lynndiwagon wrote:
2oldman wrote:
tinstartrvlr wrote:
I pay for 30 gigs of data, but after 10 gigs, I get punished with slower speeds
Something wrong in that. I pay Verizon for 24gigs, I get 24 gigs at full speed. Mind sharing what you pay for "30 gigs" of throttled data? I bet it's a lot less than I do.
It would be interesting to know where you live. I bet you're in an area of high user concentration. I'm not sure anyone can prove that they've been slowed down on an AT&T "Unlimited" plan due to going over the 22gb per device "limit." I have a vacation property on a big lake and EVERYONE is slowed down during high usage situations such as weekends and holidays. Once everyone goes home the speed goes back up. This is mainly due to the cell site limitations, not going over a limit. Cellphone companies cannot afford to build out a particular area just for special events. When I'm in a high population area, where the cellphone company has more towers there is never any slowdown. The problem is probably infrastructure, not going over a "limit."
It may have to do with user concentration but I always have "marginally tolerable" speed at the beginning of the month, and it always diminishes by the end of the month, to as slow as 1.2 KILObytes/sec.
What rankles me is that they can slow you down after a certain amount of data is used yet everything else remains the same. The population using the towers didn't suddenly double, or someone stole one of their towers, etc. so I don't get the logic. Why is it okay to have high speed for the first x amount of data, then suddenly it's not okay? That whole policy just makes no sense to me.
As far as infrastructure, maybe.
ATT can't decide if they have tower issues or not (depends on which of the 6 different people with 6 different answers I have talked to at ATT say). If they actually do have tower issues then maybe that's the reason for the slowdown.
But the only thing I know for sure is my data will slow as molasses by the end of the month. Thankfully the park I'm in has free wifi that usually works when my hotspot won't. Never thought I would say anything positive about any park's wifi but.....
