I had OK speeds for the first three weeks. For 10 days now the fastest test is 100k down but 1000k up. I'm almost certain the account is throttled since it tests this way everywhere in a 2 state area, PA and MD. Checked the APN and nothing has changed. Their tech person told me that there is not enough room in my phone for faster speeds. So I have to delete memory to make room? I was very interested in finding out about this but it went nowhere.
The account just started a new month so even if I went a little over 5GB last month the counter should have reset a few days ago.
HI,
I was having trouble with speedtest.net test speeds, originally I had
good speeds, then very poor speed test results. Usually speedtest.net
app would fail to complete on the download test.
Someone suggested deleting the proxy from the APN. This seemed to solve
the problem. I suspect they are blocking the speedtest.net application
sites via the proxy. I also noticed very very different speeds on different
speedtest sites - even ones about the same distance away. Not sure
if it is phone network or other causes.
In addition, I was always able to have reasonable functionality from the
data connection that didn't seem to reflect the poor speedtest results.
Hope this helps,
Peter
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I had OK speeds for the first three weeks. For 10 days now the fastest test is 100k down but 1000k up. I'm almost certain the account is throttled since it tests this way everywhere in a 2 state area, PA and MD. Checked the APN and nothing has changed. Their tech person told me that there is not enough room in my phone for faster speeds. So I have to delete memory to make room? I was very interested in finding out about this but it went nowhere.
The account just started a new month so even if I went a little over 5GB last month the counter should have reset a few days ago.
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Thanks for the reply. My real world downloads are under 100k I just spent 3 hours getting a small file from a trusted provider at a steady 15K. I can open up 30 extra pipe lines but it does nothing. Steaming Leo over the TWIT app is almost impossible. Audio not the video stream which is not possible.
Hi,
Sounds like you may be having different issues than I had.
Here was a post I made which listed some of the things I tried:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=26901418#post26901418
Peter
aj_vogtman said:
Thanks for the reply. My real world downloads are under 100k I just spent 3 hours getting a small file from a trusted provider at a steady 15K. I can open up 30 extra pipe lines but it does nothing. Steaming Leo over the TWIT app is almost impossible. Audio not the video stream which is not possible.
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They reset something on their end while I was on the phone with a tech. I'm back to 2Mb/1Mb.
Redpocket. .... ..
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So, I'm pretty sure that Straight Talk is throttling me. Days on the phone with customer service, and "reprovisioning" my data, and no change.
Could it be that I'm running Baseband i717 UCLC5 with Kernel UCLE3-UCLE577875?
I was thinking maybe I had a bad radio or modem combo or something..
Anyone else throttled on Straight Talk? Argh.. they were the perfect carrier until this nonsense. I don't even stream that much! Know it's in their TOS that they can cut off data or do whatever, but still..
Straight Talk data throttling.. FIXED!
God damn, after reading HowardForums and using this advice. Essentially insisting that they switch my account over to the $30 plan then back to the $40 plan.
Now my internet speeds are back to blazing.
I didn't have to speak the manager's manager to get this to happen. They do try and lead you through all the BS: Change your APN etc.. I tell them I did all that and to please switch my plan. I finally ended up with a Philipino girl who was nice enough to just try switching plans. This required I turn off the phone while they reset everything. Booted up after the plan switch and everything is normal. Phew. Guess I'll have to stream my music from my home server over SSL encryption. :-D
When you call 866-667-6472(using a different phone) you have to speak to one of THEIR MANAGERS! (I know you are a manager, but I want to speak to YOUR manager a senior manager) after that instruct them to manually change your plan to the $30 plan and then back to the $45 unlimited plan. When they start this process (even if they don't tell you to) turn off your phone and remove your battery. That takes around 10 minutes so be patient and that should be it. After talking to my rep (senior manager) it became obvious that she was not lying and had no idea straight talk was throttling and tried to nhelp me anyway she could. Back to 6Mbps download speed WaHoo!
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Wow, thank you for this information. I too was throttled big time . I went from 5megs/sec down to .1
I tested my speeds in major cities like NY, Jax, Orlando, Philly, Charlotte and it was the same.
