I'm having similar problems. At first, I thought it was going to be magic bullet to poor ADSL. I bought unlimited max on a 30 day rolling contract to try out via mobile broadband / sim only. I can't get any other mobile carriers where I live so was chuffed when I found out vodaphone was doing an unlimited contract.
At the beginning (say for first week), on testing it seemed to be 10-12mbps. Out-of-hours, before 0730 or after 2200 sometimes got the connection up to 15mbps. I was exceptionally happy with this as my rural ADSL is around 2mbps. Subsequently spent hundreds on decent router, booster aerials, installed cables to loft, and all was well.
The following 5 weeks... Frequently it's down to 2-3mbps. Or too slow to do a speed test. On average, around 5. Maybe 8 off peak. It's certainly not "max" even as I seemed to get originally (I half wish it had never been faster at the start!). If I turn on my work VPN, speed can double instantly. I contacted support, and mysteriously a fault suddenly appeared at my tower. No improvement when fixed.
There's definitely throttling going on once you hit a data ceiling. Fair enough, but don't sell it as unlimited, or max, because it's not. By my experience that's false advertising. So at least be honsest about it, put it in the contract, and call it trafficsense or otherwise.
I'm quite happy to pay the money. But I really want the better service. So what to do?
- Accept it is what it is being frustrated it could be better?
- Downgrade to the <10 version because that's what I'm getting (or will that make it even slower)?
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