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4g speed test chicago area

Figured i'd post my speed tests i was pretty suprised with the results. What cha think?

I get that speed in Chi too.

I've been getting average of 1.8Mb down and about 0.75 up with 3G for a while now. Does 4G at least use less power than 3g?

carlos117 said:
I've been getting average of 1.8Mb down and about 0.75 up with 3G for a while now. Does 4G at least use less power than 3g?
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Doesn't seem to, drains battery quite a bit faster. Personally I never really use 4g, 3g is plenty fast for me even streaming high quality video.
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its nice to use 4g when downloading, i guess i'm one of few with 4g avalible. Downside is less battery life, but worth the fraction of dl time.

peteyo said:
Figured i'd post my speed tests i was pretty suprised with the results. What cha think?
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im in chicago too and can barely grab 4 megs down
are you actually in downtown chi or close burbs??

im in the nw burbs

How's your speed while using the internet browswer? For some reason it lags a lot while trying to pull up web pages. I don't see this throttling while I'm tethering...only while using the phones standard browser.

[Q]Why is my upload faster them download?

I am on t mobile in nyc area. I recently did a speed test using the app, and my upload speed is higher then my down load speed. Is this always the case?
Down .5 mb
Up 1.6 mb
I did the test three times and all the time up was more then down.
Also are those 4g speed and are they good
Thanks

eax05 said:
I am on t mobile in nyc area. I recently did a speed test using the app, and my upload speed is higher then my down load speed. Is this always the case?
Down .5 mb
Up 1.6 mb
I did the test three times and all the time up was more then down.
Also are those 4g speed and are they good
Thanks
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umm no, this is not good at all lol... It might be the service in your area at the moment or such... I'm not so sure though.

What is a good value

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What is a good value
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average since you are in 4G speeds some users get 6 mbs to 9mbs even more as well! and upload is an amazing rate btw..
I myself get 4mbs down and
900kbs upload but that is because I'm not on hspa+

go to a diff place. speeds vary from where you are.

U get 6mbs and ur not even on 4g
CaliBoyPhillip said:
average since you are in 4G speeds some users get 6 mbs to 9mbs even more as well! and upload is an amazing rate btw..
I myself get 4mbs down and
900kbs upload but that is because I'm not on hspa+
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Damn, I would DIE for those speeds. I get 2.2 Mbps down and only a whopping 100 kbps up. I NEED UP MORE THAN I NEED DOWN!!!

I used to get similar speeds to OP at home. They recently upgraded "my" tower because now I'm getting 8+mbps down and 1.7+mbps up.
Patience, I guess

I always get higher upload vs download and not even close to the speeds I see on here. Generally we're talking 300-400k down and 800k up on a good day. I have repeated these tests on my MT3G and new MT4G. This is with the HSDPA indicator in the bar and HSDPA shown in phone settings. Lame.

At my house I get about 1.7, 1.8 up and anywhere from 2 to 6.5 down. The speeds tend to change seemingly at random, haven't really found any noticible patterns.
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nivlac978 said:
At my house I get about 1.7, 1.8 up and anywhere from 2 to 6.5 down. The speeds tend to change seemingly at random, haven't really found any noticible patterns.
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Is that "speedtest" speeds or actual downloads? My tests are all over the place (and low-ish: 2-3 mbps). Actual downloads go well over twice as fast.

My usual upload speeds are higher than my download speeds. They aren't super fast, but they are extremely consistent.
Downloads range from .75mbps to 1mbps
Uploads range from 1mbps to 1.5 mbps
Wish i could get some faster speeds in HSPA+ coverage with full bars, but the T-mobile rep admitted to me that the HSPA+ rollout in my area is very fresh and not really official, covering a small area of the city, so I can't expect too much at this time.

How fast is your data?

I am running about 4.64mb up and 1.05mb down. Seems slow to me. What do you think?

Sleepracer said:
I am running about 4.64mb up and 1.05mb down. Seems slow to me. What do you think?
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There are millions of these threads. And people from ALL around the world connecting from many different devices with different radios.
Even 2 people in the same city can see amazingly different speeds based on tower load and a million other variables.

