topic Re: Fast 3G speed today? in Get Support

Fast 3G speed today?

DennyCrane — Thu, 06 Jan 2022 07:52:48 GMT

Any idea why I'm getting these high speeds today in Surrey, BC on my 3G plan?

Re: Fast 3G speed today?

computergeek541 — Tue, 15 Jun 2021 07:29:09 GMT

@DennyCrane wrote:

Any idea why I'm getting these high speeds today in Surrey, BC on my 3G plan?

This is a carrier glitch that sometimes happens. I've had it happen a few times randomly to my accounts, one time lasting for a relatively extended period of time, and a few others for short-term periods of time. The last time that this happened to me was after some network outages. Essentially, the account seems to fall off the LTE "throttle list" for unknown reasons.

New customers also get full LTE speeds for the first 48 hours.

Re: Fast 3G speed today?

DennyCrane — Tue, 15 Jun 2021 07:26:02 GMT

Thanks. I saw another thread about an outage, so this lines up. Not a new customer. I was noticing more "zippineness" than usual when browsing so I ran a speed test which gave me surprising results.

Re: Fast 3G speed today?

chainsawcowboy — Tue, 15 Jun 2021 07:44:23 GMT

@DennyCrane

How much data did you use running those speed tests?

Re: Fast 3G speed today?

DennyCrane — Tue, 15 Jun 2021 07:47:09 GMT

About 250MB per. More than I was expecting, but i have only used 20% of my allotment and I'm renewing in 10 days. The joys of working from home and being on WiFi most of the time.

Re: Fast 3G speed today?

chainsawcowboy — Tue, 15 Jun 2021 08:07:28 GMT

@DennyCrane

Thanks that's good to know....that would wipe out my data plan in one kick at the can. That would be shock if you thought you were throttled and a speed test would be maybe 10mb and instead you get a text from pm saying you have used 100% of your data!

Re: Fast 3G speed today?

stevenanto — Tue, 15 Jun 2021 09:31:56 GMT

Thats amazing, as long as it's not the other way around. enjoy it while you have it.

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gpixel — Wed, 16 Jun 2021 22:42:21 GMT

darn, I thought I was the only one who had that. maybe I'm the cause of it...

😯

Re: Fast 3G speed today?

BlueB — Wed, 16 Jun 2021 22:43:21 GMT

Enjoy it while it lasts, but also... watch out for how much more data you might use up faster! 😁

Re: Fast 3G speed today?

gpixel — Wed, 16 Jun 2021 22:56:34 GMT

I'm not worried, it's going to last for a long time for me 😉

Re: Fast 3G speed today?

gpixel — Sun, 20 Jun 2021 15:01:15 GMT

Does anybody here still have full speed LTE?

Re: Fast 3G speed today?

DennyCrane — Sun, 20 Jun 2021 15:03:24 GMT

Yup. This is right now in Surrey, BC.

Re: Fast 3G speed today?

Anonymous — Sun, 20 Jun 2021 15:22:26 GMT

I think I would be just sorta kinda quietly enjoying another PM quirk. There are several.

Re: Fast 3G speed today?

DennyCrane — Sun, 20 Jun 2021 15:29:30 GMT

My wife has the exact same phone, is on the same PM plan, and was in the exact same location as me but she is still throttled. I'll take it though!

Re: Fast 3G speed today?

softech — Sun, 20 Jun 2021 16:16:40 GMT

not me..:(

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BearFBI — Sun, 20 Jun 2021 17:01:35 GMT

I had full speed LTE on the 35$ Plan once but I lost it when I switched plans to the 25$ plan.

I was angry. Forgot all about it.

At least I got to enjoy the snappiness at camp. 3G speed is annoying.

Talking about speed, my upload is 0.70mbps. GARBAGE. The throttle is so inconsistent, even doing the speed test shows how it starts so slow then finally gets to 3mbps.

Re: Fast 3G speed today?

gpixel — Sun, 20 Jun 2021 20:13:01 GMT

lol I'm never changing plans again! thanks @BearFBI for the tip 👍.

Re: Fast 3G speed today?

BearFBI — Sun, 20 Jun 2021 20:22:28 GMT

@gpixel Jee, you got lucky like I did I guess.

Changing plans reprovisions the system and screws it all up. Keep it the way it is and you might be fine.

Re: Fast 3G speed today?

darlicious — Wed, 23 Jun 2021 06:59:36 GMT

@BearFBI @gpixel

So I rode over to kits beach to watch the sunset and pulled out my phone to sign into my account and noticed it loaded very quickly. So I took a screenshot of my moto G7+ and of each sim card I have in A3 when I changed the sim card using data. So the $15 plan and then the $10 plan and another $15 plan. Note the symbol in the top right corner of the screenshots.

Re: Fast 3G speed today?

computergeek541 — Wed, 23 Jun 2021 07:13:45 GMT

@darlicious wrote:
@BearFBI @gpixel
So I rode over to kits beach to watch the sunset and pulled out my phone to sign into my account and noticed it loaded very quickly. So I took a screenshot of my moto G7+ and of each sim card I have in A3 when I changed the sim card using data. So the $15 plan and then the $10 plan and another $15 plan. Note the symbol in the top right corner of the screenshots.

Without knowing how each of your specific phones labels HSPA and LTE network connections, "4g" and "4g+" could mean either network type. The 4g+ in the signal meter could either refer to HSPA-DC or LTE-Advanced (My phone calls what most people call 3g as "4g"). Your plan's data speed (or a temporary glitch causing full LTE speeds) doesn't affect the type of network that you connect to. Even people who have "3g" plans can connect to LTE-Advanced.