Three Mobile are THROTTLING All You Can Eat Data

[sja360]

No you're quite right, three should have just worked out what they can actually do rather than suggesting there unlimited and not throttled just to gain some customers.
I can't see why someone should need unlimited Internet on the go however as your bound to come across wifi network at some point which will have better ping, signal strength and possibly speed.

 

[a1ex2001]

To 95% of users they are unlimited and not throttled, if it's causing you such as issue modify your internet use my home broadband connection does nothing like 15GB a month so I'm sure you could do the essentials online for a fair bi less than you currently are.

 

[Randell Floyd]

I wondered what had happened, did have a look at a few sites but found nothing. It's become nearly unusable now in the capped hours, so might have to swap to another 3 sim for a try and see how long it takes to cap.

 

[muon]

About damn time. I might consider going back to them now for decent speeds at daytime hours.

Here's what I said previously on the issue.

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/sh...hlight=saturation+username_anyon#post21819549

I was one of the earliest people to go on the One Plan.

For mobile networks it is simply not possible to sustain a massive throughput on each cell tower. The costs would be astronomical.

 

[MarkDavis]

Only just noticed this thread.

I'm being throttled to death. Even web browsing is unusable (unless you like dialup type speeds).

Confirmed by 3 customer services:

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=22019579&postcount=6

 

[muon]

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.

That would require cell towers to be quite smart though and having access to a lot of data.

My guess is that something like that is easier in fixed line broadband, as exchanges cover so many users.

 

[Glaucus]

If that's true that's shocking, but surly it's a mistake, even if they've implemented throttling. It can't be that low.

 

[MarkDavis]

If that's true that's shocking, but surly it's a mistake, even if they've implemented throttling. It can't be that low.

Believe it, seriously. Loading web pages take about 2-10 seconds to load, with text first and graphics/pictures lagging behind.

Some pages simply time out and don't load at all.

56k modem territory.

 

[KIA]

A data cap is better than this nonsense.

 

[Matteysan]

They should just block tethering on all packages & make people pay more for that. Seems most of the abuse comes from tethering!

 

[413x]

I use tethering for 100% of my usage now on 3

 

[twe]

7 days is a long time to unthrottle you..... 24hrs and maybe double the throttled speed is something they should look at.....

 

[Rroff]

They should just block tethering on all packages & make people pay more for that. Seems most of the abuse comes from tethering!

Blocking tethering is actually quite difficult to fully do. Don't see why they can't have a decent useage allowances tho. 10-15gig is loads if your actually using it as a mobile device even with a bit of spotify and netflix, etc. thrown in there and something like £10-15/m would be pretty reasonable for that and if your using it as a replacement for broadband then I don't think it it unreasonable to expect to pay a bit more for a bit higher allowance.

 

[reflux]

Oh this is good. Just switched to Three because of Unlimited Data

 

[smit101]

Oh this is good. Just switched to Three because of Unlimited Data

I wouldn't worry too much, as long as you're not downloading silly amounts at peak times then you won't be throttled. If you are tethering and have a big download to do just keep it outside of 6-12pm.

Three haven't been very clear as yet how the throttling is being implemented, it could well be just directed at heavy torrent users and then maybe only on the busier cell sites, we'll just have to wait and see.

I'm well over the 10GB this month, probably over 15GB but being on the One Plan it doesn't show total data usage in My3, so I can't be 100% sure how much I've used, definitely a fair bit though and no throttling as yet.

 

[Grrrrr]

I really believe unlimited should be unlimited. If the network cannot cope with people steaming lots of music and videos then don't offer the service, that's a perfectly reasonable usage expectation IMO.

With regards tethering, the mobile infrastructure really wasn't set up to cope with the levels used at home on PCs so something probably does need to be a little different in that regard. Why not offer truely unlimited mobile data but with, say, a 3GB cap on tethered data?

 

[MarkDavis]

I have a "3" 15gb mobile broadband dongle, and they're throttling that as well. Nowhere near as bad as The One Plan or their mobile phone contracts, but anything torrent related is super slooooooooow. Internet stuff is passable. Never been super quick (iPlayer can be stuttery for example), but its mostly usable if you just want to browse the web.

Basically, "3" have gone completely down hill with anything internet related.

 

[White]

Just signed up for the one plan for my galaxy s3

The sales man said i could connect up to 5 appliance for my tethering at once

 

[jon86]

I have noticed that I am being throttled. Sad times.

If you want to get out of your contract, someone on XDA Forums has a 4 point list that you can use with Three to get a manager to cancel your contract: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1676052&page=29

 

[Rids]

I'm not sure if I'm being throttled or the service in the city has gone to complete pot, I've got an iPhone and an iPad on Three that I simply cannot use at the moment. Not happy.