Data speeds (mbps)

Mine sucks. I'm in the nyc area and I top out under 2.

I called to complain and they're going to try a different sim card. We'll see. My droid x had way better reception.
 

mapd00d

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zanshin825 said:
Mine sucks. I'm in the nyc area and I top out under 2.

I called to complain and they're going to try a different sim card. We'll see. My droid x had way better reception.

Bunch of NYC hipster dbags probably brought 4G to a crawl when the new iPad came out.
 
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bens42608

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this is very odd. I was just tethered to my laptop and did a speed test with 4 full bars of 4g and got my worst score ever- 4 mbps. I un tethered and tried again- same thing. A couple mins later I try again and hey my highest score ever! 31 mbps. Does this mean the man knows when I'm tethered and throttle me and un throttle me when I un tether?? How would they know? Is there a better explanation??????????????????????????????????????
Thanks

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oDECREEx

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bens42608 said:
this is very odd. I was just tethered to my laptop and did a speed test with 4 full bars of 4g and got my worst score ever- 4 mbps. I un tethered and tried again- same thing. A couple mins later I try again and hey my highest score ever! 31 mbps. Does this mean the man knows when I'm tethered and throttle me and un throttle me when I un tether?? How would they know? Is there a better explanation??????????????????????????????????????
Thanks

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There is a forum on here that is all about the whole "throttling" controversy. D in the end we all figured out that throttling is only limited to 3g users..
 
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oDECREEx

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bens42608 said:
this is very odd. I was just tethered to my laptop and did a speed test with 4 full bars of 4g and got my worst score ever- 4 mbps. I un tethered and tried again- same thing. A couple mins later I try again and hey my highest score ever! 31 mbps. Does this mean the man knows when I'm tethered and throttle me and un throttle me when I un tether?? How would they know? Is there a better explanation??????????????????????????????????????
Thanks

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And when I tether using foxfi I usually pull in like 10-20. I play xbox on it actually cause my house Internet sucks. As for them knowing... Idk.. Maybe your phone acting at a bridge between you are tethering and your data?
 

deming

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Both my LG G3 and Samsung S6 get 83/50 Mbps. However, once I tether using FoxFi wifi, my laptop only get 48/30Mbps. Then I go back to the phone and run another speedtest.net test and get the 83/50 Mbps. So my phones are getting about twice as fast speeds relative to my tethered laptop to same phone.

Any ideas on how to capture the full bandwidth from phone to laptop?
 
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