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I'm located in NYC and I been turning on the 4G on and off all weekend in different areas (Bronx, Brooklyn, now Long Island City (in Queens)) and I have a 4G connection. Did a speedtest.net test (app in marketplace) and below are my results...
1st Test -
Down: 2.93 Mbps
Up: .96 Mbps
2nd Test -
Down: 1.55 Mbps
Up: .86 Mbps
3rd Test -
Down: 1.78 Mbps
Up: .96 Mbps
All other NYCers test your 4G availability and report back.
They are testing in the NYC area
About time, doesn't effect me though, lol
Too bad you don't get the full 3Mbps (cap) yet.
I am down on 27th street and got nada...
i'm at 38th and 5th and not picking up a 4g signal.
Down on 28th and Park Ave. and nothing yet. Just scanning...
i'm in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn and don't pick up a network.
Nothing in bensonhurst
Nothing in Financial district...
nothing in bensonhurst brooklyn :-(
Nothing in Jackson Heights / East Elmhurst
nothing in Midwood Brooklyn
I'm in Center City Philadelphia and the record for me so far is 4.9mb/s. I am normally in the 3.8-4.2 area so far. At work outside of Philadelphia I'm only getting 2.2
im on 34 st and 5th ave no 4g here
Also in Jackson Hts. (which incidentally is not too far from LIC where the OP described 4g goodness) and nothing here as of now.
Hey guys
Good news, I happened to be around 59th St and Madison Av and I picked a full 4G from Sprint, however it kept dropping off. I guess they were testing the area. I was working around there for 2 hrs and kept getting the 4G available in this area. I connected for like 30 Secs but then it dropped
Hurray Sprint
How does the 4G network alert work? Sound? Notifications bar only?
thanks
Nothing in Union Square or in Brooklyn Heights. At least today .
oldmanwinter said:
How does the 4G network alert work? Sound? Notifications bar only?
thanks
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You can set it to a Not.. bar under the 4G settings.
Isn't nyc slated for the end of the year? How come you picked up a usable 4g signal anyway?
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Couldn't believe it the other day, I had heard 4G was coming to Los Angeles in late 2010. So... I turned on 4G the other day outside my office and... BING 4G SOLID signal. To put it mildly, my jaw dropped.
I have been driving around with 4G on and everywhere I go in Hollywood has had a 4G signal. Thought it was just them testing, but I have been able to get 4G every time I came to work.
North of Hollywood the signal drops to 3G.
Sweet! Where abouts in Hollywood are you? Near the 101?
Great to hear! I will be on a plane in the morning..
I'm not kidding, I am flying out there for E3, but NICE. ;O
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Couldn't believe it the other day, I had heard 4G was coming to Los Angeles in late 2010. So... I turned on 4G the other day outside my office and... BING 4G SOLID signal. To put it mildly, my jaw dropped.
I have been driving around with 4G on and everywhere I go in Hollywood has had a 4G signal. Thought it was just them testing, but I have been able to get 4G every time I came to work.
North of Hollywood the signal drops to 3G.
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I was in Westwood near UCLA, got 4G signal as well.
I guess parts of LA have 4G now. But San Gabriel Valley and OC still do not have 4G yet.
Yea 4g has been active in testing phase in L.A. since mid may
Yesterdy, I was in a sprint store in Alhambra to try the evo, it doesn't have 4g signal.
You can usually get a 4G signal near any Best Buy which is broadcasting 4G from what I believe. Right there on the 405 and the 10 you can get it, which I suspect is coming from the Best Buy on Pico. Driving from south on the 405 I could get it around Santa Monica and west on 10, it fades off just after Bundy.
C'mon Sprint... bring it to the I.E.
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Sweet! Where abouts in Hollywood are you? Near the 101?
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Around Hollywood and Highland
Vine and Melrose strong 4G signal too........!!!!!!!!
There is a large 4G antenna on top of the beverly center... that's where most of the 4g in Hollywood comes from...
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There is a large 4G antenna on top of the beverly center... that's where most of the 4g in Hollywood comes from...
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hmmm interesting..
Yeah, my friend was at the Beverly Center this weekend and he said he was able to get very good 4G service out there. I'm just waiting for it to show in the San Gabriel Valley!!
cpnichols said:
You can usually get a 4G signal near any Best Buy which is broadcasting 4G from what I believe. Right there on the 405 and the 10 you can get it, which I suspect is coming from the Best Buy on Pico. Driving from south on the 405 I could get it around Santa Monica and west on 10, it fades off just after Bundy.
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That is not true. There was a rumor that some Radio Shacks were using 4G repeaters, but there are no Best Buy stores doing this.
dsjr2006 said:
That is not true. There was a rumor that some Radio Shacks were using 4G repeaters, but there are no Best Buy stores doing this.
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You may be right... I used an app called Cell Mapper to measures signal strength and maps it. It also changed color as it went from 3G to 4G. I noticed that going south on the 405 from the valley, I started to pick up a 4G signal around the Getty. It went all the way down to the 10 and down past Centinla. So it seems that West LA is covered.
