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Current Sprint customers: What speeds are you seeing on Sprint EVDO?

I have the EVO that was given out at the Google I/O so it is my first time with Sprint. It is one hell of a device.
I ran some speed tests all over the SF Bay Area and the EVDO speeds are total crap. Can't really call it 3G.
I get between 250Kbps - 700Kbps where the upper end is RARELY achieved . 90% of the time i see 300Kbps...
Are these typical Sprint speeds on 3G? or is there something wrong with radio on the EVO? (I am not sure if the firmware that is currently on the device will be the shipping firmware as some things are missing like the QIK video conf and TV OUT settings/app).
When i get 4G (rarely) the speeds are great (5Mbps down).
Curious what other Sprint customers are seeing on 3g.

San Francisco... specifically in the Outer Mission district... show on average 1700kbps down and 600kbps up.
I only get that 300kbps you're talking about when it is midday and my coverage bars only show one or two. But that's rare.
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yeah...Im fearing a 3G speed letdown going from att N1 to Sprint Evo.

rockky said:
yeah...Im fearing a 3G speed letdown going from att N1 to Sprint Evo.
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They really aren't...I don't understand why people think sprint has a crappy 3G network, theirs is very comparable to verizon with speeds, but about halfish the size, maybe a bit more than that. Coverage with sprint is WAY better than at&t and t-mobile, speeds are a bit slower but not enough to cause a heart attack or anything...

check the sig... tether from my house

I get about 1.1Mbps down / 300Kbps up from my Palm Pre around Charlotte. Pretty stable as long as I have at least one bar. The Pre is one of the worst phones I have had for reception though so...

I get 700-1200kbps in good service on 3G. I can't wait to test out 4G.

Here in Boston I get between 1.6mb to 2.1mb constantly.
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TickLe MY eLMo said:
They really aren't...I don't understand why people think sprint has a crappy 3G network, theirs is very comparable to verizon with speeds, but about halfish the size, maybe a bit more than that. Coverage with sprint is WAY better than at&t and t-mobile, speeds are a bit slower but not enough to cause a heart attack or anything...
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I dont know SF very well but in t mobiles coverage and speed defense.. on my HD2 i got 4.3Mbps.. i was with my son outside the science museum. perfect 3g coverage.. home in NYC i get upwards of 5mbps. daytime-afternoon goes down to about 3.2Mbps. i came to T mobile from sprint. left sprint when hd2 came out. i must say t mobile is smashing sprint with coverage and speeds for me. with sprint i never got over 2.7Mbps no matter where i went. (i had the touch pro)

criticalchild said:
I dont know SF very well but in t mobiles coverage and speed defense.. on my HD2 i got 4.3Mbps.. i was with my son outside the science museum. perfect 3g coverage.. home in NYC i get upwards of 5mbps. daytime-afternoon goes down to about 3.2Mbps. i came to T mobile from sprint. left sprint when hd2 came out. i must say t mobile is smashing sprint with coverage and speeds for me. with sprint i never got over 2.7Mbps no matter where i went. (i had the touch pro)
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Must just be a new York thing..
T mobile ass here
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criticalchild said:
I dont know SF very well but in t mobiles coverage and speed defense.. on my HD2 i got 4.3Mbps.. i was with my son outside the science museum. perfect 3g coverage.. home in NYC i get upwards of 5mbps. daytime-afternoon goes down to about 3.2Mbps. i came to T mobile from sprint. left sprint when hd2 came out. i must say t mobile is smashing sprint with coverage and speeds for me. with sprint i never got over 2.7Mbps no matter where i went. (i had the touch pro)
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If you look at the maps, sprint really does have a much larger 3G network than t-mobile, it all depends on where you are though to be honest. T-mobile is definitely faster though, never said it wasn't, i was specifically talking about SIZE not SPEED.

1000-1500 average in Denver and St. Louis.
Used to be higher last year, but network either slowed or more users. Not quite sure.

brownhornet said:
Must just be a new York thing..
T mobile ass here
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T-Mobile sucks in the Bay Area. Can't see more than 1Mbps, not to mention indoor 3G coverage.

1380 down, 670 up
Location is Lower Pac Heights in San Francisco

in Brick NJ, seeing a consistent 2.3-2.5mbps down, 900k up.

viperv990 said:
1380 down, 670 up
Location is Lower Pac Heights in San Francisco
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This is common in the San Francisco Bay Area - all the way from Pacifica where I work to San Jose. Morgan Hill/Gilroy (deep South Bay) is where Sprint needs to turn up the coverage. The best I've averaged is 600kbps down there.

