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You might not notice 256kbps throttling, but most people will. Youtube stops working right, Bandcamp, Pandora & Spotify buffer, and browsing the web or navigat
by mehhh 7y ago
You might not notice 256kbps throttling, but most people will. Youtube stops working right, Bandcamp, Pandora & Spotify buffer, and browsing the web or navigating takes a bit to load.
The top couple percent of T-Mobile USA users use over 50GB of data a month, mostly on unlimited plans without hard throttles. An "unlimited" plan that hard throttles at 22GB of usage is decietful given this context, hence all other carriers not using hard throttles on Unlimited plans.
All 4 major US carriers would brand this plan as a 22GB plan with no overages.
- tw04 7y ago>All 4 major US carriers would brand this plan as a 22GB plan with no overages. What are you smoking? Every one of Verizon's plans that have caps identical to this are "unlimited" https://www.verizonwireless.com/plans/unlimited/ https://www.verizonwireless.com/plans/unlimited/
- mehhh 7y agoVerizon claims to deprioritize on busy towers rather than hard throttle you after a certain number of gigs. Same thing happens for T-Mobile, AT&T & Sprint. With a hard throttle there is no way a user could burn 200GB a month over LTE, but with deprioritization you still get full LTE speeds on most cell towers.
- skavi 7y agoDoes an MVNO like Fi have that kind of control though?
- mokus 7y agoDoes being unable to offer something justify mischaracterizing what they can offer as if it were that thing?
- jrochkind1 7y agoI have found my phone on Cricket (owned by AT&T) is surprisingly usable after data cap is reached and you are throttled. Like, email and even google maps, no problem. Facebook perfectly usable although with some lag. I didn't bother trying to watch videos. I have been curious if the usability of "throttled" speeds differs between carriers.
- Pfhreak 7y ago> surprisingly usable > I didn't bother trying to watch videos. Uh-huh. Missing video means the service is unusable.
- jrochkind1 7y agoOh, is that what people are complaining about? Fair enough, but not important to me. Are all the carriers "throttled" rates good enough to do most things but watch videos then?
- FireBeyond 7y agoDuring the California fires emergency services found that Verizon's "MAY throttle you, on BUSY towers, in periods of HIGH traffic"... Actually meant "WILL unconditionally throttle you after 1 bit more than your quota, even in an evacuated area at 3am, to 128 or even 64kbps".
- mehhh 7y agoMore Everything data pools get hard throttled to that speed after the data pool runs out, not deprioritized like newer plans. Still a shit thing for Verizon to do...
- rayiner 7y agoVerizon does not hard throttle at 22 gigs.
- Dylan16807 7y ago> You might not notice 256kbps throttling, but most people will. Youtube stops working right, Bandcamp, Pandora & Spotify buffer, and browsing the web or navigating takes a bit to load. Yeah, quality gets awful at that speed. For reference, the 'unlimited 480p' type of feature is six times that fast, 1.5Mbps. If my phone throttled to 2Mbps, it wouldn't affect me very much. 0.25Mbps is not acceptable.