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Tmobile updated 3G speeds to mora than 6mbps?

Hey guys, I was downloading a 12 mb file from my gmail and I noticed the download speeds were 400+. is it just me or the service got an update?
I tried finding information on tmobiles site with no positive results. I retried my download 2 more times still the same. Will I be charged if this is an error? btw I live in New York.

they are updating to 7.2 speed, first places are chicago and new york, so your one of the lucky ones.

Chedderknight said:
they are updating to 7.2 speed, first places are chicago and new york, so your one of the lucky ones.
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Seems like a smarter move would have been to expand rather than focus on speed.

BamaNZ said:
Seems like a smarter move would have been to expand rather than focus on speed.
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I beg to differ, if they expanded first it would cost more money to upgrade all of the new towers. Now they just have to update what they have, and expand with better towers.

BamaNZ said:
Seems like a smarter move would have been to expand rather than focus on speed.
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I second that, I'm still roaming where I live while the major cities are moving to 4g. no fair , well at least At&t has edge out here.

I've seen on boygenius and other sites Sprint will offer WiMax phones next year.

Chedderknight said:
they are updating to 7.2 speed, first places are chicago and new york, so your one of the lucky ones.
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this is all just a rumor. people claim to get higher data speeds without concrete video proof.
and some claims ppl submitted have alrdy been proven false

BamaNZ said:
Seems like a smarter move would have been to expand rather than focus on speed.
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agreed. In Boise the "other 3" networks are offering 3g coverage.

Same old 3G speeds here in NYC.

is it odd that i never get 3g in Louisville, Kentucky? or is there just not much 3g coverage around that area?

heroskyy said:
is it odd that i never get 3g in Louisville, Kentucky? or is there just not much 3g coverage around that area?
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"there's a map for that!"

I can vouch they uped everything in the Chi.
I live way north of Chi in bumble **** where supposedly I wasnt suppose to get 3G about 2 weeks ago it lit up.
This picture is running Ubuntu, new wired tethered app, and update running in bg.
As I get closer to the City its much faster. ...

I'm in Chicago as I type this (Lincoln Park and Downtown), and I have to say I'm disappointed in the speeds up here. I've only seen download speeds in the 400ish mbps, whereas in Toledo, OH, I routinely get between 600 and 750 mbps. I'm guessing it's because of the sheer number of users on T-mobile's 3G here, as opposed to Toledo. Still, I would have expected T-mobile to strengthen the network to reflect the larger number of subscribers here.

brian_v3ntura said:
this is all just a rumor. people claim to get higher data speeds without concrete video proof.
and some claims ppl submitted have alrdy been proven false
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I thought that it was confirmed

jad011 said:
I thought that it was confirmed
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to really get an accurate speedtest, its preferred to use a speedtest app instead of tethering and doign a speedtest on the computer...a couple speedtest sites have been proven to be false.
the only thing i will believe is video proof of a speedtest using a speedtest app on the phone...a screenshot is just not concrete enough since pics can be edited

here is a quick screen shot. i used the xtremelabs speedtest app. not bad for being inside the hospital.

b0ricuaguerrero said:
here is a quick screen shot. i used the xtremelabs speedtest app. not bad for being inside the hospital.
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yea i usally get 800-900kbps in my house.

Anyone noticing anything in Phoenix, Arizona?
I'm getting 561kbps download and 164kbps upload. Which is much better from my 320kbps download from about 2 months ago.
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I just ran a new speed test and i got 784kbps download and 160kbps upload. I'm in phoenix arizona. I guess we are getting the update soon too

HOLY ****. I live in the Tampa Bay area and I am getting speeds around 3-5 megs a second. WAY faster than it was before. I am going to record a video and put it up on you tube in a bit.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfCXnSLjMJ4
You tube video of test

rage2wrath said:
HOLY ****. I live in the Tampa Bay area and I am getting speeds around 3-5 megs a second. WAY faster than it was before. I am going to record a video and put it up on you tube in a bit.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfCXnSLjMJ4
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stupid test...its alrdy been proven that mobilespeedtest.com is unreliable and false. u accomplished nothing