Tmobile sucks in miami..struggling to get 700kb down..

clubtech said:
I have the EVO that was given out at the Google I/O so it is my first time with Sprint. It is one hell of a device.
I ran some speed tests all over the SF Bay Area and the EVDO speeds are total crap. Can't really call it 3G.
I get between 250Kbps - 700Kbps where the upper end is RARELY achieved . 90% of the time i see 300Kbps...
Are these typical Sprint speeds on 3G? or is there something wrong with radio on the EVO? (I am not sure if the firmware that is currently on the device will be the shipping firmware as some things are missing like the QIK video conf and TV OUT settings/app).
When i get 4G (rarely) the speeds are great (5Mbps down).
Curious what other Sprint customers are seeing on 3g.
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In Philadelphia I get between 600 and 1200 kbps d/l during peak and offpeak respectively. While I was in Las Vegas last week I could not get better than about 500 kbps d/l so I think 3g can be pretty variable. Good to hear you are getting nice 4G speeds.

Sprint Hero using the FCC speed test app:
Downtown Nashville, TN
2.03 Mbps down
566 kbps up
337 latency
For some reason the speed test app does not work with 2.1 on my hero. Not that I care, because I will have an EVO in my hands very soon!

Speed test comparison does not mean anything
unless you state what browser and what test you used. There can be a huge difference in results from browser to browser and test site to test site. With Skyfire I get 14053 Kbps down and 1816 up. Same test with Opera 3587 down and 890 up. Same test with uZard 14586 kbps down, 12053 kbps up. Using Brighthouse speed test. Huge difference. Opera mini will not run the flash test on Brighthouse.

I get 4g in ______ (4g coverage thread)

Lately there have been a lot of people reporting that they have 4g in areas not listed in sprints 4g coverage map. So i want all of you people who do get 4g signal to put what city and state you get 4g in, along with the average speed you get, that way all someone could stumble across this thread see the list and say, "oh man theres 4g there! yay!"
So let me start
I get 3 bars of 4g signal in Anaheim, CA around the knotts berry farm area.
And then ill take yours guys info and put here
4g Coverage
Anaheim, CA (5 down/2.5 up)
San Jose, CA (5 down/2.5 up)
Nampa/Boise, ID (Full speed at sprint store, 2.5 down / 1 up everywhere else)
Lexington, NC (5 down/2.5 up)
Richmond, VA (5 down/2 up)

San Jose, ca full bars 5/2.5

richmond, va
5/2

I get 4G in Nampa/Boise, ID. I get 4G speeds when I'm in the sprint store, other than that, I get 4G speeds that are half the speed of 3G speeds, and the 3G speeds are getting pretty damn close to being dial up speed around here. It really is quite ****ty.

How are you guys getting above 1mbps on upload? I thought Sprint/Clear had capped the upload at 1mbps.
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Hrshycro said:
I get 4G in Nampa/Boise, ID. I get 4G speeds when I'm in the sprint store, other than that, I get 4G speeds that are half the speed of 3G speeds, and the 3G speeds are getting pretty damn close to being dial up speed around here. It really is quite ****ty.
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that sucks man..you get 3g speeds with the 4g battery usage

oxeneers said:
How are you guys getting above 1mbps on upload? I thought Sprint/Clear had capped the upload at 1mbps.
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whaat really???? thats lame..maybe because theyre just testing

oxeneers said:
How are you guys getting above 1mbps on upload? I thought Sprint/Clear had capped the upload at 1mbps.
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I have no idea about the speeds. I was driving around the whole city(san jose, ca) with my applefanboy friend and i wanted to show off the phone and when he turned the 4g on it got signal. We opened the speedtester and bammm he stop talking about apple stuff.
I thought san jose was on the list for cities coming soon, but this was a fast launch unless is only testing phase.

Lexington,nc 5/2.5

They launched 4G here in Syracuse, NY almost a month ago.
I can't test the speed right now because I live right in the middle of a gap in the 4G coverage, but when out in areas with coverage I was getting speeds just a little faster than 3G in the same area.
Coverage here is horrible, even in the better 4G spots shown on the map I get a poor signal. I've never been able to get over one bar, and that one bar usually drops fast.
EDIT: Was in a 4G area today with a decent signal and got 1.99 Mbps down, and 0.8 Mbps up.

