Reply With QuoteWind's limit is 5GB after which they slow you down (to 256 kbps).Originally Posted by 513263337
The voice quality is ok.
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Phone Collector
Hi there, I'm thinking of switching to WIND. I'm kind of a normal smartphone user who uses about 1GB / month. I don't bittorrent or anything like that. I would like to know if WIND limits / throttles your data traffic at my usage?
And also, how is the voice signal compared with Rogers etc?
Mobilicity Mod
Wind's limit is 5GB after which they slow you down (to 256 kbps).
The voice quality is ok.
Phone Collector
im at 13 gb so far this month and havnt even been throttled yet. happened once before though.
Forever Youngphone
You have to remember, they only throttle to an applicable calendar month. Meaning it doesn't last until your bill (unless your bill is on the first), it lasts until the end of the month in which it was implemented.
Nevermind Bell.. LTE is fine.
Pure Google
Incorrect. WIND has the right to slow you down at some point after 5GB's but not always. Normally I get throttled at about 15 or 20 gigs, and some months not at all. They NEVER said anything about automatically slowing you down at 5 gigs.
Regards.
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My screen is bigger than yours
I've never been throttled in the 3 or 4 times I've used over 5GB. They reserve the right to slow you down if you are causing network congestion. And, I believe they will send you a sms notification that they are limiting your speed. I think it's fair.
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I've climbed a cellphone tower
Ya they reserve the right to limit after 5GB. I got hit with the limit after 19GB, and let me just say the the throttled speed is way to slow to do anything productive.
Radiation is good
I don't plan on ever going over 5 GB. 256 kbps (throttled speed) is way too slow. I was tethering my WIND data to my laptop yesterday and even unthrottled it couldn't keep up with the 700 kbps Netflix stream (0.3 GB/hour). Buffered a lot. That is the lowest setting for Netflix! HD video is like 5 Mbps or so. I'm not even sure how I could even get 5 GB out of WIND if I can't stream 700 kbps video (lol) without it buffering every few minutes. What do you guys use WIND's data for? Through "regular use" (using data on the go for browsing, Facebook, Google Navi, apps like HoFo) I barely use much. And I'm not a fan of tethering for regular browsing either unless my home internet is down because you notice the difference between Rogers Cable internet and WIND mobile data in browsing speed.
I know people like to torrent but I'm afraid of getting a letter from the MPAA or HBO or anyone else I'm pirating from. lol. So I download from file hosting sites. But Wind's data is so unreliable that I might get incomplete downloads and have to download all over again. So Ill probably continue to use my home internet bandwidth (capped at 60 GB) for that. lol.
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Radiation is good
Wow, Comparing a landline based service to wireless provider. Let me know the plan from Bell, Rogers, and Cogeco that's WIRELESS and $30.00/month.
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I always lol at these types of comparison posts from users
Why yes, that is a bag phone
A little off topic here, do you guys think that the Wind bandwidth meter is accurate? Compared to the data usage counter in ICS, I find it to be high by a factor of 2. Obviously no complaints until the throttle.
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I've climbed a cellphone tower
Wind Mobile's website is usually over by around 200MB/month for me. I usually use anywhere 2-4GB/month.
I have a blue tooth
That's not a huge deal as you're not being charged overages.
The word 'Pentaband' means '5 Bands', from the Greek word 'pente' meaning '5'. For a phone to be pentaband it has to support 5 bands. If the phone has AWS support, it doesn't automatically mean that it is pentaband. The reason Wind and Mobilicity users like pentaband phones is because the reverse is true. We're not the only ones who like pentaband phones though, so please stop referring to phones that work on Wind and Mobilicity as pentaband. It causes unnecessary cofusion.
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Exactly
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I've climbed a cellphone tower
Unless someones on Wind 25.
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