T-mobile HSDPA in NWI/Chicagoland area FINALLY -*EDIT*

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Sorry for misspeaking for the masses when saying chicagoland area, although my observations for SOME of the area seems to be right, according to this thread it may not be entirely accurate for the entire area. However NWI - Portage and surround areas to the west seem to get this good signal. Sorry guys =(
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Hey guys! I can hardly contain myself. Since launch day I was plagued with HORRIBLE cell reception and had the 3g/edge switching issue. New radios always seemed to help little by little as they were rolled out, and eventually I just gave up and went to WiFi at home all the time. Dropped calls and such happened frequently.
The cell signal for the past 3 weeks-ish has been weird and flaky. I've never since January have been able to get more than 800kbs and that was full bars. More times than not it was 300-400kbs.
As of this week.... 1700kbs!!!!!!!!!!!!! Jesus Christ this thing flies now. I've been missing out on a lot. THANK YOU TMOBILE!
If anyone else has some awesome success stories with the N1, post in this thread =)

congrats, hope they upgrade the Las Vegas area soon.

do you get a different icon on the home screen when on HSDPA? Like instead of 3G?

twflys said:
do you get a different icon on the home screen when on HSDPA? Like instead of 3G?
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no you will not get a new icon unless you are using a modded rom.

twflys said:
do you get a different icon on the home screen when on HSDPA? Like instead of 3G?
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I'm currently using the stock Froyo test build so no icon. I love moving about the town and have steady 5 bars though. =)

Hitorii said:
I'm currently using the stock Froyo test build so no icon. I love moving about the town and have steady 5 bars though. =)
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What part of town are you in? I never had any problems with reception in Lincoln Park, through max download speed was around 800 kilobits.
Edit: Just saw that you said Chicagoland..never mind.

im in the chicagoland area. I just got 450kpbs down on my speedtest.

Talcott and Harlem pushing 1300kb myself

I wonder how long it will be before it hits down here in Bloomington/Normal
Although were not that big, we have a lot down here. Illinois State University, Illinois Wesleyan University, State Farm Headquarters, Country Companies, Nestle, Mitsubishi Motors

Hitorii said:
Hey guys! I can hardly contain myself. Since launch day I was plagued with HORRIBLE cell reception and had the 3g/edge switching issue. New radios always seemed to help little by little as they were rolled out, and eventually I just gave up and went to WiFi at home all the time. Dropped calls and such happened frequently.
The cell signal for the past 3 weeks-ish has been weird and flaky. I've never since January have been able to get more than 800kbs and that was full bars. More times than not it was 300-400kbs.
As of this week.... 1700kbs!!!!!!!!!!!!! Jesus Christ this thing flies now. I've been missing out on a lot. THANK YOU TMOBILE!
If anyone else has some awesome success stories with the N1, post in this thread =)
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so now that you have solid service, do you look back and maybe were you one of the people who complained about the nexus one poor reception and all this, and now you got solid coverage so you see how those of us with great sesrvice dont have those issues!

uansari1 said:
What part of town are you in? I never had any problems with reception in Lincoln Park, through max download speed was around 800 kilobits.
Edit: Just saw that you said Chicagoland..never mind.
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I was in Roger's Park and my downstream was 800kbps~. I recently moved to River West, (like Grand/Halstead), and my speed was around 2.7mbps. My upstream is the same as before 350kbps~.

In westside Los Angeles, getting around 2.8mbps down. It's damn nice that TMO is stepping it up.

Just checked, I'm getting ~50KB/s down up. Slower than before.
I'm in the western suburbs.

In the Oak Lawn/Alsip area and speeds are the same as always 800kbps is peak but usually slower.

