| My Verizon connection throttled? It seems whenever I watch a few YouTube videos, my connection goes 1xRTT and I can't get past 25kB/s in speed. This has been going on for the past month and it's starting to piss me off.
Does anyone experience this? I tried directly connecting to the modem, and to the PHS300 and Cradlepoint MBR-1000 and they all behave this way. It seems if there's too much being downloaded at once, it demotes me into 1xRTT.
Can this be a tower issue? It really looks like throttling because it only does it if I'm downloading/streaming something for like 5min+. |
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 Jim_in_VA
join:2004-07-11
Cobbs Creek, VA
kudos:4 | If you have normal speeds while browsing, and this only occurs with video, it is not throttling.
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| No, what triggers it is a larger amount of data being downloaded within 5 min or so. That is usually caused from me watching several YouTube videos in succession or streaming music. Browsing the web usually doesn't cause it, because there are short bursts of data and nothing compared to constant streaming of vid/music.
Anyway, it kicks me to 1xRTT which I consider throttling because my connection becomes really slow. I'd try unplugging the modem for 15 seconds and plugging it back in and it wouldn't reconnect to 3G. I usually just connect to a Sprint 3G via tether at that point, and when that goes down I jump back onto Verizon's 3G connection. I thought it was coincidence at first but it has been doing this to me without fail the past few weeks. A rinse and repeat process. |
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Agreed. Establishing a new connection seems to handle that problem when I run into it. Usually try a software disconnect/reconnect first, and if that doesn't work then I'll unplug the modem and plug it back in. A drop in speed sometimes happens at work where I have my personal MacBook Pro on my desk...usually around lunch or rush hour when a lot of people are making calls home. Understandable because the bandwidth is a shared resource.
Downloading video is another way to handle this. I typically do that from itunes and from other sources. Advantage is if the speed drops(which can cause annoying buffering delays), it's no big deal because I'll see the video later off my local drive. Plus I can do a late night download off the tower near my home (a stealth cell tower inside a farmers silo that's shared between AT&T and Verizon) when there's only light tower traffic. |
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Jim_in_VA
join:2004-07-11
Cobbs Creek, VA
kudos:4 | reply to BakedPI
Throttling occurs across the board ...browsing, video, uploads. All of it is impacted.
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 dib22
join:2002-01-27
Kansas City, MO | reply to BakedPI
said by BakedPI :Anyway, it kicks me to 1xRTT which I consider throttling because my connection becomes really slow.
Throttleing happens on the backend... it doesn't occur by changing the tower signal/standard.
IF your signal is good...
If it happens in other locations (more than 10 miles away) then it could be your device going bad.
If it only happens at the same location over and over it sounds like the tower is having equipment issues... contact mcom and have them report it. |
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