many of you know about T-Mobile's data throttling and what a nuance it may be. I would like to hear your thoughts on this and even possible solutions to this. Thanks!
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olde_shrimp said:
Hello fellow xda members! I think many of you know about T-Mobile's data throttling and what a nuance it may be. I would like to hear your thoughts on this and even possible solutions to this. Thanks!
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It's better than cutting you off completely like other providers do. They begin throttling after 5gb on unlimited plans... everyone else will cut you off completely at 5gb.

zarathustrax said:
It's better than cutting you off completely like other providers do. They begin throttling after 5gb on unlimited plans... everyone else will cut you off completely at 5gb.
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Not sure how these providers get away with selling these as 'unlimited' plans, when they throttle or disconnect your data connection at a certainl level. I understand thet 5gb is rather generous, and that the terms and conditions of most providers specify the data cap in the fine print, but they still go around advertising these plans as unlimited data plans when they're technically not.

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Not sure how these providers get away with selling these as 'unlimited' plans, when they throttle or disconnect your data connection at a certainl level. I understand thet 5gb is rather generous, and that the terms and conditions of most providers specify the data cap in the fine print, but they still go around advertising these plans as unlimited data plans when they're technically not.
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I agree... I think some have stopped calling them unlimited plans recently, though. At least T-Mobile's really is unlimited, even though they throttle after 5gb.... it's better than getting completely cut off. I wish I could afford an unlimited data plan myself, but unfortunately I'm stuch with prepaid t-mobile right now. I can buy a web daypass for $1.50, which is technically unlimited data for 24 hours, but they begin throttling after 5mb

What do u guys do that u use over 5gb on your phone?
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What do u guys do that u use over 5gb on your phone?
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video steaming and tethering. i think if you get throttled, you better off setting your phone to use edge only. edge is faster than the throttled 3G/4G.

Just my opinion.
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Ok yes having a 5GB soft cap on a data plan that is advertised and labeled "UNLIMITED" is a bummer and some what deceiving. And yes the throttling sucks, I mean at throttled speeds T-Mobile might as well actually cut you data completely. I mean really, those kinds of speeds are totally usless to a smartphone user. So can you really say throttling is any different than completely cutting off your data conection. Also I heard that T-Mobile actually uses your phone some how to acheive the throttling. If this is true T-Mobile is using equipment that does not belong to them to control their network. I bet you will not find T-Mobile asking your permission to do this anywhere in the T&C statement or your contract.
I know I will catch flack for this but I feel it needs to be said. Do we not have enough threads in the T-Mobile forums about this subject? This is XDA this really has no place here.

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I know I will catch flack for this but I feel it needs to be said. Do we not have enough threads in the T-Mobile forums about this subject? This is XDA this really has no place here.
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this really has no place here!!! for chrissake peeple this is XDA!!!

Tmobile throttling...nope

Just destroyed my 5 gig limit, currently at 11.56gbs and still hitting 9-10 mpbs down/ 1.5-2.1 mpbs up. What's up I keep hearing about people being throttled and yet I passed my limit without any consequences. Currently on stock gingerbread 2.3.4.
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Screen shots please. I wanna take your word, but a few months ago i got throttled.
Forgive my doubts. Please present proof.
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How do I do screenshots without root. Ill do it for you
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pierrekid said:
Just destroyed my 5 gig limit, currently at 11.56gbs and still hitting 9-10 mpbs down/ 1.5-2.1 mpbs up. What's up I keep hearing about people being throttled and yet I passed my limit without any consequences. Currently on stock gingerbread 2.3.4.
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I've gone over 5GB a few times before and not been throttled either. It seems they only throttle if you consistently go over 5GB. But I think that you'll find more people who get throttled than not.
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you'd need to connect to your computer and use the SDK to take screen shots without root.

Heck if you don't want to take a screenshot by connecting to your PC just take a picture...wait, do people still use cameras?

I heard tmobile was planning on charging overage charges instead of throttling now? I remember seeing something on engadget about some changes.
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I heard tmobile was planning on charging overage charges instead of throttling now? I remember seeing something on engadget about some changes.
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I thought that was just for the 200 mb plan. They advertise "unlimited data" too much to just get rid of it.
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I heard tmobile was planning on charging overage charges instead of throttling now? I remember seeing something on engadget about some changes.
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I thought that was just for the 200 mb plan. They advertise "unlimited data" too much to just get rid of it.
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Yes, they're only going to start charging overages on 200mb plans, which aren't even for smartphones anyways. I think they're trying to crack down on people with smartphones who get in on the 200mb plan then just deal with the EDGE-like speeds because they save a lot of money with it.
There's a cap on how much they can charge you on overages too, I think it caps at $30 from what I've heard.

wth I got throttled! after going 41 MB over 2GB limit -.- I used to get 7-9 Mbps on downloads. now I get 0.05 Mbps. Its almost unusable!

frankth3frizz said:
wth I got throttled! after going 41 MB over 2GB limit -.- I used to get 7-9 Mbps on downloads. now I get 0.05 Mbps. Its almost unusable!
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why "wth"? Its pretty clear that they say they throttle after 2GB on new plans Not sure why you're caught by surprise lol.

martonikaj said:
why "wth"? Its pretty clear that they say they throttle after 2GB on new plans Not sure why you're caught by surprise lol.
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well these guys said they didnt. lol. thats why i said "wth"

frankth3frizz said:
well these guys said they didnt. lol. thats why i said "wth"
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If you have a grandfathered 10GB or 5GB plan, you're much less likely to get throttled unless you consistently go over 5GB.
New, 2GB plans are explicitly worded to be throttled at exactly 2GB.

