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Hey all,
With nothing else running, no matter what area I am in and regardless of the browser I use, I max out at 300kbps. Average is about 150kbps! I am using the mobile test from DSL reports. I am in the metro Detroit area.
When I use the same test on my iphone, I always get at least 1,800 kpbs!!
What gives? I know a 3g fix was released months ago, but that was before I got my epic.
Any suggest?
Thanks in advance,
Matt!
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I know right? Is it the phone or sprint? In speedtest I get 126 kbps down.
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Sprint's 3g sucks. A few days ago I took my Epic in to the ATT, T-Mobile, and Verizon stores around. I did side by side tests with the Ookla speed test app on phones with similar hardware to the Epic. Every other network's 3g performed better than Sprint's when I tested them with multiple speed tests.
No matter where I am I rarely get above 500Kbps over 3g.
This was all in San Antonio so YMMV.
depends on location and signal strength
3g sucks in Louisiana too...hell a lot of areas around here are still 1X! On a normal day around town you are lucky to see anything about 80 kilobit. The phone is really useless for apps unless you have a wifi connection. I use force roam a lot to roam on vzw evdo anytime I need to stream or download something.
It's both Sprint and the Epic. Sprint has pretty bad 3G speeds compared to other providers but the Epic makes it a lot worse. It has real sh*tty radios all around. My friend has an Evo and it gets double the speed (both up and down) in the same spot as me.
Its theepics radio.
The ping is horrible too.
I tested sidebyside with my sisters iphone 4, and her ping was 19ms. The epics? 200. Tried on wimax, the difference?about 20ms lower.
Did the test on my friends hero, his ping was 30ms and was pulling 2mbdown 1 up
Epic was 300 down on 3g and on wimax was 3mb down.
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digiblur said:
3g sucks in Louisiana too...hell a lot of areas around here are still 1X! On a normal day around town you are lucky to see anything about 80 kilobit. The phone is really useless for apps unless you have a wifi connection. I use force roam a lot to roam on vzw evdo anytime I need to stream or download something.
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It's strange, in the NOLA area my friend and I do speed tests in different areas in the city (pinging the same server). I get maybe 80kBs down and ~50kBs up (Pings ranging from 133 to 200+ milliseconds). My friend ends up getting ~200kBs down and ~700kBs up.
Of course those numbers vary, but my phone hit 200kBs 1 out of 75 pings. All others were less than 100kBs up/down.
I bring my phone into Sprint for service and the techie decides to compare speeds by bringing up the same website (MSN.com). It felt like it was a waste of time as both phones pulled the site up near the same time. I just don't understand this instability with pings and speeds in our area.
FYI: Be careful with data roaming. We are capped at 300MB a month for data roaming. Anything over is $0.25/MB.
KillerQ said:
Hey all,
With nothing else running, no matter what area I am in and regardless of the browser I use, I max out at 300kbps. Average is about 150kbps! I am using the mobile test from DSL reports. I am in the metro Detroit area.
When I use the same test on my iphone, I always get at least 1,800 kpbs!!
What gives? I know a 3g fix was released months ago, but that was before I got my epic.
Any suggest?
Thanks in advance,
Matt!
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Are you sure that you're actually on 3G service? Those speeds sound like 1xRTT. Your phone WILL NOT tell you that you're not in a 3G area. Only way to find this is in the phone's service menu. So, I repeat, your phone may read "3G", but you are infact probably using 1xRTT, not 3G (Ev-DO). 125kbit/s is average for 1xRTT.
Can you please share the method for getting into said service menu and how to check? This will be interesting to find if its in 1x or not ...
Thanks again
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KillerQ said:
Can you please share the method for getting into said service menu and how to check? This will be interesting to find if its in 1x or not ...
Thanks again
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Settinggs> About Phone
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Also, does anyone know what dbm and asu is? I have 4 bars and its 86dbm and 0asu and idk what that means lol
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Oh....I thought you meant the ## menus. I did look there but saw nothing referring to 3g or 1x.