Well I live in Portage area and took the SS in the other day and was fairly consistent on the way. Perhaps I should get this edited. Sorry guys, I could of sworn it was rolled out for the rest of ya.
As for the complaints and such about low speed/choppy speeds. Its night and day. I had it and now I don't, ever. So I can see how big of an ordeal it would have been to straighten out this signal issue from tmobile-google as its not consistent

Where are you in Chicagoland area? I don't notice a difference. I frequent Chicago/Buffalo Grove/Highland Park areas.

jlevy73 said:
In westside Los Angeles, getting around 2.8mbps down. It's damn nice that TMO is stepping it up.
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Sure you weren't on WiFi?
I haven't seen speeds like that anywhere in LA.

mortzz said:
Just checked, I'm getting ~50KB/s down up. Slower than before.
I'm in the western suburbs.
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Are you on the 2.2 test ROM by chance? The test rom was missing some info in its build.prop file which may leave your phone unoptimized for cellular data.

ATnTdude said:
Are you on the 2.2 test ROM by chance? The test rom was missing some info in its build.prop file which may leave your phone unoptimized for cellular data.
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im on froyo maybe thats why im not seeing hspa+ then

This is the best I've seen in Austin:
Connection Type: Cell
Download: 4921 kbps
Upload: 1500 kbps
Ping: 76 ms
I can consistently get over 3mbs down.

tmo US 3g data speeds

so im using a HD2, with the energy rom and tmo just announced that they are rolling out hspa+ in my city (honolulu) so i figured id do a speed test now just to see the difference when they "flip the switches" on 7/21 (my birthday)
so i pull up dsl reports and run the Iphone (bleh)/smartphone speed test choose 3g and........ 126kbps well maybe its a fluke i rerun it and 51kbps WTF!?!?!?!!?!
so i remember mobilespeedtest.com and i try there and..... 134kbps.....starting to get annoyed and when i compare with other tmo subscribers the average is 580~
so my question is is there something i can do to "fix" my speeds? ive got full signal im always showing "H" oh and im using opera 10.0

In Lexington, Ky I get about 400 kbps. In Cincinnati, like 800-900. I just think Tmob's network is really crappy.

hahaha well your crappy is still 4 times faster than me
just odd its SO slow here where hspa+ is going live in a week

before TMO threw the HSPA+ switch here in Tampa, i regularly saw 600-800kbps download speeds. Now with HSPA+ it seems to average about 3mbps-4mbps and Ive seen it reach as high as 5.5mbps.
I just got through with a road trip from Tampa to northern Mississippi where i lost the HSPA+ coverage after leaving Tampa, i saw around a 1mbps in outskirt areas north of Tampa that doesn't have HSPA+ yet, and once we hit the interstate it was GPRS coverage for a majority of the trip with some EDGE coverage here and there. God i forgot how slow GPRS was!

oh i also forgot to mention im using the stock radio rom.....maybe a different radio would improve data speeds?

strickzilla said:
oh i also forgot to mention im using the stock radio rom.....maybe a different radio would improve data speeds?
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not sure it would really make a difference, im still using the stock shipping winmo and radio rom on mine.

im getting 831 kbps here in Ewa beach, Hawaii

blakdenali said:
im getting 831 kbps here in Ewa beach, Hawaii
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WTF?!?!!?!?! im in town near HCC, care to provide details as far as rom? radio? variances in different places?

My birthday's on the 21st as well, you know what this calls for....SURPRISE BIRTHDAY PARTIES!!!!

soooo apparently its just my apartment that sucks, left the house fro work today and didnt get 50 yards and my speeds jump up to 400~
as i keep walking outdoors my speeds go as high as 1.4 and never went below 400. so when i get to work i figure my speeds will go down as im indoors, wrong i kept getting speeds around 500 tho i didnt see the huge jumps that i did outdoors

We're on the list to have HSPA+ flipped on here in Austin next week, but I'm already starting to see the signs...I can now hit 3-5MB downstream just about anywhere in town.

3mbps-4mbps here in ATL
we are getting an average of about 3mbps-4mbps with HSPA+ in Atlanta, GA

Funny thing when I tether I get 12-15 Mbps. only when I tether tho even if its another phone
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Reason for the San Francisco 4G Delays

http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2010/09/4g_wireless_internet_access_he.php
Damn residents of Bernal Heights are complaining about the placement of Clearwire's 4G antennas.

BOOOOO
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I live in Berkeley, and I know for a fact that tower wouldn't serve me. I have yet to hear anything about service in the East Bay. Anyone have a clue?
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that sucks! people there complain about anything even if its for their benefit! if they dont want it to be there, maybe clearwire should find another place to put their antennas on! i want my 4G here in sf...

