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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
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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
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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.
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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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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..
My friends on att and verizon all get around 2 mbps down in Boston area and still fast speeds up in maine and new hampshire mountains....I am lucky to hit 1mbps on Vibrant and I get EDGE OR GPRS in mountains....
what the hell.......?
Tmobule has the fastest speeds your just in a bad area for tmobile and he's in good with Verizon....
IDK if Boston has HSDPA yet...New York definitely does, and outside of Major cities T-Mobile's 3G is quite spotty.
Northern NJ here, around here Tmobile flies! I was pulling down data faster on Edge than my AT&T friends were on their 3G.
Just a bad area for you
kolyan said:
My friends on att and verizon all get around 2 mbps down in Boston area and still fast speeds up in maine and new hampshire mountains....I am lucky to hit 1mbps on Vibrant and I get EDGE OR GPRS in mountains....
what the hell.......?
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The title is very misleading. When I first saw it I was thinking, are you freakin' kidding me? T-Mobiles HSDPA+ clowns on the rest for speed.
Then reading your situation, your referring to being in the mountain areas... just a hit or a miss. Hang tight. It'll come around.
Bad title name bro, you can say it about any network really, all depends on the area you're in. I've got to use lots of phones lately, sprint, Verizon, Tmobile, and toyed with ATT. in Colorado, Denver/Aurora area, Tmobile is the fastest and keeps getting faster. Sprint using evo barely gets 400kbps down at my house, barely 100kbps down at my gym. Verizon about 700 down and decent uploads. Tmobile gets 2mbps down at my house, and over 3mbps at my gym. Same thing goes for downtown, blows all networks out of the water. We used to have crappy 3g coverage in other parts last year, but it has been start
right up perfect this year! Sounds like you're in the area of bad coverage is all.
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I'm pulling 4+ Mbps here in Tampa, FL
Pulled over 5mbps in Pasadena
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I am just a bit pissed off.....friend is skiing and listening to internet radio and I can't even read an email
I wish 3g wouldn't be this spotty. I listen to internet radio in car and it stops playing when I hit 2g for a few minutes or so.
I am not in center of boston, but I am near major area and highways. Always have 3g at home, but never over 1mbps
I regularity get over 5Mbs when I have full bars. But the other day got 6.04Mbs sitting inside a hamburger joint. Bellevue, WA.
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Boston is scheduled to get HSPA+ in a few months.
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Boston is scheduled to get HSPA+ in a few months.
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I hope that's true. I really don't mind 1-2mbps, I just need it to be steady
it says it on tmobile's website, and they havent lied about a city yet.
Tmobile's 3G is almost as fast as ATT Uverse over wifi. So, I am not complaining!
When I'm on HSPA+ here in Florida I usually get between 5-6 Mbps down. Which is pretty nice considering it's just my cell connection
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Tmobile still has a lot of roaming in maine and new hampshire. Expect them to fix that before they start throwing in 3g (roaming costs the carrier a sizable chunk of change.)
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I_Droid said:
I regularity get over 5Mbs when I have full bars. But the other day got 6.04Mbs sitting inside a hamburger joint. Bellevue, WA.
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You're right in the heart of T-Mobiles headquarter building my friend...I hope you're hitting those speeds haha...It'll get faster!
Well ....7.2Mbps max on our phones
Yeah I hate how slow tmobile is too
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IDK what you're talking about, since I've gotten my Vibrant, I've been getting some ridiculous speeds.
:::.. Download Stats ..:::
Download Connection is:: 4438 Kbps about 4.4 Mbps (tested with 6144 kB)
Download Speed is:: 542 kB/s
Test Time:: 2010-07-26 06:19:14 GMT
Bottom Line:: 77X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 1.89 sec
Tested from a 6144 kB file and took 11.34 seconds to complete
Download Diagnosis:: Seriously? Are you kidding me?: You are running at 508% of your hosts average (tmodns.net)
User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 2.1-update1; en-us; SGH-T959 Build/ECLAIR) AppleWebKit/530.17 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile Safari/530.17 [!]