I'm on the old 10gb plan and wasnt throttled for my last 3 billing cycles where I went over 5gb.
However I was on rooted 2.2 froyo then updated to rooted rom gingerbread 2.3.4 and now Im throttled to damn dialup. It was good while it lasted.

Yeah they got me the day before my billing cycle started over! Lol It actually wasnt that bad but i dont suggest any downloads. I did alot of downloading last month.
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Last billing cycle, they didn't throttle me. I got up to 9gb of data.
Now I'm capped at 57kbps till the end of my cycle. It ****ing sucks.
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Fermbiz said:
Last billing cycle, they didn't throttle me. I got up to 9gb of data.
Now I'm capped at 57kbps till the end of my cycle. It ****ing sucks.
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I've been in the same position. Yes, it does suck, 'specially when you're going SLOWER than dial-up.
And 57kbps? When I got throttled, I only got 8kbps.
That's T-Mobile's way of saying F*CK YOU.

Their capping is terrible. Atleast give us a 1Mb instead of just giving us dial up speeds. Lol.
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frankth3frizz said:
Their capping is terrible. Atleast give us a 1Mb instead of just giving us dial up speeds. Lol.
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it does suck, but at least tmobile tells you when it will happen and doesn't deny doing it. *cough* sprint.....
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frankth3frizz said:
Their capping is terrible. Atleast give us a 1Mb instead of just giving us dial up speeds. Lol.
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it does suck, but at least tmobile tells you when it will happen and doesn't deny doing it. *cough* sprint.....
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Its not a cap. Its a throttle. And would you rather have a 5GB throttle or a 2GB cap with overages? Because those are your 2 options, and if I were you I wouldn't complain too much about having a throttle. Believe it or not, unlimited data is pretty much done for in the US.

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Its not a cap. Its a throttle. And would you rather have a 5GB throttle or a 2GB cap with overages? Because those are your 2 options, and if I were you I wouldn't complain too much about having a throttle. Believe it or not, unlimited data is pretty much done for in the US.
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Yea that's what I meant , was reading something about capping on home internet on OCN but yea I guess it is better than the cap from at&t and verizon but then at&t did buy tmobile so I wonder what will happen.
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Is sprint purposely slow?

After watching this video I'm starting to wonder if sprint is intentionally slow.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wd7taHnHzcg&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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I've been less than a mile from a tower and have my connection suck. In a open air environment to.
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I can't watch that video rgt now cuz I'm on VZW 1x lolol
What is it?
And sprint has been slow on 3g since the evo came out
Before that, sprint was worthy of its name
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A_Flying_Fox said:
I can't watch that video rgt now cuz I'm on VZW 1x lolol
What is it?
And sprint has been slow on 3g since the evo came out
Before that, sprint was worthy of its name
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"Sprint - to run at full speed"
How ironic lol
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If verizon wasn't so damn expensive I would go there. I think sprint good prices and plan is the reason they won't up the speed of there network. Its not like sprint don't have the technology to do so.
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My speeds depend on which tower I'm connected to. The one on the main road has good signal but crappy speeds, and the tower at work is 1-2 bars but steady 2 mbps. I also work in the boonies and there are probably only 5 people connected to it.
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blackdragon79 said:
After watching this video I'm starting to wonder if sprint is intentionally slow.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wd7taHnHzcg&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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You could argue that all carriers are slow. It depends on the tower, prl, and etc, as well as how much you tweak your phone's radio-dependent files, but ruling out those factors, it truly does matter on your data plan. Most, if not all carriers cap your speeds when you're on unlimited plans, those who are on data limits are the ones who truly get no cap, although it doesn't matter because they have a limit, so its as if they're capped anyway.
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You could argue that all carriers are slow. It depends on the tower, prl, and etc, as well as how much you tweak your phone's radio-dependent files, but ruling out those factors, it truly does matter on your data plan. Most, if not all carriers cap your speeds when you're on unlimited plans, those who are on data limits are the ones who truly get no cap, although it doesn't matter because they have a limit, so its as if they're capped anyway.
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Sprint claims they don't cap under any circumstances. I think the problem is that Sprint simply doesn't know how to maintain their network well enough to keep up with the demand.
I've whined about this endlessly but I'll give a little example of what I'm talking about. My wife and I drove back to our apartment in the city from upstate NY this morning. We had Spotify going the entire time and at no point did we have any skips or gaps in songs during playback. As soon as we got in our neighborhood, however, the song we were listening to cut began getting choppy before eventually cutting out completely. In the time it took us to find a parking spot - about 5 or so minutes - the song cut out for about 4:50 before coming back with a choppy signal. Sprint has told me a few dozen times that there's a problem with a tower in this neighborhood that somehow never gets fixed. Let's face it, if Sprint can't get their network working reliably in NYC, what does that say about their competence?

