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[BAleR187]

Hello all. I have a quick question about throttling. Im currently a prevail owner and am thinking about switching to the SGSII. People have said that after the 2.5gb limit, your speeds drop to 256k? Is this 256kb/s? Or 256kbps?? There is a huge difference, i could live with 256kb/s. In other words, does it drop down to 3g speeds or 2g speeds? And what if i only use 3g, will i still get throttled? Thankyou for any help, i really want this phone, but i really dont want 2g speeds.

 

[Codegerm]

Hello all. I have a quick question about throttling. Im currently a prevail owner and am thinking about switching to the SGSII. People have said that after the 2.5gb limit, your speeds drop to 256k? Is this 256kb/s? Or 256kbps?? There is a huge difference, i could live with 256kb/s. In other words, does it drop down to 3g speeds or 2g speeds? And what if i only use 3g, will i still get throttled? Thankyou for any help, i really want this phone, but i really dont want 2g speeds.

All net speeds are in bits per second weather in Kilo or Mega. A kilobyte is KB. You would be in the 2Mbps range to be getting 256KB (kilobyte) per second.

 

[apnavarun]

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[BAleR187]

All net speeds are in bits per second weather in Kilo or Mega. A kilobyte is KB. You would be in the 2Mbps range to be getting 256KB (kilobyte) per second.

my understanding of it is,

kb/s - kilobytes per second

kbps - kilobits per second

mb/s - megabyte per second

mbps - megabit per second

correct?

 

[Codegerm]

my understanding of it is,

kb/s - kilobytes per second

kbps - kilobits per second

mb/s - megabyte per second

mbps - megabit per second

correct?

Kilobyte has to have a uppercase B a lot of people make that mistake unfortunately. Case is important, and as I said all net speeds are in bits per second not bytes. Just like M is mega and m is not. Kilobytes per second is KB/s and Megabytes per second is MB/s. Just remember that when you are talking data speeds for your net connection they will be in bits per second.

 

[BAleR187]

Ok. Thanks for clearing that up. I guess my real question was, after they throttle you, do speeds drop to 3g or 2g?

 

[BAleR187]

Im sorry, but ive always gone with KB, usually any network monitor or speed test app gives you the option to veiw your net speed in KB/s. . Its just what ive always used and understood . Now a quick google search told me 256kbps = roughly 31KB/s. Witch is not 3g speeds. More like 2g. Can anyone conferm this?