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Sprint download speeds on the Evo?

What should I be expecting to see for download speeds on my Evo with Sprint. I just ran a speedtest app from the market and I'm getting higher upload speeds that download speeds.
I seem to average around 450 or so kbps. I topped out at 700 kbps. My signal seems to be full bars.
Upload speeds seem to be equal to or higher than my download speeds.
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I'm getting close to the same siting at my house with 4 bars. 565/418
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i've seen upwards of 6mbps

I got between 256kbps to 500kbps download speed 3G . Some time less than 256kbps. It suck, I think depend the area and how far is the towers

Usually get around 1Mbps, on average, around the house. Give or take a little fluctuation.
3G, usually don't have full bars but I'm not usually paying much mind to them either. So not sure.

Just ran it from my office. I have 5 out of 6 "bars" on 3G for what it's worth. This is in Baltimore and I am pinging the Philadelphia server.
Ping: 94 ms
Download: 919 kbps
Upload: 617 kbps
Wimax doesn't do as good a job with the whole "bars" thing but they're always an estimate at best anyway. It's showing 2 out of 3 at the moment.
Ping: 135 ms
Download: 3640 kbps
Upload: 992 kbps
Typically my downloads are around 600-1000kbps on EVDO and 3000-5000 on Wimax. Uploads vary more but Wimax usually tops out around 1000-1100kbps.

Wimax in Chicago
This is what i got. The fastest I've gotten was about 8mbps down (not shown here).

With -40 dbs (full signal) I've gotten 2310 kbps down and 721kbps up...

Forgot to mention I was on 3g. Dunno how to add the pic from my phone...

3G speeds increased with -B modification

Mine tops 1.2mps
EVIL PHONE

Can we focus on 3g speeds?
I'm pretty sure I'm picking up an Evo tomorrow and these posts have been very interesting to me. I will be in 3g territory 99.8% of the time I have this phone. My sprint rep guy told me that the towers in my town are sprint towers (no idea if that really means anything,) so I'm hoping for excellent 3g data coverage here.
If anyone have any 3g reports for Beaver Dam, Wisconsin (which i'm sure you dont) feel free to post!
And if any of this doesn't make any sense, I blame it on the Ambien Walrus that is distracting me here. See below for details.
Edit: Apparently I cannot post my fabulous picture. Anyways: 3G>Madison Area>How Good???

With 4G, 1 bar, 4-5 Mbps is the usual around here. I hate the **** quality of building penetration. I don't know if that will forever be a given, but GOT DAYUM, if I could just post my phone up by the window and rock the hotspot that'd be cool ... or if when I was laying on the couch (head / phone close to window) it'd somehow pick it up. Not a huge deal.
3G though, I should start taking more speedtests (which are known to be inaccurate anyways - but I try a few to get a "somewhat" average reading. or so I hope) just to see. I see speeds that FAR outweigh what I pull in. I don't get it. 3G is solid, never experience any shortages but some places just have MAX signal?

Is everyone just using the Speedtest app that comes with the phone to determine their speeds? I had read that it gave incorrect results. Mine are all over the place, but even if I use DSlReports or SpeakEasy, the results vary significantly.

This is with my laptop wirelessly connected to my phone.

csmall said:
What should I be expecting to see for download speeds on my Evo with Sprint. I just ran a speedtest app from the market and I'm getting higher upload speeds that download speeds.
I seem to average around 450 or so kbps. I topped out at 700 kbps. My signal seems to be full bars.
Upload speeds seem to be equal to or higher than my download speeds.
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I get around 500down,250 up here on 3g. In strong Wimax areas I get around 6M down (dont recall upload speed). They seem to be getting a new tower up around me now. As these things go,they are spotty at first,then they get them fully online. When I can get a signal in my house (by putting the phone in the back rooms window) I can get around 2M down and 400K up. Im actually typing this while tethered (I rooted today and installed wifi tether.) Its working pretty good.

anyone else not getting above 150KBPS uploads on 3g?

this is freaking rediculous, its not my phone as my wifes epic does the same thing. no matter what, not over 150kbps. downloads can be 600K 1.1 meg, and never over 150kbps when testing with speedtest on uploads.

