116k tops on speedtest. 50$ plan watched one Netflix movie got throttled lol. That is a seriously slow throttle.... so I gotta go 70 a month for unlimited 4g or 60 for 2.5 gigs.... my phone is always picking up at &t signals, maybe they got better deals....I miss metro pcs.
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You only get 500 mb on that plan. How much data do you think a movie consumes? You should have used Wi-Fi or something
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Yea streaming movies takes a whole lot of data.
I'm still on the older contract plans. I pay $35 for 5gb and includes tethering.
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No wifi at my girls house. I knew I would get throttled but 116k lol
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Country of freedom... with so many restrictions(you are prohibited to root your phone,fm radio restriction,wifi tethering restriction, pay for this and pay for that,...).Big brother is really BIG... Data plans are so expensive in your country.
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116k tops on speedtest. 50$ plan watched one Netflix movie got throttled lol. That is a seriously slow throttle.... so I gotta go 70 a month for unlimited 4g or 60 for 2.5 gigs.... my phone is always picking up at &t signals, maybe they got better deals....I miss metro pcs.
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I have created a flashable CWM zip which includes a modified services.jar and apns-conf.xml and am testing it now. I have consumed 2.3 GB of my 2.5 GB allowance.
I will let you know how it works out.
I pay 15 a month for unlimited data, no tethering, wish t-T-Mobile would have just expanded out their HSPA+ network instead of starting up these LTE markets though.
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Well they bought metro pcs, which still has their 55$ a month unlimited talk/text/[email protected] plan.
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I know that they're an MLM and all, but have you looked at Solavei? 49 before tax for 4GB of data, with roaming, and unlimited talk/text. I've been using it lately, and it seems to be pretty solid, though you're going to have to unlock the phone (I just bought a code on eBay). PlatinumTel also has 2GB for 45 before tax, I've heard they're a decent choice as well. Both networks run on T-Mobile. If you decide to go with Solavei, use my link, if you could, it's solavei.com/ my username.
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I have created a flashable CWM zip which includes a modified services.jar and apns-conf.xml and am testing it now. I have consumed 2.3 GB of my 2.5 GB allowance.
I will let you know how it works out.
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Will it work on a note 2? If it does can you pm me a link?
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I have created a flashable CWM zip which includes a modified services.jar and apns-conf.xml and am testing it now. I have consumed 2.3 GB of my 2.5 GB allowance.
I will let you know how it works out.
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I don't understand??? You can give him a free data?
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I may just look for another phone. At home I get no service in a "high coverage area" so I'm forced to rely on wifi calling. Worst part is my phone constantly pulling signal from at&t. They appear on my network operator list for some reason.
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I may just look for another phone. At home I get no service in a "high coverage area" so I'm forced to rely on wifi calling. Worst part is my phone constantly pulling signal from at&t. They appear on my network operator list for some reason.
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If you select your network operator manually(not "choose automatically"),it should stay on that...
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If you select your network operator manually(not "choose automatically"),it should stay on that...
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It seems to stay on it until I totally lose service then it does what it wants. 90 percent of the time it gives me an error when I try to pull up the list anyway. Today I'm fluctuating between full 2g to no service every 10 minutes at a jobsite I've always had full 4g. I'm a bit over it honestly.
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It seems to stay on it until I totally lose service then it does what it wants. 90 percent of the time it gives me an error when I try to pull up the list anyway. Today I'm fluctuating between full 2g to no service every 10 minutes at a jobsite I've always had full 4g. I'm a bit over it honestly.
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And what if you set phone signal to "use only 2G" or "only WCDMA"? You can put widget for this on home screen and just switch to preferred or strongest signal when you need this.
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after being throttle to .6 mb this cicle i have to say im not seing a difference in my usage
i currently am at 9gbs of usage this month and am able to still stream my nba games live at throttled speeds still.
i currently am doing my parctice were i use my phone a lot for video chat and photo taking for price checking and inventory.
I aint tryying to denfend att in no way in fact i did start a complaint here in puerto rico fcc equivalent when this whole five percent thing started to the point of having to talk to there customer service manager.
But is it really affecting you guys as much?
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I am at over 7GB, and have not been slowed down a bit. Not sure what the whole fuss is about!
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wish I could of kept my unlimited plan
It got all messed up last year
I tried to call and get it fixed but they didnt wanna help. Went up a few levels and still no unlimited plan =(
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wish I could of kept my unlimited plan
It got all messed up last year
I tried to call and get it fixed but they didnt wanna help. Went up a few levels and still no unlimited plan =(
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That sucks. That almost happened to me this time when I changed my phone to GNote from Atrix. ATT tried to pull a fast one by charging me the same price for 3gb of data. It wasn't a difficult process but they did have to make a claim. Nowadays even supervisors can't change the plan... Thankfully, i keep a good eye on my usage.
