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I ran a speed test on my (throttled) AT&T 3G connection on my iPhone 4. 5 bars, perfect signal here. 0.03 Mbps down and 0.02 up. It's absolute bullshit.
by iamandrus 15y ago
I ran a speed test on my (throttled) AT&T 3G connection on my iPhone 4. 5 bars, perfect signal here. 0.03 Mbps down and 0.02 up. It's absolute bullshit.
- eli 15y agoAre you still on 3G? T-Mobile's throttling solution is just to force your connection to EDGE once you hit the cap.
- iamandrus 15y agoYep, still on 3G.
- pyre 15y agoI've experienced this on T-Mobile, and the connection is still usable, though slower. The AT&T throttle sounds unusable.
- jsight 15y agoThat's not entirely true for T-Mobile, actually. You still connect to 3G towers even after throttling, but you are slowed down to "2G" speeds. In practice, the 2G speeds are much slower than EDGE, but slightly faster than GPRS.
- joshAg 15y agowhy stick with them now that the 4 major cell phone companies have the iphone and 1 (Sprint, i think) even offers unlimited unthrottled data plans?
- iamandrus 15y agoI don't have a choice. It'd be too expensive to switch.
- janardanyri 15y agoAnd that's the trick: AT&T implemented throttling just after all the dedicated iPhone users upgraded to an iPhone 4S and locked themselves in for another two years. Disgusting, eh?
- Terretta 15y agoYou didn't have to lock in. If you paid full price for the iPhone 4s, then when you first plugged it to iTunes, you got a "congratulations, your phone has been unlocked" message, and the phone stopped being carrier locked. This worked since iPhone 4s release day, before the 'official' unlocked phone shipped.
- trotsky 15y agoIf you'd been on sprint lately you'd know it's because the whole 3g network performs like it's throttled.
- tadfisher 15y agoNo 3G on T-Mobile.