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Hello,

My Name's Angelo, I'm new to these forums although I've lurked on them for a long time in the past.

I watched the site's 'noob' video and I am pretty sure my question is unique as I have spent DAYS looking for a solution and so far I haven't found another case of the video.

Firstly, please allow me to start of by saying, I am grateful for any help I receive in this thread and I have utmost respect for those of you that do answer however please don't feel obligated too, I understand that I'm not worth the time of most =). Also my phone is the English edition of America's LG Thrill, I believe it's called P920 or Optimus 3D

So, to give you some perspective, I use an unlimited internet dealie on my phone (from Three UK, all you can eat) and it's been an absolute delight until last week and this I assume is because I had a couple weeks off college so I may have used an excessive amount of data.

Basically, I've always tethered my phone--->laptop to provide a stable connection wherever I happen to be, however last Thursday the speed went to total cr*p. Naturally my first thought was that I have been hit my Three's infamous 'Data Throttle' as it's not hard to believe considering I was constantly streaming netflix, playing WoW and LoL.

This would make a lot of sense as my tethering works like normal every day past 12AM as usual, but that's not what is troubling me.

It's literally the SECOND I tether, any time after 3 pm that my internet speed goes from 3-5 mbps(my standard rate for peak time to 0.4mbps)

I'm not an expert on computers, I'm a computing student but not that in depth with networking however as far as I am aware they wouldn't be able to tell the second I started tethering right?... and if so, why is only my tethering slowed down?

I have even tried using clockworkmod's 'undetectable' tether but speed test still gives me a crappy reading on the PC and yet a flawless one on my phone, curiouser and curiouser.

I worry that tomorrow/friday, whenever they decided to actually remove this throttle (it's meant to last seven days and it's automated from traffic sense) my tethering during peak times will never be the same again :|.

Here are some factors that may have influenced whatever happened;

I recently installed a software update which was really big but didn't really do anything, just added random apps such as Play Music, Play Movies etc... seemed weird that I got such little content for a 300 MB patch.

I used a TON of internet the week leading up to last Thursday which leads me to believe I landed in the top 5% of users and *should* leave me with a 7 day 20kbps speed between 3PM-12AM however it is only effecting my tethering speed.

I've always been to scared to root my device so far because if anything goes wrong (doesn't detect sim with custom stuff added or something) I wouldn't be able to fix it as I have no broadband.

My initial thought was that my cable/connection might be screwed however I'm getting 6mbps as I type this and on top of that; It also does it with portable hotspot tethering.

Sorry this is so long, and heck it might resolve itself by Friday (I really hope) but any advice is much appreciated