2 to 3 Down...0.5 to 1 up

Down:
Max = 5mb
Min = 2mb
Up:
Max = 1.7mb
Min = .8mb
All results are from LA on speedtest.net
Most common results are about 2.5 down and 1.5 up.
G2 on CM7 Nightlies
Radio = 12.28b.60.140eU_26.03.02.26_M

max 3 down and 1 up. Unfortunately.
Would be also nice to have WiFi max.Will try tomorrow at work.

Sleepracer said:
I am running about 4.64mb up and 1.05mb down. Seems slow to me. What do you think?
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Well considering those speeds were unheard of just a few years ago u r doing pretty good.
I get between 6-7 Mbps down and .90 Mbps on data and nearly 18Mbps on wifi
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Sleepracer said:
I am running about 4.64mb up and 1.05mb down. Seems slow to me. What do you think?
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Not sure that you are really asking a question, or gloating....I think that you darn well what those numbers mean.

Sleepracer said:
I am running about 4.64mb up and 1.05mb down. Seems slow to me. What do you think?
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Pretty sure you got the down and up numbers reversed.

Crey23 said:
Not sure that you are really asking a question, or gloating....I think that you darn well what those numbers mean.
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So true... More gloating then anything But I wish it was better.

As these phones are designed to do 14.4 mb/s you'd think we'd be able to get half that. The most I've seen in my area is about 5 mb/s and that's a rare occurrence. I would love to see 7.

Best I've seen in the L.A. area is 6.1mb down and 1.8mb up. But ya, totally think we'd be able to get at least half of what we are capable of. Then again, The network is still pretty new in comparison to other networks. Even though its "America's Largest '4G' Network"...

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Best I've seen in the L.A. area is 6.1mb down and 1.8mb up. But ya, totally think we'd be able to get at least half of what we are capable of. Then again, The network is still pretty new in comparison to other networks. Even though its "America's Largest '4G' Network"...
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Right, refer back to one if the posts after the OP, that'll explain your misunderstanding.
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Max: 9mbps download
Max: 2mbps upload
Average: 4-7mbps download
Average: 1.2-2mbps upload
Still waiting for 14mbps download I hope the G2 can for once. Hit 14mbps download speeds as promised!
Sent from my T-Mobile G2

androidfeen809 said:
Max: 9mbps download
Max: 2mbps upload
Average: 4-7mbps download
Average: 1.2-2mbps upload
Still waiting for 14mbps download I hope the G2 can for once. Hit 14mbps download speeds as promised!
Sent from my T-Mobile G2
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My numbers are almost identical to this. Downloading a Tubemate video today over HSPA+, I got about 8mbps max, 6mbps average.
On WiFi, I've gotten about 15mbps down, 8mbps up.

On 3G on AT&T in a somewhat rural area.
Max of 3Mb down, more commonly around 2 and between 1-1.5 up.
On wifi, get 5mb down and 3 mb up (with torrents running on my PC)

Well, data plan just activated about an hour ago. I went outside to test and was getting 0.4 MB/s then realized I was using 2G.
Turned the option off, tested again, and was getting around 2.06 MB down and 1.58 MB up.
Is this normal for the speeds to be low during the first couple hours/days of having a data plan?
Im sorta disappointed in the speeds (its not much faster than the current home DSL).
Im in Anaheim, CA area btw.

I average about 4-5 mbps down and i seem to hold steady at 1.7-1.8 up
though there are a couple of sweet spots in my city where i pull down 6-9 consistently.

potentdro said:
Well, data plan just activated about an hour ago. I went outside to test and was getting 0.4 MB/s then realized I was using 2G.
Turned the option off, tested again, and was getting around 2.06 MB down and 1.58 MB up.
Is this normal for the speeds to be low during the first couple hours/days of having a data plan?
Im sorta disappointed in the speeds (its not much faster than the current home DSL).
Im in Anaheim, CA area btw.
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I feel ya bro, I have the same results . I live in orlando and I still get these crappy speeds . I wonder how most of those guys get such quick download and uploads .
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breezy169 said:
I feel ya bro, I have the same results . I live in orlando and I still get these crappy speeds . I wonder how most of those guys get such quick download and uploads .
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Steroids. If you check under the hood their phones have smaller processors. Steroids will do that