Well I'm out in the flatlands of the East bay in Concord, and the closest 4G is the small downtown area of Nut Creek. Sprint, hook us up!!

This is frustrating as **** for those of us who have been waiting, and waiting for these assholes to get their **** together. Yeah, we know San Francisco has a crazy permit and building process - but this is ridiculous. What about San Mateo County? We're total 4G-less while Santa Clara County is almost all the way lit up.
Embarrassing.

clovis_ll said:
that sucks! people there complain about anything even if its for their benefit!
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Sound like South Florida.

Same **** here in arizona....bunch of damn nimby's

zikronix said:
Same **** here in arizona....bunch of damn nimby's
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Pretty much. NIMBYs always ***** about things.

How do they separate the men from the boys in SF?
A firehose

I can confirm there is 4G in parts of Fremont. Been using it for a few weeks now.

I'm on 4g right now! Turk and Taylor.
I've left my radio on to search since I got the phone, and only one phantom hit until today.
It's dropped a couple times now, but it keeps coming back. Almost an hour of 4g at this location.
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Not that impressed with the speed tests so far, but the upload is crazy fast...for a cell phone.
.5 Mbps down, 1.1Mbps up.
Not much better than the 3g, really.
Screen shots taken...now, to get Dolphin to let me attach them...

Alright...screw dolphin. Screenshotsuploaded via Opera mobile.
Who needs a computer? (alright...i borrowed one to get root, but I'm without, and happy now...)
There is sprint 4g service in San Francisco NOW!

Kalash said:
I'm on 4g right now! Turk and Taylor.
I've left my radio on to search since I got the phone, and only one phantom hit until today.
It's dropped a couple times now, but it keeps coming back. Almost an hour of 4g at this location.
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Not that impressed with the speed tests so far, but the upload is crazy fast...for a cell phone.
.5 Mbps down, 1.1Mbps up.
Not much better than the 3g, really.
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Very interesting.
I get my fastest 3G access around Grant and O'farrell. A bit over 2Mbits down.

Well...it seems to have gotten better. It's still access going about the same as the 3g... And tethering is SLOW. I'd say slower than with 3g, which is weird, but other people have reported the danger thing... I just looked.
So far, I'm not impressed. The icon looks cool, but I had better performance with 3g on average.
Maybe it's dialed down for testing before an official release?

My girlfriend said she got a 4G signal today in the FiDi, near 2nd and Mission. Think I might switch to a Sense ROM for a few days...

liquidkernel said:
Very interesting.
I get my fastest 3G access around Grant and O'farrell. A bit over 2Mbits down.
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I get 2.3Mbits down of 3G, here in balboa park when im outside my house but as soon as i go inside the house, its back to .7Mbits
i might turn my 4G on this time just to see.. i got a friend that works for clearwire and he says they're testing it here in SF..

I had 4g at divesidero and geary yesterday - 2.2 down, about one up.
Lost it when I drove a few blocks away...
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I had 4g at divesidero and geary yesterday - 2.2 down, about one up.
Lost it when I drove a few blocks away...
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That's pretty good! I am going to be driving there in a bit, might try it out.

What part of Fremont have you been getting 4G? I've been getting a signal in Union City but only during the day strangely.

Speeds...think ya'll got issues.

How about this...post 3.29 upgrade so really hoping it ISN'T because of upgrade...

sablesurfer said:
How about this...post 3.29 upgrade so really hoping it ISN'T because of upgrade...
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LOL wow that's pretty bad. But that's not the phone's fault. There are many factors in play that can slow down your connection.. Network Capacity, Bandwidth, Signal strength, etc.
It's still pretty bad though. Try again later, things should improve.

holy latency!

I live on the water in Chesterfield, Michigan and have the same great 3g speeds!

sablesurfer said:
How about this...post 3.29 upgrade so really hoping it ISN'T because of upgrade...
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You did pick the closest server right?