This is simple: upload is not as fast as download
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I've seen around 200kbps upload at highest on my epic.
Just did speedtest.net and it got 973kbps download and 146kbps upload.

3G performance has been terrible on the Epic. I have Epic, Evo and TP2 right next to each other. After three consecutive tests, the Epic's best score was 376 / 146, Evo = 1152 / 308, TP2 = 886 / 228. The Evo and TP2 scores were fairly consistant, the Epic was as low as 80 / 122 (yes 80kilobits). That said, while watching the tests run, it does seem as if there could be a cap on the Epic upload speed. Even if it bounced over 150, it would immediately crop back down.

thats what i'm saying, on the speedtest, I see my upload start at like 300-400 for a sec and then drops down. sprint says upload should be similar to download speed. clearly maybe its a sprint network issue? verizon doesn't have this issue.
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3G performance has been terrible on the Epic. I have Epic, Evo and TP2 right next to each other. After three consecutive tests, the Epic's best score was 376 / 146, Evo = 1152 / 308, TP2 = 886 / 228. The Evo and TP2 scores were fairly consistant, the Epic was as low as 80 / 122 (yes 80kilobits). That said, while watching the tests run, it does seem as if there could be a cap on the Epic upload speed. Even if it bounced over 150, it would immediately crop back down.
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On speedtest.net I just got 600 down and 143 up. Like others said, it would go a little higher than 150 on the up speed, but then bounce back down under 150.

lame, the speedtest app doesn't even have california as a testing spot.

Speedtest.net has a Los Angeles Server for both 3g and 4g. Also Sprint has 2 towers that should be going up soon in the los angeles area that will make speeds more consistant. I have been doing side-by-side tests with my old iphone 3gS and my new epic, and what i found was that in servers closer to the west coast sprint had far better up/down speeds however for servers farther east att had slightly better speeds also ATT had horrible ping.... sprint never had higher ping to any server than att . However this all goes out the window because in Downtown LA. im under a 4G umbrella and get 5.1 meg download and a 1.2 upload..... this is fater than what i can get at home using wifi.... suck that ATT!

yeah i'm getting around 600 down and about 150 up

I live in arkansas which isn't worth a poop for wireless networks compared to the bigger cities, but I get 1.61mbps down and .31mbps up

They are testing 4G in my area, so I have it here in Colorado. I get 3000 down and 1500 up on that.
On 3G I too am getting around 1000 down and around 175 up.
but it's more than enough for me.

sprint just called me back. had me run mobilespeedtest.com which of course doesn't have upload speeds. Guy was very nice so I'm gonna give him a break. Anyway, he confirmed that for my area, the upload speeds should be 350-500 and said the engineers will look at it and hopefully I'll hear back within 72hours.

i'm interested in seeing if this gets resolved.. Upstream bandwidth is not important to some, but for people like me it can make a huge difference.

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i'm interested in seeing if this gets resolved.. Upstream bandwidth is not important to some, but for people like me it can make a huge difference.
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i don't care if its not huge upload, but this is rediculous for the money we are paying.
my friends droid 2 did the same download side by side and the upload was like 50kbps less, while mine is like 350kbps less.

its been rumored that there was a 200kb "cap" on upload, download is just fine for myself but upload does have a part when i upload pics to fb or the like

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its been rumored that there was a 200kb "cap" on upload, download is just fine for myself but upload does have a part when i upload pics to fb or the like
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well today I got like 172 on upload when doing 1100 download. so I'd say 200kbps is probably it under perfect conditions.
my friends droid2 is looking very good at the moment. I don't really need the upload speed, but its just how many hardware deficiencies can you deal with? I'm very leary to believe that all the problems are software.