EEaudio08 said:
My numbers are almost identical to this. Downloading a Tubemate video today over HSPA+, I got about 8mbps max, 6mbps average.
On WiFi, I've gotten about 15mbps down, 8mbps up.
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On WiFi I only got 10+mbps the first time I ran a speedtest... After that it's never been over 7mbps Idk why though, speedtest on the computer always scores ~20mbps... Is there like something that lowers download speed on the phone?
EDIT: lol after posting this I just realized... I always force 2g on my phone to save battery... I connected to 3g/4g and turned back on my WiFi and BAM 14mbps... solved my own problem... The 2g/3g settings affect speeds on WiFi aswell

2.3.5 Update - 3G Test Results! (Nexus S 4G)

My girlfriend and I both have Nexus S 4G's so I decided to update mine and leave hers at 2.3.4 until I ran some tests. Here is what I concluded after about an hour of testing at home:
Signal strength was improved by around 10db
3G download speeds were 60% faster
3G upload speeds were 40% faster
It's important to note that the Speedtest.net app does not work properly on the Nexus S 4G. To get accurate results, you should use the Speakeasy Speed Test through your phone's web browser, or, tether your computer to your phone and run any speed test from your computer.
I haven't had a chance to test 4G but I am anticipating a big improvement.
Marco
PS. Sorry for the crappy photos taken on my old Evo 4G

It's impossible to rate 3G speed performance increases based off a radio update accurately. Sprints 3G network is such a pile of crap you could get 1mb a second one minute
and this garbage the next.

I tested it a few times over an hour period and got the same results. Beyond that I don't have the time to waste running further tests.
Sorry to hear you get crappy speeds.

did you do any testing on wifi signal strength?

I was getting 2.6 mbps dl at home before update. 60% of that would be crazy. Im on miui atm and idk if im going to update if it blocks tether.
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I didn't test Wifi and unfortunately I just updated her phone to 2.3.5!

Most importantly, how is the signal acquisition? One severe problem I faced is that signal is extremely patchy in areas that should not be patchy at all
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i know it stuffed all sorts of baby unicorns into 4g speeds, previously id average 1.4 down and up.. now i get 2.6 down and 1.7 up

I installed the update via this forum and I have zero signal bars and my airave is 20 feet away if that. My wifi signal indicator jumps around from weak to strong but is mainly weak. I don't know what the deal is, I'm not trying to scare anyone. Its just annoying me.
Is there anyway I can remove this update? I've never done any kind of rooting on my nexus s 4G
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krisnicaj said:
I installed the update via this forum and I have zero signal bars and my airave is 20 feet away if that. My wifi signal indicator jumps around from weak to strong but is mainly weak. I don't know what the deal is, I'm not trying to scare anyone. Its just annoying me.
Is there anyway I can remove this update? I've never done any kind of rooting on my nexus s 4G
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OK so I did some playing around with my phone. It seems like everytime I start to make a call I immediately get 2 or 3 bars. Kinda strange.
Sent from that Nexus S 4G via Tapatalk

krisnicaj said:
OK so I did some playing around with my phone. It seems like everytime I start to make a call I immediately get 2 or 3 bars. Kinda strange.
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Do you have the older airave that is only 1x data? If so, it's displaying the 3G bars when not using 1x (either sms or call). You'll never miss a call due to signal if that's the case. It used to be that way for me when I had the older unit (just got the newer 3G airave, and now it's full bars all of the time).

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Do you have the older airave that is only 1x data? If so, it's displaying the 3G bars when not using 1x (either sms or call). You'll never miss a call due to signal if that's the case. It used to be that way for me when I had the older unit (just got the newer 3G airave, and now it's full bars all of the time).
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Yea I do, thanks
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3G signal has become worse for me on the new Radio. I'm now stuck on 1X in my home when I used to be decent 3G.
This sucks.

