Data Throttling (Unlimited plan)

privatewarrior1 · Jan 6, 2013

intruda119 said:
Would love to see a bill or picture of this. I have never heard this before.

Me too. It seems people are confused about this throttling issue. Now ATT throttles speed is at around 0.5 Mb/s. Some people may feel that they are unthrottled on such speeds.
Thinking about it: in certain markets, the HSDPA speeds are not that good: averaging 1 Mb/s. So if you're speed drops half that, you may think you are not throttled.

I had experienced this before: Once I did not know I was throttled for 10 days. My speed was OK since I was in a market with bad H+ speeds. The market had good LTE coverage but I had a non-LTE phone. When I called later, my data for that month was at 9 GB. I was surprised because I was able to do regular things. The technician informed me that my account was indeed throttled.

So speeds are in the eye of the beholder.

Jade Eyed Wolf · Jan 6, 2013

hyelton said:
Non LTE is 3GB

and LTE is 5GB

I have the international note 2 witch is NON LTE BUT I gave them the IMEI from a Note 1 and i dont get throttled til 5GB

Same here

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I think that if AT&T seems to think that 3GB of data is good enough for HSPA+ users before overage charges or throttling, and considering that LTE is about 10 times faster on average, I don't think it's unreasonable for AT&T to change their plans to allow for 10x more data before throttling or overages.

JonBryant · Jan 6, 2013

intruda119 said:
Would love to see a bill or picture of this. I have never heard this before.

Thats this months alone from his phone. Then we have the a shot from the myat&t app. Granted, the dates don't line up but you can see that there is 0 data used so far this month. ATT does not know how much non LTE he is using... Wierd.

Dirtydarko · Jan 6, 2013

I am Jon's buddy and it's true I am apparently not throttled on non LTE

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AT&It's official policy:

"Info for Smartphone Customers With Unlimited Data Plans
Do you have an unlimited data plan? If so, we have information to help you manage your account if you use more than 3GB, which means you are in the top 5% of data users in our network. If you have a 4G LTE Smartphone with monthly data usage over 5GB, you’ll also be interested in this information. You can check your usage for this month by dialing *data# on your mobile phone.

If you have one of our tiered data plans, this information will not affect you.

Background
Soaring mobile broadband usage and the limited availability of wireless spectrum has made it necessary for AT&T to implement a network management program to ensure the best possible service for all our customers."

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UrbanLagoon · Jan 6, 2013

I did 10gb last month, how would I know if I'm throttled? I am on at&t with a lte note 2.

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BlackPhantomX · Jan 6, 2013

UrbanLagoon said:
I did 10gb last month, how would I know if I'm throttled? I am on at&t with a lte note 2.

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Speed test typically.

Illford · Jan 10, 2013

talking about that AT&T smart wifi thing, how can I use it to track my data usage without it taking over my wifi in stupid ways?

MattMJB0188 · Jan 10, 2013

Throttled me about two months ago and I was getting about 500kbps down. Everything seemed fast but that was because my pings were in the 50s and 60s. Netflix looked like crap though.

I'd be on T-Mobile in a second if they didn't have EDGE in so many places.

KEVK · Jan 10, 2013

mjlewis0102 said:
Im on Verizon unlimited. I never been throttled. My usage for this month is 300Gigs.

What the heck are you pushing through your phone? Must be tethering or something...and downloading a lot while tethering.

charley000 · Jan 11, 2013

Speeds after throttling?

So when they throttle you, what kind of speeds do you get then? In other words, how much do they slow you down?

eallan · Jan 11, 2013

charley000 said:
So when they throttle you, what kind of speeds do you get then? In other words, how much do they slow you down?

After 5GB with an LTE plan you're throttled to, IMO, completely unusable speeds. You'll go from LTE speeds >10Mb down to like 100kb a second. It's almost completely unusable and totally messed up.

hyelton · Jan 11, 2013

I`d rather be throttled than have to pay several hundred dollars worth of data bills or Pay $30 for 3GB instead of my $30 for unlimated!

oikhlail11 · Jan 11, 2013

So I dont know if this has been mentioned, if you have been throttled it can be very frustrating to have to deal with a 500kb download rate so I remembered when I had my skyrocket entering the wap.cingular apn stopped the throttle im at regular 4g speeds now went from 500 to at least 6,000kb per second. Try it out first time you activate it may take a while to acquire signal but youll get your speed back

oikhlail11 · Jan 11, 2013

eallan said:
After 5GB with an LTE plan you're throttled to, IMO, completely unusable speeds. You'll go from LTE speeds >10Mb down to like 100kb a second. It's almost completely unusable and totally messed up.

I hear you man try this fix out if your throttled right now

hyelton · Jan 12, 2013

Yea it can fix the throttle but you don't get LTE with that APN

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TXSNAFU · Jan 12, 2013

I've got ATT unlimited data and just upped to a Note 2 right after they came out. Had a HTC Inspire during the rediculous throttling at 1GB. Was told the 4G phones get 5GB unthrottled but haven't even gotten close to the 5GBs. There's so many hotspots available I get off data as much as I can. Least there's a ton of hotspots around DFW.

hyelton · Jan 12, 2013

Heck where I live I'm either home and WiFi or not all all when I'm out. My 3G I'd faster than WiFi in town.

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rans0m00 · Jan 12, 2013

I have crossed the 5gb soft cap once and they did not throttle me. When I was on my iphone 4 I was throttled once for going over the cap for a couple months in a row. I don't have anything to back this up with as to when they will throttle and when they won't but for me it has only been if I run over month after month

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oikhlail11 · Jan 12, 2013

hyelton said:
Yea it can fix the throttle but you don't get LTE with that APN

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Ya I mentioned that but wouldnt you rather have 4g then be downloading wayyy under 1mb/s? The 4g on the wap.cingular apn has a speed of 6-8 mb/s I know its not lte but it's fast enough until your billing cycle ends

BlackPhantomX · Jan 13, 2013

KEVK said:
What the heck are you pushing through your phone? Must be tethering or something...and downloading a lot while tethering.

I've hit 150GB throttled half-way through my monthly billing cycle. (My passive-aggressive way of trying to annoy AT&T.) Hitting 300GB isn't that hard unthrottled...if you're constantly downloading.

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