Just did a test with 3 G and 4 G here in Haverhill MA..
3G was 1.6Mbps DL and 150 kbps up
4G was 6.1 Mbps DL and 1.63 Mbps up

I do feel like something is capping upload on the Epic. I didnt have this issue on my EVO. Here are my 3G speeds (I'm inside a building though):
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Just wanted to reply that 3G upload data is definitely capped. 150kbits upload max. 4G does just fine. But my friend has an Evo 4G, we tested right next to each other.
our downloads were the same, his upload was 800 while mine was 150.

Yeah I know the .net site has LA servers but the app inside the android market for speedtest does not have anything on the west coast for me to test my speeds.
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Speedtest.net has a Los Angeles Server for both 3g and 4g. Also Sprint has 2 towers that should be going up soon in the los angeles area that will make speeds more consistant. I have been doing side-by-side tests with my old iphone 3gS and my new epic, and what i found was that in servers closer to the west coast sprint had far better up/down speeds however for servers farther east att had slightly better speeds also ATT had horrible ping.... sprint never had higher ping to any server than att . However this all goes out the window because in Downtown LA. im under a 4G umbrella and get 5.1 meg download and a 1.2 upload..... this is fater than what i can get at home using wifi.... suck that ATT!
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Vibrant vs G2 speed comparison by Wirefly: Is this a joke?

So I just noticed @TMobile tweeted a comparison done by Wirefly of G2 vs Vibrant vs Epic 4G in terms of connection speed. I took a look at the video and I am baffled at the idiotic nature of it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36p8bMAFDVQ
http://www.wirefly.com/learn/android/t-mobile-g2-screams-in-internet-speed-tests/
...Capable of operating on T-Mobile’s HPSA+ network, the G2 tested at speeds up to 5.5 Mbps. In a Wirefly video recording on YouTube, the G2 showed a download speed of 3.07 Mbps. By comparison, the Samsung Vibrant (which runs on T-Mobile’s slightly slower HSPA network) topped out at a modest 437 kbps. The Vibrant is certainly capable of higher speeds and there are many variables that can account for the results in an Internet speed test. The Vibrant received a relatively weak signal for this particular test, which accounts for its lackluster performance...
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"Bob the cellphone professor" tested the G2 in two different locations - at his office and at home. At his office G2 got ~800 Kbps while at home it got ~3 Mbps. That is fine, I understand that different locations will give you different speeds depending on many different variables such as current network usage, etc. However what I have a problem is what he did with the Vibrant.
He tested the Vibrant at his office; the Vibrant got ~400 Kbps at the office (the same location the G2 got ~800 Kbps, i.e. the location that has a weaker or more busy T-Mobile network). Then, he goes on to compare the ~400 Kbps the Vibrant got at his office to the speed the G2 got at his home.
I realize the G2 is on HSPA+ while the Vibrant is still on HSPDA/HSPA, so logically the G2 will get faster speeds where the HSPA+ network is available. I am not trying to say the Vibrant will have faster connection speeds than the G2. However, the comparison done by "Bob the cellphone professor" is poor, to say the least. A more fair comparison would be one of G2 at home vs Vibrant at home. Someone fire this guy -- or at least keep him away from the camera. Disinformation is a disservice to us all.

Is HSPA+ even available yet

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Is HSPA+ even available yet
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They have not fully rolled it out, yes, but it is already available in many cities.
Plus it doesn't even matter if HSPA+ is available or not. My point about the comparison being poor is valid regardless of if HSPA+ is available in Bob's area or not.

like i thought he is only on HSPA with G2
yea he is pretty dumb especially posting on youtube
vibrant 3g score not mine
i only get around 2mb on good day
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhjF3CdzNwU&feature=related
ignore the title its obviously not HSPA+
not mine

