Need 1 minute from I777 Users!!!! - AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777

We have bunch of thread about Throttle Data. If you don't like getting throttle please sign this petition and spread the word in our xda community. We need to get more people sign this petition faster so we can resolve the issue. And tell At&t to F*** Off because i hate when I pay for unlimitated data and only get about 3.5 to 4 GB with full speed And I know You hate At&t for this too. SO PLEASE SIGN THIS PETITION HERE.

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I can't support you in this. I use my phone within my plan limits, even when I had an unlimited plan. If throttling keeps the aholes who tether from clogging up the network, I'm all for it. Obviously, unlimited phone plans were not meant to be used for tethering to a PC. Those people are misusing the network because a PC tethered to a phone can use a lot more bandwidth than a phone alone. I don't mean the user that occasionaly tethers and stays within their data plan, but the ones who have only a cell phone plan as their internet provider and tether constantly. Smart phones are becoming the norm and as more of them try to use the same meager bandwidth the problem will get worse. If AT&T is forced to increase bandwidth guess who will pay for it? I think they will eventually have to do just that, but in the meantime I also think they have a right to try and make the user experience as good as it can be for the majority of users and if that means throttling back those who are abusing it, so be it.

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Miami_Son said:
I can't support you in this. I use my phone within my plan limits, even when I had an unlimited plan. If throttling keeps the aholes who tether from clogging up the network, I'm all for it. Obviously, unlimited phone plans were not meant to be used for tethering to a PC. Those people are misusing the network because a PC tethered to a phone can use a lot more bandwidth than a phone alone. I don't mean the user that occasionaly tethers and stays within their data plan, but the ones who have only a cell phone plan as their internet provider and tether constantly. Smart phones are becoming the norm and as more of them try to use the same meager bandwidth the problem will get worse. If AT&T is forced to increase bandwidth guess who will pay for it? I think they will eventually have to do just that, but in the meantime I also think they have a right to try and make the user experience as good as it can be for the majority of users and if that means throttling back those who are abusing it, so be it.
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+1.....and boom goes the dynamite.
One time at football camp, I put my shoulder pads in my arse.

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Why do you assume all the throttling comes from people who tether? I think it's pretty shady of at&t to throttle at 1.2gb when users have unlimited data. They have limited plans above that! What is someone who travels a lot supposed to do? They could at least be less harsh and take after sprint and do the top 1% instead of the top 5%. Because 1.2gb is hardly congesting their network. And if it is... At& t has bigger problems.
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I don't tether and I've already used over 2 gb and my billing cycle ends the 20th of this month. They've already started throttling me and it really sucks
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I don't tether, and I never use wifi, because my data connection is slightly faster than my home connection. This is a higher than usual month for me, generally I end the month where I am at now. No message about 5%, never throttled. But my speed tops out at 2.5Mbps generally. I don't know what the throttled speed is, but initially people were saying 1-1.5Mbps (~100Kb/s), if that is the case I wouldn't even notice I was being throttled.
But I support att taking actions to balance the network and provide a consistent experience. If they started throttling me, I would just start using wifi at home. I bet I could cut my data in half if I wanted to by doing that. At least we don't see anymore of those "I got throttled and I'm only at 15GB, wtf!" posts anymore, or people trying to impress the board with 30GB:. I think there is a lot of confusion and mystery around the throttling. I would be more likely to sign a petition asking for a universal 5GB soft cap to the unlimited plans, vs the moving target of 5%, at least that way you could plan ahead. The way the last few months has played out has also taken away all my desire to get a LTE phone.
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Well i guess I'll be the first to say I don't agree with throttling, atleast not in it's current format. I'm all for a consistent and good user experience and keeping a network running good, but that's not what i see happening. All I see is a ploy to push unlimited users to tiered plans.
Their reason for throttling unlimited users is because they're "abusing" the network. I don't buy into this for the simple reason that a tiered plan user can "abuse" the network till their heart is content, but since they're on a tiered plan and paying it's not viewed as "abuse" all of the sudden? I"m sorry but abuse is abuse no matter what rate plan you're on. If user "A" is on unlimited and hits 2GB it's abuse, but then when user "B" whos living in the same region and is on a tiered plan hits 2GB it's magically not "abuse"?
And once you get throttled the only way to get your bandwidth back is to switch to a tiered plan? So swapping a rate plan to one that would cost more all of the sudden relieves network congestion and suddenly the exact same usage isn't considered "abuse"? Sorry I just don't buy into it.
From my understanding VZW has the same %5 throttling policy. However they don't throttle LTE users because their LTE network isn't congested yet. And if they do throttle it's only when you're on a congested tower, once congestion is cleared up or you move to a less congested tower your speeds are returned to normal. Now that seems like an actual effort to fix network congestion, not just charge more.
And I would perhaps be more understanding if they throttled to like half speed or %25 speeds. But once you're throttled to 10kbps the only thing your phone is good for is polling email, even browsing the web times out from what i've read.
Just my $0.02. And no i'm not just an angry unlimited user who's just upset because i got throttled, i've actually never been throttled.