Straight talk said they were not throttling me so I went ahead and just bought another SIM and voila I was right back up in speed.
Next time I will try the above and let you know.
Did you have to change your phone number with the new sim?
Maybe that would be easier.. I dunno.. guess it's six of one..
Update: Two days later, without using any extra data.. throttled again.
Going to call them and ask them to switch my plan back and forth again..if
throttled again, other carrier, here I come.
In the ongoing Straight Talk Throttling Saga..
Another phone call.. this time half an hour on the phone.. they reset the plan(s) back and forth. Data speed back. Will see if it lasts. Got them to pony up 5 days free service for all the hassle.
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I'm hearing horror story's of ppl throttled for BS.....I'm their now I'm getting .2mb dl speed.....the thing is......I'm always on wifi and only dl from wifi.....idk what to do at the moment tho
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I use ST also and have been getting the throttle 160 kbps for about 7 days now. which is OK because I did use about 2+GB last month. but I do not tether I do have wifi at home and will begin to use it more. BUT!! If you are listening Straight Talk You need to set some clear standards. if I violate them I expect to get throttled. 160 kbps is unusable you need to do more like 500 kbps that is still a 90% cut in speed. and most of all when I reach the end of my billing cycle and start a new one, I should automatically be reset to full speed. Which is were I am now. last Sunday started my new month and mid day Monday is when I noticed that I can no longer use Google Maps. just when I really needed it. Oh and a txt warning email something would be nice!! NOT a phone call I do not answer strange numbers they can leave a message. So that is my opinion I think most people would agree with this and ST does not come off as doing shady business practices.
I went through all this a few weeks back. First three weeks with them got great speeds everywhere in two states. Then went 10 days where I never got above 200k. They made me mess with the phone and then reset something on their end. I've had about 10 days of perfect speeds everywhere in PA and MD.
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Another phone call.. this time half an hour on the phone.. they reset the plan(s) back and forth. Data speed back. Will see if it lasts. Got them to pony up 5 days free service for all the hassle.
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Does this reset your balance? I.e. if you're in the middle of a month, do you lose the remaining days?
Correction
Guys, you don't even need to call in and change your plan to stop the data throttling. All you need to do is:
1. Call 611
2. Once you get ahold of a rep, say these exact words: "I called customer service yesterday because my data is not working, at all. My email won't load and everytime I access the internet it gives me an error saying it cannot connect to the web. The representative I spoke with yesterday took me through some trouble shooting steps with my APN settings to see if that would help and if it didn't work that I should call back and request for a network refresh or an account refresh."
3. The rep will say something like, "Ok, I will be glad to help with your problem today. I will need to transfer you to complete this transaction." They may also state, clearly, to you the ToS of Straight Talk (sections 6 and 7) regarding data usage and throttling and you need to acknowledge this in some way.
4. Once transferred repeat what you said above to the next level up rep. He/She will complete the process.
5. Now that the process is complete, please turn off your phone for 60 seconds then turn the phone back on but let it sit for a few minutes so it can register and reset it's settings and then you should see a return in normal data speeds.
Note:
- Always be curtious and kind to the reps. If you don't get your way with one of them don't get mad and hostile. They are only doing their job. Just hang up and call back till you get someone who will do it which won't be hard.
- Always say please and thank you when appropriate and always say "not a problem" when being placed on hold.
- Don't mention anything about data usage or throttling to them when placing this call to the exception of acknowledgement.
- Don't use your data like crazy after you successfully unblock your data or you will be throttled again.
- You may be subject to being throttled randomly after this call at anytime and calling back to them with these steps will always fix this issue if this happens so don't be alarmed.
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A network/account refresh does what it says. It refreshes the network and your Straight Talk account on their side and removes the data throttle (temporarirly at times) so it behaves as if it were freshly setup just as it was on day one.
I used to have data problems also, but here recently I have noticed that my data speeds have returned to what they were when I first switched to ST. I haven't called them or done anything different with my settings, other that my usual flashing once every couple days.