Nashville, TN and several of the surrounding areas.

First off, stop using the speedtest.net app to test speed, it is not accurate! Either use the flash speedtest.net or the HTML testmy.net if you want an accurate reading.
Second.
Denver - Broomfield around Interlocken and at Invesco field and a good 5 mile stretch down the highway.

All of downtown Seattle has excellent 4G
Tacoma, WA has great 4G
Bremerton, WA and Silverdale, WA has great 4G

I get 4G on the Northeast Corridor (Amtrak from NYC to Philly) from Elizabeth to Rahway, NJ.
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EtherealRemnant said:
First off, stop using the speedtest.net app to test speed, it is not accurate! Either use the flash speedtest.net or the HTML testmy.net if you want an accurate reading.
Second.
Denver - Broomfield around Interlocken and at Invesco field and a good 5 mile stretch down the highway.
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LOL, I saw that there was 4G during a Rockies game a month ago. My 3G stopped working, (I think the network was overtaxed during the game), and I happened to try 4G and was able to continue using data. Great speed too. Never got around to testing it though...
Also, Tri-Cities (Pasco, WA) has 4G and its official too.

Winston Salem, NC 4./1
Greensboro, NC 3.5/1
High Point, NC 4/1.5

King of Prussia, PA - 3/1.5
Philadelphia, PA - 4/1.7

Where in Richmond are you getting 5 down? I can only get about 3 down max downtown and in the Fan.

I got pretty decent coverage in Chicago.
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EtherealRemnant said:
First off, stop using the speedtest.net app to test speed, it is not accurate! Either use the flash speedtest.net or the HTML testmy.net if you want an accurate reading.
Second.
Denver - Broomfield around Interlocken and at Invesco field and a good 5 mile stretch down the highway.
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Make the font as big as you want, it will still be a free country..

[Q] Hspa+ deployed?

My phone's speed through the speedtest.net app at my home got better yesterday. A LOT better. I'm now reliably getting 3.5Mbits minimum, and got over 5 (5.11 was highest) 3 times. The ping is also good, ~125ms. I can find no explanation for these great scores other than "4"g finally being deployed. Anyone else getting better results?
For the record, the best score I ever got at home before this was 2.2Mbits.
upload still sucks... 300Kbits

nothing has changed for me..still paltry download and embarrassing upload.

Techcruncher said:
My phone's speed through the speedtest.net app at my home got better yesterday. A LOT better. I'm now reliably getting 3.5Mbits minimum, and got over 5 (5.11 was highest) 3 times. The ping is also good, ~125ms. I can find no explanation for these great scores other than "4"g finally being deployed. Anyone else getting better results?
For the record, the best score I ever got at home before this was 2.2Mbits.
upload still sucks... 300Kbits
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Are you sure that you weren't accidentally connected to wifi? Well, then again, that wouldn't explain the 300kbps

my area nw of detroit is hit or miss. sometimes i see 5mb speeds while other times i can barely break 400kb.
overall, my atrix works much better/fasterr than my att n1...

I was getting 2.5-3.0 Mbps when I got it and I live in a very small city. Just tested right now and got 3.5 Mbps and then 3.1 Mbps.

You can see the 4G coverage map at att.com/network
So far I see 4G released in greater Los Angeles, Bay area, "northern California" (Santa Rosa area), greater Dallas, Houston, Chicago, Buffalo, Providence (RI), Boston, Baltimore, Charlotte, and Puerto Rico.

I'm about an hour and change away from boston, and I see decent speeds. Faster than my verizon phone.
I'll be in boston next weekend for pax east, I'm pretty excited to see what kind of speeds I'm going to get.

