cOOLguy
join:2009-09-10
Torrington, CT | Verizon 3G Capping = 3G Mobile Hotspot Crash This information comes directly from a chat with Verizon Tech Support.
I have a droid x and unlimited grandfathered data. I bought a 20 a month tethering plan so I could use my wifi tablet over the 3g connection.
This plan gets you 2GB/month tethered data. But any data transmissions to/from the host while the tethering is active count against this limit. (Fine with me)
I had to call Tech support because the 3G hotspot app was total crap. Specifically, it would not respond to on and off commands after a few minutes, or unload from memory when turned off, or work for more than 2 minutes.
Verizon told me that this is because I was capped -- "optimized" in these days of marketing bs. This means they were slowing my connection down purposefully because "unlimited data" really means 2GB a month and then you get capped.
So even though I offered to pay them 20 a month more for tethering, the tethering app crashes because I am capped.
I would like to file a complaint over the web with Connecticut...anyone have a link? Specifically, unlimited data should not mean that the phone becomes unusable for tethering after a certain unpublished limit is reached. |
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| Check your phone, you dont get throttled. You get overages. |
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cOOLguy
join:2009-09-10
Torrington, CT | No I dont get overages because I have unlimited data on the phone. Its kind of hard to overage "unlimited" but Verizon has found a way by making the phone unusable for tethering |
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dmc271
join:2008-09-02
Stillwater, OK Reviews:
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My experience is that the Mobile Hotspot app is simply buggy on certain phones. You might want to try rooting your phone and then using a different tethering application. This is what I had to do with my Thunderbolt. I still paid the tethering fee, but I simply used a different app (OpenGarden) to do the tethering. |
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cOOLguy
join:2009-09-10
Torrington, CT | I will try that. Perhaps the latencies that Verizon adds will not provoke any bugs in a different app. Thanks! |
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said by cOOLguy:No I dont get overages because I have unlimited data on the phone. Its kind of hard to overage "unlimited" but Verizon has found a way by making the phone unusable for tethering
Check again. Trust me |
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