I wonder if you guys can get the unlimited data plan back with the iPhone 2G (aka Original iPhone) trick. Get an old iPhone, activate it on iTunes and it will get you the unlimited data plan since that was the only plan available for the iPhone 2G. Don't know if that loophole was closed but some people have claimed they tried it in December and it was still working as of then.
EDIT: Looks like that loophole has been closed and no longer works
Beats getting overcharged i guess buat am able to use my phone normally so maybe now att is using there heads
or you can go the verizon way and have an 10gb plan (20gb if ya bought it at christmas time)
now theres a plan i dont think anyone will cross
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The new policy did say 4G LTE users would not be slowed down as much as hspa +/3G users, of course they did not specify speeds.
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I am at over 7GB, and have not been slowed down a bit. Not sure what the whole fuss is about!
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What are you guys doing to hit 7GB , tethering lots of streaming? I think I need to get out if the house more and get off wifi lol.
So far I've only used 232 MB 7 days in lol. But that will change soon when I start to travel and such this summer. I plan on using my note to tether to my iPad and Transformer Prime.
they are only throttling iPhone users, not other unlimited plan users
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Im not tethering but i.dont have access to wifi also and i watch nba games all the time on my device and use google music as my main music player
gb of data will soon mean nothing with all the cool.stuff coming out for phones
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All unlimited users within the top 5% have been throttled since october '11
They published the policy online last month
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they are only throttling iPhone users, not other unlimited plan users
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All unlimited users within the top 5% have been throttled since october '11
They published the policy online last month
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Don't say that. Gez. Its only in certain areas. There are still plenty of people that haven't been throttled. You just don't hear from themes much
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What are you guys doing to hit 7GB , tethering lots of streaming? I think I need to get out if the house more and get off wifi lol.
So far I've only used 232 MB 7 days in lol. But that will change soon when I start to travel and such this summer. I plan on using my note to tether to my iPad and Transformer Prime.
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i used 2gb after 10 days into billing cycle
all i do is play games / browse website
i didnt even tether / stream / youtube once
When I get throttled I just get myself unthrottled. The ImEi trick always works
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Change APN, don't get throttled?
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Don't say that. Gez. Its only in certain areas. There are still plenty of people that haven't been throttled. You just don't hear from themes much
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They've been doing it for months and its everywhere not just in select areas but most people wouldn't ever use enough data to get throttled.
The only real change is that now they've set the throttle cap at 3gb for HSPA+ phones & 5gb for LTE phones. Up until last month they were basing the throttling on being in the 'top 5%' of other users in your area, which resulted in people on 'unlimited plans' getting throttled under 2gb.
Whoops I hitbthebthanks button. People are not getting throttled like they are supposed to. Its pretty easy to see. They are being selective
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Whoops I hitbthebthanks button. People are not getting throttled like they are supposed to. Its pretty easy to see. They are being selective
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Well thanks for the thanks anyway lol.. I was always suspicious of how they were throttling but now that they've set some actual numbers in stone I feel a little better about it. I'm a little irritated though that I pay for two identical unlimited data plans (for the past 5 years) and now one gives me 3GB while the other gives me 5GB.. even though I pay the same for both.. Oh well, its better than randomly being throttled at 2GB I guess.
At about 6.5gbs (which is pretty low for my average monthly usage) and have not been throttled even after reviving notification.
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Well...it is true that they are supposedly trying to only throttle in areas that are congested
That could explain the lack of throttling of some.
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Has anyone used simple mobile on a 717Note I am on CM9 and not unlocked yet but curious if anyone has been able to obtain the 4g speeds they offer for 60$ unlimited everything.
Just get T-mobile's monthly 4G $30/month plan. Unlimited text and web (5gbs at 4G) and 100 mins. You can't beat that.
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That's AWESOME
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I wasn't looking for capped data though.
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Eric-1987 said:
I wasn't looking for capped data though.
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Simple mobile has data capped at 2GB only on their $60 unlimited plan.
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Well then whats my best option? I hate that crap I want unlimited data and not 3g crap.
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Well then whats my best option? I hate that crap I want unlimited data and not 3g crap.
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3G?.. Lol, after 2 gb you are down to dial up speeds... You can't avoid that no matter which plan you choose on prepaid. Atleast on the tmo plan you have 5gb which is pretty epic.
If you want truly unlimited, you are stuck with Sprint contract plans. And they are only unlimited because they are slow as ****.
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You misread my post. I can find unlimited non capped 3g speeds anywhere. I wanted unlimited 4g. And how do I go about getting that tmobile plan? Prepaid? Can I use my old SGS4G sim card? And is there a free unlock option available yet?
I had simple mobile and let me tell u it was worse than wen i had cricket when they first emerged so ya stick with a real provider
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I dont care about phone calls btw. I will be using Groove IP to make all my calls like I do now I just need a decent usable data connection.
