Why? I'm looking at 4 bars and it refuses to download an app giving me a message to get on wifi or download via my computer. Very frustrating that I can't add anything from the net to this thing unless I'm at home connected to my wifi there
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Well, 20Mb is a rather large file for a 3g transfer. It would be painfully slow to d/l I should think.
Bimjo said:Well, 20Mb is a rather large file for a 3g transfer. It would be painfully slow to d/l I should think.
Any free hotspot will server just as well as going home, if you have one near you.
The download limit was set when AT&T was the only provider (in the U.S.) and was leery of having it's bandwidth stomped on. Most carriers have been playing a cat and mouse game between attracting customers and keeping their services from becoming overloaded. Probably the only worse customer relations move than limiting bandwidth and services is promising them, and falling flat on your face. AT&T came close to that blunder.
Now that more and more carriers are going to limited data plans, bandwidth is improving, and customers are starting to complain (a lot), I expect the limitation will go away, or at least up, soon.