Got this text Message!
VMFreeMsg: Starting 5/6/14, if you use over 2.5GB of data during your mo. plan cycle, data speeds will now be reduced to 2G speeds. Info at http://msg4u.us/vwae
I don’t know about anyone else but when I first got this text message, I was like so How fast is 2g speeds verses 3g speeds on Google Now! So Here’s is the breakdown of this:
Speeds
- 2g is on average about 115 kilobytes per second (A little faster than voice calling people)
- 3g is on average about 614 Kilobytes per second (Good for some streaming media)
- 4g is on average about 20 Megabytes per Secong (On average it varies from phone to phone)
As you can see this doesn’t really explain it very well but let’s try to make it easier to understand this:
1 byte is 8 bits, so 1000 kilobytes(1,024 bytes which is 8192 bits) and you need 65536 kilobytes to make 1 Megabyte of data. So you can see that the larger the file or anything you do on the phone will be drastically slowed down on the phone. If yo do the math or at least think about it, you can go to a free wifi hotspot to get better speeds than this.
Virgin Mobile and Boost is screwing you!
Virgin mobile seems to want you to go to another prepaid service. Even with Straight Talk, they do something like this on their networks. They do limit there speeds but I am unsure as to what the speeds are lately but they aren’t unlimited either.
It looks like I have a few options, Straight Talk although they do the same thing but not as bad, T-mobile Which looks to be comparable to Virgin Mobile or Boost. You could try MetroPCS but I can’t seem to verify that it is truly unlimited and that is what I am looking for. I am asking for help to find something that isn’t as restrictive as what Virgin Mobile is doing. I might buy a data plan for my home now. So I am going to look into this some more but if you know of a prepaid plan that is truly unlimited, please leave a comment and let everyone know!
