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17 hours ago, greenbastard said:

Doesn't Verizon throttle their "HD" feature to 720p?

It depends what plan add ins they had for their Verizon line they tested with. You can pay extra for full hd and get up to 40 mbps for video on Verizon. AT&T doesn’t throttle video much at all on the elite plan.

1 hour ago, Paynefanbro said:

T-Mobile is bragging that testing from umlaut and OpenSignal show that they're the fastest 5G network in the U.S. with highest availability. Of note, T-Mobiles “Ultra Capacity 5G" was available in 79% of all of the samples taken in their NYC test, though they didn't cover much of the city.

https://www.t-mobile.com/news/network/fastest-largest-5g-network

Opensignal Report: https://www.opensignal.com/reports/2021/01/usa/mobile-network-experience-5g

umlaut Report: https://www.umlaut.com/en/benchmarking/usa

If they would ease their video throttle they could have won the video categories as well. Their video throttle is the most aggressive of all three carriers and it shows.

On 1/20/2021 at 11:22 PM, mdob07 said:

 

 

Correct, R15 SIM is no longer required. SA 5G is working fine now on my T-Mobile S20+ with a TM9263 SIM card. I did have trouble with SA when it first rolled out up until about 6 weeks ago, but since then its been working flawlessly. My phone actually prefers SA 5G over LTE and at least 50% of the time that's what its on. 

Although an r15 may not be required, I bet TNX is stil going to be the only way a sprint customer can get SA 5g.

On 1/19/2021 at 10:55 PM, greenbastard said:

The fine print actually gave Sprint the ability to throttle those legacy plans. People kept saying there was also no deprioritization, but the wording was there to implement one at any given moment.

Ever since Sprint got rid of 2 year upgrade options, that plan has not been worth it. Anyone still holding on to that plan is just throwing money away. T-Mobile will likely not honor something that was never promised. They've done this in the past when they changed the unlimited roaming in Mexico and Canada to 5 GB.

If you still have that plan, I recommend dumping it.

Show me an alternative that I can get unthrottled speeds or even 1080 streaming on 6 lines for the same or lower price. 

57 minutes ago, dkyeager said:

I would say given the Everything Data plan wording and the premium price paid for Everything Data, you should have unthrottled.  If true, for me personally, this makes the purchase of any 5G phone from T-Mobile undesirable given that TNX is required to get 5G at all.  Where I live inside the Columbus Ohio beltway, the speed ranking is Sprint, then AT&T, then T-Mobile, then Verizon.  T-Mobile has improved, but not enough to change their ranking.  T-Mobile would likely win if they converted one of the two Sprint only sites near me to T-Mobile (no permits seen).

The throttling should be validated against the physical network.  What happens if only band b25 is allowed so it is only on Sprint even with the TNX network?

I agree. What differentiates the Everything Data plan from kickstart except hotspot and unthrottled data? 
 

As for 5g I can get NSA 5g on a sprint sim (tna) but cannot get SA 5g unless I TNX and get throttled to 2.3 on video... Crazy.

24 minutes ago, schmidtj said:

Personally 1.5 MB’s is perfectly adequate. Others disagree. 

My whole point is 480p on the plan I’m on is not acceptable. On a sprint sim I’ll get no throttle at all if I TNX I’ll get throttled to 2.3. 

1 hour ago, schmidtj said:

The T-Mobile support site and Netflix’ FAST App confirms 1.5mbs for 480p. 

1.5 is bare minimum to load 480p. 2.3 will only load up to 480p.

On 1/14/2021 at 10:20 PM, Terrell352 said:

That was a early issue with the first people like me that got on TNX they have now corrected the issue.

The issue has not been corrected on plans that had no throttle. People on Everything Data that get TNX with go from unthrottled to a 480p 2.3 mbps cap on video.

12 hours ago, Terrell352 said:

That was a early issue with the first people like me that got on TNX they have now corrected the issue.

Well people with legacy unlimited plans with no throttle when switching to TNX are getting video throttle to 480p. T-Mobile is screwing us legacy plan customers.

38 minutes ago, Terrell352 said:

Sprint plan. Tmobile plans are outdated and now the worst in the industry in my opinion. 

I agree. What sprint plan are you currently on?

21 minutes ago, Terrell352 said:

Your wrong about Williston. Tmobile just gave Williston n41, b41, b71 n71 and b66. Previously it was 5mhz of b12 and 10mhz of b2. Believe me when I found it a few days ago I was shocked. And yes they are now faster than Verizon in Williston. I have all 3. ATT also upgraded to 5G almost around the same time.