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Settinggs> About Phone
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So where exactly do you see this on your phone within that menu? I've been looking between the "About Phone" menu and the "About Phone >> Status" menu, still don't see anything stating which network connection I'm using.
sorry, in the hero it would tell you in the status section whether you were on 1xrtt, 1x, EvDO Rev. 0 or EvDO Rev. A
The epic doesn't seem to have that :/ it just states If you're connected to the mobile networ
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Try *#INFO*1111# (*#4636*1111#) and choose Phone Information, under Network Type
Yay that worked! Yup I'm in evdo rev a and getting horrible speeds
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Can you please share the method for getting into said service menu and how to check? This will be interesting to find if its in 1x or not ...
Thanks again
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Koadic said:
Try *#INFO*1111# (*#4636*1111#) and choose Phone Information, under Network Type
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What Koadic said. They disabled the standard *#*#INFO#*#* that used to work on previous phones. You now need to append the *1111 and remove a couple of the *s and #s.
Be happy.
I get 30-50kbs down, but only when it works. Most of the time the connection times out.
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Yay that worked! Yup I'm in evdo rev a and getting horrible speeds
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Same here.
Was it or am I celebrating 420 too early? LOL
Great speeds! I'm still getting the same ole speeds with uploads capped
Maybe this is a good sign though
blackout203 said:
Great speeds! I'm still getting the same ole speeds with uploads capped
Maybe this is a good sign though
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Yeah I hope. Im going to test it again tomorrow and see if they are going to stay or if its just some glitch.
not fair!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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not fair!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Life isn't fair! MAHAHAHAHAHA
sorry....
That looks like an Atrix. Did you have any ota update? Those upload speeds are hsupa. =-O
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That looks like an Atrix. Did you have any ota update? Those upload speeds are hsupa. =-O
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Oooooh i was wondering. So isn't HSPA+ even faster?
And doesn't HSUPA increase the upload as well as the download speed?
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That looks like an Atrix. Did you have any ota update? Those upload speeds are hsupa. =-O
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Oh and no, i didn't get any OTA. I'm running the latest version that everyone else has.
I get what you got before 10:12 pm . This puzzle me a little. I thought updating the software to use the new protocol stack (I think rev. 7) it'll be on the handset side, it looks like the network was capping it?!
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slimslim said:
I get what you got before 10:12 pm . This puzzle me a little. I thought updating the software to use the new protocol stack (I think rev. 7) it'll be on the handset side, it looks like the network was capping it?!
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Yeah. If it just started working without an OTA then AT&T must be the evil culprit!
Any clues on what's going on?
What's it say in settings, about phone, status, mobile network type?
Anybody else in Seattle? Test and confirm?
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Yeah. If it just started working without an OTA then AT&T must be the evil culprit!
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EXactly, exactly what they did last year with the iphones. They capped it as well then all of a sudden bam tough actin tanaktin. They got 4-5 down and 2-3 up. No update at all. Plus I spoke to a tech yesterday that admitted that 4g phones were being capped. Bastids.
sdlopez83 said:
EXactly, exactly what they did last year with the iphones. They capped it as well then all of a sudden bam tough actin tanaktin. They got 4-5 down and 2-3 up. No update at all. Plus I spoke to a tech yesterday that admitted that 4g phones were being capped. Bastids.
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Nice!....wondered about the tinactin reference, then I looked at your avatar
slimslim said:
I get what you got before 10:12 pm . This puzzle me a little. I thought updating the software to use the new protocol stack (I think rev. 7) it'll be on the handset side, it looks like the network was capping it?!
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I think you're right, I'm in Australia with an AT&T Atrix 4G. I know my speeds should be higher than 300 but I can't get it due to the software. Is there a possibility that this guy was pushed an update that will soon be rolled out silently?
Damn.......still disappointed in the Twin Cities area of MN.
Crappy speeds as always.
Gr8Danes said:
Damn.......still disappointed in the Twin Cities area of MN.
Crappy speeds as always.
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Try another server, the Ohio one always shows slow speeds. I use the Wichita, KS one.
Chubby_Skunk said:
Any clues on what's going on?
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Can you run another speeds test for us?
zizo79 said:
Can you run another speeds test for us?
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Seconded, I'm getting consistent 1.8Mbps down, 200kbps up in NYC.
...NYC??!!?!?
Grrr...
