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New for January: Boost is throttling data after 2.5 gb

greg schmeg

greg schmeg

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Is there a way to keep getting unthrottled data speeds after using 2.5 gb's if u delete the data throttle files? Or does boost/sprint keep track of how much data you have used independently from the data usage logs on ur device?


This sucks BTW
 
I would say remove the proxies in the data/others/multimedia hidden menu. As for throttling it all depends on how they accomplish it. I would assume it would be on the carrier side and they could just keep a running total data for the month tied to your account. and at that point throttle your speed on their end. That accounting is already there from the old days when they counted minutes of voice use.

Codegerm
 
Codegerm said:
I would say remove the proxies in the data/others/multimedia hidden menu. As for throttling it all depends on how they accomplish it. I would assume it would be on the carrier side and they could just keep a running total data for the month tied to your account. and at that point throttle your speed on their end. That accounting is already there from the old days when they counted minutes of voice use.

Codegerm
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So there's no way to stop this then.now does this mean we will have to pay more.
 
It all depends on how they accomplish it so I guess we will find out soon enough. I personally think they should only throttle people with high data for the month only when the towers they are on are very busy, then relax it when the towers are not.

I myself use WiFi for all my major streaming and I have a 16gig SD-card in my phone so I can keep a lot of music in my phone with no need to stream it from the cloud. It is mainly video and streaming music that burns up the data. Things like email is usually fairly low on use. Unfortunately FK23's data counter doesn't differentiate between Wifi and 3g/4g, but I can estimate that. I know that for the month (well most of it 11-25 to 12-22) I have used 1.74gig which would all be 3g/4g if I didn't WiFi most of it. There are also things you can do to lower your data use (do you really need your email app checking for mail every 15 minutes?). Also if rooted you can use Droidwall to to restrict on a per app bases what apps can use 3g/4g or WiFi you can limit them to only WiFi etc.

Codegerm
 
Codegerm said:
It all depends on how they accomplish it so I guess we will find out soon enough. I personally think they should only throttle people with high data for the month only when the towers they are on are very busy, then relax it when the towers are not.

I myself use WiFi for all my major streaming and I have a 16gig SD-card in my phone so I can keep a lot of music in my phone with no need to stream it from the cloud. It is mainly video and streaming music that burns up the data. Things like email is usually fairly low on use. Unfortunately FK23's data counter doesn't differentiate between Wifi and 3g/4g, but I can estimate that. I know that for the month (well most of it 11-25 to 12-22) I have used 1.74gig which would all be 3g/4g if I didn't WiFi most of it. There are also things you can do to lower your data use (do you really need your email app checking for mail every 15 minutes?). Also if rooted you can use Droidwall to to restrict on a per app bases what apps can use 3g/4g or WiFi you can limit them to only WiFi etc.

Codegerm
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your teaching me a lot,thank you.
 
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