Then last night I drove via downtown and Hollywood. I got a Signal as I got close to downtown on the 10, and had a signal (with a few tips back to 3G) on the 101 all the way up to hollywood until I hit barum.
So 4G is really starting to show up in some big areas in LA. Now I wish that the East Valley and Venice would get it...
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So 4G is really starting to show up in some big areas in LA. Now I wish that the East Valley and Venice would get it...
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Screw the east valley........., its all about the west valley SON!
MAN! I wish i would have read this thread an hour ago!! I was at the Cafe Was on sunset and vine and I didn't even check :-( Any more 4g Los Angeles sightings? I really would like it in the San Fernando Valley!
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There is a large 4G antenna on top of the beverly center... that's where most of the 4g in Hollywood comes from...
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Interesting, do you know if it's been turned off recently? I live one mile east, next to the Grove, and had great 4G service from the launch day (3-5 Mbs in phone, 6-8(!) tethered to a laptop via USB). But since a couple weeks ago, all I get now is the 4G availability notification, but the data connection is not at 4G speeds (status bar icon never appears). This happened right around the June 28th OTA update, which included the radio update, which makes me wonder if we were not supposed to be getting 4G coverage yet in the first place (while ClearWire is still deploying).
I got 4G at the Convention Center during E3 too, but haven't checked that area recently.
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Screw the east valley........., its all about the west valley SON!
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Love the sn. 4g in the sf valley would be awesome.
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ap3604 said:
C'mon Sprint... bring it to the I.E.
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I second that brotha! C'mon Cucamonga!
I live in Campbell and been getting at least 1 bar of 4G consistently. Not a good signal but at least I'm getting something. Getting full 4G coverage in Cupertino and Santa Clara. My friend's a store manager at Sprint and told me they're launching 4G officially in October. Hope this is a good news for some of you. Thought I should share.
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There's no way they're launching in San Francisco by next month. There's no signal anywhere even for testing. Maybe the san jose market will launch next month but san francisco will definitely take a while to launch.
Because, I'm pretty sure, all 4G launches are preceded by at least some sort of test signals... Which we have nothing in SF.
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Sorry to hear that man. Hopefully they will. It would be silly for Sprint if they don't launch it in frisco considering the huge market.
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Yeah, I work a lot in Palo Alto, and the whole downtown has the Clear Innovation network live, and there is some decent speeds. The other day while going on 101 South near Capitol Expwy exit in San Jose, I got over 7mbps in my car, while driving. That was epic.
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Yeah, I work a lot in Palo Alto, and the whole downtown has the Clear Innovation network live, and there is some decent speeds. The other day while going on 101 South near Capitol Expwy exit in San Jose, I got over 7mbps in my car, while driving. That was epic.
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wow that's awesome! i live a mile away from that area, i'm going to have to test it out. where i work near 101 and lawrence i can get 3.8-4.5 depending on if i have 1 or 2 bars.
I have managed to get 8Mbps in downtown San Jose. Covers the area past the Pavillion and up to the airport. Downtown has the best speeds though.
Just last weekend i got ~9Mbps near Walmart, Mountain View. Haven't got any 4G signal in palo alto area.
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I have managed to get 8Mbps in downtown San Jose. Covers the area past the Pavillion and up to the airport. Downtown has the best speeds though.
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i'm probably being too optimistic, but i hope there's a signal inside the arena! sharks season coming up soon, so i'll be in there before long.
http://www.androidcentral.com/sprint-rolls-out-4g-six-more-cities
Sprint has just fired up their 4G WiMax network in six new locales, bringing the total up to 68 cities nationwide. The new cities:
Los Angeles, CA
Miami, FL
Washington D.C.
Cleveland, OH
Cincinnati, OH
Columbus, OH
dam im right in the middle of Columbus and Cincinnati do think think ill get it yet lol
CheesyNutz said:
http://www.androidcentral.com/sprint-rolls-out-4g-six-more-cities
Sprint has just fired up their 4G WiMax network in six new locales, bringing the total up to 68 cities nationwide. The new cities:
Los Angeles, CA
Miami, FL
Washington D.C.
Cleveland, OH
Cincinnati, OH
Columbus, OH
dam im right in the middle of Columbus and Cincinnati do think think ill get it yet lol
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Where u at? I'm about 5 minutes from kings island.
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Tiffany84 said:
Where u at? I'm about 5 minutes from kings island.
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Springfield,oh
4g is.not.in dayton yet
from my phone duh
its still a crapshoot in northern KY, closer to the river or airport the better it seems, no signal at my house in independence, but I got a poor to weak signal at the Target in florence last night at work., but at least I know it works on my phone.
Keep in mind for the Cleveland network, we will be continually adding towers through April 2011. The coverage map on sprint.com will be updated every 15 days to reflect the changes
Still no love for detroit? Get it together sprint!
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Springfield,oh
4g is.not.in dayton yet
from my phone duh
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Good old Springfield... I went to school at Witt.
And I'm getting pretty good service on 4G up in Cleveland.
im suprised they didnt have 4G in L.A., Miami and DC.