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How is the overall straight talk service? I've been debating switching to that myself
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joe012594 said:
Guys, you don't even need to call in and change your plan to stop the data throttling. All you need to do is:
1. Call 611
2. Once you get ahold of a rep, say these exact words: "I called customer service yesterday because my data is not working, at all. My email won't load and everytime I access the internet it gives me an error saying it cannot connect to the web. The representative I spoke with yesterday took me through some trouble shooting steps with my APN settings to see if that would help and if it didn't work that I should call back and request for a network refresh or an account refresh."
3. The rep will say something like, "Ok, I will be glad to help with your problem today. I will need to transfer you to complete this transaction." They may also state, clearly, to you the ToS of Straight Talk (sections 6 and 7) regarding data usage and throttling and you need to acknowledge this in some way.
4. Once transferred repeat what you said above to the next level up rep. He/She will complete the process.
5. Now that the process is complete, please turn off your phone for 60 seconds then turn the phone back on but let it sit for a few minutes so it can register and reset it's settings and then you should see a return in normal data speeds.
Note:
- Always be curtious and kind to the reps. If you don't get your way with one of them don't get mad and hostile. They are only doing their job. Just hang up and call back till you get someone who will do it which won't be hard.
- Always say please and thank you when appropriate and always say "not a problem" when being placed on hold.
- Don't mention anything about data usage or throttling to them when placing this call to the exception of acknowledgement.
- Don't use your data like crazy after you successfully unblock your data or you will be throttled again.
- You may be subject to being throttled randomly after this call at anytime and calling back to them with these steps will always fix this issue if this happens so don't be alarmed.
Other Info:
A network/account refresh does what it says. It refreshes the network and your Straight Talk account on their side and removes the data throttle (temporarirly at times) so it behaves as if it were freshly setup just as it was on day one.
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Tried this... it didn't fix the throttling for me. They were helpful though and everything went as you described, except for the wanted outcome.
knoshann said:
How is the overall straight talk service? I've been debating switching to that myself
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For me its great i made the switch a month ago love it have 4g speed everywhere Where T-Mobile had dead zones. I'm online a lot no throttling but i don't watch videos on my phone so. Switch you will notice the Difference and call quality is great
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Just an update on my throttling issue. I emailed them and got a call back from them later. This person fixed my throttling issue. I turned off my phone, they did something on their end, and I turned it back on... no more throttled connection. Prior to this, https connections would fail due to the low bandwidth, the play store would say it wasn't connected, etc.
Just attempted this. The manager went through my browsing history, became rather uptight and questioned me about my browser usage. He then read to me the Data and Throttling terms and even caught onto my tether. He then went on to tell me that since I was now aware of the terms, usuage against them after my next refill will result in my service being shut off.
In short, it didnt go well...at all.
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Just attempted this. The manager went through my browsing history, became rather uptight and questioned me about my browser usage. He then read to me the Data and Throttling terms and even caught onto my tether. He then went on to tell me that since I was now aware of the terms, usuage against them after my next refill will result in my service being shut off.
In short, it didnt go well...at all.
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Not to point fingers but what was your data usage?
I had to call about throttling 3 days ago and after asking for a network reset they asked me to restart my phone (international Galaxy note 2, cut down sim to micro sim) and after the restart it was at full speed again. I asked what they did and they claimed nothing. I had restarted five times already but was still at 30 kB/s. I wish I knew how long I had been running slow since I'm on wifi a lot.
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Staight does throttle your speed they just wont admit to it i can say i switched to net10 nd i hve not had my speed throttled
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I can say that besides being throttled I have just as great coverage phone\data as I did with at&t..My average DL is about 6mbs UpL is around 1.5mbs witch I find to be good enough. ..On the other hand I was only 10 days into my month and was Indeed THROTTLED. .my data usage for 10 days was 1.3 gigs...Hardly any..averaged 108mbs per day...1 day I hit 300mbs and thats when I was throttled..I did indeed read up on how to fix the problem. .called CS and that failed a few different times..gonna have to wait till next month and keep data down even more than I already do...I dont tether or Stream..Just use the Browser...
