Anyone have the new t-mobile plans?

[AustinInDallas]

How is their "high speed" data connection?

Also if you have the 500mb plan, how bad is it once you hit that 500 megs and start using their "2g" speed?

Currently my Fiance and I both have separate ATT unlimited plans, and are paying ridiculous rates. We are getting married on May 31, so we are looking to consolidate our plans.

 

[ImDonly1]

How is their "high speed" data connection?

Also if you have the 500mb plan, how bad is it once you hit that 500 megs and start using their "2g" speed?

Currently my Fiance and I both have separate ATT unlimited plans, and are paying ridiculous rates. We are getting married on May 31, so we are looking to consolidate our plans.

2g speeds are about 119kbs. Turn off 3g on your phone let it connect to edge and that's the speed you will get. Pretty awful for web browsing. OK for getting text e-mails still.

 

[Dulanic]

I'm swapping from Sprint to T-Mobile as soon as the S4 releases. I am going to leave the wife and mother in law at 500MB and kick myself to unlimited for the extra $20.

 

[AustinInDallas]

2g speeds are about 119kbs. Turn off 3g on your phone let it connect to edge and that's the speed you will get. Pretty awful for web browsing. OK for getting text e-mails still.

I can only turn off LTE, that drops me to hspa+

 

[atpokey]

One of the bigger gripes, aside from speed is coverage. If you find yourself in a well covered area, might be all well and good, but I know from friends reports that they find themselves without any g all the time.

 

[Chrono]

Depends on your coverage... but I'm currently on the unlimited prepaid plan (second month) and damn I'm using bandwidth up like crazy. My goal is 30GB of usage this month... going to be lots of HD streaming porn.

 

[basslover1]

2g speeds are about 119kbs. Turn off 3g on your phone let it connect to edge and that's the speed you will get. Pretty awful for web browsing. OK for getting text e-mails still.

It's worse than that, at least IME. I went over my 2GB of data back in February, luckily I only had three days of billing left, but it was hard capped at 60kbs.

 

[AustinInDallas]

Depends on your coverage... but I'm currently on the unlimited prepaid plan (second month) and damn I'm using bandwidth up like crazy. My goal is 30GB of usage this month... going to be lots of HD streaming porn.

can you run speedtest?

 

[jidery]

I'll chime in. I recently switched to tmobile this month. Ive done several speed tests over the past 2 weeks and here is what I have been getting:

The speeds are really good at least in San Jose, but LTE is still spotty and hard to find. But here is what I average:

-LTE: 40+ Mb/s
-HSPA+: 15-22 Mb/s
-3g: 3-8 Mb/s
-2g: The most I have seen is probably around 100 kb/s

Tmobiles data is fast, no doubt about that.

Check your coverage first. Their coverage maps seem to be pretty accurate in my area.

 

[fuzzybabybunny]

How is their "high speed" data connection?

Also if you have the 500mb plan, how bad is it once you hit that 500 megs and start using their "2g" speed?

Currently my Fiance and I both have separate ATT unlimited plans, and are paying ridiculous rates. We are getting married on May 31, so we are looking to consolidate our plans.

ATT rates are ridiculous compared to T-Mobile.

$50 for one line with unlimited text and minutes.
$20 for unlimited, no throttling data. I get download speeds of 1.1 MB/s. I've used 3GB in the 5 days I've been on this plan.

When I had the 5GB plan the throttled speeds were horrendous and un-usable. Websites would time out. Google maps wouldn't work so well. It was about 5KB/s down. This was down from 1,100 KB/s.