Recently i have noticed that sprints 3G speeds have dramatically improved.back then i would get 700-800kbps speeds now I'm getting 1-2MBps sppeds here in Miami.Also my 4G speeds have also improved and signal too.
UPDATE:I have NOT edited the 3G proxy everything is default
I will post screenshots later
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fadimo305 said:
Recently i have noticed that sprints 3G speeds have dramatically improved.back then i would get 700-800kbps speeds now I'm getting 1-2MBps sppeds here in Miami.Also my 4G speeds have also improved and signal too.
I will post screenshots later
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Sounds good, there's no doubt that the data issues have been improved in a lot of areas.
Hasn't made its way to Jax yet, lol.
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Chicago 3G speeds also took that same jump bout 4 months ago...
4G has also really improved just recently...not so much that's its faster, but signal remains much more consistantly.
Am much happier.
Lucky you. My 3G is still as fast as a frozen glacier.
Edit: Even you previous 700-800 kb speeds are 3 times faster than what I get.
rugedraw said:
Lucky you. My 3G is still as fast as a frozen glacier.
Edit: Even you previous 700-800 kb speeds are 3 times faster than what I get.
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Update your PRL and Roam,Sprint has Amazing Roaming Speeds on 3G
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fadimo305 said:
Update your PRL and Roam,Sprint has Amazing Roaming Speeds on 3G
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I have the latest PRL, but the "amazing roaming speeds" are because you are running off of Verizon towers when you're roaming.......it has nothing to do with Sprint.
Edit: Also, I don't want to force the phone to roam on Verizon in any way. Hopefully some of whatever you're getting comes my way sooner than later.
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Yea im also getting like 5-6mbps down on 4g before it was like 3-3.5
My 3G speeds in Orlando are kinda slow. Roaming or not, they are actually a little slower when roaming. So I just use 4G as often as I possibly can.
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Yeah figured 3G would pick up when customers are jumping ship. hahahahahahah
MY speeds in Jacksonville (Right along the line of ST Augustine) has increased GREATLY! My speeds went from 50-80 kpbs to 1800-220 kbps DL. And about 10 kbps upload, now 550 (on average). It's great! Beats Verizon's speed @ my house (tested w/ a friend's HTC Eris).
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MY speeds in Jacksonville (Right along the line of ST Augustine) has increased GREATLY! My speeds went from 50-80 kpbs to 1800-220 kbps DL. And about 10 kbps upload, now 550 (on average). It's great! Beats Verizon's speed @ my house (tested w/ a friend's HTC Eris).
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Damn. Maybe I need to flash back to sense and try to update my profile. Just did it like a month ago. Haven't seen a new one released :/
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There is a great deal of work being done on a great many of the Florida sites to improve speed, capacity and overall experience. Glad its being noticed.
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I have the latest PRL, but the "amazing roaming speeds" are because you are running off of Verizon towers when you're roaming.......it has nothing to do with Sprint.
Edit: Also, I don't want to force the phone to roam on Verizon in any way. Hopefully some of whatever you're getting comes my way sooner than later.
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my 1-2mbps speeds are not on roaming but on sprints normal network
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jayharper08 said:
Damn. Maybe I need to flash back to sense and try to update my profile. Just did it like a month ago. Haven't seen a new one released :/
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Good idea..........I haven't tried updating the profile.
fadimo305 said:
my 1-2mbps speeds are not on roaming but on sprints normal network
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Oh, ok.....I must have misunderstood what you typed earlier.
My max speeds when roaming hit 250 kbps, because when you roam, Verizon only shares their 2G (not 3G) speeds.
i'm in melbourne ,has anyone else noticed they can connect to wi
max?????running decks 2.3.4 and cm7 both upon booting automatically start 4 g and to my surpise lately it connects but gives different I.P. addresses.anyone else???
Overstew said:
My max speeds when roaming hit 250 kbps, because when you roam, Verizon only shares their 2G (not 3G) speeds.
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I'm able to get 3G roaming on Verizon. It's also double the speeds of sprint. I am using PRl 01115. it's nice
Marlowr05 said:
I'm able to get 3G roaming on Verizon. It's also double the speeds of sprint. I am using PRl 01115. it's nice
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Yes indeed VZW 3g is nice. Sprint in Louisiana is horrible...20 kilobit to 50 kilobits for me. Data is useless unless I force roam.
