Recent content by Rich Franzen

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    play music problem -- throttled 4G ?

    Took my walk with Google Play Music set to low quality. It didn't help; the music eventually stopped playing. This time it was in the middle of a track, so maybe it does actually stream. Shouldn't a 2G signal still be adequate to download at least one track every 3 minutes (i.e., download the...
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    play music problem -- throttled 4G ?

    Thanks for the feedback, everyone. I've lowered the streaming quality and will find out later this morning if this has fixed the problem. This setting hadn't seemed applicable to me, because it did not occur to me what I was doing was "streaming". What happens is it downloads a song, plays...
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    play music problem -- throttled 4G ?

    I have a new Moto X phone with carrier T-Mobile. The service is "pre-pay" (cheaper) and I'm on the 500 MByte/month plan. After 500 MBytes, the service is still "unlimited", but throttled to 2G performance. 1) Is the connection indicator still supposed to show 4G while speed throttled down...