topic Re: 3G throttling in Get Support

3G throttling

coolvehiclefan — Wed, 05 Jan 2022 09:35:11 GMT

How long does it take for the 3G throttling to kick in on the $50 8.5gb 3G plan that I signed up for yesterday?

Re: 3G throttling

mimmo — Wed, 24 Apr 2019 23:48:59 GMT

i think it is 48-72 hours.

Re: 3G throttling

Triguy — Wed, 24 Apr 2019 23:49:32 GMT

LTE is normally faster than 3G but PM throttles it to 3MB/sec. 3G is not thottled so it's around 15MB/sec.

Re: 3G throttling

coolvehiclefan — Wed, 24 Apr 2019 23:49:46 GMT

Great thanks!

Re: 3G throttling

coolvehiclefan — Wed, 24 Apr 2019 23:50:13 GMT

Awesome thanks for the help!

Re: 3G throttling

computergeek541 — Thu, 25 Apr 2019 01:58:33 GMT

@coolvehiclefan , I would say that no matter how fun it may seem to run that popular speedtest.net app and to try to compare to other carriers and network locations, I would suggest not doing that while you are in your first few days. That app can use a lot of data in one test, especially while your full LTE speed is still enabled.

I don't know the maximum LTE speed that your device can support, but we've seen some results using up 0.5 to about 1.0GB in one try. Some customers likely used up their entire data alotment running this app.

Re: 3G throttling

coolvehiclefan — Thu, 25 Apr 2019 02:00:04 GMT

Yea i wont be running the speedtest app til I'm actually throttled ive ran it once and used a bit over 100mb

Re: 3G throttling

computergeek541 — Thu, 25 Apr 2019 02:04:29 GMT

@coolvehiclefan wrote:
Yea i wont be running the speedtest app til I'm actually throttled ive ran it once and used a bit over 100mb

That app can serve a purpose, but don't do it unless you fully know what you're getting into. Unfortunately, I know people do get curious and don't want to feel as if they got ripped off on a speed, so they end up doing some testing. I'm not going to say that I haven't use this app as I have, but when you think about it, this really just wastes data that you could have otherwise used on something else,

Re: 3G throttling

coolvehiclefan — Thu, 25 Apr 2019 02:05:30 GMT

Yea i agree

Re: 3G throttling

mynewhome — Fri, 03 May 2019 15:46:49 GMT

I don't see a 3g only option when searching available networks, does this vary based on geographical location? I only see public mobile lte and wcdma options.

Re: 3G throttling

Anonymous — Fri, 03 May 2019 15:47:59 GMT

@mynewhome wrote:
I don't see a 3g only option when searching available networks, does this vary based on geographical location? I only see public mobile lte and wcdma options.

There are several different terminologies. In your case that WCDMA = 3G.

Re: 3G throttling

Nathan08 — Fri, 05 Jul 2019 11:14:25 GMT

My wife and I both have Galaxy S7 phones and were with Virgin Mobile. Where I am at, we get LTE speeds with Virgin. To compare Public Mobile's speeds to Virgin's speeds, I switched my phone to Public Mobile and did a speed test. My wife also did a speed test with Virgin (same app same style phone). I found the speeds were cut by 50% (both upload and download speeds.). I was still able to watch Netflix and Youtube, check e-mail, browse picture-heavy sites... no problem.

Re: 3G throttling

computergeek541 — Fri, 05 Jul 2019 19:56:26 GMT

@Nathan08 wrote:
My wife and I both have Galaxy S7 phones and were with Virgin Mobile. Where I am at, we get LTE speeds with Virgin. To compare Public Mobile's speeds to Virgin's speeds, I switched my phone to Public Mobile and did a speed test. My wife also did a speed test with Virgin (same app same style phone). I found the speeds were cut by 50% (both upload and download speeds.). I was still able to watch Netflix and Youtube, check e-mail, browse picture-heavy sites... no problem.

The actual percentage of difference can vary greatly depending on the speed of the other carrier's connection. For me, speed loss can be from 90 to 99% speed loss on a Public Mobile "3g" plan, but that's because with an LTE plan, I've occassionally been able to get download speeds around 300Mbps.