The other morning I was doing a speedtest and got almost 6 in jacksonville
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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!)
riggsandroid said:
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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At work today
Server: Baltimore MD
yokken said:
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.
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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.
My 3G has been incredibly slow for over a month now. I've tried in many areas and I can only reach 200 kbps on a good day, with a huge latency. I also gave up on 4G and keep it off, cause whenever I then it on, it says "4G network connected" and, only seconds later, "4G network disconnected."
During this time, I've had at least t different custom Froyo ROMs installed, different versions, all with the same result. I remember my speeds were much higher when I was fully stock.
Could my radio be damaged and the phone needs replacing?
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Haven't had any problems with 3G in the SFl area personally. Haven't done any speed test though so can't say for sure.
As for 4G, not sure about Miami, but Broward is mostly limited to major roads and highways for coverage. Not sure if South Florida is officially a 4G area yet. Anything outside of those areas is rather difficult to get a stable connection. I usually get that behavior when I'm at the edge of coverage.
Ahh...My south Florida friends. With a community this large, it is tough to see localized conversations. I too have noticed quite a lag in the 3G network since upgrading to DK28. As far as the 4G, I also keep it off. When it does connect, it is pretty quick (compared to the 3G), but it has not been consistent enough to keep it on. I tried resetting the minimum signal hack that I found somewhere in here...but that didn't help much. For the most part, my web browsing isn't so bad. I really notice it with the Market and Pandora. Youtube is so-so.
I'm in tampa for the time bng and my signal is garbageeeeee
If I ever move down here, its verizon for me.
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I'm in the suburbs around Orlando, right where the 4G coverage starts to go spotty. I've never had much of a problem with 3G, and I've always gotten fairly constant speeds. 4G is a major issue, there are literally 2x2 feet pockets of 4G coverage scattered around the area. Those tiny pockets are the only areas in which you can get a Wimax connection, even with the signal fix.
Sad thing is, the entire area is "covered" on the sprint map.
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I'm in the suburbs around Orlando, right where the 4G coverage starts to go spotty. I've never had much of a problem with 3G, and I've always gotten fairly constant speeds. 4G is a major issue, there are literally 2x2 feet pockets of 4G coverage scattered around the area. Those tiny pockets are the only areas in which you can get a Wimax connection, even with the signal fix.
Sad thing is, the entire area is "covered" on the sprint map.
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Have you tried the 4g signal hack? I had spotty coverage as well and it really helped.
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In dc using hack. Same.problem.
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Have you tried the 4g signal hack? I had spotty coverage as well and it really helped.
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Yeah I tried the signal hack and only got marginally better coverage. Its not a question of trying to make the best of a really weak 4G signal in my case, because there literally isn't any 4G signal. It just keeps scanning.
I used to live in Naples, 45mins from downtown, and my coverage (3g) was alright, about .6mbps down and .3 up... forget 4g.. didn't even get it.
Now in a suburb of orlando I have family and man, the signal there was HORRIBLE. I was getting 2mbps down, 1.1mbps up with 4g...and let's no even talk about 3g.
Here in denver(where I live now) I get 1mbps down, .8up on 3g and on 4g I get 6-8mbps down and 3.5-5mbps up.
Latency is terrible...anywhere. The lowest latency I get is here in Denver at 85-110... uhg.
slow in boca/delray/boynton
Its screwed in socal as well. I think it is nation wide problem.
Yea definitely sucks in boston... :/
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Go to city of Oakland park. At the intersection of northeast 6 avenue and prospect road there's a 4g capable tower there southwest of there by one block. I ran speedtest a block from the tower and it really worked great. The range of 4g is definitely not as far as 3g on sprint.
Wichita KS, I have had very slow speeds as well lately.