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How do you know you are being throttled? I'm way over the 2gb mark and I still get the same speeds.
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I'm in NYC and as soon that I hit 2gb I start getting the throttle messages from ATT my average monthly downloads are about 3gb and i never thether my phone until this last 2 weeks because I got a touchpad and I'm using it alot. I think it depends on the area were you are that ATT decides if they are going throttle you also I since I got my galaxy s2 I have only reach 8mbps download once and all the time the faster ill get is 2mbps and averaging 1.75mbps so I would like to know how much slower they'll make my connection.

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cfaberlle said:
How do you know you are being throttled? I'm way over the 2gb mark and I still get the same speeds.
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Your not being throttled. From what i've read you get capped to about 10kbps download speeds.
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ATT is not throttling you with 2mbps down in nyc, that's just the average crappy speed we get in this area. I don't know where/when you reached 8mbps, but I've never gone over 4mbps anywhere in NY. My speed tops out a little under 4 in Lower East side, average about 2.5 in Midtown and 3 in Upper East/West side. Outer boroughs average anywhere from 500kbps (that's right) to 3.5mbps. Upstate/Westchester hardly ever top 2.5.
Romv19 said:
I'm in NYC and as soon that I hit 2gb I start getting the throttle messages from ATT my average monthly downloads are about 3gb and i never thether my phone until this last 2 weeks because I got a touchpad and I'm using it alot. I think it depends on the area were you are that ATT decides if they are going throttle you also I since I got my galaxy s2 I have only reach 8mbps download once and all the time the faster ill get is 2mbps and averaging 1.75mbps so I would like to know how much slower they'll make my connection.
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It was one late night that I made the mistake of taking the upper level of the George Washington bridge and they stopped traffic for construction and I was stopped for about 30min and out of boredom I started messing with my phone and tried the speed test and to my surprise I reached 8Mbps. I attached a picture.
mickey4mice said:
ATT is not throttling you with 2mbps down in nyc, that's just the average crappy speed we get in this area. I don't know where/when you reached 8mbps, but I've never gone over 4mbps anywhere in NY. My speed tops out a little under 4 in Lower East side, average about 2.5 in Midtown and 3 in Upper East/West side. Outer boroughs average anywhere from 500kbps (that's right) to 3.5mbps. Upstate/Westchester hardly ever top 2.5.
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cfaberlle said:
How do you know you are being throttled? I'm way over the 2gb mark and I still get the same speeds.
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Oh, you'll definitely know. The device is almost useless. Throttling, in its current format, is way over the top. 10 kbps?? Optimizing the network could be done in a way that doesn't completely cripple users.