I'm running rooted 2.3.5 with Matrix 4.0 kernel.
Before update:
WIFI was 4.9 down 4.3 up
4G was 3.6 down 1.5 up
3G was 325 kps down 100 up
After Update:
WIFI is 7.2 down 1.5 up
4G is 4.5 down 1.5 up
3G is 550kps down 100 up
I ran each test a few times.
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My 3G speeds before were around 100kbps before the update, and around that now. Sprint is the worst carrier in the whole damn planet. I just check my Evo and it has around 300kbps tops... pathetic. Sprint if you are reading this, you ****ing SUCK

I just got 2.16 megs on my airwave. I used the speakeasy test. Before I could hardly get .8 mbps.
Sent from my Nexus S 4G

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It's important to note that the Speedtest.net app does not work properly on the Nexus S 4G. To get accurate results, you should use the Speakeasy Speed Test through your phone's web browser, or, tether your computer to your phone and run any speed test from your computer.
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Why is that the case?

2.3.4
3G 300kbps-1000kbps depending on location
4G max 5.5Mbps
Wifi max 6Mbps
2.3.5
3G 500kbps-1200kbps depending on location
4G max 7.5Mbps (!!!)
Wifi max 8Mbps

It seems like to me that one person says it helps and then the next says it sucks so I think I'm just going to leave well enough for now because i have mine on Boost and really don't feel like setting up data and mms again...wouldn't be hard but from the looks of things it really doesn't look like its worth it.

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Why is that the case?
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They are both built by ookla labs i'm with you on this one, if everyone uses speedtest app its clearly going to show any changes.

4G speeds...

I have a USB Data Card. u301. I have an antenna plugged in to it mounted on the roof and I get full service. Speeds at around 13.6 Down, 1.40 up. I plug the Epic in and with full service. Speeds at around 2.61 Down, 0.42 up. WTF? huh...

I get 4-6 Mbps down on average with bursts above 8. 1.4 on the download. My speeds have actually gotten better over the past 2 months.
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My average with the very little 4g i have here is 2mb and lower then 1mb up download so your lucky to get what u get..
When i went to chicago a few weeks ago, i got 12mb and 1ish upload
I was impressed in chicago

4G is an absolute dead end for anyone in New York (unless you're smack in the middle of the city). Here on the upper west side, 4G is far less reliable than 3G and when it does work offers no substantial speed increase.

Just ran a few speedtests from inside my apartment here in downtown Portland, OR
12006kbps down, 1486kbps up was the best.
Pretty beefy!

dead78 said:
4G is an absolute dead end for anyone in New York (unless you're smack in the middle of the city). Here on the upper west side, 4G is far less reliable than 3G and when it does work offers no substantial speed increase.
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thats not entirely true. i live in brooklyn ny and i have great 4g. averages around 7-8mbps

I've tested 4g speeds all over Denver since it came here, and have seen a striking contrast in different areas that are only a few blocks apart.
Aurora seems to range from around 3 mb/1.5 mb on the high side to just under 1 mb/0.3 mb, but there are a lot of holes in coverage (and the in-and-out coverage areas at the edge of said holes, of course). Once in a while, I have seen dl speeds up to 5 mb, even 7 on two occasions, but that only lasted for a half hour at best... ul speeds have never exceeded 1.5 mb for any of my tests.
I have seen more consistent ~5 mb upload speeds in parts of southwest denver and surrounding areas (englewood, littleton, etc.), though upload still signed like it was capped at 1.5 mb. But even some of those areas have had dead zones and flaky signal.
I have had one intermittent problem that could be my phone or the network - once in a while, everything will appear as if my phone is connected just fine, but I can't reach the internet. Go back to 3g and I'm fine, but when I reconnect to 4g, whether immediately or after a few minutes, it still behaves like a local network with no internet... Anyone else have this problem in Denver?
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dead78 said:
4G is an absolute dead end for anyone in New York (unless you're smack in the middle of the city). Here on the upper west side, 4G is far less reliable than 3G and when it does work offers no substantial speed increase.
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Nah I live in the bronx and I get great 4g lol when I'm outside though. Myhouse is a lead box, apparently. I get 1 bar inside but it barely holds on to it.
There are a few dead spots though around the city. Like, BLATANT holes inthe coverage.
But other than that, I'm completely satisfied with 4g...I even get 1MB (yes byte) consistently when I'm chillen outside.
They could lower the ping though...1MB speed is still garbage when it takes a second for your command to go through.
I remember when I bought my epic downtown the first thing I did was turn 4g on and it connected...this was in october BEFORE 4g became official in the city lol I ike sprints commitment to nyc
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what are you guys using to test these speeds and what modem(s) are you running?

