One way to find out it's prioritization and not throttling is to measure at different hours of the day.

For example, I have measured speed in the afternoon, evening, and in the early morning hours like 3 am. What I have found is that speed is incredibly fast at 3 am (up to 750 down) and not as fast in the middle of the day (more like 250-450 down).

This is not explained by throttling, because if it was throttling they must have a threshold that shouldn't change much. If they want to throttle me to 250 then speed should be 250 or below pretty much all the time no matter what hour of the day.

It is explained by de-prioritization, because during the day everyone is awake using their phones, and phones have priority, so my Home Internet goes to the back of the line and gets "only" 250-350 down*. In the middle of the night everyone is asleep, the cell towers are wide open and looking for something to do, and they are more than happy to give me the entire firehose of throughput.

*I say "only" 250-350 down because until recently, speed at that level at my location used to be unattainable and when it arrived it was more than I wanted to pay, like $100/mo. I could get it with cable but at a much higher price than TMHI. For me to get 250-750 down and 10-60 up for a flat $50 and not having to deal with the cable company is something I can only be very happy about; it's a great service for me even when I am de-prioritized.

T-Mobile doesn't throttle, but they do de-prioritize.

That means that there's not an arbitrary "top speed" placed on your devices. But there is only so much bandwidth available to the tower, and there is only so much space available in the radio frequency spectrum of the bands on the tower. And TMHI is at the bottom of the priority list.

So this is normal. You're not being picked on. Different times of day, even different times of year can affect performance based on how congested your local tower is. I've noticed, for example, that my speeds drop way down when there's a power outage. Why? Because everyone just lost home internet (all the people using fiber/DSL/cable), and their phones and tablets have switched to the cell tower!

The good news is, 209Mbps is still very fast. Try not to sit and run speed tests all the time and try to get a high score. This is good enough for 13 simultaneous 4k Netflix streams. Very, very few things you do online will "feel" any different between 200 and 500mbps.

But ultimately, that's why your phone is faster. Because your phone is higher on the priority list. TMHI is the bottom of the priority list on each tower.

Another possibility might be the location of your gateway if its not in the most optimal spot. I don't mean just the generic placement guide instructions, rather the actual position where it sits at your site. Even inches can make a difference. For example I can easily knock my speed way down simply shifting my gateway over a short distance while still retaining very similar metrics. Maybe you could use more trial and error to find the true perfect spot.

Otherwise +1 on everything said so far. Priority, bands used on each/SA vs NSA, even just differences in the modems themselves if your phone and gateway aren't using the same one, etc.

This is my second time using TMHI. The first time, right after it launched, I got blazing, consistent speeds for a year. Then things started slowing down as T-Mobile oversold the service, sometimes as low as single digits in the evening. I canceled. This time around (two years after my Spectrum promo ended) I again sometimes get 600-700 downloads, and sometimes 35-50. Then I reboot the router and things might improve for a day. In reality 35-50 is OK temporarily for what I need for streaming and work, but I really want consistent speeds, so I will probably go back to Spectrum once it comes up with a new promotion.

What I don’t understand is why speeds get substantially faster on TMHI when using a VPN versus when not. To me that suggests that the content has some relevance and that it’s not just a matter of the line being prioritized lower.

Or is it just that the path the VPN is routing the content is faster (closer to me) than the TMHI path for routing (my very lay and poor—probably incorrect—understanding)?

Cause it will be dramatically different and never slower on the VPN.

>I recently attempted to increase the phone signal

Can you expand on this.

"Increasing the signal" isn't really a thing you can usually accomplish as a user or as a tech with mobile phones. It's engineered into the hardware and firmware. If, somehow, you managed to "crank it up," then it's going to have a higher output of heat, chance of failure, and unexpected consequences.

Best option would be to undo whatever was done, maybe. Or, replace the board. You could send it off to someone who does board work, but that may cost more than the phone.

Go to developer settings and uncheck WiFi scan throttling

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On same spot wifi is suddenly better I assuming you are saying this. If that's case did check the signals on modem and router ?

From your words, I don't understand. Is the WiFi signal better or worse than before?

Probably blew through your data cap by the end of the month and then you get throttled until the 1st of the next month. Has nothing to do with being paid up.

I used to run out of data quickly, as well. However, when I moved into my second apartment, I had to put the internet under my name and China Telecom gave me a data sim card. Because I bought the fastest internet package, I received a sim card with 10GB of data per month! It's so awesome - now I never run out of data.

Check to see if you're eligible for a data sim from China Telecom if your apartment's internet is in your name. Even if you're not, check to see if a data sim from one of the three mobile companies is a cheaper option.

Also, regardless of what you do, when you're at the mobile companies, get your sim card locked. This will make everything so much easier to deal with if your phone gets lost or stolen.

Backup of the post's body: What gives? This happens every one or two months. VPN on or off, connected to any server, it doesn't matter. Takes ages to load anything on my phone or laptop, on wifi or mobile data. Can't get my office work done. Weixin payments take 45+ seconds to pull up while the vendor and I just sit there and awkwardly stare at each other. Wechat mini apps don't load, and when they actually do the translate feature takes several minutes to work. Using China Mobile, and my bill is paid for via mobile top-up on wechat. After a few days the internet speeds go back to normal as if nothing ever happened, and everything is fine for another 1-2 months until it randomly happens again.

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The Developer options has a download limiter with a few alternatives, it's mainly for testing.

What difference does it make? You're now gobbling up the same quota way more uncomfortable.

You can turn of data saver mode. You can find it in the settings by searching "data saver" in the search box at the top.

That will reduce the data usage of apps.

You could also look into switching networks. At least here in the UK the price comparison sites have better prices than the official websites of the phone networks, so you could look at them and get more than 20 GB for the same or a lower price.

Are you regularly going through your 20GB of data? You may want to see which apps are using the most and then focus on those apps.

I have 5g high speed data for 5mbs, and then it throttles to 2g. Is there a way to set it up so that my data speed is a lot slower so that the 5mbs can last longer? I would rather it be medium slow for the entire month instead of lightening fast for the first half and then too slow to connect to a web page for the rest.

Stay connected to wifi?

What phone do you have?

If anyone struggles with this in the future, I used the app 5G Switch by Sava KS from the Play Store and after changing to NR only and then back to NR/LTE/WCDMA/GSM my Provider stated speed was reached. From 10 Mbits in inner city to stable 50 Mbits (max. speed for my plan)

Do you have a 5G data plan and are you in an area where 5G is available?

I'm getting 600Mbps on 5G with KB2005. It's probably your ISP not supporting it properly.

I guess your unit doesn't have all the bands

Go to apn settings change bearer uptick unspecified and select rest of them. This mostly solves the problem with both upload and download speeds check it out..