Sprint Letter - "UNUSUALLY HIGH DATA USAGE"

[vistazifta]

Haha I have a jailbroken iPhone here in Nj with awesome bandwidth during slow times I get 300kb a second and fast times r 1.3pm a sec so uea for me to tether with mywi or something like that (which uses real data without AT&T knowing it's tethering or they will charge me a tethering plan and lose my unlimited data) it's kinda fun I have fios at home but we keep the wifi off so that the kids aren't using it with all kinds of weird devices so I use it when I'm in my bedroom as we keep Internet first floor specific lol. It's my main second floor connection need those speeds

[teradog]

Originally Posted by chardog

why would anyone use so much data on your phones? I recall tethering speeds to be 50KB/s.... That would take 27.8 hours of nonstop downloading to achieve 5GB. it would take 7 days with an average use of 4 hours hardcore download per day to achieve this much usage. I figure most people use like 1 hour of total streaming per day, which would make it 28 days to acheive 5GB.

Better off just connecting to wifi.... shit is available almost everywhere. 3g speeds are too slow to even deal with this much data.

Hmmm usually try to stay out of controversial fray... but you are way off on your numbers! Using field trial or ##debug# I get down to -48 dbm (yes have pics to prove it, lol)

I've got peeks over 3mb/s many times (375KB/s)... can usually avg around 2.5 (often just under 300KB/s) off rush hour... and yes, that's 3G!! (and yes, can back that up also)

*edit*
Sprint to Throttle Data"Sprint on the other hand is not ready to lose any customers after such a decision so instead of canceling the unlimited data plans they’re going to simply throttle it. In other words once you reach a certain traffic limit, which remains unknown for now, you’ll either have to pay for using the same speed when browsing the web on the go or you’ll have to settle for crappy web surfing speeds.

[nerys]

he is not even slightly off. it depends on where you are. in some places I get ASTONISHING speeds with my TP2 and in some places even with good signal (say at the campground down near avalon nj) if I can MAINTAIN a connection at all (working connection) and get more than 10kbps I am impressed almost useless but enough to check gmail etc..

just depends on where you are

[dtrush]

Since we're talking bandwidth. I don't know what my November was. Probably just as much. Comcast hates me!
Got Netflix in October, and coincidentally the PS3 was hacked around that time so I'm sure there's an additional relationship there.

I have a Boost phone for the 35cents data for my car but I don't abuse it. I send out my e-mails and do tasks related to my job that are necessary. I doubt I'd go over the 5gb cap. Some days I don't even use the data.

[matchstickredgti]

Originally Posted by chardog

why would anyone use so much data on your phones? I recall tethering speeds to be 50KB/s.... That would take 27.8 hours of nonstop downloading to achieve 5GB. it would take 7 days with an average use of 4 hours hardcore download per day to achieve this much usage. I figure most people use like 1 hour of total streaming per day, which would make it 28 days to acheive 5GB.

Better off just connecting to wifi.... shit is available almost everywhere. 3g speeds are too slow to even deal with this much data.

nope

tethering speeds, depending on the time of day, is at least 100kbps. not sure where this info is coming from. but 3g is surprisingly faster than you would think. in the middle of the night i can get up to 300 - 350kbps. sometimes xbox live runs better off my tethered phone than my roomates clear 4g modem, until i get a text message or something lol.

i've never received a letter from sprint though either, been tethering since i got this phone, so a little over a year now and i have some rather high usage as well (usually averaging 30gb/month)

[teradog]

Originally Posted by mangomango

..tethering speeds, depending on the time of day, is at least 100kbps. not sure where this info is coming from. but 3g is surprisingly faster than you would think. in the middle of the night i can get up to 300 - 350kbps. sometimes xbox live runs better off my tethered phone than my roomates clear 4g modem, until i get a text message or something lol....

"I've got peeks over 3mb/s many times (375KB/s)... can usually avg around 2.5 (often just under 300KB/s) off rush hour... and yes, that's 3G!!"
Confirmed, thanks... many don't believe.. of course you have to be in a good service area not in a dead spot!! lol (use ##debug# to find best spot)

BTW: it's 300-350 kBps, (KBPS, etc) I'm sure you know this but some may not so I'll just post it... for others:
large B= Bytes
small b = bits

To simplify this DSL Reports FAQ
8 bits in a byte, if you see "band width" (usually in bits), typically divide by 8 for "DL speeds" (usually in bytes) & vise versa...

Also, re. phone calls not interrupting data via tether or wifi...
To make phone calls go to voice mail & not interrupt data, simply: start, settings, personal, phone, top right arrow 2x to CDMA Services, DDTM Mode, Get settings button, select on. (one of many ways of getting to this setting)
Can someone confirm if this works with text messages also? Never tried it... but am guessing that this setting will delay text message delivery also?

Also: anyone else notice loren646 the thread starter has not post again.
Where are the requests for "proof" from him? A Sprint employee? I'll start...

Hey Loren646: can you get us an image of that supposed letter please?

[vistazifta]

haha being that im on at&t i can talk and surf/tether at the same time so its a win win sitch

[teradog]

Originally Posted by vistazifta

haha being that im on at&t i can talk and surf/tether at the same time so its a win win sitch

Wondering.. with a ATT SIM in the TP2... could you do both @ same time? Anyone doing it?

[buddywiser]

Hey check this out! Hesse to do TV ad explaining what "unlimited" means.

Sprint CEO Dan Hesse defines

[Tinkerbell]

Originally Posted by buddywiser

Hey check this out! Hesse to do TV ad explaining what "unlimited" means.

Sprint CEO Dan Hesse defines

The link is not working here... blonde moment, or??