Straight Talk data speed issies

[kclive]

I have been using Straight Talk on Verizon's towers for well over two years now and I have had something odd happen. For the last few months anyway I have been keeping an eye on my data speed and it has always been very fast. Just within the last couple of days my download speed has dropped to around 5 Mbps. This is no problem for browsing, Facebook, email, etc., but now when I try to download a larger file it takes forever. I downloaded the new PN ROM today which is less than 300 megs and it took almost an hour. Before it would only take 20 minutes or so for a file that size.

I have contacted Straight Talk and they say I am provisioned like I should be, and there are no tower problems in my area. Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks

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[justin654]

They are capped on the Verizon side at 5mbps. Att on the other hand is not. Something about tower owning or something. But yeah, what you're seeing is correct. That's why I switched to the att sim.

 

[kclive]

They are capped on the Verizon side at 5mbps. Att on the other hand is not. Something about tower owning or something. But yeah, what you're seeing is correct. That's why I switched to the att sim.

Thanks for the reply. What kind of speeds do you get on att?

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[justin654]

At work, which is usually 1 bar less than full I get around 14-15 down 12 up. I'll take a speed test tomorrow if I remember. At home I have 1 bar, with the Verizon sim I have 0.

 

[justin654]

Did a quick speed test with the 1 bar LTE. Not really sure what is up with the upload speed. Ping seems a bit high but I'd say not bad for 0 to 1 bar.

 

[903tex]

Switch to Verizon prepaid. Get the Walmart plan 50 bucks for 5gbs of LTE data with throttled speeds after that. Carry over data, and best thing uncapped data speeds

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