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A lot of text further below, but a simple question or two I would be interested to get a response to: anyone else on the Three UK network noticed any signal issues and performance problems from new to recently? Did you find an answer that made sense? Did you receive one or two Samsung firmware updates from the day the Pebble Blue arrived (on 9th June I think?)
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I've had a good read through some similar threads here and elsewhere, but there is no gold standard answer so far that makes sense to me or anyone it seems. I have many thoughts running through my mind being new to Android coming from iPhone 4.
Phone is the S3 on Three UK network on the Dorset coast, typical signal strength at home is 3 of 4 bars and it now seems to cycle from H to either H+ or 3G, (but I could have sworn that I had more H+ when new?)
Initially Speedtest gave me a download of 6Mbps which knocked the socks off my O2 iphone (2Mbps), but over the past week/ten days I'm lucky to get 1Mbps at home (at work it has dropped from 1Mbps to 0.1) I've also had phone call issues where I can't hear them, but they can hear me (I know, it could be my provider, but I've checked their website daily and no issues are reported) and this is often with three or four bars. The amount of times websites can't load is frustrating and my other half's Blackberry seems to have no issue on Three. Data roaming is also set up.
Other threads have made me wonder about the firmware update. I know could flash, but there's no suggestion that this works. I also read somewhere that there should have been two updates for me, one at 21MB (which I downloaded) and a second at 31MB, which I have never seen or found OTA or on Kies.
Any opinions appreciated.
The problem is most likely the same as mine.
Since 22 May Three can roam 3g data (not just 2g calls/txts) onto the Tmobile/Orange network. Problem is if the nearest (strongest signal) cell is TMob/O it may well have a much lower bandwidth plus congestion which will dramatically affect internet useage. My dl speeds have gone from 5-6 mb down to 250kb with frequent timeouts. Unfortunately this doesnt constitute a network problem as far as Three are concerned, in fact they are [email protected]@ters because they have just told me thay have been trying to contact me for days re this on my landline number when I have never had a landline number to give them!!
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Chris
SSThing said:
The problem is most likely the same as mine.
Since 22 May Three can roam 3g data (not just 2g calls/txts) onto the Tmobile/Orange network. Problem is if the nearest (strongest signal) cell is TMob/O it may well have a much lower bandwidth plus congestion which will dramatically affect internet useage. My dl speeds have gone from 5-6 mb down to 250kb with frequent timeouts. Unfortunately this doesnt constitute a network problem as far as Three are concerned, in fact they are [email protected]@ters because they have just told me thay have been trying to contact me for days re this on my landline number when I have never had a landline number to give them!!
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Thanks Chris, that all makes sense given what I've experienced and picked up in parts elsewhere. I am guessing that Orange are the other carrier as when I check available networks they do not show up, but instead a "second" Three network does (which does not allow a connection).
Having said that my DL speeds only changed since about mid June?
Not impressed
http://everythingeverywhere.com/
http://forums.reghardware.com/forum/1/2012/05/23/ee_network_intergration/
Im not impressed either. Whole reason for signing up on the One Plan was to do away with my landline (which I did as soon as I confirmed I was getting better dl from my phone). Now I am lucky if I can look at more than two or three webpages before my connection times out, BBCIplayer, 4od and other streaming sites are completely out of the question, as is the updating of my phone with CM9 or updating maps or other large file downloads.
As I have mentioned though, this does not constitute a problem as far as Three are concerned, increased coverage is their priority, they dont ACTUALLY want us to be using up data bandwidth. I have spoken at length to Ericsson who maintain the network who have confirmed the issue I am having, I mentioned to them I was considering cancelling my contract and swapping to TMobile and even they said no point, the issue ISNT with Three, its the fact I am connecting to the closest cell which is Tmob/O. I am quite rural and for years the ONLY network available here was Orange, so naturally most people around here are on Orange (who as we know only offer very restricted data allowances anyway). But all the Tmob/O customers are hogging the bandwidth with their FaceBooking and stuff leaving nothing for me, lol.
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I am also having this problem. I've had two SGS3s on Three and they're both been the same.
The thing is, my wife's is the same on Orange. I see a lot of other users are having this problem.
