How bad is the slower throttled 512kbs anyways...? 🤔

[Chris_]

Hey folks,

Anyone here have experience with using the throttled 512Kbs data on their phones? 

Can you still do most things fine? Could I stream a Youtube video still?

How much slower is the experience anyways?

Anyone able to describe it from real experience?

I just realized as I've been contemplating a plan change, that I have "unlimited" data after by 40gb are used up, at a throttled 512kbs speed. So now wondering maybe I'd be best off keeping it...

Thank you

[Shutdown]

You can watch youtube vids at 360p. It's ok for some sites like reddit or web browsing, but some sites that are more bandwidth intensive it's unusable. If you have your own wifi router you can try and cap your wifi speed to 0.5 mbps and see how it is.

[Chris_]

Yeah, fair points to make there

[golfball]

IMO there is no point in the unlimited data if you never hit your cap. US roaming (if you will use it) or even just more high speed data are more useful options because the kind of use required to hit the limit won't be possible once you hit the throttled speed. It makes more sense if your plan is like 2GB but not if you have 10s of gigabytes to go through.

And regardless of your plan if you're about to run out of data you always have the option to slow your own usage down without having to deal with the speed being reduced.

[Chris_]

Those were the days 🤗

[Handy1]

@Chris_  Hahahahaha yes i guess so but it seems so primitive like old dial up internet waiting 7 mins for page to load LOL

[Chris_]

I mean, isn't that the speed we were all using back in 2005-2007 days? I remember using the 'ol Blackberries back then... the Pearl and the Curve 😂 

[Handy1 · Accepted solution]

@Chris_  It’s not great but good enough for email and some web surfing but won’t be any good for video or games