How about H2O? I use it and get at least 1mb up and down. Sometimes I would get 2mb up and down. Its not as fast as everything out there but I do live in long island. Might be different in other places and you don't need to unlock your note. Just put in the similar card and download an app to configure data and SMS. And your good to go. $60 a month is better than $170 a month
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Do yourself a favor and order the straight talk sim card....straight talk is att lil brother....my speeds at lowest are around 6mb down..... 1.5 or 2 up....excellent signal.....I love it.....straight talk is the way to go....and btw its 45 unlimited everything......
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So between Motorola's crappy support of this device and sprints lousy data speeds, after reading this article I've decided to jump ship and go to t-mobile prepaid with a galaxy nexus. For $30 a month the price difference would more than cover the $300 ETF within 6 months, and selling my Photon will likely cover half the cost of the galaxy nexus.
So thanks to all the developers who have made the most of this great phone.
Cool deal
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100 anytime minutes is crap
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LexLuger82 said:
100 anytime minutes is crap
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For some. I hardly call anyone. And you can step up to the $50 plan, adds unlimited calling.
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For some. I hardly call anyone. And you can step up to the $50 plan, adds unlimited calling.
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The idea is to use a VOIP app and use your google voice number with Wi-fi to make those other 100 minutes viable. You can also still use additional minutes for .10 cents a minute after you use your 100 minutes as well.
Overall unless you're a big talker with no stable Wi-fi, this plan could work for most people.
I'm using it on the Photon, no 3G speeds, but I'm around Wi-fi most of the time anyway.
Android 17 said:
The idea is to use a VOIP app and use your google voice number with Wi-fi to make those other 100 minutes viable. You can also still use additional minutes for .10 cents a minute after you use your 100 minutes as well.
Overall unless you're a big talker with no stable Wi-fi, this plan could work for most people.
I'm using it on the Photon, no 3G speeds, but I'm around Wi-fi most of the time anyway.
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How did you unlock the sim?
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I may think about this and see if it would be worth it.
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How did you unlock the sim?
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See this thread.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1664212
I'm using mine on simple mobile for now.
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See this thread.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1664212
I'm using mine on simple mobile for now.
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Thanks Thanks
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I'm looking to get something like straight talk but I don't know all the options. I'm only looking to mainly text and browse the web. Looking at 5gb data plans. Which company is best for what I want?
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Eric-1987 said:
I'm looking to get something like straight talk but I don't know all the options. I'm only looking to mainly text and browse the web. Looking at 5gb data plans. Which company is best for what I want?
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Straight Talk is the way to go, I have been using them for about 2 months (still have Verizon but wanted the Note). Straight Talk is unlimited everything (45 a month) and I have had no issues in WA State. I am running my note off the AT&T sim on their BYOD program and most custom Roms have me at HSPA+ or 3G depending on my location. My download speed has averaged out at 2.83 Mbps but certain locations like Seattle I pull 6.35 Mbps consistently, I have had bursts as high as 10 Mbps in various locations. I leave my Wifi on and when I am not flashing Roms like I am on Crack I store free Wifi everywhere I go so I am connected to AT&T hot spots and other Wifi that is free. I was very concerned coming from my Razr Maxx where I was getting 36 Mbps consistently but after 2 months I probably will not renew any of my other contracts with providers, this just works well and I buy to many phones. Some more answers to this question below.
My speed has never been capped but I have read online in various forums that Straight Talk drops you to 3G after 2Gb of HSPA+ use, but my speeds are consistent and I check everyday waiting to see if they will cap me.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1525371
So is there a straight talk store? Or do I have to order it online?
You order the sim card online ~$14. Then buy a refill card ~Target, Walmart.
Straight talk.com or what? And is there a store locally I can get the SIM card from?
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Straight talk.com or what? And is there a store locally I can get the SIM card from?
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No have to order online straight talk.com.
But I've been getting really slow speeds from them the last two months...they throttled me the first month on my atrix 2 and after that super slow(speed test.net app won't even work).
I think I'm gonna unlock and flash the blaze radio and use T-Mobile.
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Straight Talk works very well for most people. I did receive a call from them my first month saying that I was using too much data right after I hit the 2 gig limit.
As others have said, the sim card is only available online, however they are getting ready to start a pilot program to allow them to be purchased in Walmart stores.
Another option might be T- Mobile. Walmart has a plan for $30 that gives you 100 minutes, unlimited texts, and unlimited 3g data(up to 5 gigs). You just have to flash a tmobile modem to have access to the 3g/4g
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I thought you got 4g with that plan. That's why there is a data cap...and I called and they did something and now my data is some what fast
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Nolenm04 said:
I thought you got 4g with that plan. That's why there is a data cap...and I called and they did something and now my data is some what fast
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On straight talk you'll get at&t's marketing version of 4G which is really HSPA+ or slightly faster 3G. The only way to get the LTE is to be on an actual at&t plan and live in an LTE area.
