Possibly Throttled? :(

[soccerfon711]

So I drove all over Tampa today. Occasionally I would pull out my Thunderbolt and perform a speedtest and the results were a bit surprising.

I've been consistently getting around 5 Mbps in areas where I used to get 20+. And this was not just one location, I tried it in Northeast Tampa, South Tampa, and East Tampa. I would never get more than 5 Mbps. I was just wondering if it is possible that Verizon is throttling me without sending me a message informing me that they were doing so?

Don't misunderstand me; 5 Mbps is still really fast, I just kind of want to know if it's my phone or the network. Any Tampa people stuck around 5 Mbps?

 

[88 FLUX]

So I drove all over Tampa today. Occasionally I would pull out my Thunderbolt and perform a speedtest and the results were a bit surprising.

I've been consistently getting around 5 Mbps in areas where I used to get 20+. And this was not just one location, I tried it in Northeast Tampa, South Tampa, and East Tampa. I would never get more than 5 Mbps. I was just wondering if it is possible that Verizon is throttling me without sending me a message informing me that they were doing so?

Don't misunderstand me; 5 Mbps is still really fast, I just kind of want to know if it's my phone or the network. Any Tampa people stuck around 5 Mbps?

I'm experiencing the same issue in NJ on two different Thunderbolts. I don't think it's a throttling issue regarding your account. I think it's a Verizon network issue because I'm a new customer (about two and a half weeks in) and have had no excessive data usage on their network.

 

[VideoEngineerAJS]

As I said in my 50Mbps thread I noticed that I wasn't getting my normal speeds right after the nationwide outage, but a couple of weeks later I was getting even better speeds. Maybe they are in the process of upgrading the network there?

Sent from my Thunderbolt

 

[jdeshong]

I'm in the Lithia area outside of Fishawk and consistently get 5Mbps as well. I've only had it for two weeks and I've never seen anything over 7. I'm pretty sure they have the capability of setting speed caps per account so the network doesn't get bogged down as more and more people are buying the 4G phones. It's funny how they say real world speeds will be 5-12mbps and we are exactly at the bottom of that that scale so maybe they are throttling everyone in the area?

 

[Charmed Juan]

I am seeing 9-18 mbs here in the northwest

 

[gvillager]

I just got 8.73 mbs in Philly.

 

[boythatkills]

Just pulled 18 mbps down here in Chandler, AZ.

 

[88 FLUX]

Turns out for me that the problem was just the servers I was using for my speed tests. I'm getting about 26Mbps down.