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Smarty 5G traffic slows down after a while - looks like throttling... something else?
Hey
Perhaps not, but to claim they are not throttling when they clearly are is misleading. Advertising speeds in excess of 150mb then within a few minutes after a reboot down to 12mb is more than taking the proverbial. I have 3 sims in different devices and they all do it.
…my gripe is that this was not happening 12 months ago
JohnComi_342726 throttling indicates a company deliberately slowing things down. I am talking about a natural process due to a lot of people competing for a finite resource.
It seems quite conceivable that 12 months ago the situation might have been different. Using your analogy,25 years ago the roads in the UK were not as busy as they are now, but HM Government didn't put extra traffic on them or even lower the speed limit to slow everything down!
By that logic ..if the increase in traffic had us all driving no faster than 20mph on a motorway I think we’d want that fixed for our road tax, don’t you?
JohnComi_342726 Quite often, the traffic DOES have us driving at that speed !...and it is not fixed to give value for our road tax ! I had just that at times over the weekend on both A roads and Motorway travel.
This is the price you pay for advancement. It may be that if you pay full whack for a contract with one of the big boys, you will get better speeds but I'm not sure it is guaranteed.
