Unlimited 3G is randomly slowing to a crawl :(
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I have Unlimited 3G service. My signal is great at -75 dBm, EV-RevA. Everything looks great, but my speeds just seriously crap out at random times. I'm trying to figure out how less than 6 months ago my internet was blazing fast for about 4 years, then all of a sudden here recently it goes from fast to slow to barely having a pulse.
Would anyone know of any tips or tricks to help speed up my connection and make it more stable and reliable? I would appreciate any insight or help regarding this issue.
Thanks.
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With a 3G device you are subject to the Data Optimization policy. It sounds like that is what is happening.
http://m-support.verizonwireless.com/information/data_disclosure.html
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With a 3G device you are subject to the Data Optimization policy. It sounds like that is what is happening.
http://m-support.verizonwireless.com/information/data_disclosure.html
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Well, that sucks. It's like paying for 200 channels of TV and only getting 3 channels. Sure can't wait until cable or dsl becomes available. Will be dropping this crappy service as quick as possible.
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You can also upgrade to a 4G LTE device and not have your data throttled.
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and he will lose his unlimited service...ALL 4G plans are metered....ripoff
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wrong. i have unlimited 4g. if you have unlimited, you keep unlimited.
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I think the OP has a mobile broadband device (usb modem or mifi). If they upgrade to a 4G device, they have to pick a tiered data plan. The broadband devices are not grandfathered to the unlimited data plan.
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that would make sense since i just realized this was posted in the broadband community...lol
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mcumbee wrote:
and he will lose his unlimited service...ALL 4G plans are metered....ripoff
This is totally incorrect. If you have 3G phone with an old unlimited plan, you can get a 4G phone and keep unlimited data and you will not be throttled. You do not need to be in a 4G service area.
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PLEASE....complain...the more of us that consistently call-in ...they need to be hassled about this...they are stealing.
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Same thing here...I am being throttled and I am betting so are you.....They are trying to squeeze unlimited users into metered service. Here is my scenario...speeds as low as .05mbs......throttled...that is about dial-up speed and is unusable. They say I use to much and am affecting other users....but...if I pay for metered service which would be 3G(there is no 4G here) on the same tower...with a new plan ..it is somehow OK. Reality is that would make no technical change and that my usage would be the same and the same tower as this is a modem and not a phone...this makes the first statement that I am affecting others a lie. Basically they want the money and want to end the plans.
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Well I wouldn't mind, but I'm not sitting here and calculating how much bandwidth I can use per month, per week, per day, per hour, per minute and then have to worry about if I've went over. And I'm sure Verizon licks their greedy chops at the first sign of an overage, because I'm sure it gets super pricey.
But, Mcumbee is right, how can you say 3G Unlimited is not ok to use "X" amount of bandwidth, but if you get 3G limited or 4G limited, it's ok to use any amount of bandwidth you wish?
I would love an explanation on how this makes any kind of ridiculous sense. Maybe I should contact my congressman and see about this nonsense.
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HellsWrath wrote:
Well I wouldn't mind, but I'm not sitting here and calculating how much bandwidth I can use per month, per week, per day, per hour, per minute and then have to worry about if I've went over. And I'm sure Verizon licks their greedy chops at the first sign of an overage, because I'm sure it gets super pricey.
But, Mcumbee is right, how can you say 3G Unlimited is not ok to use "X" amount of bandwidth, but if you get 3G limited or 4G limited, it's ok to use any amount of bandwidth you wish?
I would love an explanation on how this makes any kind of ridiculous sense. Maybe I should contact my congressman and see about this nonsense.
Those who are on limited plans are paying for the network upgrades to support their speeds. It costs money to maintain bandwidth and to increase bandwidth. For people to truly understand the actual costs they'd have to start making that network over what they are used to with Home Networks.
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Wait, so let me get this straight $60/month for LIMITED is helping pay for upgrades/service and my $60/month UNLIMITED is just paying for service? Both of which would be 3G which uses the same Network? What?
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Try it.
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Not going to try it. I've already talked to a CS rep and they said that my "average" use is 14 gigs and highly suggested against going to 3G/4G Limited as my bill would be ridiculous. Would you happen to know the overage price of 4gigs?
It's all the same network, same equipment (with the exception of the actual modem), same towers, etc. It's all the same. Now if there was an easier way to monitor your usage other than having to log on your account (using useless bandwidth and kbs), calling, etc., etc. then maybe I'd think about trying it.
I play online games and may watch a couple of shows on Hulu a month. That's pretty much all I do and that comes out to an average of 14gigs a month. I, as a loyal and paying customer for over 10 years, should NOT have to change my service and be "forced" into throwing away my plan just so Verizon can make a cash cow out of me.
You should honestly ask yourself, I pay "$X" for a service, but I only get 1/10 of the service, I love my service. I love it enough to trust them with anything they ask of me. If they said, hey if you drop unlimited we promise you'll have the best service ever, that's weird, because that's almost the same promise I was given when I went with this current service. Guess at Verizon, the cash co....er, I mean customer is always wrong. Guess that's why contracts are only allowed to be manipulated in favor of the service provider, but I dare you, as the customer, to break the contract and you'll pay.
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You were never PROMISED unlimited bandwidth. Just unlimited data which is two different things.
People are on the tiered plans are paying for the bandwidth, but you are paying for the data.
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This is legally the matter of implied services when consumers are sold on certain products, services and the like. This is simply an effort to force unlimited data customers to limited data plans. This has FTC written all over it. I can't even upgrade a broken phone except for the one I curretly have. So what happens when the phone i own is no longer manufactured? I will then be forced to upgrade. Bait and switch.
