Slow data on 3g Simple Mobile

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I have simple mobile on this mytouch slide and since friday the data has been very slow, before friday i would normally get over 1500k but since i cant pass 250k. any ideas? On my vibrant with a diferent sim card i get 4000k easy.

Originally Posted by ericm115

I have simple mobile on this mytouch slide and since friday the data has been very slow, before friday i would normally get over 1500k but since i cant pass 250k. any ideas? On my vibrant with a diferent sim card i get 4000k easy.

Maybe they're throttling the speed, but have you changed roms recently or anything special. You can always call your provider to ask them about the speed.

From what i hear, their unlimited data is capped to 1gb?.... the is what kept me from switching lol.

From what i hear is it is indeed unlimitied data. I think the Simple Mobile $60 plan used to be for 1GB of data but recently got changed to unlimited data.

The current plan is indeed unlimited but if you are caught deviating from the terms of use (i.e tethering, downloading torrents and files from peer to peer) they will either restrict your data or disconnect it.

If you use the data for your phone it is truly unlimited.

You should check with their customer care, I work for T-Mobile and I remember reading something about how they can add a throttle feature and you have to call to have it removed. It won't drop off when the bill cycle switches.

Sent from my T-Mobile myTouch 3G Slide using XDA App

Originally Posted by Ace42

Maybe they're throttling the speed, but have you changed roms recently or anything special. You can always call your provider to ask them about the speed.

I too am in the same boat, I did change ROM, and suddenly my data got very slow. I called simple mobile to check if I was getting throttled or anything, they told me I was not getting throttled.

It's puzzling me what might be the reason for this, is this because I changed a ROM?

i called them and complained about slow data speed, agent just "rebooted" my account and speed went back

Originally Posted by ericm115

I have simple mobile on this mytouch slide and since friday the data has been very slow, before friday i would normally get over 1500k but since i cant pass 250k.

Dude! Same thing here and I haven't done anything!
To me it started happening like last Friday or since Thursday.
My speed is like 0.18 down.
I restored a nandroid and still same thing, I switched to another rom, and still same thing >:S


Sent from my T-Mobile myTouch 3G Slide using XDA App

My phone gets "Throttled down" around the 15th as I go over 5gig worth of data...and paying 39.99 for Unlimited Data...WTF?!

I am facing the same issue on Simplemobile. I do some (light weight) tethering to browse my emails etc.

Suddenly last week (Mar 15, 2011) my phone internet speed reduced drastically. Most webpages pages started timing out. Internet basically becomes unusable.

I am start of my billing cycle and have only used 200MB of data. I have never exceeded 1GB in a month.

The only reason I moved to simpleMobile was so that I could use the 'unlimited' data plan.

What to do now? I guess time to move on to other more welcoming providers ?