If you have a data subscription, the speed will be throttled at some point. I don’t understand why.
Tip: At least have a cell phone subscription Infinity plus M (or higher) and create a hotspot with your cell phone and connect the PC to the hotspot on your cell phone. From your own experience you have no restrictions at all. Works perfectly.
@Andy Brun wrote:
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If you have a data subscription, the speed will be throttled at some point. I don’t understand why.
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The key word is fair use policy. This protects the vast majority from a few unreasonable users. No network in the world is designed for everyone to be able to use the maximum available bandwidth 7× 24h x 52 weeks.
@Nyuszko wrote:
I have now quickly converted the subscription into an Infinity plus XL, but I don’t really know yet whether I can really be satisfied with such a horrendous price…
The speed is throttled to exactly the same value. It’s just faster before that.~
Change (02/10/2016, 07:15) SORRY. You are writing here about an Infinity plus XL, I only read the XL and assumed a data XL.
@hed wrote:
The key word is fair use policy. This protects the vast majority from a few unreasonable users. No network in the world is designed for everyone to be able to use the maximum available bandwidth 7× 24h x 52 weeks.
That’s so. Nevertheless, I am of the opinion that there is far too much throttling. This has nothing, absolutely nothing to do with a flat rate! There is currently an ongoing trial in Germany, one can only hope that the judgment becomes final and will also be adopted in Switzerland “soon”.
Verdict: Throttle speed of 56 Kbit/s reduces “performance to zero”
Here in Switzerland there is at least one provider that is much more generous and cheaper…
I have 2 teenagers who are endless power users, but even they can’t make it within the limits.
I use the SMART phone a lot for work and often connect the laptop to the 4G and load very large amounts of data, but here too there has never been any throttling.
There must be misuse before the speed is throttled and I’m personally happy that Swisscom is doing this.
Endless power user? Well, how nice.
But they certainly don’t have to use their cell phone as their only network source.
And what do you consider to be very large amounts of data? 5MB? Maybe 10?
Do you have any idea how big a typical high-resolution video clip is?
Hardly, because then you would know that you can generate 1Gbyte of data traffic in a very short time just by watching videos…
Sorry, things actually look different with an infinity subscription. I don’t have any problems there either and I have quite a bit of data volume. However, this shows us well that Swisscom could definitely be a little more generous with its data subscriptions.
But the data subscriptions are far too expensive. There is far too little data included for the price and limited speed. Others are cheaper than the data S, but 150x* faster and >100x as much data can be transferred without any problems.
*150x faster is a theoretical value, which of course cannot be achieved. As with a data XL. But 50x faster is quite common.
I’m very happy with Swisscom, but when it comes to data subscriptions, frequent users could definitely take a look at the competition.
A mobile phone network is not a replacement for a landline, but especially in this day and age I can understand anyone who thinks along these lines. Many people receive such low speeds via DSL and pay far too much for the service.
Well, but strangely enough, you can make a hotspot available from your cell phone and select the WiFi connection from the cell phone hotspot on your PC and lo and behold, there are suddenly no longer any limits. So you can use as much data as you want.
@hed wrote:
@Andy Brun wrote:
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If you have a data subscription, the speed will be throttled at some point. I don’t understand why.
…
The key word is fair use policy. This protects the vast majority from a few unreasonable users. No network in the world is designed for everyone to be able to use the maximum available bandwidth 7× 24h x 52 weeks.
@hed wrote:
@Andy Brun wrote:
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If you have a data subscription, the speed will be throttled at some point. I don’t understand why.
…
The key word is fair use policy. This protects the vast majority from a few unreasonable users. No network in the world is designed for everyone to be able to use the maximum available bandwidth 7× 24h x 52 weeks.
Well, but strangely enough, you can make a hotspot available from your cell phone and select the WiFi connection from the cell phone hotspot on your PC and lo and behold, there are suddenly no longer any limits. So you can use as much data as you want.
(So now the text is in the right place 🙂
@Andy Brun wrote:
@hed wrote:
@Andy Brun wrote:
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If you have a data subscription, the speed will be throttled at some point. I don’t understand why.
…
The key word is fair use policy. This protects the vast majority from a few unreasonable users. No network in the world is designed for everyone to be able to use the maximum available bandwidth 7× 24h x 52 weeks.
Well, but strangely enough, you can make a hotspot available from your cell phone and select the WiFi connection from the cell phone hotspot on your PC and lo and behold, there is suddenly no limit anymore. So you can use as much data as you want.
(So now the text is in the right place 🙂
So with a data subscription? Somehow I highly doubt that this prevents throttling. 🙂
I changed my subscription from Data to Natel Infinity XL so that I no longer have any limits.
At first it worked without any problems, but today I got a text message that suggested something different:
You still have 204.79 MB respectively. 20% of the data volume is available, after which the speed will be limited until the end of the month. You can see the current status at any time on http://cockpit.swisscom.ch. Swisscom
200MB = 20% -> 100% = 1000MB
The question arises to what extent “unlimited” suddenly means 1GB…
And I can’t get into the Swisscom cockpit anymore…
Slowly but surely Swisscom is starting to strain my nerves… >_<
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I also think that this SMS is not “true”. Basically, the customer is informed in a letter that he is downloading too much and is made aware of the fair use policy. But we’re talking about downloads of around 200 GB over several months. I don’t know anyone who has ever received this letter, but I know people who easily burn through 150 GB a month and nothing was done, especially not an SMS.
Can’t it be that this SMS concerns roaming??