My average speeds are anywhere from 2 to 6.5 Mbps where I live.
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I can deal with 2-6mbps thats easily enough.
Straight Talk
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I can deal with 2-6mbps thats easily enough.
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One piece of advice if you're contemplating going with Straight Talk. CS sucks, most users have come to a conclusion that under 100MB/day and 2GB/mo is the going rate. Go over any of the above, depending on the population on your general location, even under those numbers, if you're in the top 5% of users, they will throttle you, once throttled, you'd have to FB them or call their CS and be prepared to wait, one good thing is that I've read on howardforum that you'll get either a voice or text warning you of excessive use. If you continue to use excessively, you will not get any more warning, ST will shuts you off and lose your phone number. I've been using their service for about 2 months now and as long as we play by their rules, $45.00 + tax a month is pretty good. My download in Honolulu is a steady 3MPS and 900kbps uploads + or -, give a few. One other thing is prepaid, you have to refill before you run out, there's no grace period, best thing is AUTO REFILL.
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On straight talk you'll get at&t's marketing version of 4G which is really HSPA+ or slightly faster 3G. The only way to get the LTE is to be on an actual at&t plan and live in an LTE area.
My average speeds are anywhere from 2 to 6.5 Mbps where I live.
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I was talking about the T-Mobile 30 a month plan.
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I was talking about the T-Mobile 30 a month plan.
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T-MOBILE it is, go for it
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T-MOBILE it is, go for it
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Perhaps it's best to wait for T-Mobile note release and see if we get a more stable modem firmware out of it. Blaze modem is not the most stable one. I mean it is the most stable T-Mobile modem (for me) as far as tmobile modems for the note go, but it works best in weak signal areas, has poor connectivity in high signal area (weird, I know) and drains battery a lot faster even on wifi.
I wish I didn't have to order the SIM card online that's the only part that sucks.
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Two AT&T notes side by side (west Chicago land)... one with a new Straight Talk SIM the other with contract AT&T LTE sim....
The ST note got just over 5 meg (4G) and the AT&T LTE note's Speedtest.net wouldn't complete :crying: unless the ST note was idle then it got just over 6 meg (LTE)
I'll have to see if the ST Note gets throttled.
Anybody seen this? Runs on tmobile network and way cheaper. 39.99 unlimited talk and text with 2.5g 3g data!
http://www.walmart.com/cp/Family-Mobile/1076544
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omgbossis21 said:
Anybody seen this? Runs on tmobile network and way cheaper. 39.99 unlimited talk and text with 2.5g 3g data!
http://www.walmart.com/cp/Family-Mobile/1076544
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Yeaup Im on the same price plan but changed to it the first day it was out ... So I get 5g high speed data + unlimited talk & text !!!
I switched to the new plan too but have you noticed that the 3g speeds have slowed down or is it just me?
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I switched to the new plan too but have you noticed that the 3g speeds have slowed down or is it just me?
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Yes I noticed & called multiple times about it ... I used to get well over 10-12Mbps and sometimes up to over 21mbps ... but when i made the change .. the speed struggles to get past 900-1000 !!! I thought to my self maybe its the rom im using .. wind mobile rom with apps 2sd ... but i doubt it ... what is your high speed data limit ... i get 5gb ... you ???
I also have the 5 gb plan. Before the change, like you, I was getting speeds up to 10 mb now after the change I'm struggling to get 1 mb. Sometimes I'll get a little over 1 mb but it never hits 2 mb.Guess there's a catch to everything. Also I am running the stock jb so it's not your Rom.
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You guys are still smoking my 50$ 500mb data already throttled @ 116k speeds
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I also have the 5 gb plan. Before the change, like you, I was getting speeds up to 10 mb now after the change I'm struggling to get 1 mb. Sometimes I'll get a little over 1 mb but it never hits 2 mb.Guess there's a catch to everything. Also I am running the stock jb so it's not your Rom.
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Glad too know its not the rom .. in a way !!! I guess now we actually have 3g speeds ... lol ... Its good enough for what i do and at l can still tether to other devices .. So im not yoo mad about it .. plus with the faster speeds i used to have with only 1gb allotment .. im better off... I would used most of my data up doing speedtest !!!
I recommend straight talk. 45 for unlimited all. I don't know if they have the micro sim available now, but I cut mine. Speed is reliable and fast enough for daily use. There are many threads about ST TMO service on xda; search it.
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I get a discount on the Wal-Mart Family Mobile cause I work at Sam's Club. The speed may seem slow but it's enough to do everyday things. I streamed music tonight at work and it didn't buffer any. I've also watched a couple of YouTube videos and it streams fine.
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