The problem is Sprint hasn't invested in their network or backhaul since they came out with data plans back in 2003-2004.

jnadke said:
The problem is Sprint hasn't invested in their network or backhaul since they came out with data plans back in 2003-2004.
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This exactly.
Now they are, unfortunately for us it's going to take a little to see the results.
The mere insinuation that Sprint would be slow [in some areas as slow at 50k] on purpose is...well... I'll be nice and say it isn't smart.

I think sprint is playing smart by saying unlimited data for ad but actually they can only serve very slow speeds everybody.
this in turn make me use less data because I rely on my wifi. A win win situation for the sprint but not for customers.
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mtwow789 said:
I think sprint is playing smart by saying unlimited data for ad but actually they can only serve very slow speeds everybody.
this in turn make me use less data because I rely on my wifi. A win win situation for the sprint but not for customers.
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not sure if this is there intention per se but there's certainly some truth to it. I've got friends who have AT&T iPhones and they routinely go over 5 gigs of data in a month with streaming and whatnot. I've never cracked 600 megs with my Epic because the data speeds are too slow - why would I try to download several gigabytes of data when my downstream tops out a .30 Mbps? when I can get on 4G it's great but it usually knocks me off intermittently until I just give up and switch back to 3G.

I'm just waiting for tons of new iPhone users come in and swarm the Sprint severs and experience the true unlimited data with 10~500kbps speed.
I hope they form and do some kind of class action lawsuit so I can pitch in.
From a user who gets consistent 10~30 kbps in downtown.

mtwow789 said:
I'm just waiting for tons of new iPhone users come in and swarm the Sprint severs and experience the true unlimited data with 10~500kbps speed.
I hope they form and do some kind of class action lawsuit so I can pitch in.
From a user who gets consistent 10~30 kbps in downtown.
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I saw ~20 people in the Sprint store this weekend just for the Iphone.

So i guess it not just my crapy little town

If they tried to give full speed to everyone, we would all be taxing the bandwidth, creating a data traffic jam - no data for anyone. (this isn't necessarily an accurate description, I can't claim to know all - but the concept is sound)
The bandwidth is inherently shared, so they have to make sure that everyone gets enough to consider it more than useless.
There is no such thing as truly unlimited bandwidth... Anyone remember when cable internet first came out? It was fast as hell, until prices came down and a few of my neighbors got on board
mtwow789 said:
I'm just waiting for tons of new iPhone users come in and swarm the Sprint severs and experience the true unlimited data with 10~500kbps speed.
I hope they form and do some kind of class action lawsuit so I can pitch in.
From a user who gets consistent 10~30 kbps in downtown.
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Good idea - sue them for all they're worth. Then they go bankrupt, and we're all left with Verizon, AT&T or T mobile (or crappy prepaid, which typically piggy backs on the major carrier's networks...)
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sigh.. is there no other alternatives then Sprint?
I know Sprint is cheap, but this slowness is too much.
What's the point of unlimited data when I just rely on my wifi.
In this rate, I can take 200mb option from ATT. Because I cant use that much in sprint.

mtwow789 said:
sigh.. is there no other alternatives then Sprint?
I know Sprint is cheap, but this slowness is too much.
What's the point of unlimited data when I just rely on my wifi.
In this rate, I can take 200mb option from ATT. Because I cant use that much in sprint.
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Get a T-Mobile vibrant then unlock it and put in an att sim card. Tell att you want the $15 unlimited data plan for quick messaging phones and give them your imei. If they ask what your phone is tell them it's just an old samsung tmobile phone and mention nothing about android or the real name of the phone, Enjoy.
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styles420 said:
If they tried to give full speed to everyone, we would all be taxing the bandwidth, creating a data traffic jam - no data for anyone. (this isn't necessarily an accurate description, I can't claim to know all - but the concept is sound)
The bandwidth is inherently shared, so they have to make sure that everyone gets enough to consider it more than useless.
There is no such thing as truly unlimited bandwidth... Anyone remember when cable internet first came out? It was fast as hell, until prices came down and a few of my neighbors got on board
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I'm sure everything you are saying is true. The problem is that Sprint claims they don't limit bandwidth or throttle at all. And it's the line of bulls--t from Sprint that angers me more than their pathetically slow service. That they can't just come forward and speak the truth rather than trying to lure customers in with false promises is a deceptive business practice.

It should be class action for all not just iPhone ppl on sprint.
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