If you qualify for Military benefits with T-Mobile, you get a fat discount on it as well.Summary: If you’re experiencing slower internet, your connection could be throttled. No deprioritized data ever, 4K video streaming (32ish Mbps,) Unlimited GoGo Inflight WiFi, and a lot more. Reach out to T-Force or Care if you have further questions beyond that.Ĥth Note but unrelated for the most part: If anyone is wanting to ball out and have the dopest rateplan available, Magenta MAX takes everything T-Mobile's ever offered on a rateplan and doubles down. Your My.Tmobile account will tell you everything about your rate plan and it's optional features that can be added. Use Ookla's or, in a pinch google "speed test" and right there in the search results click the blue box that says run test.ģrd Note: T-Mobile has been grandfathering rate plans left and right and it's getting hard to keep up. Note 2: DO NOT use to test your overall network speeds as these tests are run off of NETFLIX'S servers and WILL NOT give you an accurate representation of your current overall data connection speeds. This even applies to those of you on the 5G network, causing your $1000 phone to act like garbage. So random shit is just buffering ALL THE TIME. That's no good for those of you who enjoy watching news clips and other online media, because although a lot of modern video players allow for variable streaming bit rate (think YouTube video quality settings,) it's the commercials that tend to ONLY stream in higher bitrates that throttled streaming video subscribers just can keep up with. While running a speed test, throttled streaming video subscribers will notice the speed test start out faster than 2.4Mbps but will slowly see that number drop right down to 2.2 Mbps to 2.4 Mbps. T-Mobile One Promo plan) believe it or not have an unthrottled streaming bitrate (I'm getting about 111Mbps on LTE using 2x2 MIMO.)Īgain, makes your cellular data connection believe you are streaming video and will accurately display your streaming video data speed experience. Keep in mind however that some of the newer HD streaming video speeds are still THROTTLED, but the streaming bitrate is increased to 1080p (8Mbps) or 4K on the newer MAX plans (28 - 32Mbps.) Moreover, Original T-Mobile One plans (including the 3-line max. Some premium plans like MAX and Plus Up plans include the paid optional feature already. Note: if HD Media isn't showing, you either have an older Simple Choice-type plan that already includes HD Video streaming by default, or you have a T-Mobile ONE plan, Essentials, or Magenta plan missing the paid feature that enables it. To see if you have it or need to turn it on, log into your My.T-Mobile and go to: Profile > HD Media This means some of you maybe already be paying for this feature via a type of T-Mobile ONE Plus or Magenta Plus feature without reaping the benefits. T-Mobile requires most customers on plans starting since T-Mobile ONE (2017 ish) that ALREADY have HD video streaming features on their account to MANUALLY enable the HD Video feature in their MyTmobile profile settings. If you've ever noticed your app downloads and web browsing experience is lighting fast but seems to slow to a crawl any time streaming video is involved, there could be a good reason for it. This is useful because although all T-Mobile plans (minus a few) now offer highspeed unlimited data for all, streaming video speeds can be throttled at 480p (2.4 Mbps) while the rest of your data experience is fast otherwise. For those of you that aren't aware of T-Mobile's streaming video speed throttling, learn something pertinent! Most of you nerds here probably already know this, so this is just a knowledge refresher. This is how we will get an accurate representation of ONLY your actual streaming video speeds! Using Netflix's servers, you will trick T-Mobile's network into thinking you are streaming a video while running this speed test. To test your streaming video speeds, ( Edit: not ) is what you will use.
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