I get on average 2.80 mbps on my vibrant and about 3 on the g2 I have. Do the g2 will only make a big speed difference once hspa+ is fully launched. I think our vibrants support upto 7.2 mbps so go figure.
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So I just noticed @TMobile tweeted a comparison done by Wirefly of G2 vs Vibrant vs Epic 4G in terms of connection speed. I took a look at the video and I am baffled at the idiotic nature of it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36p8bMAFDVQ
http://www.wirefly.com/learn/android/t-mobile-g2-screams-in-internet-speed-tests/
"Bob the cellphone professor" tested the G2 in two different locations - at his office and at home. At his office G2 got ~800 Kbps while at home it got ~3 Mbps. That is fine, I understand that different locations will give you different speeds depending on many different variables such as current network usage, etc. However what I have a problem is what he did with the Vibrant.
He tested the Vibrant at his office; the Vibrant got ~400 Kbps at the office (the same location the G2 got ~800 Kbps, i.e. the location that has a weaker or more busy T-Mobile network). Then, he goes on to compare the ~400 Kbps the Vibrant got at his office to the speed the G2 got at his home.
I realize the G2 is on HSPA+ while the Vibrant is still on HSPDA/HSPA, so logically the G2 will get faster speeds where the HSPA+ network is available. I am not trying to say the Vibrant will have faster connection speeds than the G2. However, the comparison done by "Bob the cellphone professor" is poor, to say the least. A more fair comparison would be one of G2 at home vs Vibrant at home. Someone fire this guy -- or at least keep him away from the camera. Disinformation is a disservice to us all.
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Agreed. He said the H symbol means its on Hspa+. Did this guy do any research before he made this video? The G2 has has no 3g symbol it will say H even on 3g.
I would still choose my vibrant over the G2 any day. Now the MThd will be a different story, but for now IMO this is the best Android phone on the market even with all its quirks.

Reading the article, he mentions the Vibrant had a weak signal for the test. Which would definitely result in skewed numbers. Area also makes a huge difference. In my city, I've had 3G with all my bars and only averaged around 2.5-3Mbps, but in the neighboring larger city in a similar circumstance, I've topped out at 4.63Mpbs. Besides the fact that you're comparing the difference between 3G and HSPA+. Rather like comparing dial-up and broadband.
Ehh, it gave me something to do while my files finished downloading. Aside from that, another apples vs oranges article.

That test was soooo not unfair!

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Reading the article, he mentions the Vibrant had a weak signal for the test. Which would definitely result in skewed numbers. Area also makes a huge difference. In my city, I've had 3G with all my bars and only averaged around 2.5-3Mbps, but in the neighboring larger city in a similar circumstance, I've topped out at 4.63Mpbs. Besides the fact that you're comparing the difference between 3G and HSPA+. Rather like comparing dial-up and broadband.
Ehh, it gave me something to do while my files finished downloading. Aside from that, another apples vs oranges article.
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The irony is I am pretty sure 3G speeds are 3G speeds if you have 1 bar or 5 bars. I know for sure that even with 1 bar I have gotten ~3 Mbps speeds.
The only issue you would have with weak signal is if you are on the border of EDGE/3G -- then signal strength would play a part. I think, anyway.

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Agreed. He said the H symbol means its on Hspa+. Did this guy do any research before he made this video? The G2 has has no 3g symbol it will say H even on 3g.
I would still choose my vibrant over the G2 any day. Now the MThd will be a different story, but for now IMO this is the best Android phone on the market even with all its quirks.
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Yep. I agree with everything you said -- from the part about the H icon (I thought the same thing while I was watching the video) to the MThd comment.

I have average to pretty good scores on 3g. Wifi is not necessary for me to use at most places I go to in chicago. I got just over 4k down here at home once.
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And it turns out it's because of the massive amount of new iPhone users on Sprint's already slow/over-stuffed network!
If you are also affected, please post your Speedtest.net pic on there and let's hope Sprint hears us!"
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You must not like iPhones... Sprint's 3G speeds have been getting progressively worse over the past year and I'd say it probably due to free smartphone promos (e.g., free Evos through Radio Shack--I know three people that got them for free) than iPhones. Sprint knows about it and is doing something about it. I don't remember where I read the article (I just googled it and unfortunately couldn't find it) where it states that Sprint is improving their infrastructure. I flashed back to Froyo because I thought that might be the problem and my speeds did increase for a while and then dropped back. Just be patient.

