Verizon may be throttling my mobile hotspot download speeds?

[VideoEngineerAJS]

Does anyone know if they can do this on certain towers?

I ask because on my phone using the Speedtest.net site and the Speakeasy speed test I'm consistently getting 30-35 Mbps down and around 3-4 Mbps up while I'm here at the office however when I do mobile hotspot I'm only getting about 4-5 Mbps down, but I'm getting 5-6 Mbps up.

Now I know that the speed tests I'm doing on the phone are accurate because when I was at home and did the speed tests on the phone I was getting around 5-6 Mbps down and 3-4 Mbps up and then I used the mobile hotspot feature at home and I got the exact same speeds as when I did the speed tests on the phone.

I work in an area that has a TON of large office buildings with very large companies residing in them, so I don't know if there is anything in that fact that could lead to a possible discrepancy or not.

 

[sc32valve]

They have announced that throttling is in effect, in what cases, who knows. It wouldn't be unreasonable to think that since the Hotspot can serve multiple devices, each device may have a cap.

I experienced the same. Get around 40Mbps down and about 20Mbps up using speakeasy site, but only around 7-8Mbps up/down when connected to mobile hotspot. This is using the site, no Apps as they seem really broken