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I agree I will sign this because I don't tether and still get throttle I am all about making the network better but **** being lower to 8kb is a ****ing joke.. this isn't 56k era.
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First of all let me tell you I have Skyrocket, "Skyrocket" Get it. Its LTE something you don't experience. Not saying in bad way but when you get your phone you will know how fast it goes. I know someone who lives in Dallas. the Skyrocket came out on 11/06/2011 and on 11/07/2011 in one day he dloaded about 6.8GB. How? Simple Speed in Dallas is more than 50mbps average so he got throttle rite away. Now i live in Chicago Suburb and I have LTE too. Just doing heavy phone usage on 3G network with my iPhone 4 i had used about 32GB without LTE and tethering. Now i have LTE and if i do same usage i will be probably using twice the data. But now i use wifi at home so hit about 6GB per month. That is the reason I wanted to sign this petition. No tethering. Never done tethering in life.
Miami_Son said:
I can't support you in this. I use my phone within my plan limits, even when I had an unlimited plan. If throttling keeps the aholes who tether from clogging up the network, I'm all for it. Obviously, unlimited phone plans were not meant to be used for tethering to a PC. Those people are misusing the network because a PC tethered to a phone can use a lot more bandwidth than a phone alone. I don't mean the user that occasionaly tethers and stays within their data plan, but the ones who have only a cell phone plan as their internet provider and tether constantly. Smart phones are becoming the norm and as more of them try to use the same meager bandwidth the problem will get worse. If AT&T is forced to increase bandwidth guess who will pay for it? I think they will eventually have to do just that, but in the meantime I also think they have a right to try and make the user experience as good as it can be for the majority of users and if that means throttling back those who are abusing it, so be it.
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Miami_Son said:
I can't support you in this. I use my phone within my plan limits, even when I had an unlimited plan. If throttling keeps the aholes who tether from clogging up the network, I'm all for it. Obviously, unlimited phone plans were not meant to be used for tethering to a PC. Those people are misusing the network because a PC tethered to a phone can use a lot more bandwidth than a phone alone. I don't mean the user that occasionaly tethers and stays within their data plan, but the ones who have only a cell phone plan as their internet provider and tether constantly. Smart phones are becoming the norm and as more of them try to use the same meager bandwidth the problem will get worse. If AT&T is forced to increase bandwidth guess who will pay for it? I think they will eventually have to do just that, but in the meantime I also think they have a right to try and make the user experience as good as it can be for the majority of users and if that means throttling back those who are abusing it, so be it.
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I was if you want to say FORCED onto a unlimited plan from att years ago with my first semi smart phone. I DO NOT and HAVE NOT TETHERED and att is now throttling at 2Gb's. I got this months text message warning at 1.6Gb. I called them to ***** at them knowing it wouldn't get me anywhere. But they told me FOR MY AREA 2Gb is the top 5%. I live just outside of la county with a huge population so I KNOW very well that 2Gb for my area would not and could not be in the top 5%. I usually only use between 2-4Gb a month solely because I am a flashoholic and do nightly cm7 updates on my sgs2 when we have them and the occasional i9100 ICS just to test it out. On my sgs1 I flash the teamhacksung ice whenever a new one comes out. I read xda pretty often. Sometimes I stream Netflix but haven't in about a month so that didn't add to it. It can easily add up and I don't feel I am abusing anything. It is just pure BS on atts part this whole 5% crap. So NO not all of us on unlimited tether and still get throttled.
For those that are okay with the things att is doing now, just wait. If they can get away with crap like this now then I guarantee you they will find OTHER WAYS to f**k with people with the data plans you are currently on without recourse at some point in the future. So this is NOT ONLY for us with unlimited data plans. It is to hopefully stop the beating from att or any other carrier now and in the future so we don't get screwed more and more.
Like I said years ago I was pretty much forced onto the unlimited plan due to using too much data on my semi smart phone. With MORE AND MORE smart phones being used now IT WILL ONLY GET WORSE. LETS MAKE THEM FIX THEIR NETWORKS RATHER THAN SCREW US IN THE LONG RUN.
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I don't use the minutes I have to pay for, so that is like tip money every month. if they don't have bandwidth, then they need to stop accepting new accounts or get more. I mostly use wifi, but if people want to pay for every extra gb every month, then let them. if they still have unlimited and are abusing it, then close their accounts or raise their bills. there is no reason to slow people down. customers should not pay for att mistakes. that is like selling more tickets for an event than you have seats/space.