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2.5 gig data limit?

cnymoeman said:
I just found out today that boost has a 2.5 limit and throttles down after that...I thought unlimited went unlimited speed also....Welp guess I was wrong....
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Nope... lol... unlimited data means you can download as much as you want... they didn't say anything about speed

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My understanding is that this only affects on the HTC EVO Design, or any future 4G phones, when you reach 2.5G of data it will throttle down to 3G speed. It does not however, limit the unlimited data or on 3G phones.

Someone correct me if I'm wrong.
 
freesunshine said:
My understanding is that this only affects on the HTC EVO Design, or any future 4G phones, when you reach 2.5G of data it will throttle down to 3G speed. It does not however, limit the unlimited data or on 3G phones.

Someone correct me if I'm wrong.
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That is my understanding as-well freesunshine,i have never noticed or experienced any speed loss.I am pretty positive you are correct.
 
Ok, but is 2.5 mbs really that bad? lol I remember when a computer could barely reach 5 kbs. I mean even if you're downloading 700 mbs movies you still get it in less than 5 minutes and an average song in 2 or 3 seconds. On that note when viewing web pages it's an almost instantaneous page load.
 
Lateralus138 said:
Ok, but is 2.5 mbs really that bad? lol I remember when a computer could barely reach 5 kbs. I mean even if you're downloading 700 mbs movies you still get it in less than 5 minutes and an average song in 2 or 3 seconds. On that note when viewing web pages it's an almost instantaneous page load.
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When you run a speedtest and get 2.5mbs its megabits per second not megabytes per second mbs is a step under from kilobytes per second
 
ApolloStar2109 said:
When you run a speedtest and get 2.5mbs its megabits per second not megabytes per second mbs is a step under from kilobytes per second
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I know that quite well, although it is not just a step below, there are 8 bits in 1 byte, but I get dls on my warp between 1.7 -1.8 MBS not MBPS. So if thats what you mean then I know it doesnt throttle at 300kbs, but after reading the title of this post he said 2.5 gigs which would be 300mbs and not even my comcast internet can get that.
 
I just got off phone with boost less then an hour ago, was told this applies to 3g as well. (THere is a thread in the root section about this though and some possible ....workaround..)
 
Lateralus138 said:
I know that quite well, although it is not just a step below, there are 8 bits in 1 byte, but I get dls on my warp between 1.7 -1.8 MBS not MBPS. So if thats what you mean then I know it doesnt throttle at 300kbs, but after reading the title of this post he said 2.5 gigs which would be 300mbs and not even my comcast internet can get that.
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My understanding of it was once you've downloaded 2.5 GIGS of data, ( in a certain period), your speed is throttled. Could be totally wrong, im just catching up here myself..
 
I've never had my 3g throttled down except during peak times, but that's probably because it's shared like cable internet.
 
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And to clarify, on 3g, theres no way your getting over 1 MB/s, i just posted in 2 other threads about this... 1 mbps = 125 KB/s transfer rate. PCs use Base-2 therefore you must divide by 1024 AFTER converting to bytes.
 
ApolloStar2109 said:
When you run a speedtest and get 2.5mbs its megabits per second not megabytes per second mbs is a step under from kilobytes per second
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2.5 mbps = =2500 Kbps [Kilobit-per-second] = =0.313 MB/sec [Megabyte-per-second] = = 312.5 KB/sec [Kilobyte-per-second] Transfer Speed.
 
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