I'm browsing the Internet, with 'H', then it goes to '3G' and it just drops out. Phone calls are choppy at best. I can stream video for about a minute before it drops out.
Not impressed.
Hi Guys,
I thought I was going mad, I'm using a galaxy note and at the beginning I thought it was an issue with the phone.
I've had 4-6mb speeds going down to 1-1.5mb and upload speed not going above 100k and dropping, thus making voip telephony or skype virtually impossible.
I called up their tech support they tried to bull**** me with all kinds of excuses, I then told them I have a note a nexus and also tried the sim card on a sony p tablet all of them have the same issue, disgusting speeds.
Something is wrong with their network and this happened suddenly around the 25th of June around the Hampshire area.
I'm thinking about complaining to ofcom and see what happens... not happy
I've been noticing for awhile now that my mobile data speed has been really crapping out, even worse than usual for where I live in the middle of nowhere. I've tried the .30 .36 & .37 radios with many APN configurations all ending up with about .3Mbps down and 1Mbps up. Now that sucks, but the area where I live is a primarily edge are so I let this go.
However, yesterday my family drove to the coast in Texas from central Texas and in every major city we went through and everywhere the phone said it was getting a solid H+ signal I did a speed test and to my surprise I got around the .3 down and 1 up every time I did. Now that we're here at the coast I have a solid H+ connection and I've tried switching radios and such to still get the same results and the only thing I can figure is that AT&T is throttling my UNLIMITED plan when I have barely hit 5 gigs in a month maybe once or twice in the 5 years I've had the plan.
Obviously if they are throttling me no one can really help me, but im posting here hoping someone out there knows another reason I might be getting such consistent crappy results, and maybe a way to fix it. I appreciate any help anyone has to offer.
Log into your account and look at how much data you've used this current billing period. If it isn't much, then you can probably rule out throttling.
Well my billing period restarts on the 16th so I'm only two days in and I can't have only have used much.
So the throttling resets each month? I just figured once throttled always, which is even more ridiculious but this is AT&T I'm talking about.
Did you even call them to ask? Maybe think there could be issues in the area like tower work/maintenance going on? Sounds like you are just throwing a tantrum when you haven't even bothered calling AT&T or checked your data usage. Maybe the extreme heat has cause problems! Who knows...........but spouting off here about being throttled with no evidence of throttling is kind of pointless and useless!
At&t sent me a text before they would start throttling! Told me over 2 gig is over the limit
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Did you even call them to ask? Maybe think there could be issues in the area like tower work/maintenance going on? Sounds like you are just throwing a tantrum when you haven't even bothered calling AT&T or checked your data usage. Maybe the extreme heat has cause problems! Who knows...........but spouting off here about being throttled with no evidence of throttling is kind of pointless and useless!
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Okay dude, chill. I am not throwing any kind of tantrum, but the only thing I can think of that would give me such consistent results as I drove across the state of TEXAS using multiple towers as I passed is throttling so excuse me if I assume. Now then if you read the whole title you'll see I asked at the end if maybe I messed something up. Accepting possible fault if someone were to come on here with some kind of positive helpful information indicating that maybe they had done something and is now having the same thing happen. And I fail to see how your rant is useful or has a point. I rarely call AT&T since I have had very poor customer service experience with them and usually good response with some kind of help on here, usually. And if you had read my other comment you would have seen that I stated usual data usage and that I'm only two days into this months billing cycle. Anything else you want to gripe about or did I cover everything?
As far as 2 gigs being the limit, I know there are many months, espically heavy development months since my phone is my only real source of internet access, I have pulled 3 or 4 gigs without receiving a throttling notice or noticing a hit on my data speeds. I'm not trying to call you out in that, I'm just giving my personal experience on the matter, but thanks for the input.
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Okay dude, chill. I am not throwing any kind of tantrum, but the only thing I can think of that would give me such consistent results as I drove across the state of TEXAS using multiple towers as I passed is throttling so excuse me if I assume. Now then if you read the whole title you'll see I asked at the end if maybe I messed something up. Accepting possible fault if someone were to come on here with some kind of positive helpful information indicating that maybe they had done something and is now having the same thing happen. And I fail to see how your rant is useful or has a point. I rarely call AT&T since I have had very poor customer service experience with them and usually good response with some kind of help on here, usually. And if you had read my other comment you would have seen that I stated usual data usage and that I'm only two days into this months billing cycle. Anything else you want to gripe about or did I cover everything?