I've always gotten 3mbs down and 300kbs up.
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My speeds tested with the speedtest app in Portland, OR (Vancouver, WA) which automatically tests from a server in Iowa (guess that's AT&T's connection point?). Anyways, not the speeds I expect, but I can live with them.
3053 D
167 U
2341 D
158 U
1674 D
129 U
2067 D
411 U
3369 D
304 U
For the record, I was in Santa Rosa, CA (one of their claimed rolled-out locations) for the past week. When downtown, I had great speeds. If you travel 1-2 miles away from downtown, coverage is hit or miss.
I was there for a week testing it and couldn't have been more frustrated. Constantly dropped calls because it kept switching between networks. I wanted a way to force it to stay on Edge while I was there so I could competently conduct business, but both AT&T and Motorola assured me that there was no way to force it to stay on Edge, as that feature was purposely disabled in the phone's settings.
My iPhone had that function and it came in handy when in bad areas. WTF?!
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Also, these speed tests in Vancouver, WA (Portland metro area) were tested now. Also, I spoke to 3 AT&T reps + 4 Motorola reps while I was in Santa Rosa, CA. As if it matters, but tracking the help from these companies is important at this stage I think

I noticed the same thing this morning. Im getting 4Mbps+ down, but still .3 up. Im just outside Chicago
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Maybe this is a good sign of things to come?

I can confirm that at the moment I am getting 3.4Mbps and that with 4 bars not 5 but yeah the upload still sucks

Huh. If this really has been deployed, maybe I should replace my Cingular SIM...

Just had 2 bars, ~200ms 3.4 down, .39 up
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Are you guys getting this speed with new APN setting or just the default? I'm in a 4G coverage area but am only getting about 1.5m down.

bleuiko said:
Are you guys getting this speed with new APN setting or just the default? I'm in a 4G coverage area but am only getting about 1.5m down.
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I'm using the wireless tethering mod in the Dev section. The one where you need the SQLite editor and root explorer.
EDIT: I actually hit 4.06 down, and 0.95 up Haven't hit those speeds since then, but my downloads are looking far better (2 mbps+ down, a little more than .3 up) compared to when I got the phone. (Was lucky to hit 1.5 mbps down, and .2 up)
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FWIW, I was sitting in Chicago's Midway airport yesterday (remember, Chicago is a "4G" city based on ATT's map). Well, I was consistently hitting 4.0 - 4.5 Mbps down and 300 kbps up while in Chicago on my Atrix. Latency was around 120 ms IIRC. This was very promising to see.
This morning, I'm back to ~2 Mbps down and ~150 kbps up in Denver (where "4G" is not deployed)

fraliex said:
You can see the 4G coverage map at att.com/network
So far I see 4G released in greater Los Angeles, Bay area, "northern California" (Santa Rosa area), greater Dallas, Houston, Chicago, Buffalo, Providence (RI), Boston, Baltimore, Charlotte, and Puerto Rico.
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Well i am in Houston, and get nothing here. Using the custom apn for laptopdock.
Seeing 5+ Download and 305k Upload.

To me it's not an issue of 4g or no 4g. I just want the speed my wife get's on her iphone. Sitting next to each other on the couch on the same [email protected] network!!!

scottrleo1 said:
To me it's not an issue of 4g or no 4g. I just want the speed my wife get's on her iphone. Sitting next to each other on the couch on the same [email protected] network!!!
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yeah, I agree. I want the speeds that I had on my Nexus One, but I'm just going to be patient and see if they get their act together with this phone. I love this phone regardless.

Very slow Verizon 4G speeds

I live in Virginia Beach, near Norfolk Airport, and at my house, 4G speeds are god-awful slow.
I did some exploring, and eventually got a -64dBm signal..
The speedtest results were absolutely pitiful. Less than 3mbps down, and for some reason, 4mbps up. Should I call Verizon Wireless about this, cause from the looks of it... seems like the 4G tower I'm connected to has very poor backhaul..

Maybe that tower is overloaded?
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Psh, if youre upset with that, look at me on simple mobile, the MOST i get on their 3G is about 300kb dl / 100kb ul per second.
Its horrible ..... but hey, you get what you pay for ($40 a month...)

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Maybe that tower is overloaded?
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I've considered that, but LTE is still newish. Of all places, Virginia Beach, I just have a hard time believing that the speeds here are lower than in NYC because of overloading, cause here, I just doubt that there's THAT MANY people on 4G. And my pings are always less than 100ms whoch further hints the load isn't too high. On top of it all, uploads are 4-6mbps while downloads are now under 2mbps. I'm considering calling Verizon Wireless, but doubt they'd do anything :/

did you check the coverage maps?

