Three Mobile are THROTTLING All You Can Eat Data

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All-you-can-eat data on The One Plan.
What's the limit?
There are no restrictions for the all-you-can-eat data that now comes with The One Plan. This means you can use your smartphone as you like - so you can download apps, browse the web, look at maps and check your emails as often as you like.

This is what Three post on their website. however the moderators on their blog say this:

You’ll only have your traffic managed if you are a disproportionately high data user (in the top 5% of high data users) and when you are using data in a busy cell site area between peak hours of 6pm to 12am. Try to move some of your data usage outside of these hours. You should see a speed improvement after seven days.
However they seem to forget that they throttle you down to 75Kbps which is near dial up speed. I actually get 0.01Mb/s now.:mad:

PS Only using 3GB Monthly.
 
I'm on 300 sim only 1 month rolling contract with all you can eat data.
I've used 100mb this month.

Just ran speedtest.net and my results are:

107ms
Download: 4943kbps
Upload: 1770kbps

Is that good? I assume they cap when you go over you allowance?

From what I can see this is an issue if you tether, otherwise you aren't really going to hit the top 5% of users are you...
 
thats brilliant

This is what get though

Before 15.00
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after 15.00
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They limit "high" users to 75kbps that seems to = 20kbps from 15.00 to 23.59 for 7 whole days


20kbps is slower then dial up, basically, they've almost cut you off, websites can take 1.5 to 3 minutes to load
 
Wow that's a huge drop on an already slow speed! I wouldn't put up with that =/

edit: ok well your initial isn't THAT slow but still... considering I'm in coventry of all places :p and on the outskirts!
 
cirian75 said:
They limit "high" users to 75kbps that seems to = 20kbps from 15.00 to 23.59 for 7 whole days


20kbps is slower then dial up, basically, they've almost cut you off, websites can take 1.5 to 3 minutes to load
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how much data are you using actually, to get cut like that?
 
I was doing about 20GB a month average over the last 3 months, but its probably lower, I was off for 4 weeks in March, so prob used a load less data in April and May.

The guy at three though told me they've had 5 people tethering to one phone and battering 24/7/365

I'm prob about 10/15GB a month

high, but not stupid high like these 100GB's pm guys he told me about.
 
ok, not really anything to worry about then unless people are using the phone as a home internet connection, couldnt see myself hitting 2gb pm really
 
Not really suprising.

Shame they don't use a system like BT are now using where instead of hard throttling they apply "soft" brakes to heavy users based on overall network load levels.
 
yeah, tethering is allowed in the contract, but if they didnt enforce a fup that was stricter than home broadband providers, then everybody would dump their virgin/bt connections and just tether, imagine what that would do to their network!
 
I don't see how you can justify downloading gb's of data every month via 3g. Infact I personally hate how 3g seems to be an acceptable way to go on the web as if you're at home downloading large files or torrents etc. Really what should happen is that we are all given limits in terms of speed and data usage. We are using essentially a massive wifi network and if Joe bloggs has his phone tethered or a 3g dongle going I'd like to know that we can all receive atleast 2mbp and not find were struggling to even get a reception.
 
sja360 said:
I don't see how you can justify downloading gb's of data every month via 3g. Infact I personally hate how 3g seems to be an acceptable way to go on the web as if you're at home downloading large files or torrents etc. Really what should happen is that we are all given limits in terms of speed and data usage. We are using essentially a massive wifi network and if Joe bloggs has his phone tethered or a 3g dongle going I'd like to know that we can all receive atleast 2mbp and not find were struggling to even get a reception.
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I hear what you are saying.

But then they shouldnt be writing things like this should they!

http://support.three.co.uk/srvs/cgi...sername=Mobile:mobileUser?s_search=helpsearch
 
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