Most days my speeds aren't even good enough to stream a youtube vid on low quality. Rarely they are.
Its hit or miss some days.

werxen said:
Most days my speeds aren't even good enough to stream a youtube vid on low quality. Rarely they are.
Its hit or miss some days.
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Boy, your area must suck for Sprint service (since that's not the common experience). Sounds like something that you should have noticed within your first 30 days though.
op - are the speeds the same in different areas at different times of day? On different servers?
Sent from my blah blah blah blah

Mine are worse at my University, too many students with 3G phones.

try the vzw pro mod?
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fachadick said:
op - are the speeds the same in different areas at different times of day? On different servers?
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Only tried this since upgrade friday night. I'll definitely be running a couple of speed tests in other neighborhoods. I have NEVER been this slow in this area...ran the test a couple of times and they all sucked...might have to nand back to 3.26 and see what speeds are like.

Rob the plumber said:
I live on the water in Chesterfield, Michigan and have the same great 3g speeds!
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i live in allendale michigan during the school year and the past month or so my speeds have been just like this. my guess would be from an increase in network traffic from all the new evo's. ill do a test right now at 11 pm, will probably be much faster than i normally get nowadays. its damn ridiculous, before the evo i used to get 1.5 mbps download all the time.
IN BOTH TEST I HAVE 4-5 BARS. (i can see the cell towers out my back door)
test 1
download 357 kbps
upload 127 kbps
ping 477 ms
test 2
download 95 kbps
upload 169 kbps
ping 829
these are horrible, data is pretty much unusable at these speeds.
edit: btw i do live in a college town (grand valley state university) so there are a lot of cell phone users.

Suck it up! Data speeds at my apartment are TERRIBLE even though I've got fantastic service. I've got tons of these extremely slow data tests.
It's been a while since I was testing - I've given up. I just steal the neighbor's wifi for my phone now.
BTW, I'm like 45 mins west of you, hockey4life. I'm in Muskegon. It's only bad right near my apt. though :/ It's fine all the rest of the time around town here.
1.27mbit up HAH I'd love to see that. The only two which are moderately fast on my speedtest list are when I was trying out 4G in Grand Rapids!

thedudejdog said:
try the vzw pro mod?
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guys, have you tried the vzw prl mod?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=696073
this may help you out by putting you on verizon towers.

so it seems like michigan in general blows right now. it sucks, i guess i should look into that verizon hack, thanks.

Have any of you tried using real signal from the market? Just because the phone shows you signal bars, it doesn't necessarily mean that you have good signal for data. Real signal will show you your actual signal strength as it relates to both voice and data service.

fachadick said:
Have any of you tried using real signal from the market? Just because the phone shows you signal bars, it doesn't necessarily mean that you have good signal for data. Real signal will show you your actual signal strength as it relates to both voice and data service.
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no, but in my case the tower is right outside my house so it definitly should be high.
also, its not just in my house where its bad. it is everywhere in this area. the only time i get good good data speeds is far from area. i made a report and they said they would send a technician to look at the tower but doubt they actually will. if im stuck like this for the rest of this year im gonna flip.

ShadowDrake said:
Suck it up! Data speeds at my apartment are TERRIBLE even though I've got fantastic service. I've got tons of these extremely slow data tests.
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Looks like quite the improvement to the speeds that I get at my house in Idaho.
But...I get 4G in most places that I'm at + I use android tether all the time, even at school sometimes. I try not to complain about Sprint's ****ty 3G too much, especially since the price is right.

Getting awful 3G speeds in Kalamazoo, MI as of late.. i'm lucky if its above 100KB down - upstream seems a little slow but closer to normal..
Hmm.. Whats the deal?

I think those 3g speeds are great compaired to my 150kb down and 110kb up in my house.
There's 4g about 15 ft away, but unusable 3g inside.

do any of you michiganders have any improvements? how about anyone else? im starting to wonder if things are gonna stay like this, i cant take these 2g (or 1g) speeds. there is essentially no reason for me to be paying data right now cause the only time i can use my phone pretty much is when im on wifi. if i was a new customer i definitely be using my 30 days right about now and switching carriers.
for the past few years ive been a sprint advocate with their good data coverage, good speeds, and good pricing but this is just horrible.