![]() ![]() There is only so much bandwidth that you can have over a given frequency, only certain frequencies are available to each carrier, and only certain frequencies are conducive to cellular transmissions. ![]() Of course that would be cost prohibitive. Theoretically, if you throw enough money at infrastructure, you can allow everyone to have truly unlimited bandwidth at the advertised rates wired. ![]() To be fair to wireless carriers, wireless is different than wired when it comes to bandwidth. I've been a T-Mobile customer forever, but that kind of deception was really, really insulting. The MAC address thing seems compelling but I'm obviously not going to go around spoofing anything just because I got duped by my provider. Of course in the heat of all of this I asked myself that same question: "how does T-Mobile know?" Some of the suggestions here seem unlikely since I'm still able to get good speeds via the phone simultaneously while limited via computer. I had been on some grandfathered plan that had no such restriction, and by "upgrading" sacrificed my ability to tether without moving to a One Plus plan. It became immediately apparent what I'd signed up for in my "upgrade" the year prior. My phone itself reached these speeds via LTE. 25/mpbs, whereas in the past it was up around 40mbps up and down. I recently moved and while waiting for internet installation suddenly found my tethered rate went down to. In fact, it was faster than work or home. In the past if I had an internet outage at home I'd switch to to tethered phone and have no drop in speed. It sounded too good to be true so I just kept asking if I'd lose anything. Last year I called T-Mobile for some relatively minor reason and then got into a conversation about this "upgrade" I could get that would knock my bill down $20 a month, provide option X, Y and Z. ![]()
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