As far as 2 gigs being the limit, I know there are many months, espically heavy development months since my phone is my only real source of internet access, I have pulled 3 or 4 gigs without receiving a throttling notice or noticing a hit on my data speeds. I'm not trying to call you out in that, I'm just giving my personal experience on the matter, but thanks for the input.
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"All unlimited-data-plan users who exceed 3GB of data in a single month will now experience reduced speeds on AT&T’s 3G network for the remainder of their billing cycles. 4G subscribers, meanwhile, can use up to 5GB of data in a billing period, after which data speeds will be throttled. AT&T notes that users on the unlimited plan can still use as much data as they like, just at compromised speeds."
"Mobile Services. Service performance may be affected by your proximity to a cell site, the capacity of the cell site, the number of other users connected to the same cell site, the surrounding terrain, use inside a building or a moving vehicle, radio frequency interference, the capabilities of your device, and the applications you use."
Also, you are in TX. I lived in the Houston area and Dallas. I have driven all over that state, so I know what it is like there. High humidity which parts of TX definitely has could be affecting your signal:
"The amount of water vapor suspended in the air is the aspect of the weather that can have the most significant effect on your phone signal. The high frequency radio signals used by cell towers travel best through air that is neither too dry or too damp. If the ambient humidity shifts too far in either direction, signal strength can suffer."
"According to cellphone resource site Cell Phone Advisor, the level of humidity can affect a device's ability to receive signals. Phone signals travel best when the air carries some moisture but is not humid. Extreme levels of humidity are caused by a large amount of moisture in the air and this can affect the radio waves that carry signals to and from your phone. Equally, very dry air with extremely low humidity can affect signals. However, this is usually not noticeable and too much moisture in the air is more likely to affect a signal than too little."
I did read your whole post. I just don't see anything there which shows you are being throttled, and you felt the need to emphasise the throttling by capitalising the word "unlimited". What are you using to measure your data speed with? What application? If it's an app like Speedtest.net are you sure you are setting the app to the closest location to where you are when measuring speed? Are you taking into account that the site you are testing through might be slow? I can run Speedtest through several different providers in the Boston area and get vastly different results because the test sites all have different bandwidths. Similarly, if you are driving across a state/s and you do not update to the closest location you could be speed testing from through the same provider location, but getting further away all the time, or at the very least getting the same results because you are using the same provider to test through.
*data# will answer your data use question.
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I'm on Straight Talk ATT. I'm getting any where between 120 & 350 ping and no more than 145kbps down. The usual 800kbps-1Mbps down from what I've read is normal. Obviously the down speed is wrong. The ping majority of the time is closer to the 350ms even when in a full bars area and my g/f Atrix 2 is getting ping in the 60's at the same place.
I'm on vacation so I've spent the past 3 days searching XDA and the Internet at large for solutions. I've tried just about every variation of keywords I can find. These searches are what have led me to most of the things listed that I have tried.
I've noticed that Speedtest.net seems to think I'm in Florida when I'm in Peoria, IL and it thinks I'm in Indiana when I'm in Davenport, IA. I'm not sure where Peoria routes their internet but everything in Davenport goes through Chicago. In Dubuque, IA it does seem to find me coming out of Madison WI or Wisconsin Falls which does seem to be more or less correct. I'm not positive if this is a symptom or just the speed test app being dumb.
The first two weeks the phone worked fine. 2-3Mbps on H+ during peak hours in the same spot and 5.5-6Mbps off peak. There is a possibility something I did may have cause it but other than small tweeks to the Straight Talk APN I don't know what could have caused it. I got Paranoid Android and was pretty happy but sometimes my tethering wasn't so great which is why I played with it at all.
I'm rooted and have cwm installed. I've tried: CM7.2, Stock(fruit cake) 2.3.4 & Paranoid Android 2.99.