They routed the radios thru the 600mhz antenna and when the do that b2 and b66 gets a 20-30% coverage increase from what it was with the older equipment. Then standalone n71 goes further even more than b71.

Hey, Terrell, are you on a sprint plan or a T-Mobile plan?

29 minutes ago, BlueAngel said:

I could be wrong, pretty sure I was getting 8 down on Sprint. 

What plan?

2 hours ago, jonnycando said:

I have new sim running balls to the wall....at least no throttling i can detect LTR with a two bar signal hits 20 down...upload is paltry 1.5 though as you would expect with soft signal.

What testing app are you using?

2 hours ago, BlueAngel said:

Same speeds I was getting on sprint so 8 down on fast.com.

The example I’ve seen is on the Everything Data plan. Normally no throttle at all if I get 50 on speedtest I get 50 on fast. Another guy in this forum, switched one of his lines to TNX and went from no throttle to 2.3 max.

On 1/13/2021 at 12:35 PM, BlueAngel said:

Welcome to TNX! I've been happy with T-Mobile since I got the new sim a few months ago.

Have you or anyone who has done the TNX sim swap noticed if your video speeds are throttled or not? I have seen a few examples of people switching to the TNX sim and being throttled to 2.3 on fast while getting over 100 on Speedtest .

Does anyone with the iPhone 12/12 pro notice the phone gets pretty warm/hot when on 5g running speedtests or even FaceTime calls on WiFi? Mine seems to get warm fairly quick and chews through battery. I sorta expect the heat when on 5g running tests but FaceTime on WiFi I wouldn’t think should make the phone get hot.

Anyone do any comparison in performance between the new iPhone modem vs previous iPhones? It seems like mine is performing worse on b71 LTE with low signal.

14 hours ago, Dkoellerwx said:

I have a couple of sites here that appear to have some slightly older equipment that are broadcasting B71 but not N71. Maybe something like that is happening there. 

Is seems like some sites nearby have n71 some don’t. It is in a rural area so it’s possible it’s backhaul related. Back in April when all the 600 spectrum was made available they changed from a 2x5 carrier to a 2x10 and performance was so much better at edge of signal.

They have 2x15 in the area and only have 2x5 on LTE now and there’s more traffic than before so speeds are almost unusable. They also only choose to have 2x5 on 1900 as well which I know they have more. 
 

We all have 5g devices but I would rather it all or at least 2x10 be on LTE right now. The experience for the majority would be so much better...

Does anyone know why a site with B71 LTE  at this point wouldn’t have n71 5g online? Seems like many do but some sites with b71 don’t have n71 5g online yet? What’s the reason for this?

1 hour ago, jasonsteele said:

Good eye, I didn't catch that. If you look again, the date is also 14 days off. Darn, I thought I had discovered some cool stuff.

Field test mode currently on the new iPhones is horrible. Can hardly ever get it to refresh in real time and is way more limited.

21 minutes ago, BlueAngel said:

I don't know the specifics but T-Mobile said SA improves coverage by 30%.

I’m just generally curious. I thought the 30% was between NSA and SA. I hope I’m wrong.

29 minutes ago, BlueAngel said:

B71 wouldn't have the same coverage as SA n71 and I didn't do any speed tests I was just referencing the difference in signal strength but both were excellent for what I was doing. I was occasionally connecting to NSA 5G but the signal was equivalent to LTE.

How would B71 not have comparable coverage/ signal strength as SA n71?

14 hours ago, BlueAngel said:

I see where 5G SA comes into play, I'm in the woods had two bars of LTE, taken I was switched to SA and 5 solid bars of 5G. Love it.

What was the speed difference? Just because you had 5 bars didn’t mean it will be a better experience. Isn’t it likely you were connected to multiple aggregated LTE bands including B71 that would likely have identical type coverage as SA 5g?

30 minutes ago, stlman314 said:

I doubt they will add it to the ED15 but that's just my guess. 

Gotcha. Activated it with a sprint sim.

3 hours ago, stlman314 said:

If you wish to do the TNX you have to change your plan. I'm in the same boat. I have the ED15 as well and for me to get the TNX I have to change plans. I just haven't made time to do it.

If I choose not to do TNX, which I don’t want currently, will TNX eventually be available for more plans?