My speeds in Tallahassee were great for about the first 4-6 months of owning the phone, now it's merely decent and there's been no improvement.
I just found a spot near my local Publix where I was getting 3 and 4 bars of signal with WiMax, which I rarely ever see in my city.
I speed tested and was consistently getting 16-18mbps down and around 3mbps up.
I'm curious to see how that compares with what everyone else is getting on Sprint's 4g network.
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Impossible. Must have been wifi.
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Or he was sitting on the tower. Jk bro. You have some screenies?
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Sprint's 4g is pretty good here in Cincinnati. I get about 6-7mbs down and 1 up at my apartment with one bar, but when I go outside I get about 10-12mbs down and 2 up with 3-4 bars.
Here is a screenshot. I wasn't on wifi, I was in the middle of a parking lot.
I wasn't getting 3mbps up here, but I have before.
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mine has definitely improved within about the last two weeks, as well! I'm getting about 15-20% stronger signal and speed
Not only that, even 3G improved in my area.
hp420 said:
mine has definitely improved within about the last two weeks, as well! I'm getting about 15-20% stronger signal and speed
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rasengan82 said:
Not only that, even 3G improved in my area.
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This is good to hear. Hopefully Sprint is staying good on their word and largely improving their 3G this year.
Especially looking forward to the Galaxy Nexus and LTE, even though I'm not in one of the cities getting it first.
madeincanon said:
Here is a screenshot. I wasn't on wifi, I was in the middle of a parking lot.
I wasn't getting 3mbps up here, but I have before.
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No you haven't. Wimax used to be capped at 1mb now it is capped at 1.5mbps. Clearly your screen shot would have shown the 3mbps upload had it really occurred.
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Rem3Dy said:
Wimax used to be capped at 1mb now it is capped at 1.5mbps.
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Thanks for the info.
Thats nice. wish i had some wimax in my city.
david279 said:
Thats nice. wish i had some wimax in my city.
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and we never will LTE ruins Wimaxers lives
I've gotten more than 1.5 many times here in Atlanta...idk who told you there was a cap....
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Maybe all the business users are moving over to versions lte mifis. In and around Philly I get 8-12 mbps. Don't forget that still have clear kiosks pretty sure well still connect to them as well
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Rem3Dy said:
No you haven't. Wimax used to be capped at 1mb now it is capped at 1.5mbps. Clearly your screen shot would have shown the 3mbps upload had it really occurred.
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for this were true I wouldn't be getting over 1.5MB/s on a regular basis..... that's right I said MB not mb.... Please check your info before posting it because what you stated is absolutely incorrect!!
This is what I get at my home using wimax
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hp420 said:
for this were true I wouldn't be getting over 1.5MB/s on a regular basis..... that's right I said MB not mb.... Please check your info before posting it because what you stated is absolutely incorrect!!
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Not necessarily, wimax upload speeds were capped. No official word that it's been removed though or made higher above 1.5. Any of you claiming higher have a screenshot?
http://m.techcrunch.com/2011/06/09/sprint-to-bump-upload-speeds-on-their-wimax-network-up-by-50/
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Acontreras86 said:
This is what I get at my home using wimax
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Wow, that's great, I wish I got that at my house. I max out at maybe 1MB/s at home.
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This is sitting on the middle exit in Conway Arkansas ....
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Sorry guys, wrong forum... I will post one from my ns4g
Way slower though...it's on vhGomez latest ICS with speedy 5 kernel
Update, March 21, PRL 60686 is out
Just noticed my phone updated itself to PRL 60685.....
My phone is now much smoother, battery life is way better, and I get 7 bars service.
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But seriously, 60685 is out for what it's worth, I don't have a clue what changed.
Too funny!
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Too funny!
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True lol
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If someone will pull it and post it I will run a diff on it to see the changes.
Meh... I'm on CM9 but I'm not even going to bother updating.
Posting epic posts straight from my Epic 4G.
Tomcat5 said:
Meh... I'm on CM9 but I'm not even going to bother updating.
Posting epic posts straight from my Epic 4G.
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I'm on cm9 too and it's not difficult. I just temp booted EL30 from my sd card.
