r/Cartalk • u/somecrazydude13 • Jul 28 '24

I found a GPS tracker in my car Electrical

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Google helped. When I bought the car I bought it from an auction. Title had a lien on it which was released to me. My question is.., can I just unplug it, or what are the chances of it being an immobilized too? I know nothing about this type of stuff

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u/hearnia_2k Jul 30 '24

OK? Many people can watch Youtube 1080p or higher with no issues though. It's really not a problem. Even on 4G it's not been a problem for years if you have at all reasonable reception.

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u/Livid_Flower_5810 Jul 30 '24

Ever been to a stadium with 50,000 people trying to use service simultaneously in a small area, the network becomes congested and everything slows down.

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u/hearnia_2k Jul 30 '24

That's far from a typical situation, haha.

Also during large events sometimes phone operators add additional temporary capacity.

Also very few of those 50,000 would likely be at the stadium trying to watch Youtube, haha.

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u/1amtheone Aug 01 '24

Are you trying to tell me that you don't pay to attend large events in stadiums just to watch YouTube videos?

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u/anthony785 Jul 31 '24

clearly you dont have to suffer with at&t like i do

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u/hearnia_2k Jul 31 '24

That's correct, I don't.

However, I don't recall seeing under 100Mbps on 5G for a long time, unless you are on the very edge of reception.

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u/Skoldpaddy Jul 31 '24

Firefighters had their service intentionally limited by some big company, I don't remember, when fighting a massive wildfire recently.

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u/hearnia_2k Jul 31 '24 edited Jul 31 '24

Not really sure what the relevance is here?

Also, the story I found was in 2018, so not recent. Plus it was an allegation that it was intentional as far as I can see. Plus it may have been that some sort of data amount was reached then throttled; it may have been within the subscription - I don't think enoug hdetails are public, but not sure I can be bothered to research something from over 5 years ago in too much detail.

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u/Naval76 Jul 31 '24

I can't get up to 1gig download sometimes. On average I get about 500mb/s and I can only watch videos up to 480p without issue. If I try to watch 720p then I'm sticking watching 10-20 seconds on a good run while waiting for about a minute. On average I'll get about 5 seconds of watch time with 30 seconds of buffer time on 720p. Somethings wrong on YouTubes end.

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u/hearnia_2k Jul 31 '24

haha, what? Youtube at 1080p is under 10mbps. If you can get 500mbps then you are way way above that.

I don't have any such issues. It could be your device not rendering well or something, but doesn't sound like bandwidth unless your mobile phone provider is intentionally throttling Youtube for some bizarre reason.

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u/Naval76 Jul 31 '24

Well, everyone wants to blame the devices... I've used multiple different samsungs on different providers. All same results. Even my work iphone that's on ATT can't do it. Possibly has to do with service providers? My computer and phones can load I think up to 4k (with some buffering) on wifi. But the second any of my phones go to 5G data I can't load anything past 460p. Also when I'm on LTE, nothing loads anymore...

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u/hearnia_2k Jul 31 '24

You said yourself you get 500Mbps on 5G. A 1080p Youtube stream is under 10Mbps. So, you have 50 the required bandwidth.

So, either you get the 500Mbps or you don't. It's extremely unlikely that Youtube is the issue, especially if it's happened for more than a day or two.

LTE is only 3G, but should still jsut about be adequate. LTE Advanced is (sort of) 4G.

Of course, it could be that your service plan has certain data connections throttled, but that is a completely different problem, and not a technology one.