I am going to start from the beginning and see if anyone can figure out my problem....
Last November I decided to try out Att mvno carriers and use unlocked gsm phones, in an attempt to get away from Verizon. The reason is Verizon does not do well at work. I spend 10-12 hours at work.
Here at home and most everywhere else, Verizon does fine. I am on unlimited data as well.
So, I ordered a new Nexus 4 and a straight talk sim card. Once I had both I set up the account and set up the phone and started using it. Everything was great. I was getting fast download speeds and all was great. I was curious about Straight Talk's "unlimited data" so I pushed it to see how far I could go.
I hit a little over 3gb of data, in three weeks. As I figured, I got throttled. Best speed I could get was a consistent 0.12mbps. I called Straight Talk and after a bit of messages left back and forth, I finally got to talk to someone.
I was told I had NOT been throttled as far as they knew. They suggested either a network problem or something wrong with my Nexus 4. I told them I had swapped sim cards with my sons phone and everything showed it was my Straight Talk account that was the problem.
The folks at Straight Talk insisted they did not throttle me, BUT..... But they then told me once I refilled my account, my speeds would go back to normal. Really??!! How can they know that?? I felt I was being lied to and decided to stick with Verizon. I let the Straight Talk account lapse and sold the Nexus 4.
Now we come to March 2013. I decide to try again. I had done research and thought Black Wireless looked to be the bomb.... $60/month got me unlimited talk and text/picture messaging and 2gb data before being throttled. Sounded great! So, I ordered the Black Wireless sim card. Free shipping to boot!
I then ordered a new 16gb Nexus 4. Once they both arrived, I inserted the sim and fired up the phone. (i had also ordered a sim from t mobile and set it up on the $30/100 minute plan...). That was a Friday. Friday and Saturday everything was great. With the BW sim I was getting 5-8 mbps download, faster every now n then. The t mobile sim was giving me about 17mbps speed. Late Saturday night the Nexus stopped recognizing the BW sim card. Then it stopped seeing even the t mobile sim.
I tried many things and finally did a factory reset. Still no help. I then put the Nexus into fastboot mode and hit recovery. Finally the Nexus recognized the BW sim. All day that Sunday, the phone and sim worked great. Fast speeds, all was good.
Come Monday afternoon, I get to work and tried out Speedtest to see how the new phone and sim were doing. Imagine my surprise when I could not get anything but 0.12mbps down. I tried several things and still could do no better over the next few days. I called BW and got hung up on several times. It took 6 calls to get thru to a human. When I did they had thick Indian accent, very hard to understand. After a few tries I was told they did not throttle me, it must be the network or my phone. Sound familiar??
Eventually they told me they would reset my data, in hopes to get my speed back up. Said it might take few hours. Another day went by, nothing changed. But then my Nexus stopped seeing the sim cards again...not the BW, not the t mobile and not even my old ST sim. So I called Google support and a new Nexus arrives two days later.
I take the new Nexus out of the box, insert my BW sim and turn the phone on. Guess what?? No sim error. I tried all three Sims several times, but never get the Nexus to see any Sim. So I called support again and this time I decide to return both phones and get a refund.
So now I set with two active sim cards (BW and t mobile...) but no phone to use either in. So after much thinking, I bought a new S3 I9300 from Amazon. Phone shows up yesterday. I charge it, grab and install my BW sim. No sim found is what the phone keeps telling me. I try t mobile sim and it works fine, albeit only edge speeded. I failed to see that bit of info. Apparently the unlocked S3 is unable of seeing more than edge.
I call BW to tell them there is a problem with their sim. They try to tell me I needed to buy a new sim. I told them they need to replace it for me. The gal tells me her supervisor will call me back. No one ever calls...
So, fed up with BW, I decided to reactivate my Straight Talk sim. Once reactivated, I was getting good speed again. Then all of a sudden, my speeds again drop to 0.12 (always 0.12, never any less or any more...) on me.
I only have used 22mb of data. I have tried every APN setting I can find, nothing changes. 0.12mbps each and every time I test it.
What in the world am I doing wrong???
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