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In suburban Houston, I'm not noticing any difference. Remember, updating your PRL only helps with roaming (Preferred Roaming List). Any differences you're seeing are probably a placebo effect. Unless you are roaming...
Off topic, I know they're turning on enhanced 3g in Atlanta, anyone know when/if Houston will? I know we're on the short list for LTE along with Atlanta, so my assumption is that we would also be for enhanced 3g.
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czechpunk said:
In suburban Houston, I'm not noticing any difference. Remember, updating your PRL only helps with roaming (Preferred Roaming List). Any differences you're seeing are probably a placebo effect. Unless you are roaming...
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Exactly this. If you roam a lot or have no signal a lot, and IF there was an updated tower from another carrier added to your roam list (PRL) you may roam and get signal. Otherwise it matters not. Digiblur usually has the list of additions to the list in his sig.
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Exactly this. If you roam a lot or have no signal a lot, and IF there was an updated tower from another carrier added to your roam list (PRL) you may roam and get signal. Otherwise it matters not. Digiblur usually has the list of additions to the list in his sig.
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Could this have to do with Sprint activating the old iden nextel towers? Trying not to believe in the sugar pill effects too quickly but damn! At the house never peeked over 300k and the last three test have been 800k steady... hope it sticks anyway.
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Danny1st said:
Could this have to do with Sprint activating the old iden nextel towers? Trying not to believe in the sugar pill effects too quickly but damn! At the house never peeked over 300k and the last three test have been 800k steady... hope it sticks anyway.
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No because those towers would be considered Spint network towers and not Roaming towers. If they contracted to share more (or less) towers for roaming they change the list (PRL).
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No because those towers would be considered Spint network towers and not Roaming towers. If they contracted to share more (or less) towers for roaming they change the list (PRL).
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Damn! Tested again and got over a meg... Just a coincidence I guess, either way I'm not complaining.
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Danny1st said:
Damn! Tested again and got over a meg... Just a coincidence I guess, either way I'm not complaining.
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I'm getting right at a meg down and 1/2 meg up. That's the best I've seen in awhile. Tested after updating PRL
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blazinazn said:
I'm getting right at a meg down and 1/2 meg up. That's the best I've seen in awhile. Tested after updating PRL
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Yep, steady between 800k and a meg. Never had this before. Especially in the morning on a work day. I'm in the grand rapids michigan area by the way. Again hope this sticks.
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Prl: prefered roaming list.
Doesn't normally have an affect less you got a new tower installed it doesn't increase data.
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Big Goron said:
Prl: prefered roaming list.
Doesn't normally have an affect less you got a new tower installed it doesn't increase data.
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they must have improved a tower, or switched over an iden nextel tower to 3g cause I'm cooking now...just a coincidence about the prl. Pushing 800k to 1 meg all day now, could barely break 200k before. Now I don't have to rely on my wifi to browse! Anyway thanks all for the clarification.
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Prl: prefered roaming list.
Doesn't normally have an affect less you got a new tower installed it doesn't increase data.
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Not exactly accurate. Whenever they make any changes regarding towers is when they release prl updates. They are not building new towers 6x a year. This prl update has a significant impact on the 1x issue I don't see it anymore
I must agree with some of the others. I too am experiencing faster data with this prl update. Before the update I had .5 meg. Now I get between 1.3 and 1.5 meg. I'm very pleased with this update. My location is in central Alabama.
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It isn't a list of towers
I am on cm7 with 11115, best prl for roaming btw, and can't pull the prl since I am travelling and need my phone. As soon as someone posts it I will do the diff.
I suspect the only real changes is the removal of Pioneer in OK from the native signal list.
Also for your network vision insider info check out www.s4gru.com
mxcoldhit said:
I must agree with some of the others. I too am experiencing faster data with this prl update. Before the update I had .5 meg. Now I get between 1.3 and 1.5 meg. I'm very pleased with this update. My location is in central Alabama.
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Alabama!? I need to freaking get this asap then! Northeast Bama over here lol
I am Z.
zanderman112 said:
Alabama!? I need to freaking get this asap then! Northeast Bama over here lol
I am Z.
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And if one of you could confirm toward the eastern side of central...