Evet cok yavas.
Very slow

xtrem88 said:
did you check the coverage maps?
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I did, indeed the day it was "officially" turned on (It had been on for weeks before October 20th)
And was pleased to see that my address was in the dark red, not extended lte coverage. Then I got home and made a yukky face at my phone when I saw how slow it was at home and thought "This can't be right..."
Today, I'm noticing much better speeds, I'm guessing they added another T2 line to it, as its still to slow to be a T3 line (I got as fast as 8mbps down, and 4 up, but that was at 4AM LOLOLOL

4G LTE Speed Test Thread

This topic was starting to mix in with another monster thread, thought it would be nice to have its own thread for those of us that are wanting to follow it.
I'll get things rolling:
Houston - west outside beltway with only 2 bars of 4gLTE
Using Speedtest.net app
Test1
Ping 59 ms
Download 15339kbps
Upload 5818 kbps
Test2
Ping 65ms
Download 16973kbps
Upload 5298kbps
Test2
Ping 62ms
Download 17662kbps
Upload 2166 kbps

Washington, DC, Dupont Circle area
test1: 72ms ping, 30,614kbps down, 10,181kbps up
test2: 79ms ping, 22,639kbps down, 9,608kbps up
test3: 71ms ping, 35,140kbps down, 9,784kbps up

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Here are 6 screenshots of speedtests from last night to tonight. Only one LTE site online in my area....(right by my apartment) it's not officially live in my neck of the woods.

San Diego, CA - Fashion Valley area. =p
It definitely bursts speedy, but I'm not sure how long it'll stay this strong.
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Damn im jealous of those speeds. I live like 30 min out of philiadelphia (not even sure theres lte there) i get like 5mb down and less than 1 mb up. I think the closest tower is out of state for me
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jefferson9 said:
Damn im jealous of those speeds. I live like 30 min out of philiadelphia (not even sure theres lte there) i get like 5mb down and less than 1 mb up. I think the closest tower is out of state for me
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Where outside of Philly? I'm in zipcode 19403 (Norristown) and have yet to see even 1MB down (there is no LTE here). I'm kind of bummed about it. In Paoli tonight I saw 1MB down. No LTE there, either.

I am about half an hour east of Dallas, TX
Test 1:
Ping: 61ms
Down: 33269kbps (32.49Mbps)
Up: 14065kbps (13.74Mbps)
Test 2:
Ping: 63ms
Down: 32.12Mbps
Up: 13.12Mbps
For a sad comparison...
On Wifi:
Ping: 32ms
Down: 22.87Mbps
Up: 4.20Mbps
Shame I can't share my unlimited bandwidth from uverse with my cellphone...

NA 521" said:
Where outside of Philly? I'm in zipcode 19403 (Norristown) and have yet to see even 1MB down (there is no LTE here). I'm kind of bummed about it. In Paoli tonight I saw 1MB down. No LTE there, either.
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Same zip! Haha guess im just lucky
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Los Angeles:
7.4 down and 2.0 up on average on LTE. disappointed . I was expecting more, these speeds aren't much faster than HSPA+, though more stable. I am thinking of returning this and getting the international one.

charlotte, nc
not so great here.

divinewisdom said:
Los Angeles:
7.4 down and 2.0 up on average on LTE. disappointed . I was expecting more, these speeds aren't much faster than HSPA+, though more stable. I am thinking of returning this and getting the international one.
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AT&T has always had a subpar network in California, it's due to the fun little regulations over there. They do try to improve it, but as they free up more of their limited spectrum they do have available over there you will see better speeds.

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AT&T has always had a subpar network in California, it's due to the fun little regulations over there. They do try to improve it, but as they free up more of their limited spectrum they do have available over there you will see better speeds.
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yea, but by that time the sheep will get LTE and we all will be back down to 2-3mbs again due to congestion. sucks.

I only have LTE connection in the middle of downtown and the speeds are great. However outside of that it's hspa and so forth. Not bad.. I live in rhode island
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Damn, 12 mbs LTE kind of blows, I get 8 mbs on HSPA+ round these backwoods Michigan parts

I was finally in an lte area today and got 22 down and 7 up
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I was finally in an lte area today and got 22 down and 7 up
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22mbps is great. that'd burn through AT&T's 200MB/month plan in... just under 73 seconds.
<3 WiFi.

Austin, Texas:

Orlando, FL
Test 1 (near downtown):
Test 2 (Colonialtown):
Just last week I thought I was so cool pulling ~4/2 on the 'ol Captivate!

San Diego, near State university. I think my two-story condo maybe interfering.