2.3 modem? Mine does that anywhere. Lol. Like it just feels like taking a break whenever.
I'm on the latest leak. Prob what it is. With full service I should be getting up to where my card is. Its like its caped.
Sent from my SPH-D700 using Tapatalk

I've noticed that the clear 4g network is going through a lot of throttling changes. I've noticed they have been keepin the phones below 8Mb most of the time and clear itself is using a bandwidth throttle that doesn't seem to have a clear reset period. Streaming video has brought my home modem and usb modem to a .67 Mb crawl for thelast few days. But when I'm not being throttled I see up to 14Mb down.one last note I have yet to see any bandwidth throttling on the phones 4g tho. Blemh I think I have to go back to comcast for home internet:-(
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I've never really used 4G on my phone. It's only functional if I turn data off, then turn 4G on and stay stationary. If I'm driving it simply stops working. At least half the time it just connects, goes to sleep and stays that way until I toggle it off.
This plus the Overdrive I used to have is pretty much a fail sandwich.
Seattle/Lynnwood/Redmond areas primarily. SRF ROM, though it's pretty consistent across ROMs.

I use speedtest.net for my tests, both on my phone with the app and my tethered laptop via the website. I have tried all but a couple of the modems (I didn't bother with some of the leaks that came out almost back to back, because there was already a newer leak when I found time to flash). The results did vary slightly between modems, but not significantly enough for any one modem to stand out as the best or worst - some almost seemed to have good and bad times of day, and not necessarily the same times between modems (probably coincidence due to the random fluctuations in connection quality that I described in my previous post)
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I decided to try it and got 12MB down lol
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styles420 said:
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I'm going to try this tomorrow for both 3G and 4G and will report back with the results.

dead78 said:
4G is an absolute dead end for anyone in New York (unless you're smack in the middle of the city). Here on the upper west side, 4G is far less reliable than 3G and when it does work offers no substantial speed increase.
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I agree completely with the above. In my apt on Upper East Side, 4g speeds are fine - but I get constant drops and terrible speeds (as in slower than 3g) on Upper West in my office. Have wifi at home so don't need 4G there, but would love to tether off 4G in my office. Sprint 4G sux

a454nova said:
I have a USB Data Card. u301. I have an antenna plugged in to it mounted on the roof and I get full service. Speeds at around 13.6 Down, 1.40 up. I plug the Epic in and with full service. Speeds at around 2.61 Down, 0.42 up. WTF? huh...
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What antenna did you use?

what does 995kB/s dl translate to? lol, it was insanely fast only a couple of times I tested it like 5 months back in san diego... I must have been the only guy that connected because now my 3g speeds tend to be on par with my 4g... and that was on 2.2...
Joey

Ok so I ran a few tests on the Upper West Side this morning and the results were mildly surprising.
On 4G, I maxed out at about 6.0 Mbps down and 0.65 up with pings in the 140 range.
3G, on the other hand, maxed out at 0.3 Mbps down about 0.5 Mbps up with pings of roughly 260.
So, we've basically got no difference between 3G and 4G upstream and glorified dial-up for 3G down.
I'll try some more later from a different location.
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so I had to do a bit of driving around Manhattan today and decided to test 3G and 4G speeds in several areas. the short version of what I found: my neighborhood has the absolute worst 3G and 4G of any of the other neighborhoods I drove through. most of the Upper West Side south of me boasted around 4.6 Mbps down and 1.4 Mbps up. 3G was roughly 1.0 Mbps down and 0.85 up. In midtown, 4G was roughly 3.3 down a 1.0 Mbps up.
Compare that with my neighborhood where 3G doesn't crack 0.3 Mbps down and actually has faster upstream. I called Sprint and they claimed there is a "tower down" relatively close to me, and after some pressing, gave me a $25 credit for the down time.