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I.don't have 4g but the 3g hack helped my speed a little bit. In my house in certain spits I.can.get about 800 kbps.
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My 3g is terribly slow. I'm in Detroit.
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Its the same **** here in Los Angeles and Orange County. Its not your phone but Sprints ****ty data network. Im going to eat the ETF soon so I can get off this ****.
Yeah and sprint is toying around with the idea of going LTE for 4g. Another sprint debacle? Last one they bought Nextel; next they went wimax; now they might go LTE.
From what I've found, wimax range is so short, I can have full 3g signal strength but barely any signal for 4g, if it's even available on that particular tower.
I'm about 30 min from down town orlando. My signal get ****ty in some areas, but I was able to tether a mac, to do a remote repair session for about a 1hr and a half drive. I believe I got disconnected once. The speed/quality of the speed flauxuates greatly. This was completly on 3g. When 4g works its faster. Seems to be a moving target right now was far as where it works.
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Been slow down here in Texas for awhile too. It's not the phone since 3g on my evo is slow as well.
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I just wanted to know how many epic users actually have reliable wimax coverage where they live and work. I personally I am tired of the silence sprint has left us with in regards to expansion of Wimax or LTE coverage and rollout of the vision network. I'm tired of getting ATT EDGE speeds on EV-DO rev A and just barely being outside of Wimax coverage with no hope of an official rollout in sight.
So, is everyone mad and experiencing problems or am I the exception to the rule? I live in Tulsa, Oklahoma btw.
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No.
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Recently moved from frederick md too westminster md. No 4g here but I had it in frederick.
4g here in lake Mary, FL
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4G in Daytona Beach and Holly Hill Florida.
Do you BONSAI?
plenty of 4g here in Atlanta.
Very spotted 4G coverage, sometimes 3G is as fast as 4G if not faster.
I'm in RI
Had it in Vegas since day one I've had this phone.outskirts of town coverage is spotty.
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I have very spotty 4g in San Diego but it there lol
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I first noticed 4G coverage on the east side of Madison, WI Friday May 6. My son and I have been using Sensorly to start mapping it. Looks like at least one other person. Anyway, I can see it spreading but its iffy, generally.
BTW, Madison is not on any official Sprint launch list as far as I can tell.
I live in Kentucky. We don't have 4g anywhere in the state. I did manage to pick up a 4g signal while standing outdoors in Covington, right across the river from Cincinnati, Ohio. That's probably as close as it will ever get before Clearwire goes bankrupt.
No Wimax at all, However have fast and stong ev/1x data.
You should add this to the poll...
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No Wimax at all, However have fast and stong ev/1x data.
You should add this to the poll...
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i live in the Quad Cities(iowa/illinois). we dont have sprint 4g, but we do have clear. i know its the same thing. but since its wimax and not lte i can get on it and use it anyways. we only have one tower and you have to be within ten miles for consistent outdoor coverage but when you do get signal it works pretty well and noticeably quicker than 3g.
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No Wimax at all, However have fast and stong ev/1x data.
You should add this to the poll...
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I will try to PM a mod. I forgot that one.
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At my house, Weak Wimax, Fast/Decent EV-DO.
Everywhere Outside my neighborhood, Fast/Reliable Wimax, Fast/Decent EV-DO.
I'm in Jacksonville FL btw, Sprint's AMAZING here. So far I've only found 1 dead area (still doesn't drop calls, but will drop any internet connections such as Pandora. It lasts about 20 seconds in the car.
No 4g in Phoenix /mad
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No 4g out 3g in columbus, ms. our anywhere I can remember going in ms. I just use a verizon prl.
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No 4g in Phoenix /mad
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I read somewhere that LTE had the fastest 4G speeds in Phoenix, I instantly assumed WiMaX was there. :'(
(I'm from Phoenix.)
I have another question, has service changed drastically for the better for anyone recently? (wimax added or much faster evdo)