Damn, still no love in Buffalo. Sigh.
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Woohoo for 4G in LA!
We've had it here unofficially for a while, but it was always spotty. Although I've had a solid two bars of it from my house since they first started testing it out here.
Time to flash a Sense ROM and turn on the Wimax.
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Good old Springfield... I went to school at Witt.
And I'm getting pretty good service on 4G up in Cleveland.
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h8 you lol
Hell yes for LA CALIFORNIAAAA
It's amazing how they don't have it in Indianapolis yet but they do in Cincinnati. No offense to Cincinnati but it's a ghost town.
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It's amazing how they don't have it in Indianapolis yet but they do in Cincinnati. No offense to Cincinnati but it's a ghost town.
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they have 4g in lubbock, tx. even wichita falls tx. but not my hometown denver
Weird. I was in DC end of Sept through mid October and 4g was up and running fine.
Dam I'm only 1 mile from a freakin spot of 4G that's in the wilderness park in south OC. Otherwise I would have to commute 10 miles to get more stable 4G, O well hope they build more towers soon for the rest of Orange county.
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they have 4g in lubbock, tx. even wichita falls tx. but not my hometown denver
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lubbock = texas tech.
Is it just me or I could care less. 4G is unusable IMHO. The battery drain isn't worth the extra bandwidth. T-Mo's HSDPA is the direction every wireless carrier should be looking at.
still no memphis.
wtf
Maybe Omaha?
For about the last week or two service has been almost nonexistent when I use the phone at my house and it was because Sprint said they were updating their towers. I have lived in the same place for 6 years and have never had an issue like this. Has anyone in a 4G city noticed this happening shortly before it gets launched or am I just reading too much into it unfortunately?
Someone asked about 4G speeds over the weekend. I could't find the thread, so I'll post them up here.
I live on the south side of Kansas City and at my house I pull between 3 and 5.5 Meg down pretty consistently.
At my dentist's office today I pulled between 2 and 3.5 on several attempts.
My upload speeds have been consistently between 850k and 1.5 Meg.
I'm looking forward to testing at my buddies house. We were able to obtain dl's over 8 last time I was there messing with his Evo.
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when i'm in Boston i average 10mbps on my Evo, next time i go i'll have my Shift and will be able to compare the two
Very cool. I plan on doing a side by side with his Evo.
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i got 7000kbps down and 1100kbps up today up here in minnesota the chicago speedtest server is the fastest i've come across. great ping times.
I got 9.5Mbps upload in Rochester. Very impressive.
Anyone in Nashville? I travel there sometimes.
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I got 9.5Mbps upload in Rochester. Very impressive.
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Rochester, NY or Rochester, MN?
Did a couple of test today. 5500 kbps at one point this morning. 9500ish around noon. 1000-1100 kbps up.
These were in LA.
This morning I got 5500 kbps down and 1100 up in Alexandria VA.
I'm Shifting on 4G (edited for Brando!)
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This morning I got 5500 kbps down and 1100 up in Alexandria VA.
I'm Shifting
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Just don't shift in your pants!
Argh when is San Diego going to get 4G?
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Server: Baltimore MD
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Rochester, NY or Rochester, MN?
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I would say that's in NY. I'm pretty certain there's no 4G in Rochester, MN.
I'm heading up to the Twin Cities tomorrow, so I'll have to try out the 4G and see what kind of speeds I get
I hit 10.28 dl and .99 ul in Orange County today with full 4G bars.
silex said:
Argh when is San Diego going to get 4G?
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Go chargers?
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silex said:
Argh when is San Diego going to get 4G?
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+1. Sprinkle some of that 4G over Northern San Diego/La Jolla too. UCSD needs some 4G lovin (;
Guys, check out the Map Viewer app for an unofficial coverage map. Works great!
I found this great Android app '4G,CDMA,GSM & WiFi Map Viewer' on AppBrain: http://www.appbrain.com/app/com.sensorly.viewer
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Western Chicago Suburbs here (Higgins corridor and north of Elgin on Fox River).
I drove around last weekend and monitored the 4G.
I'm mostly seeing 3-5 M upload and .5-1.5 M uploads (early Saturday morning)
Closer to noon I saw rates drop to 1-3 M uploads. I was driving in some pretty out of the way places and saw fairly good 4G coverage.
I was on I290 the other day and got one hit at 12 Mega (!). Just saw it once
and have not been able to re-create it.
My guess is the closer to Chicago you get, the higher rates you'll get.
Anybody have an idea if Sprint is reducing bandwidth when their network gets busy?
I've got the sensorly app, one of the better ones.
I'm hoping "Open Signal Maps" gets their act together because it is actually
trying to locate the towers on a central map.
Somehow I've managed to buy a house right in the middle of a group of towers
so that I only get 1 bar of 4G upstairs (3G only downstairs). Once I get on the road
I get good 4G coverage (2-4 bars)
4G speeds in shawnee ks suck but they are better than the 3 G ones lol
I usually see speeds between 6-8meg up in Cleveland. I use the Chicago server to test with.