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Here's my "normal" speeds... I was getting faster speeds on dial-up back in 1995. This has happened in my area since last November. Before that, I could easily pull 2mbps all day and all night.
Everyone else with this problem, do your speeds increase late night/early morning? Between about 2am and 6am, I can pull about 1.3mbps, but during the day or any other time, I can NEVER get above 100kbps. Obviously this shows that the towers are just overloaded, and not broken, as Sprint keeps claiming.

Just did this test, also using 3g turbocharger script

Here is a nice 4g screenshot

302 Newark, DE
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Everyone has a "Smartphone" now. It was nice when Sprint didn't have alot of customers. There network is slammed right now, same as what happened with ATT. Just wait until you wont be able to connect.. Have you ever been to a car race with over 100k people. Good luck on getting a connection.
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my 4g is pretty solid a good 6mbps on average but 3g has gone in the ****ter lately i used to pull 1.2-1.5mbps 3g like it was my day job now im getting between .4 and .6. ill upload pics tomorrow for i am far to lazy to do it now haha

Maricopa, az. Arizona is the ARM pit of cellular signals. Hot ****ty and mostly stunks
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I've been getting decent downloads early am 2_4 but during the day...screeching hault I just did a test at 0.08 mb down
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Im using 3g Turbo charger and in Atl. Don't have screen right now but just ran test and got 1.8mb dl and 686 k upload

Well its either sprint or just more iPhone suckage cause my bro in law got sprint iPhone and speed tests side by side I'd get .24mbps and he'd get .02 averages. Kinda funny and kinda sad at same time. But guess its a wide spread thing per sprint community page.
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Sorry to hear you are having 3G issues. My 3G shot up about a month ago from about 0.3m to more than 1.0m. I have never had anything below 0.1m unless I was roaming on Verizon. Now I'm pretty much above 1.0m with occasional slow downs, but still over 0.3m when slow.

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Maricopa, az. Arizona is the ARM pit of cellular signals. Hot ****ty and mostly stunks
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Isn't your county the one with "America's toughest sheriff" or something? The name sounds familiar and recent on TV.
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New York City - Manhattan, speeds are better. Zip 10017.
In Queens, much worse.
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I live in California san Diego, I work all around san Diego speed are vary in certain places and not all the time they are bad.
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Typical <1Mbs. Upload speeds are usually faster than download.

I have had crapy 3G speeds ever since I switched to the hero just after it came out. Before that with my touch pro I would get 1.5 Mbps easy all day and night.
The iPhone is not going to slow down the network anymore than any android phone.
Sprints data sucks!!!!!!

Why do review sites keep posting low download speeds with HSPA+?

I don't get it I keep seeing them post speeds of 200-300KBps with HSPA+........ running speedtest on my GS2 I'm getting around 1.5MBps and yes I mean Byte and not bit. HSPA+ in theory can go to 21mbps so there is still room to grow to at least 2MBps with HSPA+. Then with DCHSPA+ with the Nexus 4 on paper you can reach speeds of 4-5MBps and my friend who lives in another country has a DCHSPA+ modem and he is speedtested it for me and got 3.8MBps.
I see all these LTE 4G speeds and they're getting from 21mbps - 32mbps in most cases which is like 2.5MBps -4MBps in speed.
I mean I'm getting not far off that right now with Three in the UK on my GS2 and I haven't even tried a DCHSPA device yet, I'm not sure if three support it.
I don't get where these sites are getting 200-300KBps speeds from?

