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DeadSite
09/30/19 3:43:31 PM
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s0nicfan
09/30/19 3:47:30 PM
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Doesn't matter much when nearly every phone carrier secretly throttles your video quality.

Walk into a Verizon store and ask them to explain the differences between their multiple unlimited plans. Most of them automatically throttle all video to 480 P, but I think if you pay for their super premium unlimited plan you can get all the way up to 720. AT&T and Sprint are just as bad. I think T-Mobile is the only one that doesn't throttle video, but none of them advertise the fact that they do. You have to dig to find out.

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DeadSite
09/30/19 3:50:30 PM
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s0nicfan posted...
Doesn't matter much when nearly every phone carrier secretly throttles your video quality.

Because everyone watches videos on their phone with 4G internet?
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s0nicfan
09/30/19 3:51:13 PM
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DeadSite posted...
Because everyone watches videos on their phone with 4G internet?


What, you can afford an iPhone but not a good data plan?

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R1masher
09/30/19 3:51:40 PM
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*throttles phone while watching porn*
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Smashingpmkns
09/30/19 3:53:31 PM
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s0nicfan posted...
Doesn't matter much when nearly every phone carrier secretly throttles your video quality.

Walk into a Verizon store and ask them to explain the differences between their multiple unlimited plans. Most of them automatically throttle all video to 480 P, but I think if you pay for their super premium unlimited plan you can get all the way up to 720. AT&T and Sprint are just as bad. I think T-Mobile is the only one that doesn't throttle video, but none of them advertise the fact that they do. You have to dig to find out.


Wouldnt they be throttling your data usage and not your resolution? I can stream 1080 on my tmobile unlimited plan just fine I just choose to use wifi usually. Or settle for default because YouTube compresses the hell out of videos anyways.
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Zack_Attackv1
09/30/19 3:54:21 PM
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To Hell with Apple.
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SailorGoon
09/30/19 3:55:24 PM
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Also, I probably use wifi more than my carriers data. Although I do have T-mobile
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s0nicfan
09/30/19 3:56:10 PM
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Smashingpmkns posted...
Wouldnt they be throttling your data usage and not your resolution? I can stream 1080 on my tmobile unlimited plan just fine I just choose to use wifi usually. Or settle for default because YouTube compresses the hell out of videos anyways.


T-Mobile is the only one that doesn't do it, but I think what the other carriers do is when they detect that you are streaming video they set bandwidth constraints and push them back up to the provider who is expected to use that information to downscale. So if the streaming service can't support it, I guess the video just has buffering problems?

Edit: some more details
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/08/verizon-to-start-throttling-all-smartphone-videos-to-480p-or-720p/

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Smashingpmkns
09/30/19 4:04:35 PM
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s0nicfan posted...
Smashingpmkns posted...
Wouldnt they be throttling your data usage and not your resolution? I can stream 1080 on my tmobile unlimited plan just fine I just choose to use wifi usually. Or settle for default because YouTube compresses the hell out of videos anyways.


T-Mobile is the only one that doesn't do it, but I think what the other carriers do is when they detect that you are streaming video they set bandwidth constraints and push them back up to the provider who is expected to use that information to downscale. So if the streaming service can't support it, I guess the video just has buffering problems?

Edit: some more details
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/08/verizon-to-start-throttling-all-smartphone-videos-to-480p-or-720p/


Damn that's trash. Tmobile has been pretty good to me. If yall have coverage in your area I recommend the switch.
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Hornezz
09/30/19 4:07:38 PM
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Lol that net neutrality doesn't sound too bad now huh?

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DeadSite
09/30/19 4:38:33 PM
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s0nicfan posted...
DeadSite posted...
Because everyone watches videos on their phone with 4G internet?


What, you can afford an iPhone but not a good data plan?

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