topic Re: Full Speed on 3G Plan in Get Support

Full LTE Speed on 3G Speed Plan

aaaaa — Wed, 05 Jan 2022 11:23:36 GMT

I did a Speedtest with my 3G speed plan today, and I got over 50 Mbps on LTE. I have had this plan for a few months. It is not a new account. So it is not that first few days where new customers get full speed before throttle is applied. Is anyone else experiencing the same?

Re: Full LTE Speed on 3G Plan

will13am — Tue, 13 Aug 2019 12:43:19 GMT

@aaaaa, normally the speed drops from full speed to the throttled speed after 2 days. If you are lucky recipient of full speed LTE still, I would lay low and enjoy the better service. By chance is your phone set on 3G only? They do not throttle 3G. HSPA+ would not be able to yield 50 mbps, closer to half that number.

Re: Full LTE Speed on 3G Speed Plan

Psygineer — Tue, 13 Aug 2019 12:44:37 GMT

@aaaaa wrote:
I did a Speedtest with my 3G speed plan today, and I got over 50 Mbps on LTE. I have had this plan for a few months. It is not a new account. So it is not that first few days where new customers get full speed before throttle is applied. Is anyone else experiencing the same?

I'd be careful with those speedtests, you will burn through your data pretty fast with those. I've never run one myself on PM, and I don't have enough data to confirm for you, but I would be interested to hear others none-the-less.

Re: Full LTE Speed on 3G Plan

aaaaa — Tue, 13 Aug 2019 12:46:09 GMT

I updated my post to make it more descriptive. The Speedtest was done on LTE, not 3G.

Re: Full LTE Speed on 3G Plan

jor123 — Tue, 13 Aug 2019 12:46:18 GMT

@will13am wrote:
@aaaaa, normally the speed drops from full speed to the throttled speed after 2 days. If you are lucky recipient of full speed LTE still, I would lay low and enjoy the better service. By chance is your phone set on 3G only? They do not throttle 3G. HSPA+ would not be able to yield 50 mbps, closer to half that number.

I find HSPA near unusable in my area (urban). Not sure if it's congestion or? The ping and upload is especially bad.

Re: Full Speed on 3G Plan

tyedye00 — Tue, 13 Aug 2019 12:50:57 GMT

I personally haven't tested the network speed, but from my experience "3G speeds" on PM are fast enough for the average user. I've done numerous basic tests with PM's 3G speeds on my Samsung Galaxy S7:

Instagram: 2-5 seconds to load my entire feed
Twitter: near instant
Browsing a website such as public mobile: about 2-5 seconds
Youtube: 720p very small initial buffer

Location: Toronto.

Re: Full Speed on 3G Plan

jor123 — Tue, 13 Aug 2019 12:52:36 GMT

@tyedye00 wrote:
I personally haven't tested the network speed, but from my experience "3G speeds" on PM are fast enough for the average user. I've done numerous basic tests with PM's 3G speeds on my Samsung Galaxy S7:
Instagram: 2-5 seconds to load my entire feed
Twitter: near instant
Browsing a website such as public mobile: about 2-5 seconds
Youtube: 720p very small initial buffer
Location: Toronto.

Yeah, "3G speeds" on LTE are not bad at all. It just seems for me the HSPA network itself is bad.

Re: Full Speed on 3G Plan

tyedye00 — Tue, 13 Aug 2019 13:03:07 GMT

Very true. HSPA Network is quite... meh. I tend to get this when I am up north.

Phoning out is okay, but data ... eh hit and miss.

Re: Full Speed on 3G Plan

jor123 — Tue, 13 Aug 2019 13:09:07 GMT

Yeah, I find I just avoid using data when I don't have a LTE connection (which is rare but there are places where the 3G signal is fine but there's no LTE, especially basements, etc.) Even MMS takes a while to send over 3G

Re: Full LTE Speed on 3G Speed Plan

geopublic — Tue, 13 Aug 2019 14:08:29 GMT

@aaaaa wrote:
I did a Speedtest with my 3G speed plan today, and I got over 50 Mbps on LTE. I have had this plan for a few months. It is not a new account. So it is not that first few days where new customers get full speed before throttle is applied. Is anyone else experiencing the same?

@aaaaa Wow thanks for the update. Just a couple of questions:

Was the test done just after plan renewal?

What time was the test performed? Was it off hours?

Re: Full LTE Speed on 3G Plan

will13am — Tue, 13 Aug 2019 14:48:54 GMT

@aaaaa wrote:
I updated my post to make it more descriptive. The Speedtest was done on LTE, not 3G.

I have 3G speed plans ($25 and $40 plans) and do not get full speed LTE performance. Which plan do you have?

Re: Full Speed on 3G Plan

Colinh90 — Mon, 13 Jul 2020 07:48:39 GMT

i've had LTE with virgin mobile, and throttled 3g with Lucky and Public and i can confirm that you won't notice much of a difference at all. you'll still be-able to watch 30+min youtube videos without buffer, and play Minecraft and Pokémon go flawlessly with public's throttled 3g speed with no interruption.

Re: Full Speed on 3G Plan

Jb456 — Mon, 13 Jul 2020 07:54:08 GMT

@Colinh90 this post is from August 2019. I'm sure OP figured that out by now.

Re: Full Speed on 3G Plan

Colinh90 — Mon, 13 Jul 2020 08:30:21 GMT

@Jb456 the date of the post is irrelevant and has nothing to do with anything.. but rather, im speaking to those who are doing research and come across my post about the the matter. im speaking to those who are skeptical about the speed. and those who are on the fence about wether to try it or not.. you need to stop bombarding my comments with your useless dates that mean nuthing.