Verizon throttled fire department’s “unlimited” data during wildfire

Re:Verizon throttled fire department’s “unlimited” data duri... by voltagex_ on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @07:48AM (#17817991)

I'd definitely like to see this. Apparently you can pull the value from an unrooted Android, too.

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Re:Verizon throttled fire department’s “unlimited” data duri... by gsich on Friday August 24, 2018 @09:39AM (#17834851)

Here it is, sorry for the delay:

https://i.imgur.com/vXIXSlA.png Here I started a download, the rsrq drops. After finishing, the rsrq rises again. Note that the values are still "jittery" so a single value should not be taken as a clear indicator that a cell is congested.

https://i.imgur.com/opdFV9d.png Here is a graph for the last 7 days. One can see that during nighttime received quality rises, while it lowers during daytime.

Device in use is a Huawei B618, no external antennas.

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