On T-Mobile with the galaxy s2 I got speeds around 15Mbps down and about 3-4Mbps upload on their HSPA+42. Nexus 4 should get the same. Although T-Mobile has very limited HSPA+ where I am living now so I won't be able to test in that same area for a while.. Those reviews are garbage, just saying

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On T-Mobile with the galaxy s2 I got speeds around 15Mbps down and about 3-4Mbps upload on their HSPA+42. Nexus 4 should get the same. Although T-Mobile has very limited HSPA+ where I am living now so I won't be able to test in that same area for a while.. Those reviews are garbage, just saying
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Yeh so you're getting like 1.8MBps which tbh is more than enough for a mobile but also close to these poor LTE speeds which are really just DCHSPA+ speeds.

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Yeh so you're getting like 1.8MBps which tbh is more than enough for a mobile but also close to these poor LTE speeds which are really just DCHSPA+ speeds.
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It's more than enough for what I need data for, which is basically streaming music, the occasional youtube video, and webpages/checking email.

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It's more than enough for what I need data for, which is basically streaming music, the occasional youtube video, and webpages/checking email.
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It's also not much slower than LTE right now......
I don't see how all these sites seem to be getting such low speeds.

Its just depends on your luck on how close the celltower is to you. At my work its over 20Mbps with an SII, at home its more around 5Mbps.

I have seen lots of t-mobile and AT&T cell sites. Really depends on if they have upgraded to a true fiber, like using the local Comcast or other high speed provider. Or if they are still using the multiple t1 lines to power it.
A lot of sites with multiple cell providers, usually AT&T will have copper into site, while the others have a fiber connection. Just depends. =/ Even if you see fiber into the cell site, it can just mean they are using it for distance run, coming from t1 station down the road.
Some of these sites have some really old stuff in them. Kinda hit or miss on the ones that have a really good internet connection to them.
My input. Just from seeing the cell sites.
And if you are right under a cell site, you never connect to that one...to much signal. It connects you to one further away
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It's also not much slower than LTE right now......
I don't see how all these sites seem to be getting such low speeds.
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They must be using AT&T because their HSPA+ network can be pretty slow sometimes, compared to T-Mobile that is. In my area AT&T gets about 2-4Mbps down and maybe 1Mbps up.

I had my father's galaxy s2 (42mbps) and my galaxy nexus (21mbps) right next to each other dieting a speed test.
Galaxy s2 always got double the speed. He was getting 14mbps and I couldn't break 7mbps
I know radios and software and everything else come into play, but the potential for more is there
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Unless you're on att or coming from another carrier to tmo and not sure what you'll get why would you be worried about this. If you're already on tmo you should get the same or better speeds, correct?
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And I'm pretty sure there will be different radios we can install. I'll probably install the radio I have on my sgs2.
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I was wondering how the speeds actually were since I'll be coming from Verizon.

With tmo in south fla you will get around 8-23 down and 1-5 upload.

What about speeds for AT&T in southern california?

Here is a wild guess; (most) reviewers are in an area which was affected by Sandy.

That's just B.S. I live close to DC area and I got upto 21 MBPS on my HTC ONE S. LTE doesn't necessarily mean its faster than HSPA+ .T-Mo's HSPA+ is awesome but probably ignorant people can't tell the difference.

You can check data speeds for your carrier at rootmetrics. In my area, T-Mobile gets at best 1 mb download. Verizon has LTE here which gets 20 - 30 mbps. Stupid fast. That being said, I'm probably going with AT&T via Straight Talk.

hiz99 said:
And I'm pretty sure there will be different radios we can install. I'll probably install the radio I have on my sgs2.
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This is a very bad idea.
1) The flash will most likely fail.
2) If it did somehow flash your baseband will be screwed.

These are theoretical speeds, anyway. I have never had more than 7 or 8 Mbps down on my phone. And it just depends on cellphone traffic through that particular tower, I think. I have done speed tests countless times when I barely crack 1 Mbps on "HSPA+".

This is what I am getting with t-mobile, and i am happy lol
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