I've also tried the following radios: 1.77.15P US ATT, 1.77.37P US ATT(12 Dec 2011), 1.87.00R and 1.97.00R hktw retail 23 Jun 2011.
Certain radios create a smoother more constant connection speed but still capped at approx 145kbps.
I've since tried various adjustments to the APN settings including with and without proxy settings, with and with out default,supl,mms and even purging all/most of the ATT APNs by renaming the APN XML file. This gives me one default APN for ATT and my Straight Talk APN. This has had no effect on the issue. I've also found on XDA some folks sharing ATT APN settings files and I've tried using those as well.
I've never dropped the phone or otherwise abused it so I have difficulty with the idea that it's bad hardware. Also the fact that my upload is decent almost makes me a little dismissive of that idea as well.
Any help or insight in to the issue would be greatly appreciated. Thank you for taking the time to read this and consider my problem!
Just curious... My speeds aren't what they should be. I can't even get through a HD video on YouTube without massive buffering.
I think total me and my wife used about 15-20GBs of data last month.
3G or LTE? As far as I know, they aren't legally allowed to throttle LTE.
Run a speed test. It should be about 3-5 mbits/sec if your throttled on lte.
A good lte speed is about 15-50
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I'm on LTE
I'll have to run a test when I get home as the building doesn't allow for great service. But i ran one a few days ago and I got like 5 mbp/s
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I'm on LTE
I'll have to run a test when I get home as the building doesn't allow for great service. But i ran one a few days ago and I got like 5 mbp/s
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If you can, swap sim cards with someone who has lte and definitely hasn't been throttled.. Then run the test again
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Ok, so ran some tests, speeds are ok. But downloading from the market and watching HD in the YouTube are not good. Market downloads crawl along and YouTube constantly buffer. Any ideas?
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I wonder. What might your signal strength be at the time you are trying to use data? I'm not talking about what it says in the signal strength indicator in the status bar but in the settings rather.
Got four bars..
First number is teetering in the mid to high 90s, second number stays a steady 8. I'm on a global ROM.
Your sppeds can depend on your area. I know where I live I can have 4 bars and be from 3 to 10 Mbps. Now if I go in to town I can get 15 to 20. Then if I go to my uncles place in the middle of no where I get 20 to 35. Just because you have 4g doesn't mean you are going to download at those speeds with play store. It depends on their servers and how congested their servers are. I have been on WiFi that had killer speeds and it still downloaded at the same speeds. Verizon doesn't throttle by your sim card but by tower location. If a tower get a lot of congestion they will cut the speeds of everyone so everyone can use the data. Once the congestion goes away they put the speeds back.
With that said I have heard people talk about when they check their account there is something on their account that means they are the top 5 percent and are throttled. I use from 50 to 75 gigs a month and never seen this throttling.
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Absolutely what Jedi said. According to the signal strength I asked you to provide, everything seems in order. What I would do now if you are still concerned is just contact VZW about the issue and see if something may be going on in your area.
This happened to me before when I lived 30 miles out into the country, I had to contact VZW because my phone was getting slow speeds even though the signal seemed ok. They ran some tests and such and finally contacted me back informing me indeed a recent storm had caused the box on the nearest tower to be struck by lightning. They sent out crews and within a few hours my area was restored to full strength again. This may not be your case, but it might be worth it because VSW told me if I had not contacted them, they would not have known for a long time. Just a thought.
I'll have to call then. Just ran speed test, got 22mbp/s. Updated some apps. Download speed crawled. Turned ny home Wi-Fi on, speeds starting flying. Something is definitely wrong...
I don't know about you guys but I wouldn't use YouTube as a reliable test. YouTube has begun throttling video streaming especially during peak hours. I can't hardly stream an SD video around 6:00 anymore.
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I don't know about you guys but I wouldn't use YouTube as a reliable test. YouTube has begun throttling video streaming especially during peak hours. I can't hardly stream an SD video around 6:00 anymore.
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6pm eastern?
Phaded said:
6pm eastern?
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Yup.
Hmm... 6-8pm seems to be when I experience it haha